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Her Say: Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In 2012, Jackie Clark launched The Aunties, a grassroots charity helping women to rebuild their lives after a period of trauma. She quit her job, turning her back on her comfortable life, to focus on The Aunties full-time, becoming Aunty in Charge and assisting hundreds of women with material needs and ...Show more
Grief on the Run by Julie Zarifeh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
What happens when your life is rocked by unimaginable loss and grief? How do you survive and how do you keep going?
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$70.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
In the Dream House - A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselve ...Show more
Tranquillity and Ruin by Danyl McLauchlan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the hidden truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn’t really exist. In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier ...Show more
How to Walk a Dog (PB) by Mike White; Sharon Murdoch (Illustrator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
The highs and lows, joy and heartache of owning a dog are told in this beautifully written story of life in and around a dog park. 'The book of the year. THE book on dogs. And people.' Andrew Dickens, Newstalk ZB
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but I don't know for certain.' So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning long essay, the closest thing she has written to a memoir, about a lost cat and a pair of adopted children. In this searing pi ...Show more
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.
Life as a Casketeer: What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living by Francis Tipene
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life As A Casketeer reveals how Francis a ...Show more
