In the Time of the Manaroans by Miro Bilbrough
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre-industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of ...Show more
This Farming Life - Five generations on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning. ...Show more
Under the Covers: Secrets of a Magazine Editor by Jenny Lynch
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Former editor Jenny Lynch takes the wraps off the unreported side of life in print, explodes myths, unearths secrets and shows that even on seemingly conservative publications such as the New Zealand Woman's Weekly things were seldom exactly as they seemed. Her memoir, aptly titled "Under the Covers", i ...Show more
The Divorce Diaries by Sarah Quigley
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, honest, confronting, wise, this is a compelling and bitter-sweet true story of breaking up and breaking through. 'I hear you're divorced?' a friend greets me. 'Congratulations!' The Divorce Diaries outlines the difficult and often heart-breaking process of leaving a marriage and beginning again. ...Show more
Richard Emerson: the Hopfather by Michael Donaldson
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Richard Emerson is one of our pre-eminent brewers, a trailblazer who is often lauded as the godfather of craft beer in New Zealand. Born profoundly deaf in 1960s Dunedin, Emerson triumphed against all odds to launch Emerson's Brewery in 1992. He went on to create a string of unique, award-winning beers, ...Show more
Annette King: The Authorised Biography by Harvey John Edwards Brent
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Annette King is New Zealand's longest-serving women MP - 1984-2017 less three years in the wilderness from 1990-1993. In her 30 years in Parliament, she spent 15 in government (10 as a cabinet minister) and 15 in opposition. She is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party, and held a number of senior ...Show more
Croczilla: The Wyatt Crockett Story by Stevenson Scotty
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In the great traditions of New Zealand prop forwards, Wyatt Crockett's stellar professional rugby career has been defined by steely determination and quiet achievement. Now, for the first time, the most capped Super Rugby player of all time is ready to tell the story of his remarkable rugby journey. Cro ...Show more
The Good Citizen by Denis Dwyer
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The illegitimate baby of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Tom Ryan and his family were banished from Ireland to the far ends of the earth: New Zealand. He went on to score the first points for the first All Blacks rugby team and have a huge influence on the development of tourism services in Taupo. He became ...Show more
Never, Ever Give Up?: A Memoir by Hellemans John
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
John Hellemans looks back on his long career in triathlon, initially as a successful competitor, and subsequently as a coach and sports medicine doctor for some of New Zealand's best-performing triathletes. Hellemans won six national titles and represented New Zealand at several world championship event ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Road' is Gee's sto ...Show more
Back From the Brink by Bill Blaikie
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
In 2004, Lieutenant Colonel William Blaikie shipped out to Afghanistan to head up a team dedicated to rebuilding the country after the war. As part of the New Zealand Defence Force, his skills lay in intelligence and communications - his mission was to form a team, develop and implement plans to work wi ...Show more