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
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013' ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Notes on Womanhood by Sarah Jane Barnett
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Her ...Show more
Ideals Are Like Stars - Dame Yvette Williams Story by Angela Walker
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, a feat not repeated for forty years. Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. Ignoring the pressure to a ...Show more
No Excuses: My Story - From Crime to Community and Fat to Fit by Dave Letele
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Dave Letele's life has taken him from crime to community, footy to failure, riches to rags (and back again), and from fat to fit. Today, he is a businessman, community leader and life coach who helps literally thousands achieve their goals as the face of Buttabean Motivation. He gives out free meals for ...Show more
Raiment - A Memoir by Jan Kemp
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual e ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
The Modern Singhs - A Marriage of Two Cultures by Abbey Singh; Money Singh (As told to)
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Abbey and Money Singh are better known as The Modern Singhs, Kiwi social media celebrities with a rich and tangled love story to tell. Shared through the eyes of this inspiring duo, The Modern Singhs reveals their experiences as migrants to New Zealand as they struggled to find footing in new surrou ...Show more
Rhubarb - The Sweet and Sour of a Life by David Hoyes
34.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Solo - Backcountry Adventures in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to th ...Show more
King of the Castle: A Biography of William Larnach by Fleur Snedden
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
'King of the Castle' is the story of nineteenth century businessman and politician William Larnach, In New Zealand William Larnach is perhaps best remembered for the home he built on the Otago Peninsula, known as Larnach Castle. He also has the tragic distinction of being the only politician to commit s ...Show more