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Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has ...Show more
An Exquisite Legacy: The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insec ...Show more
Zen Heart: What I've Learned from Animals and Life by Mark Vette
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A cheeky baboon, a cockatoo sending a heading dog out to round up sheep, a family of pukekos crossing the road, a dog saying 'bugger', an octopus taking a photo. Think of an ad you love, or a New Zealand-made movie, and if it has an animal in it chances are Mark Vette was behind it. He's trained almost ...Show more
Colouring My Soul by Kat Maxwell
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
"I write because I find it cleansing. Writing stories is easier for me than regaling them, setting them down on paper makes sure their content doesn’t get mixed up when someone else repeats them. "I write because my stories bruise my brain until they’re written. They fell out of my fingers one day after ...Show more
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography by Geoff Saunders
$59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
**For Booktrade purchases only** 'Sir Bob Charles – The Biography’ is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. His story begins in working-class rural New Zealand. In 1960 he embarked upon a career that no New Zealander had chosen before – that of a full-time touring professional golfer. Th ...Show more
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to ...Show more
Letters of Denis Glover by Sarah Shieff (editor)
$79.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Oh Christ, a bloody ½ witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said that ...Show more
Billy Apple: Life/Work by .Christina Barton
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A major study of New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist. Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, 1935) is New Zealand’s most internationally significant living artist and a pioneer of pop and conceptual art. At the Royal College of Art in London from 1959–62, Apple studied ...Show more
Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
The best way to learn anything is by doing it - this is a maxim that goes back to Aristotle. Gordon McLauchlan agrees. He has concluded that the only way of learning how to manage growing old is by growing old. He doesn't believe that wisdom is necessarily a concomitant of old age but suggests that, whi ...Show more
Ripiro Beach - A Memoir of Life after Near Death by Caroline Barron
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history When she was just nine, Golriz Ghahraman and her parents were forced to flee their home in Iran. After a terrifying and uncertain journey, they landed in Auckland where they were able to seek asylum and - ult ...Show more