The Secret Diary of Charlotte Gatland: It Was 1847, and This Is Her True Teenage Life Story... by Patricia Charlotte Dennis
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Near Fine
AT 19 YEARS OLD SHE PARTIED WITH LONDON SOCIETY, STRUCK GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND FOUGHT TRAGEDY, DESTITUTION AND DANGER TO CARVE A FUTURE IN PIONEER NEW ZEALAND. IT WAS 1847, AND THIS IS HER TRUE TEENAGE LIFE STORY... If you think today's teens have it tough, spare a thought for Charlotte Gatland: "Washi ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
29.99 NZD
40.00 (25% off)
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more
Maurice Gee - Life and Work by Rachel Barrowman
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand s greatest fiction writers. His long literary career began in the 1950s and includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for television and film. His work is loved by generations of readers and has earned him m ...Show more
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Against the backdrop of troops being mindlessly slaughtered at the whim of upper-echelon officers, WE WILL NOT CEASE is a story of extreme bravery and resolve. WE WILL NOT CEASE is the epic record of New Zealander Archibald Baxter's brutal treatment as a conscientious objector. In 1915, when he was 33, ...Show more
A Home Companion: My Year of Living Like My Grandmother by Wendyl Nissen
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Wendyl Nissen's year-long journey towards self-sufficiency. The book details each home discovery as it happens - both the triumphs and the disasters - while Wendyl slowly sheds her corporate life. A Home Companion is the book for any woman who finds herself yearning to get her hands covered in soil and ...Show more
The Dwarf Who Moved by Peter Williams
26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
New Zealand's pre-eminent criminal barrister looks back on his remarkable life and times. In his time as a criminal defence lawyer in the New Zealand courts, the late Sir Peter Williams QC saw it all. From the days when abortion, homosexuality and even telling fortunes could see a person hauled before t ...Show more
Jean Batten Garbo of the Skies by Ian Mackersey
14.99 NZD
34.99 (57% off)
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Jean Batten was one of the great aviation megastars of the 1930s. Her spectacular flights ranked with those of Britain's Amy Johnson and America's Amelia Earhart. Yet, despite her brilliance as a pilot, she remained the least well-known of them all. For the dentist's daughter from New Zealand built an i ...Show more
I Know This to be True by Published by PQ Blackwell
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Truth, wisdom, beauty and other stuff that matters for 60 New Zealanders. This is a book about New Zealanders living fascinating lives and the things they know to be true, the things they believe in and the things they have learned. You may have heard of some of them, but that's not what is important. ...Show more
Never Put All Your Eggs in One Bastard : A Memoir by Peta Mathias
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change. 'I've escaped more houses than I've said Hail Marys.' Peta Mathias has been making major moves since leaving home to train as a nurse, before living in Canada, London and later France ...Show more
Give a Man a Horse: Remarkable story of Sir Patrick Hogan by Dianne Haworth
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
New and fully updated edition of the classic biography of Sir Patrick Hogan and his legendary Camrbidge Stud, home of champion thoroughbreds Sir Tristram and Zabeel. 'My passion for the thoroughbred is a legacy passed down to me by my Irish father, Tom Hogan. The Irish possess a rare affinity with the t ...Show more
Instrumental by James Rhodes
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such ...Show more