Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Believer - Conversations with Mike Moore by Peter Parussini
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Michael Kenneth Moore was probably the country's last working class Prime Minister and while the book is inevitably political, it is also a remarkable New Zealand story about an ordinary kiwi achieving extraordinary things. This book is based on conversations held with Mike Moore over the past 12 months ...Show more
It's Over! A Broadcaster's Story by John McBeth
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
From the Pilot's Seat: Kiwi Adventurers in the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Enthralling tales from New Zealand pilots - both men and women - who fly a variety of aircraft around the world in a range of situations, from the domestic to the heart-stopping. Aviation safety expert and keen pilot Fletcher McKenzie has interviewed 23 Kiwi pilots who have worked around the world and ...Show more
Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
$39.99 NZD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Still Standing - A Memoir by Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
For decades, whenever a heritage building in Christchurch has been under threat, especially in the aftermath of the 2010- 11 earthquakes, one woman has consistently defended this city's architecture and history against shortsightedness and the threat of bulldozers - Dame Anna Crighton. Fearless and art ...Show more
Simon Gault: No Half Measures by Simon Gault
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault’s on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and more. The former MasterChef New Zealand judge is a successful businessman with his name on stocks, seasonings, cookware and cocktails, but that’s not the full s ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Southern Wanderer by Peter Garden
$60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
At a time when our mandate to defend biodiversity and reverse the damage of centuries has never been clearer or more urgent, the legacy of helicopter pilot Peter Garden sets a critical example. For decades, he has been part of some of the most ground-breaking bird rescue projects in the world, at some o ...Show more
Hold my Hand, Rosie. Don't Let Go: A mother-and-daughter story of addiction, despair, and hope by Madeline & Rosie Redding
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Rosie is a shy young teenager when she starts experimenting with alcohol. When Rosie’s parents finally realise that their beloved daughter is having problems with her drinking, Rosie is firmly in the grip of alcoholism. What follows is the true story of a family’s battle over ten years to find help for ...Show more