Gallipoli to the Somme - Recollections of a New Zealand Infantry Man by Aitken Alexander
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Wes ...Show more
Long Road from a Broken Heart: Jeremy Scotts 52,000km Ride from London to Auckland All Because of a Hole in His Heart. by Jeremy Scott
79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
As a toddler, Jeremy Scott suffered from a huge hole in his aorta valve that cruelly denied him the opportunity to live the life of a normal healthy child. At just four years of age Jeremy underwent Open Heart Surgery at the hands of renowned surgeon Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes. Thirty four years later with ...Show more
Bono - Rescue Cat Who Helped Me Find My by Helen Brown
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Having survived a brush with cancer, Helen Brown, happily married with three grown children, took stock of her comfortable suburban life and found it wanting. So when she was invited to visit New York, the city that never sleeps, she seized the day and accepted. Perhaps, she mused, she might never retur ...Show more
Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner 10th Anniversary Edition by Kerre Woodham; Gareth Brown (As told to)
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A Way With Words: A memoir of writing and publishing in New Zealand by Chris Maclean
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Very Good
From an early age, author and publisher Chris Maclean was told he had a way with words. This talent, which protected him from school bullies and made him a proficient debater, later became the focus of his professional life. Since the 1980s he has written a dozen non-fiction books, publishing many of th ...Show more
Young Queen by Parris Goebel
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Crazy. Bold. Fearless. Parris Goebel was destined to make her mark. Young Queen is the autobiography of a dancer with a dream . . . a young Polynesian girl who grew up in New Zealand and went on to conquer the hip hop world. In this honest memoir, Parris Goebel shares the extraordinary story of how s ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Kiwi on the Camino : A Walk That Changed My Life by Vivianne Flintoff
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
These Two Hands : A Memoir by Renee
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Renee was born grumpy (Ngati Kahungunu/Scot) and nothing has changed. She is an avid and faithful reader, who enjoys cooking and gardening. Everyone, she says, should grow leafy greens. Renee always thought she would die at forty-two but for some reason this didn't happen. She considers herself very luc ...Show more
Aidan, 19: So Far by Aidan Cahill
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Aidan was one of dozens and possibly hundreds of young men and women on New Zealand's streets. How do you meet someone in this situation, even if you have such an interest? How do they survive? Why are they in such a position? What are their aspirations? Such citizens of New Zealand are on the margins a ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by CLARKE JOHN
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
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