The Price of Illusion - A Memoir by Joan Juliet Buck
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris and "one of the most compelling personalities in the world of style" (New York Times) comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris- ...Show more
Frood - The True Story of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Jem Roberts
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: good-very good
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion years go by, before any of the true wonder and scope of th ...Show more
The Proud Highway - Saga of a desperate southern gentleman 1955-1967 by Hunter S Thompson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: The Fear and Loathing Letters Vol 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
The Proud Highway is a literary milestone. For the first time, the private and most intimate correspondence of America's most influential journalist is being made public. This first volume of the Fear and Loathing Letters begins with a high school essay written in 1955 - when Thompson was a wise (perhap ...Show more
William Faulkner - The Making of a Novelist by Martin Kreiswirth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Martin Kreiswirth challenges the accepted notion that The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner's fourth and possibly finest novel, represented an unprecedented turning point in the writer's literary career, a quantum leap in his imaginative development. He argues that Faulkner's earlier work, both published and ...Show more
Beat Hotel - Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris 1957-1963 by Barry Miles
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Introducing James K Baxter by Christopher Parr
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Simone de Beauvior - The Making of an Intellectual Woman by Toril Moi
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Moving from the impact of educational institutions on Beauvoir to her representation of love, desire and sexuality, Toril Moi analyzes the conflicts and contradictions that shape intellectual women's lives. She offers an interpretation of Beauvoir's relationship to Sartre and to other women, and reads B ...Show more
Letters to J D Salinger by Chris Kubica (Editor); Will Hochman (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
He published his only novel more than fifty years ago. He has hardly been seen or heard from since 1965. Most writers fitting such a description are long forgotten, but if the novel is The Catcher in the Rye and the writer is J. D. Salinger . . . well, he's the stuff of legends, the most famously reclus ...Show more
Roald Dahl - Boy - Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
For use in schools and libraries only. Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood, including summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.
Virginia Woolf - A Writer's Life by Lyndall Gordon
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Only writing, Virginia Woolf said, could compose 'the synthesis of my being'. Lyndall Gordon reveals an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position' and, specifically, the more hidden problems and possibilities of women.