Helen Kelly - Her Life by Rebecca Macfie
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the country’s trade union movement, but she was also much mo ...Show more
Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dane by Jonathan Adams
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Hans Falk, born in 1790 in Copenhagen, took to the sea as a lad, changed his name to Phillip Tapsell, and after many adventures settled at Maketu in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. There he became the key trader for Bay of Plenty iwi and married into the highest levels of Te Arawa, while helping other trib ...Show more
The Alarmist - Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Alarmist (pre-2020): Someone who exaggerates a danger and so causes needless worry or panic. Alarmist (post-2020): Someone who justifiably raises the alarm about a global danger to Earth's biosphere. His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it’s critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
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