The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes by Krissy Kneen
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
In her 2010 memoir, Affection, Krissy Kneen introduced readers to her unique family and the towering matriarchal figure of her grandmother. Stern, domineering, fiercely loving, Lotty Kneen-born Dragitsa-was always tight-lipped about her early life and family history. She rebuffed Krissy's curiosity and ...Show more
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more
Perfection: The Life and Times of Sir William Manchester by Earle Brown
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
From country boy to internationally renowned plastic surgeon, from junior medical officer to Lieutenant Colonel in just four years, "Perfection: the life and times of Sir William Manchester" covers a life of achievement and service. Hailing from small beginnings in rural Waimate, William Manchester beca ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail: The Diary of a Country Vet by Danielle Hawkins
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet. With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving cows to constipa ...Show more
Kate Edger - The Life of a Pioneering Feminist by Diana Morrow
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievement as 'the first rays of the rising sun of female intellectual advancement'. Edger went on to become a pioneer of women's education in New Zealand. She also w ...Show more
Colouring My Soul by Kat Maxwell
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Series: 1st
"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
59.90 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Sir Bob Charles - The Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Sir Bob Charles. This book 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. As told in Sir Bob Charles -The Biograph ...Show more
A Path Through the Trees: Mary Sutherland - forester, botanist & women's advocate by Vivien Edwards
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Mary Sutherland was the world's first woman forestry graduate. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1923 and was employed by the State Forest Service. A Path Through the Trees tells the professional and personal story of this remarkable woman.
Retirement in a Tent: From Dream to Reality by Faye Hawtin
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Everyone has a personal and individual Dream which involves their own interests, what they are looking for, and what they might find. Faye dreamed of freedom. Freedom to follow her own agenda. Freedom to fulfil her wanderlust within the limits of a fixed income. Freedom from other people's expectations. ...Show more
The Dolphin: The Life of David Lewis by Ben Lowings
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
David Lewis might be the greatest explorer you've never heard of. This British-born New Zealander was the first person to sail a catamaran around the world, the first - in Ice Bird - to reach Antarctica solo under sail, and the first to make known to Westerners how ancient navigators reached - and coul ...Show more