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Fully Committed: The Ben Sigmund Story by Ben Sigmund
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
Fully Committed is the autobiography of Ben Sigmund, All Whites and Phoenix defender. It’s a story about sport, life and never giving up.
Winston: The Story of a Political Phenomenon by Ian Wishart
$38.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
Love him or loathe him, Winston Peters is a conversation starter. But what do you really know about him? How much of what you hear from either friend or foe is true? In a book that will both stun and entertain, investigative journalist and bestselling author Ian Wishart sorts the myth from the reality a ...Show more
The Good Citizen by Denis Dwyer
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
The illegitimate baby of an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Tom Ryan and his family were banished from Ireland to the far ends of the earth: New Zealand. He went on to score the first points for the first All Blacks rugby team and have a huge influence on the development of tourism services in Taupo. He became ...Show more
The Wind at My Back by Josh Komen
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
`I was a lost little boy, trapped in a world where I didn't belong, one that would tear me apart and build me back into someone new . . .' Twenty-three-year-old Josh Komen is on track to represent New Zealand in running at the next Commonwealth Games when he is diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. In ...Show more
Fair Weather Hitchhiker
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
A restless 17-year-old seeking fame, fortune (and romance) goes hitchhiking with three older girls. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life. Radiating hope and energy, the narrative follows this naive New Zealander to London with her family. Tragedy strikes when Julia's father ...Show more
We Can Make a Life: A Memoir of Family, Earthquakes and Courage by Chessie Henry
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravellin ...Show more
Losing the Silver Spoon by James Ashton Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
Tells the life story of James Wilson, from his childhood of growing up on a farm, spending ten years in a boarding school, travelling across Africa, living in Malaysia and returning home to New Zealand to live on a farm.
Leading Lady: Eva Poole: A Life in the Spotlight by Vivienne Allan
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
Articulate and intelligent, Eve Poole had a passion for the theatre and the arts. Her desire to protect one of Invercargill’s cultural icons led her into politics and she was elected as the city’s first woman mayor in 1983. Cath Tizard broke similar ground in Auckland that year – the two becoming trailb ...Show more
Alone in the Tasman: Tony Allan's True Story of Survival at Sea by Les Hill
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
The longest-known survival on the Tasman Sea in a life raft. After competing in the Solo Tasman Yacht Challenge 1974, Christchurch man Tony Allan was sailing back to New Zealand from Mooloolaba when his boat, Rebel II, capsized two days into the journey, leaving him adrift in his life raft for 20 days. ...Show more
Eat, Drink and Be Murray by Murray Thom
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
Murray Thom is a completely self-made businessman who left school at 15 with his FSC (Failed School Certificate). Despite a lack of formal education, he was the Managing Director of CBS Records at just 23 years old. Since then, he has produced numerous bestsellers including, The Great New Zealand Songbo ...Show more
Go Fast Or Go Home: The Garth Hogan Story by Tim Hanna
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography
This is the story of motor racing legend Garth Hogan and his quest for speed on the ground and in the air. Garth Hogan is a man who has been extraordinarily successful in his life. He is a big man with a quiet demeanour that borders on shyness. But that quietness masks a fiercely dedicated and competiti ...Show more
Observations of a Rural Nurse by Sara McIntyre (Photographer)
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family first came to Kākahi, in the King Country, in 1960. The family has been linked to Kākahi ever since. On the family car trips of her childhood, McIntyre got used to her fathers frequent stops for subject matter f ...Show more