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
30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders by Matt McEvoy
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
30 Queer Lives explores the lives, struggles and successes of LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders, from north to south and from soldiers, celebrities, lawyers, drag queens, businesspeople and Olympians to farmers and fa`afafine. From the famous — including Grant Robertson, Gareth Farr and Chlöe Swarbrick — to the l ...Show more
Wild at Heart - The Dangers and Delights of a Nomadic Life by Miriam Lancewood
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The gripping sequel to Woman in the Wilderness, Miriam Lancewood'sstory of the quest for a simple life, unfettered by society's norms Miriam Lancewood's book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand with her husband, hunting and gathering, an ...Show more
Woman in Love - Katherine Mansfield's Love Letters by Katherine Mansfield; Nicola Saker (ed.)
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Katherine Mansfield’s short stories are loved by readers around the world. Her letters also showcase the shining quality of her writing, her powers of observation and her humour. This collection of ‘love letters’ casts its net wide, capturing love in its many forms. There are letters to lovers, but also ...Show more
The Birds Began to Sing - A Memoir of a New Zealand Composer by Dorothy Buchanan
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Dorothy Buchanan is a prolific, much loved and much awarded composer, who pioneered the composer-in-schools scheme and has been a force in music and music-making in Aotearoa for over half a century. Born in 1945 on the West Coast, she grew up as one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Do ...Show more