(Hardback)
By: Peter Simpson
ISBN: 9781927322284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Otago University Press
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This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48, and the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand's leading artists and intelligentsia.
(Hardback)
By: Cilla McQueen
ISBN: 9781877578717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jack Torry
ISBN: 9780764362682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of the World War II in Asia.
(Paperback)
By: Elspeth Sandys
ISBN: 9781877578892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Mary Edmond-Paul
ISBN: 9781877578212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Helene Hanff
ISBN: 9781860498503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This book is the story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London.
(Paperback)
By: Nawal El Saadawi
ISBN: 9780755651566
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780099285045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Pym
ISBN: 9781529091946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
(Paperback, Main)
By: Rachel Cusk
ISBN: 9780571351640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Written in the months after Rachel Cusk's divorce, Aftermath is a masterly work charting the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017112
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fifth volume in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to mark its induction to the Virago Modern Classics list, alongside several of the author's most celebrated works.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel Handler
ISBN: 9780861549429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2024
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The tender memoir of a writing life from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
(Paperback)
By: Chloe Hooper
ISBN: 9781761424649
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Chloe Hooper
ISBN: 9781761103513
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback, Main - Classic edition)
By: Reinaldo Arenas
ISBN: 9781781258682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An insight into the brutal and beautiful life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, detailing his struggles with homosexuality, censorship and political tumult.
(Paperback)
By: Elaine Showalter
ISBN: 9780349012285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Hotlby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War.
(Paperback)
By: Carl Bernstein
ISBN: 9781250869890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
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The Pulitzer Prize winning coauthor of All the Presidents Men - the chronicle of the investigative report about the Watergate break-in and resultant political scandal which led to President Richard Nixons resignation - recalls his formative years as a teenage newspaper reporter in JFKs Washington - a tale of adventures, scrapes, clever escapes, and the opportunity of a lifetime.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571269440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An astonishingly honest and compelling memoir from one the greatest names in twentieth century literature.
(Hardback)
By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9781941110706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Three Rooms Press
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An intense, compelling conversation between legendary Beat icons William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, featuring photos by Ginsberg, and details of Burroughs' shamanic exorcism of the demon that led him to shoot his wife and drove his work as a writer.
(Paperback)
By: Lucy Fry
ISBN: 9781912408597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Myriad Editions
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A memoir on love, lust and attachment: one woman's remarkable and candid account of transforming a difficult and uncomfortable love triangle into an honest polyamorous relationship
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Boyle
ISBN: 9780241992432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Clare Pollard
ISBN: 9780241354797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Julia Cameron
ISBN: 9781800811959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An bold and big-hearted memoir by Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist's Way - a book that has helped thousands of people uncover their creative inspiration.
(Paperback)
By: Farrukh Dhondy
ISBN: 9781804295243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist
