Open Book by Jessica Simpson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Jessica Simpson has lived most of her life in the public eye. As a pop culture phenomenon, singer, reality show pioneer, actress, entrepreneur, and global businesswoman behind a $1 billion company (the most successful celebrity licensing brand in history), Simpson is an icon of a generation. But her jou ...Show more
Things I remember, or was told by Carol Shand
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Things I remember, or was told, is the memoir of outspoken Wellington GP Carol Shand, who since the early 1960s has spent her life fighting for change in medical, social and legal issues that she considered important: maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law change, and improved response to ...Show more
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the Jornal de Brasil. Already famous for her revolutionary, interior, metaphysical novels, in her Chronicles she turns h ...Show more
Simon Gault: No Half Measures by Simon Gault
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault’s on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and more. The former MasterChef New Zealand judge is a successful businessman with his name on stocks, seasonings, cookware and cocktails, but that’s not the full s ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years ol ...Show more
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller by Dolly Alderton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts - the definitive selection of her Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style column- with an introduction by Dolly. 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-pr ...Show more
Becoming Pakeha - A journey between two cultures by John Bluck
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A journey between two cultures. After more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pakeha and Māori worlds grow ever more separate: the Aotearoa of today is a land ...Show more
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (HB) by Shaun Bythell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown. The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty ...Show more
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman
$55.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
ALAN RICKMAN was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend. Through his never-before-seen diaries - a twenty-five-year passion project - Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. Introduced b ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Following on from last year's Yellow Notebook, Helen Garner's much-anticipated second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore th ...Show more