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
Here For a Good Time - Organised thoughts from a disorganised mind by Chris Parker
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Comedian Chris Parker brings his brilliant comic wit to the page. Star of stand-up, winner of Celebrity Treasure Island and lockdown Instagram sensation, Chris Parker shares a series of short stories, essays and musings. Chris has made a name for himself as an outspoken, witty and charming personality w ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better reader ...Show more
Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer by Wendy Davis
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Wendy Davis was attacked by the Claremont Serial Killer and survived. This is her story.In 2020, after the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history, Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of two of the Claremont Serial Killings, a series of unsolved murders that had haunted the state ...Show more
Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar by Kita Mean
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
There is a man in your future who is going to love you like nobody's business ... and that man is you! Quirky, kitsch and delightfully camp, Kita Mean - Nick Nash by day - inspires fans around the world to live life as their authentic selves, inside and out. From wild nights partying to oblivion to ma ...Show more
The New Zealand Project by Max Harris
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
By any measure, New Zealand must confront some monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, geopolitical upheaval to housing affordability, wealth inequality to new populism - these challenges are complex and even unprecedented in their scope. Yet why, as Max Harris a ...Show more
Just Sayin' My Life In Words by Malorie Blackman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malorie Blackman OBE i ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Foundations by Karin Speedy
$34.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Historian Karin Speedy's writing on power struggles and colonialism becomes personal when she investigates her own family stories and finds herself on paths once trodden by her forebears.
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between t ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more