Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar by Kita Mean
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
There is a man in your future who is going to love you like nobody's business ... and that man is you! Quirky, kitsch and delightfully camp, Kita Mean - Nick Nash by day - inspires fans around the world to live life as their authentic selves, inside and out. From wild nights partying to oblivion to ma ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Simon Gault: No Half Measures by Simon Gault
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault’s on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and more. The former MasterChef New Zealand judge is a successful businessman with his name on stocks, seasonings, cookware and cocktails, but that’s not the full s ...Show more
Drink Smoke Snort Stroke by Willy De Wit
37.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A wild and raw tale of Willy’s life – from his early career in stand-up comedy, to his successful and seminal TV show, to his work on the radio – but then beyond, to a world of alcoholism, chronic drug addiction, long standing bouts of depression and a major stroke suffered for good measure. But apart f ...Show more
Blood and Bone: Revelations of an orthopaedic surgeon by Russell Tregonning
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Russell Tregonning finished his fifty-year career in medicine as one of New Zealand's leading orthopaedic surgeons and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Otago School of Medicine. This memoir takes the reader through his journey from medical student to orthopaedic surgeon - from introducing pioneering ...Show more
A Wife on Gorge River: Raising New Zealand's Remotest Family by Catherine Stewart
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In 2010, New Zealand met its remotest family, through the writing of Robert Long aka Beansprout and we were intrigued. Now Beansprout's wife, Catherine Stewart, tells her story, and answers many of our questions. Why did she decide to join him on the wild West Coast, two days' walk from the nearest road ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years by Chris Finlayson
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the most successful conservative governments New Zealand has ever seen.
Becoming Pakeha by John Bluck
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A journey between two cultures. After more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pakeha and Māori worlds grow ever more separate: the Aotearoa of today is a land ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Comrade - Bill Andersen - A Communist, Working-Class Life by Cybèle Locke
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand's trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke's biography recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades. Starting with Bill's experien ...Show more