In a Slant Light - A Poet's Memoir by Cilla Mcqueen
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In this absorbing poetic memoir of her early life, Cilla McQueen, one of New Zealand's major women poets, leads us over the stepping stones of childhood memory, some half submerged, some strong and glinting in the light of her wit: In the large lead shoe X-ray machine at the back of the shoe shop, our s ...Show more
Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Peter Bland
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
An evocative and intriguing memoir following Peter's boyhood in the UK, experiencing the war years, living with the 'total stranger' who was his father and enduring the premature loss of both parents. It takes him to near destitution before he immigrated to New Zealand, a place that struck him with its ...Show more
The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays by C J Hauser
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funn ...Show more
Joseph Anton - A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that woul ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original ...Show more
The Price of Illusion - A Memoir by Joan Juliet Buck
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and "one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style" (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris- ...Show more
Frood - The True Story of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Jem Roberts
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: good-very good
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion years go by, before any of the true wonder and scope of th ...Show more
William Faulkner - The Making of a Novelist by Martin Kreiswirth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Martin Kreiswirth challenges the accepted notion that The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner's fourth and possibly finest novel, represented an unprecedented turning point in the writer's literary career, a quantum leap in his imaginative development. He argues that Faulkner's earlier work, both published and ...Show more
Beat Hotel - Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris 1957-1963 by Barry Miles
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Introducing James K Baxter by Christopher Parr
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Simone de Beauvior - The Making of an Intellectual Woman by Toril Moi
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Moving from the impact of educational institutions on Beauvoir to her representation of love, desire and sexuality, Toril Moi analyzes the conflicts and contradictions that shape intellectual women's lives. She offers an interpretation of Beauvoir's relationship to Sartre and to other women, and reads B ...Show more