Oxygen by William Trubridge
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
The incredible under-water world of William Trubridge. A memoir of an aquatic affinity, the power of the subconscious mind and testing the limits of human physiology. William Trubridge spent his childhood on a sailing boat, waking to the sound of the sea. He set off for New Zealand from the UK with his ...Show more
Drawn Out - A Seriously Funny Memoir by Tom Scott
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Tom Scott is a political commentator, political cartoonist, satirist, scriptwriter, playwright, raconteur and funny man. He's been drawing political cartoons for Wellington's Dominion Post since 1988, was in the Press Gallery and was famously banned by PM Muldoon. He's observed David Lange, ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with ...Show more
Casting Off : A Memoir by Elspeth Sandys
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Near Fine
At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys absorbing memoir, What Lies Beneath, an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and begun to piece together the events of her early life and find her place in the world. Casting Off begins on the eve of Elspeths first marriage. She and he ...Show more
Edmund Hillary - A Biography by Michael Gill
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
This new and important biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, a truly great New Zealander, breaks new ground among previous accounts of his life. The author, Michael Gill, was a close friend of Edmund Hillary's for over 50 years, accompanying him on many expeditions, and becoming heavily involved in his Himal ...Show more
A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington by Redmer Yska
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a 'ravishing, immersing read', A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Ysk ...Show more
The Story Of Sir Peter Blake by Tessa Duder
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Award-winning author Tessa Duder tells the gripping story of Sir Peter Blake's life for teenage readers, revealing what made him an inspirational leader. The book features boxes backgrounding sailing skills, the America's Cup and other key points, and is richly illustrated with photos from his life (inc ...Show more
Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957 by Charles Brasch; Peter Simpson (ed.)
59.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: Charles Brasch Journals | Reading Level: very good
This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade ...Show more
The Cause of Death : True Stories of Death and Murder from a New Zealand Pathologist by Cynric Temple-Camp
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Strange and shocking stories of death and murder in provincial New Zealand You won't believe these stories happened in New Zealand...Forensic and coronial pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp lifts the lid on some of the most fascinating cases he's worked on during his 30-year career as a corpse investigat ...Show more
A Woman's Place: Life, Leadership and Lessons from the Boardroom by Joan Withers
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Successful women rarely set out to become role models. They just do the best they can, and hopefully that becomes inspirational for other women.' Joan Withers left high school with School Certificate at the age of 16 and from those unassuming beginnings has gone on to manage one of New Zealand's leadin ...Show more
Yoga of Sailing by Dyana Wells
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: Anchors in an Open Sea
Experience the delight of sailing when it's carried into the risky experiences of navigating around the major islands in the Pacific, from exhilaration to exhaustion! "What drives the desire for spiritual experiences? This and many other questions are explored by Alice and her family." The Yoga of Saili ...Show more