Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Until now. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School ...Show more
Still Standing by Jessica Quinn
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Jess Quinn's inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she's come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others. Jess Quinn is, in her own words, quite literally a walking miracle. Her body has been completely restructured so that sh ...Show more
Labour Saving: A Memoir by Michael Cullen
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A fascinating and in-depth insight into the extraordinary career of one of our most important politicians, who was instrumental in shaping the development of Aotearoa New Zealand. In this clever, witty and detailed memoir, Hon Sir Michael Cullen describes his lengthy political career, including his maj ...Show more
Imposter - On Booze, Crippling Self-Doubt and Coming Out the Other Side by Matt Chisholm
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
'A book of great openness and courage' - Sir John Kirwan Country boy and television host Matt Chisholm seemed to have it all. With a plum job on TV and a great family, his future looked bright.? But behind the happy facade, Matt was barely coping, driving himself into the ground with work and withdrawi ...Show more
Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dane by Jonathan Adams
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Hans Falk, born in 1790 in Copenhagen, took to the sea as a lad, changed his name to Phillip Tapsell, and after many adventures settled at Maketu in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. There he became the key trader for Bay of Plenty iwi and married into the highest levels of Te Arawa, while helping other trib ...Show more
Helen Kelly - Her Life by Rebecca Macfie
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the country’s trade union movement, but she was also much mo ...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
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 husban ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
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
Women, Equality, Power: Selected Speeches from a Life of Leadership by Helen Clark
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating insight into Helen Clark's career, throughout which she has consistently worked for equality and parity, most particularly for women.
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle & Beyond by Brian Hennessy; Karen McMillan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
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