A Forager's Life by Helen Lehndorf
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food. When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in rural Taranaki, she can't help but feel different from her peers and professors - peculiar, poor. She finds solace in long wal ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends - How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? Th ...Show more
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Finding Frank 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
The Burned Letter by Helene Ritchie
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A New Zealander’s Holocaust Mystery. “Every day, I am in Auschwitz,” she would say. Even though she never had been. During the Holocaust, Lidi, as a teenager, flees from Hitler and the Nazis. Forced to leave behind everyone whom she loves, she eventually arrives in New Zealand as a Jewish refugee, with ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Mokorua: Nga korero mo toku moko kauae - My story of moko kauae by Ariana Tikao
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
One woman’s journey to her moko kauae as an expression of her Kāi Tahu identity. I kā rā o mua, I would know my place in my tīpuna’s time, I would know my face. Mokorua is a revealing and emotional account of one woman receiving her moko kauae. Ariana Tikao grew up in suburban Christchurch in the 1970s ...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