Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
Dad, You've Got Dementia by Kristen Phillips
$27.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Dad, You’ve Got Dementia shows people living with dementia and their whānau that it’s possible to stay connected with those they love. When Kristen’s father, Don, was diagnosed with dementia the signs had been there for five years. He’d gone out less and less, given up driving and table tennis and rel ...Show more
Dog Hearted - Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Illustrator); Jessica J. Lee
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'This is a heart-warming anthology, celebrating one of our most beloved animals. Rich with joy and delight, but there is also real depth, poignancy and surprisingly dark humour here.' From Carl Phillips asking how wildness is tamed, to Esmé Weijun Wang finding moments of stillness in the simple act of ...Show more
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS "This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasu ...Show more
Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her d ...Show more
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems—from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to R ...Show more
Do You Still Have Time For Chaos? by Lynn Davidson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, in the frightening quiet of a Covid-emptied Edinburgh, she begins her memoir; temporarily at home at the Ra ...Show more
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more