Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff d ...Show more
A Vintner's Tale by Peter Hubscher
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Of modest stature, from Central European stock and born in West Auckland, Peter Hubscher first trialled as a winemaker in Hawke’s Bay in the 1960s. His apprenticeship completed, he returned to the Waitākere Ranges to begin his career with Montana Wines and put into practice his vision for the undevelope ...Show more
The Book Collector - Reading and Living with Literature by Tony Eyre
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The Book Collector is a fascinating bibliomemoir of the writer’s lifetime joy of reading, the books and authors that have touched him, and how they have shaped his passion for book collecting. Step into his library, where the book is ‘a tangible object of sentiment and delight’ and experience his fondne ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success. Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby pla ...Show more
The Devil's Haircut - My Life Before and After the Raurimu Massacre by Steve Anderson
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The Devil’s Haircut is an intimate case study from the tragedy of one of this country’s worst mass shootings. The Raurimu Massacre, as it came to be known, happened on 8 February 1997 and saw six everyday New Zealanders die. Another four were left with serious gunshot injuries, and they and many others ...Show more
Stand And Deliver - Ian Johnstone on Television by Ian Johnstone
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Stand And Deliver is what the nervous young Ian Johnstone had to do when he stood in front of the very first television cameras. There was nobody to teach him. He had to learn on the job. From the much loved 'Town and Around' through 'Compass' and countless series, specials and documentaries on to the t ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more