The Garden in the Clouds: Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic by Antony Woodward
29.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Winner of the National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011The story of one man's unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book - the 'Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity' guide - in just one year. The son of two passiona ...Show more
House of Stone by Christina Lamb
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. In 2000, after Robert Mugabe had launched his controversial land reform programme, Nigel Hough held on to a fervent hope that he might keep hold of his ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Liberty - The life and times of six women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The bestselling author of 'Maharanis' recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history. Germaine de Stael was an intellectual and an aristocrat, equally obse ...Show more
'Tis : A memoir by Frank McCourt
25.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Awar ...Show more
Paula by Isabel Allende
15.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families - a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story. Thi ...Show more
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. ...Show more
The Choice by Bernadette Bohan
32.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An inspiring story of an ordinary woman's spirited fight against all odds. After defeating breast cancer the first time, when she miscarried a baby, Bernadette Bohan's doctor told her: 'You've got more than most. You have a girl and a boy, so go home and live your life.' Yet twelve years later a little ...Show more
Stuart : A life backwards by Alexander Masters
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Stuart, A Life Backwards, is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator (ÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂâÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂÃÂÂÂa middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest ...Show more
Teacher Man : A memoir by Frank McCourt
27.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
This is the third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis". In "Teacher Man", Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City! Frank McCourt arrived in ...Show more
The Chains of Heaven - An Ethiopian Romance by Philip Marsden
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Philip Marsden returns to the remote, fiercely beautiful landscape that has exercised a powerful mythic appeal over him since his first encounter with it over twenty years ago. 'Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is a wider purpose to our life, it is to understand the world, to seek out it ...Show more
My Invented Country : A Memoir by Isabel Allende
24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A highly personal memoir of exile and homeland, filled with the wit, melancholy and distinctive voice that have charmed readers of her fiction. My Invented Country is a memoir about her native Chile that acknowledges the role of memory and nostalgia in shaping her life, her books, and her very connectio ...Show more