Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know something, care. The same could be said for life on the road, too. When Stephen Fabes left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind. Of more pr ...Show more
Going Home - A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changing face of Ramallah"Few Palestinians have opened their minds and their hearts with such frankness."--The New York Times In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh ...Show more
No Matter Our Wreckage: A Memoir about Grooming, Betrayal, Trauma and Love by Gemma Carey
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A ground-breaking, uncompromising and unflinching memoir about grooming, intergenerational trauma, grief and love. My mother knew I was abused as a child. She had read letters sent from my abuser to me…But she never spoke to me about them, or what they described. And she never intervened to stop the ab ...Show more
The Girl from Revolution Road by Ghazaleh Golbakhsh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A young first-generation Iranian immigrant in New Zealand speaks powerfully of displacement, being different and living between two worlds. Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh's experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trau ...Show more
Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man and Ninety Days by Bill Clegg
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly compulsive narrative, Bill Clegg leads us through ...Show more
Mary's Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer by Mary Li
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'I can vividly remember the last steps of the last ballet, walking off the stage led by a mother and knowing the decision I had to make. That was my last dance.' Mary Li (nee McKendry) is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin publ ...Show more
Dear Girls - Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mum comics on stage but ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more
Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went viral - viewed b ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me by Christopher Eccleston
$27.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'A beautiful book.' Zo Ball Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way - his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid ...Show more