Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
Believer - Conversations with Mike Moore by Peter Parussini
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Michael Kenneth Moore was probably the country's last working class Prime Minister and while the book is inevitably political, it is also a remarkable New Zealand story about an ordinary kiwi achieving extraordinary things. This book is based on conversations held with Mike Moore over the past 12 months ...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
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ 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 wa ...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
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
A Forager's Life by Helen Lehndorf
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food. When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in rural Taranaki, she can't help but feel different from her peers and professors - peculiar, poor. She finds solace in long wal ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
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