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
A Gentle Radical - The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons by Gareth Hughes
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A major biography of Jeanette Fitzsimons, the hugely influential leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Jeanette Fitzsimons was a visionary, a pioneer and a radical. This is the story of someone who battles National and Labour's lock on parliament and had the courage to challenge political s ...Show more
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
Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So beg ...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