Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
Category: Biography/Memoir
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
Category: Biography/Memoir
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
Category: Biography/Memoir
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only way ...Show more
On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lovi ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
Category: Biography/Memoir
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward
Category: Biography/Memoir
A vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward - perfect for fans of the popular Netflix TV series The Crown.The relationship between the late monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fasci ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice - The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
Category: Biography/Memoir
Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.'As ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
Category: Biography/Memoir
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Category: Biography/Memoir
In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results ...Show more
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert
Category: Biography/Memoir
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned ...Show more
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time by Pamela Anderson
Category: Biography/Memoir
ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her.Her blond bomb ...Show more