Life, Loss, Love: A Memoir by Lorraine Downes
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
As well as the Miss Universe fairy-tale and her busy career, Lorraine shares details of her first marriage to All Black Murray Mexted, her delight in her two children, her success in Dancing with the Stars and her blissful relationship with cricketing legend Martin Crowe. Along the way Lorraine has fac ...Show more
Let Fly! - A Young Topdressing Pilot's Courageous Story by Barry Cardno
$14.99 NZD
$29.99 (50% off)
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'8 May, 1995. My alarm clock goes off at 6am. I get up and walk outside to survey the sky. Will we be going topdressing today? At 7am I leave with my first load, 900 kg. I land back four or five minutes later when the Fletcher is reloaded. Climbing away from the base of the airstrip in a northerly direc ...Show more
Jonah: My Story by Jonah Lomu
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
It's 10 years since he played his final match for the All Blacks, but Jonah Lomu remains the most recognisable rugby face on the planet. In this update to his 2004 best-selling biography, Jonah talks about the highs and lows of that last decade with candour and honesty. Packed with astonishing revelatio ...Show more
Leighton Smith Beyond the Microphone by Leighton Smith
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Like his talk show, this autobiography delivers more than the everyday - it’s honest, informative and insightful - and is in Leighton’s trademark style. From his early years growing up in Sydney to becoming one of New Zealand’s favourite radio stars, Leighton’s life has been a full one. He has remained ...Show more
One Girl, One Dream: The Incredible Story of the Youngest Ever Solo Circumnavigation of the World by Laura Dekker
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the world upside down, or travel there yourself. In 2012, at the age of just 16, Laura Dekker became the youngest sailor ever to singl ...Show more
High Street to Homestead by Angela Williams; Deborah Coddington
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From her Grey Lynn apartment to one of New Zealand's most historic homesteads and horse studs, this is an inspirational journey from a corporate life working with Louis Vuitton back to the golden hills of rural Wairarapa. It's the middle of the night and Angela lies awake asking herself, not for the fir ...Show more
A Gentle Radical - The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons by Gareth Hughes
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A major biography of Jeanette Fitzsimons, the hugely influential leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Jeanette Fitzsimons was a visionary, a pioneer and a radical. This is the story of someone who battles National and Labour's lock on parliament and had the courage to challenge political s ...Show more
Face to Face - Conversations with Remarkable New Zealanders by Paul Moon; Jane Ussher
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
Stimulating, humorous, sometimes controversial and always revealing, Face to Face offers intimate portraits of the lives of twelve remarkable New Zealanders. Through conversations with Paul Moon, one of the country's most acclaimed historians and cultural commentators, and through the lens of award-winn ...Show more
A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. Published with ...Show more
Mad Men of the Mountains by Al Lester
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
'The mountains have a habit of bringing out the best in people, despite the hardships that rain, hail and snow often throw in. In fact, it's only after a bit of adversity comes along that a person's true character comes to the fore. Those with a love for the hills take these things on the chin and just ...Show more
The Dwarf Who Moved and Other True Stories from a Life in the Law by Peter Williams
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
A memoir in anecdotal form by New Zealand's pre-eminent criminal barrister. In his time as a criminal defence lawyer in the New Zealand courts, Peter Williams QC has seen it all. From the days when abortion, homosexuality and even telling fortunes could see a person hauled before the courts, to sensatio ...Show more
Tough Country: Tall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes by Mike Bellamy
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
Mike Bellamy's father Barry is as tough as they come. Widely credited as the inspiration for Barry Crump's back-country character Sam Cash, Barry was a roving worker in rural North Island during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Tough Country is a book about a father by a son, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-c ...Show more