The Rise and Fall of James Busby - His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand by Paul Moon
43.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1 ...Show more
Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan
11.99 NZD
29.99 (60% off)
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
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
Pull No Punches - Memoir of a Political Survivor by Judith Collins
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
A candid and revealing memoir from one of politics' great survivors - National MP, and leader of the opposition, Judith Collins.
Observations of a Rural Nurse by Sara Mcintyre
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kākahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kākahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter f ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death by Caroline Barron
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
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: very good
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 - ulti ...Show more
Husna's Story by Farid Ahmed
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Husna Ahmed was a victim of the Christchurch mosque terrorist attack on 15 March 2019. She was shot while looking for her husband, who was in a wheelchair. The couple had been praying when a gunman burst into the mosque. He shot and killed 51 people that day and injured many others. In this book Husna's ...Show more
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made international headlines. She was in her thirties and was beginning to burn out - her hectic London life of work and social activity and striving to do more and do b ...Show more
Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction, Vol. I 1919-1959 by Peter Simpson
84.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand’s greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and Māori motifs, McCahon’s work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia an ...Show more