Yorkshire Grit: The Life of Ray Illingworth by Mark Peel
$74.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Yorkshire Grit: The Life of Ray Illingworth is a fascinating account of one of English cricket's most outstanding figures told by award-winning writer Mark Peel. Raised in the harsh world of Yorkshire cricket, Illingworth's all-round ability and tactical acumen made him an indispensable member of their ...Show more
Disappearing World: Our 18 First Class Cricket Counties by Sclyd Berry
$59.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Award-winning cricket writer Scyld Berry brings us a heartfelt celebration of what county cricket has been for more than a hundred years - an integral part of English life. Drawing on 60 years' experience of watching county cricket, the author provides an in-depth profile of each of the 18 first-class c ...Show more
My Teacher's Name is Love: Some Poems for Prem by Victor Marsh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
A collection of poems examining love, self, devotion, and opening to a wider cosmos. Whimsical, meditative, rapturous, these poems are a contemporary expression of spirit. there, wobbling on the wire of my neighbour's rooftop aerial backlit against the early summer sky this young magpie riffs, delirious ...Show more
Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
Solo - Backcountry Adventures in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to th ...Show more
Mokorua: Nga korero mo toku moko kauae - My story of moko kauae by Ariana Tikao
$49.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
One woman’s journey to her moko kauae as an expression of her Kāi Tahu identity. I kā rā o mua, I would know my place in my tīpuna’s time, I would know my face. Mokorua is a revealing and emotional account of one woman receiving her moko kauae. Ariana Tikao grew up in suburban Christchurch in the 1970s ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
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
The Novotny Papers - 'a Bit Vulture, a Bit Eagle' by Lilian Pizzichini
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
'I have always been a bird. A bit vulture, a bit eagle. I have looked the sun in its face. Born several times - dead several times so that I could be reborn from my ashes.' It is almost impossible to summarize the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage p ...Show more
Notes on Womanhood by Sarah Jane Barnett
$32.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Her ...Show more
Signs of a Struggle by Guy James Whitworth
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
Signs of a Struggle illustrates the creative journey, from working-class North East England to the current Queer-art scene of Sydney, through the eyes of award-winning artist Guy James whitworth. Uniquely using the fierce and fabulous LGBTIQ community of Sydney as a visuyal metaphor, Whitworth contempl ...Show more
Sunlight - The Shadowed Days Trilogy by Garry Kinnane
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
From wartime Melbourne to the Greek islands to Swinging London and Oxford, Garry Kinnane's trilogy of memoirs is now published in a single volume. Shadowed DaysShadowed Days glows with humanity, with an understanding and wisdom born of privation and endurance. - Tom Petsinis Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Gri ...Show more
Pink Book, The by Henry Von Doussa
$74.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The Pink Book is a memoir about sexuality, gender, and grief and loss through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and about the influence of life’s juxtaposing forces: beauty and suffering, freedom and constraint. The Pink Book contains Henry von Doussa’s art, writing, and precious objects (including old family let ...Show more