Beyond Cook's Gardens : A Writer's Journey by Norman Harris
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The journey started on a fabulous night at Cook's Garden, Wanganui, where a youthful Norman Harris from the New Zealand Herald was the only national media witness to Peter Snell's world-record mile. That launched a wave of exciting writing, typically described by reviewers as "fresh" or "vivid". Abroad, ...Show more
Daughter of Istanbul by Niyaz Martin Wilson
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
DoP 2009, Auckland 120pp w photos Some memoirs, poems and short stories
A Bridge Over - The Story of John Masters, Veteran Fighter by Allan Marriott
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2009, Christchurch In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was ...Show more
This Blessed Journey by Da'vella Gore
35.00 NZD
41.99 (16% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This Blessed Journey, details how Gore and her son, Wayne, planted a vineyard at Stone Ridge. It is "how not to plant a vineyard". It describes how she entered into the unknown world of viticulture and overcame almost insurmountable obstacles.
Six Feet Down Under by Chris Mann
35.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book starts from my early days as a funeral director's assistant, through to becoming a funeral director. It covers stories of tragedy, stories of laughter, stories of interest and some of the things that can and do go wrong!
The Chocolate Seller On Broadway and His Kids by Chris Grantham
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The one and a half square meters of footpath space on Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland from which Mark Grantham sells his chocolate bars for charity has to be one of the smallest retail sites in New Zealand. One regular customer jokingly refers to it as Mark's 'office', because it is where Mark - severly d ...Show more
Petals of Memory - Sailor Poet Protestor by Peter Williams
36.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Petals of Memory is a real revelation about a man who is not only one of the world's leading barristers in criminal law but also a giant for humanity - a committed and courageous advocate for human rights and the concept of "one world" where all peoples, races, religions co-exist in peace and harmony wi ...Show more
Tales of Anna Hoffmann: Volume One by Anna Hoffmann
67.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Tales of Anna Hoffman is an autobiographical tale of a typical New Zealand girl growing up in a typical small town in New Zealand in the forties and fifties. Anna Hoffman, born in Taumaranui, was a teenager searching for love who fell in the gay and bawdy Auckland of the fifties, rubbing shoulders wi ...Show more
The Madonna in the Suitcase by Huberta Hellendoom
29.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As young immigrants new to New Zealand, Bart and Huberta Hellendoorn long for the children who will make them into a family. Although their joy at the birth of their first child Miriam is initially tested when they learn she has Down Syndrome, her parents welcome her with love and optimism. The Madonna ...Show more
Mainly Rural Yarns by Jim Rotherham
19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A varied and humourous collection short stores, memoirs and essays centred mainly around country folk I have known.