Growing Up and Growing Old in Governors Bay by Griffen, Lachie
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
At the age of 86, Lachie Griffen has taken on the formidable task of recording a lifetime of memories of his beloved Governors Bay. With exceptional recall and good humour, he recounts stories of his boyhood learning to farm alongside his father, training for war on horseback and fighting in tanks, winn ...Show more
Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
$39.99 NZD
$49.99 (20% off)
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Upstream on the Mataura: A Fly Fisher's Journey to Source by Dougal Rillstone
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Dougal Rillstone was born in Gore, close to the Mataura River, over seventy years ago. The river was both swimming pool and playground during his childhood. One summer's evening, while he stood chest deep in a long pool, facing downstream towards the fading light, he became mesmerised by the sight of ri ...Show more
Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Maori liberation movements. In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her ...Show more
To Be Fair - Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humour, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in th ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$40.00 NZD
$50.00 (20% off)
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...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
On The Move Again
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Masterton-born Len Frances joined New Zealand’s war effort when qualifying for service in November 1940 and training became serious with the Pacific War’s outbreak in December 1941. He was called into camp immediately, spending the first months of 1942 at Masterton’s Solway Military Camp, training for ...Show more
Nothing Like a Dane by Keri Bloomfield
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Humorous and heartfelt, Nothing Like a Dane is a memoir of a New Zealander living her best life in Denmark. The Danish concept of hygge is a wonderful thing. Even if most fail miserably when they try to pronounce or explain its true essence. Unless you’re a Viking of course. As Keri stood in the departu ...Show more
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