Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements. In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir by Sam Neill
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
The Art of Winning: 10 Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential by Dan Carter
37.99 NZD
40.00 (5% off)
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A unique and inspiring deep dive into leadership, strength and resilience from one of sport's true masters: All Black legend Dan Carter. Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. You might think success at t ...Show more
Still Standing - A Memoir by Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
For decades, whenever a heritage building in Christchurch has been under threat, especially in the aftermath of the 2010- 11 earthquakes, one woman has consistently defended this city's architecture and history against shortsightedness and the threat of bulldozers - Dame Anna Crighton. Fearless and art ...Show more
Bob Crowder - A New Zealand Organics Pioneer by Matt Morris
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Bob Crowder: A New Zealand organics pioneer, by leading garden historian Matt Morris, tells the story of Bob Crowder's life and his role in the birth of the organics movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. Growing up in wartime Britain, the peaceful pursuit of gardening was young Bob's refuge. He later became ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
Finding Frank: The lfife of Frank Erceg - New Zealand dear hunter, mountaineer, photographer by Louise Maich
49.99 NZD
Category: Hunting
By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand’s first helicopter hunting ...Show more
Blindingly Obvious by Minnie Baragwanath
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A new book from one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs, business innovators, and changemakers is – not surprisingly, given its author’s history of social change – upending and expanding the model for how books are published to make them more accessible to all people. Blindingly Obvious: Th ...Show more
On the Record by Steven Joyce
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A candid, engaging and entertaining memoir by one of the most powerful players in the John Key government with lots of fresh revelations. Before Steven Joyce entered politics, he had a hugely successful 17-year career building and running the radio network RadioWorks. He learnt to cut deals, compete fe ...Show more