Owning It: The Ride that Changed my Life by Brad Smeele
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Deeply thoughtful, honest and riveting story of a high-achieving sportsman who became a quadriplegic. Brad Smeele's thrill-seeking, fast-paced life as a professional wakeboarder came to an abrupt halt eight years ago when an accident caused him to become a quadriplegic. Wakeboarding is like waterskiing ...Show more
Ross Taylor: Black & White by Paul Thomas
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves.Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand ...Show more
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
Needs Adult Supervision by Emily Writes
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Needs Adult Supervision is Emily Writes' take on growing up and feeling like a real adult. This book looks at the growing pains of kids and their parents and their attempts to navigate a world that's changing by the minute. Emily paints a vivid picture of all the feelings, fortunes and failures that com ...Show more
Rugby Head by Greg Bruce
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
A man. A game. A life. A shambles. In this brutally honest, hilarious and forensic examination of both himself and the game he loves, Greg Bruce tells the story of his life growing up and becoming a man in a country and culture obsessed with rugby. From the triumphs and devastations of All Blacks perfor ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Tools For The Top Paddock by Kane Brisco
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Farmer Kane Brisco's tools for the physical and mental strains of life on the land. When Kane Brisco was at his lowest ebb, he could barely even look at his stock. He stood in the middle of a paddock, with water flowing over his boots, trying to comprehend how many days of rain he'd endured without a b ...Show more
Notes on Womanhood by Sarah Jane Barnett
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Her ...Show more
Around the Corners, Out to the Edges - A Memoir by composer Jonathan Besser by Jonathon Besser; Nicola McCloy
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Besser's career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the '70s and '80s. Born into a Jewish household in New York in 1949, Jonathan struggled in school as a neuro-atypical child, before delving in ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
Impossible (Young Readers' Edition) by Stan Walker
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
An abridged edition of the bestselling memoir. Stan Walker is one of Aotearoa's most famous singers. But nothing ever came easy for Stan. What were the chances of success for a kid whose parents had both been in jail? Whose world had been filled with drugs and violence and things no kid should even kno ...Show more