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
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
I Love My Stupid Life: Eat Lit Food And Other Tasty Exploits by Albert Cho
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Biting, pungent, salty and - yes - sweet, too, this is the true story of Albert Cho's life in food and the paramount place of food in his life. Writer Albert Cho has lived through a lot already - from the bland suburban Kiwi racism and heady dairy lolly-bag runs of his childhood to sexual abuse; from th ...Show more
Dog Years by Mark Doty
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
The story of the acclaimed poet's time with his two beloved retrievers - and a poignant, perceptive meditation on life, death, and the nature of canine companionship. Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he find ...Show more
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
$32.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Bourdain: In Stories by Laurie Woolever
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful and profound' Esquire'Unbridled and unapologetic' VogueWhen Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain's longtime assistant and confidante, has interviewed nearly a hundred ...Show more
Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
"Any fool can confess. It's the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation." - MARLON JAMES, author of Moon Witch, Spider King Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar b ...Show more
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
What Just Happened?! Dispatches from Turbulent Times by Marina Hyde
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
No other writer is more suited to chronicle the absurd and chaotic times we live in. This book - based on Hyde's spectacularly funny Guardian columns - tells the story of the hellscape of the Cameron, May and Johnson eras, Trumpian wtf-ery to celebrity twattery, the Royal soap-opera and the series final ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more