Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Bob Crowder - A New Zealand Organics Pioneer by Matt Morris
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Bob Crowder: A New Zealand organics pioneer, by leading garden historian Matt Morris, tells the story of Bob Crowder's life and his role in the birth of the organics movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Growing up in wartime Britain, the peaceful pursuit of gardening was young Bob's refuge. He later became ...Show more
Bits of String too Short to Use: A memoir of collecting, writing and the highs and lows of life by Jennifer Beck
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The author looks at her life as a series of ‘bits’, memorable episodes which, when joined together form a pattern both fascinating and thought-provoking. From early life in an unusual rural community, she describes growing up in a large family with money troubles, limited educational opportunities, a lo ...Show more
The Last, the Least, the Lonely and the Lost - A memoir of medicine, meanderings and the marginalised by Brian R McAvoy
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An odyssey of intriguing stories, fascinating facts and unique insights into life, medicine and society. This eclectic memoir describes the intriguing international journey of an individual doctor in a changing world, providing the perspective of a GP, an addiction medicine specialist and an academic. R ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Marco Polo: The Remarkable Firsthand Story of the First Kiwis to Sail Around the World by Tony Armit; John Macfarlane
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In 1951, an 18-year-old Kiwi lad named Tony Armit decided to build a 28-foot wooden yacht. Three years later, he christened her Marco Polo, then with a former school rugby mate, Brian ‘Tig’ Loe, set sail from Auckland on an epic voyage... and whatever adventure may await. In the process, Tony and Tig be ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more