Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Island Notes by Tim Higham
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man’s dreams, but he discovers to his cost that nothing can be taken for granted.
Dan Carter 1598 by Dan Carter
69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A sumptuous celebration of the world record test career of Daniel William Carter. Carter’s record points tally of 1598 may never be surpassed, and his points per match average of 14.27 is also the highest of all players who scored more than 500 points. In a photographic tribute, each test gets a double ...Show more
National Identity - Confessions of an Outsider by Simon Bridges
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinity, fitting in, and the things that shape our national character. Simon Bridges grew up as the son of a working-class Baptist preacher in Te Atatu, as the youngest of six children. In many ways he had a typ ...Show more
Prison Break: The Extraordinary Life and Crimes of New Zealand's Most Infamous Escapee by Arthur Taylor
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The extraordinary true story behind New Zealand's most infamous career criminal and prolific escapee. Arthur Taylor is New Zealand's best known, most influential, and colourful career criminal. A household name, he was paroled from prison in 2019 after more than 38 years years behind bars. His life stor ...Show more
Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women by Barbara Else
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
GO GIRL is a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. They strove for their goals. They weren't afraid to step up or speak out. They blazed a trail for others to follow. This book was written to show that YOU can join them! Just some of the amazing women wh ...Show more
After Alexander: The Legacy of a Son by Jan Pryor
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Jan Pryor blends her personal experience of losing a child with her professional understanding of family dynamics and children's development. The clumsiness of consolation; the challenges of organising a funeral and what to do with Alexander's ashes; the isolation, being far from friends and family; con ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Portrait of a War Artist by John Gillies
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In this captivating and beautifully illustrated memoir, John Gillies vividly recalls his months as a member of the Otago University Medical Company on an active service tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Still a medical student at the time, his youthful admiration of New Zealand war a ...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
The Book Collector - Reading and Living with Literature by Tony Eyre
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The Book Collector is a fascinating bibliomemoir of the writer’s lifetime joy of reading, the books and authors that have touched him, and how they have shaped his passion for book collecting. Step into his library, where the book is ‘a tangible object of sentiment and delight’ and experience his fondn ...Show more