The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw by Philip Matthews
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Genetic scientist Andrew Bagshaw put his life on hold to help the people of Ukraine. His selfless actions would cost him his life. This is his story. Andrew Bagshaw was many things - a genius-level geneticist, keen cricketer and sailor, private pilot, much-loved son, brother and uncle, as well as a hug ...Show more
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success. Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby pla ...Show more
Peacemonger: Owen Wilkes - International Peace Researcher by Edited by May Bass and Mark Derby
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: 1st
The life and work of outstanding New Zealand peace activist Owen Wilkes. Tributes from friends and associates. Born in Christchurch, Owen Wilkes was an internationalist and a dedicated New Zealander — a subsistence farmer on the West Coast (where his self-built eco-home was demolished by the local coun ...Show more
Billy Bush - A Front Row View on Life by Bill Bush
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
AWESOME BOOK LAUNCH, Released 8th June 2023, IN STOCK enquire online or ph 03 358 4835 Bill Bush has a life story unlike any other All Black. A kina diver at primary school, a labourer at the Marsden Point refinery at 14, it took a promise of a Fanta and a pie to get him to play rugby, a sport he i ...Show more
The Devil's Haircut - My Life Before and After the Raurimu Massacre by Steve Anderson
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The Devil’s Haircut is an intimate case study from the tragedy of one of this country’s worst mass shootings. The Raurimu Massacre, as it came to be known, happened on 8 February 1997 and saw six everyday New Zealanders die. Another four were left with serious gunshot injuries, and they and many others ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Resilience: a Story of Persecution, Escape, Survival and Triumph by Inge Woolf
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Resilience is a Holocaust story and a New Zealand story. Born to a prosperous Jewish family, Inge Woolf witnessed the Nazis marching into Vienna in March 1938. To escape certain death, the family audaciously boarded a train to the heart of Nazi Germany – Berlin – and from there caught a plane to England ...Show more