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August 2025

 

Haere mai, welcome to our Biography & Memoir newsletter. Explore true stories about people and their interesting lives.

 

Staff List

New For You - Biographies - August 2025

New biographies and memoirs of the famous, the interesting and everyday people.

New For You Biographies
 

Blog Post

Biography and memoir at WORD Christchurch Festival 2025

Here are some WORD events you might like if you like reading biographies and memoirs.

Event

Make @ Tūranga Lunchtimes: Matariki earrings
Series

Jun 19th | 11:45am - 12:30pm

Tūranga

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Celebrate Matariki by creating some earrings using pre-designed templates! Choose your design, shape, material, size, & earring hook type.

Staff List

Best of the year so far - 2026 edition | Debora's picks

Olivia Laing has rocked my reading world but there's also room for Kaveh Akbar and other stellar voices.

More WORD Christchurch
 

New in Biography & Memoir

New

"Adult Braces" by West, Lindy
"Anni Albers" by Weber, Nicholas Fox, 1947-
"AlphaPussy" by Gershon, Gina, 1962-
"Arsenio" by Hall, Arsenio
"Annastacia Palaszczuk" by Palaszczuk, Annastacia, 1969-
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"Anni Albers" by Weber, Nicholas Fox, 1947-
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Aotearoa New Zealand

"Westland" by Etches, Michael
"A Year at Awakino Station" by Mathisen, Jaz
"Night, Ma" by Knox, Elizabeth, 1959-
"Out of the Ashes" by Browitt, Stephanie
"Every Second Counts" by Glennie, Charlotte, 1972-
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"A Year at Awakino Station" by Mathisen, Jaz
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Audiobooks

 

eBooks

 

Staff List

Biography - On Authors

Inspiring and illuminating, these literary biographies reveal the person behind the pen.

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