Bob Crowder - A New Zealand Organics Pioneer by Matt Morris
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Bob Crowder: A New Zealand organics pioneer, by leading garden historian Matt Morris, tells the story of Bob Crowder's life and his role in the birth of the organics movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Growing up in wartime Britain, the peaceful pursuit of gardening was young Bob's refuge. He later became ...Show more
On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lov ...Show more
Finding Frank: The lfife of Frank Erceg - New Zealand dear hunter, mountaineer, photographer by Louise Maich
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand’s first helicopter hunting ...Show more
Bits of String too Short to Use: A memoir of collecting, writing and the highs and lows of life by Jennifer Beck
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The author looks at her life as a series of ‘bits’, memorable episodes which, when joined together form a pattern both fascinating and thought-provoking. From early life in an unusual rural community, she describes growing up in a large family with money troubles, limited educational opportunities, a lo ...Show more
The Last, the Least, the Lonely and the Lost - A memoir of medicine, meanderings and the marginalised by Brian R McAvoy
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An odyssey of intriguing stories, fascinating facts and unique insights into life, medicine and society. This eclectic memoir describes the intriguing international journey of an individual doctor in a changing world, providing the perspective of a GP, an addiction medicine specialist and an academic. R ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Marco Polo: The Remarkable Firsthand Story of the First Kiwis to Sail Around the World by Tony Armit; John Macfarlane
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In 1951, an 18-year-old Kiwi lad named Tony Armit decided to build a 28-foot wooden yacht. Three years later, he christened her Marco Polo, then with a former school rugby mate, Brian ‘Tig’ Loe, set sail from Auckland on an epic voyage... and whatever adventure may await. In the process, Tony and Tig be ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more