One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more
Pic: Adventures in Sailing, Business, and Love by Pic Picot
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Long before rocketing to fame as a peanut-butter baron, Pic earned his keep making cool sandals for his schoolmates and expensive handbags for their mothers. Leatherwork paid for his OE. He went to flower-powered San Francisco, had a hair-raising entanglement with a Colorado drug gang, and lived in a bi ...Show more
The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw by Philip Matthews
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Genetic scientist Andrew Bagshaw put his life on hold to help the people of Ukraine. His selfless actions would cost him his life. This is his story. Andrew Bagshaw was many things - a genius-level geneticist, keen cricketer and sailor, private pilot, much-loved son, brother and uncle, as well as a hug ...Show more
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
$44.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Everest Mountain Guide: The Remarkable Story of a Kiwi Mountaineer by Guy Cotter
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
The book follows the career of Guy Cotter, Kiwi mountaineer and mountain guide, who has been leading guided ascents of Mt Everest from the early 1990’s. Everest Mountain Guide is an authentic and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into what actually transpires on the mountain, the huge challenges faced ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
From Behind Closed Doors by Olive Webb
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
"A year or so before I had been asked by a senior space scientist why 'someone as clever as me would want to be concerned with the lowest one percent of humanity”’… The answer to this question sums up Olive’s life’s work. From an early age she saw the plight of ‘them’,the people whose disabilities set ...Show more
BJ: The White Robe Legacy: The Brian Anderton Story by Wally O'Hearn
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
When Brian Anderton recorded his first win as an apprentice jockey, little did he know it was a step towards establishing himself as a legend of the New Zealand racing industry. BJ, as he is well known, is a silent achiever in the industry, a humble man who has never sought publicity but has earned it. ...Show more
Scatterlogical Wisdom: Stay Strong in Adversity, and Laugh the Socks Off the Many Absurdities of Life by Frances Hall
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Frances was born in the Wairarapa, New Zealand, in 1948--a post-war baby-boomer. She was raised in Northland. Her varied careers have included bun-running, journalism, radio presentation and tour leading. Her dad always said she was of Spanish descent--something about the Spanish Armada sinking o ...Show more
Not Just a GP: More than just a memoir by Tony Townsend
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
More than just a memoir. Based on the author's 50 years of medical practice, teaching, and writing but supported and expanded by the international medical literature. I remember my friend and mentor, Pat Farry, saying more than once, 'You might be just a country boy, but you are never just a GP.' This b ...Show more