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Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sulliva ...Show more
Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So beg ...Show more
My Mother and Other Secrets by Wendyl Nissen
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Uncovering old family secrets leads Wendyl Nissen to a better understanding of her mother.
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Tough Country: Tall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes by Mike Bellamy
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Mike Bellamy's father Barry is as tough as they come. Widely credited as the inspiration for Barry Crump's back-country character Sam Cash, Barry was a roving worker in rural North Island during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Tough Country is a book about a father by a son, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-c ...Show more
The Girl from Revolution Road by Ghazaleh Golbakhsh
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A young first-generation Iranian immigrant in New Zealand speaks powerfully of displacement, being different and living between two worlds. Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh's experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trau ...Show more
Wild at Heart - The Dangers and Delights of a Nomadic Life by Miriam Lancewood
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Gripping sequel to the international bestseller Woman in the Wilderness, Miriam Lancewood's story of the quest for a simple life, unfettered by society's norms. Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand with her husba ...Show more
This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle & Beyond by Karen McMillan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: Near Fine
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima.'I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone.' Brian HennessyBrian immi ...Show more
Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: Very Good
An Elle Ultimate Summer Read' Beautiful, unusual and memorable ... I love this book' MAGGIE NELSON, author of THE ARGONAUTS In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway ye ...Show more
Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist by Diana Morrow
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievement as 'the first rays of the rising sun of female intellectual advancement'. Edger went on to become a pioneer of women's education in New Zealand. She also w ...Show more
Perfection: The Life and Times of Sir William Manchester by Earle Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
From country boy to internationally renowned plastic surgeon, from junior medical officer to Lieutenant Colonel in just four years, "Perfection: the life and times of Sir William Manchester" covers a life of achievement and service. Hailing from small beginnings in rural Waimate, William Manchester beca ...Show more