Going Solo by Roald Dahl
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Young Roald Dahl leaves England in 1938 for a job with Shell Oil in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and travelling around East Africa, he comes to love the beautiful and perilous country. Then, with the outbreak of World War II, he decides to sign up with the Royal Air Force and learn to fly. After six months ...Show more
Incidents from Phippy's Schooldays by Philip Larkin; Brenda Allen (Editor); James Acheson (Editor); Rodney Fitzgerald (Illustrator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
When someone says the word 'kitchen' I get an instant flash of that room, with its black stove and drying rack, its brown lino, its worn mat and wooden table, the Philco radio on the mantelpiece. And 'creek' works in a similar way. These are things that can start me writing.... Widely regarded as one of ...Show more
An Absurd Ambition: Autobiographical Writings by Eric Hall McCormick; Dennis McEldowney (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a c ...Show more
The Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Martha Gellhorn; Caroline Moorehead (editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all female war correspondents. Her letters have been selected and edited for publication by her biographer, Caroline Moorehead. Martha Gellhorn's career tracked many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: she witnessed at first hand the Depression in ...Show more
Janet Frame - An Autobiography. To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table, The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathere here for the first time in a single edition and complemented by previously unpublished photographs.
A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Leonard Woolf - A life by Victoria Glendinning
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness. Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's biography, we see the whole man for the whole time. As well as being a prominent member ...Show more
Sean O'Casey and His World by David Krause
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Lewis Carroll and His World by John Pudney
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good