The Power in Our Truth, The Truth of Our Power: Recollections of Moana Jackson by 34 contributors
$40.00 NZD
Category: Te Ao Māori
“So now, this thinker, this gifted communicator, this provocateur, this great role model, this gentleman, this Rangatira is no longer with us. But let’s not dwell on that. He has left us with a pathway to follow, work to do. And the way to best honour him is to take up the challenges, do the mahi and le ...Show more
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success. Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby pla ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | 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
Olive Oil the New Zealand Way : The joys and challenges of leaving city certainty for the unknown world of olive growing by David Walshaw
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Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Told with candour and humour, Olive Oil: The New Zealand Way is part inspirational memoir, part case study in how to make a go of lifestyle farming and a must-read for anyone nuts enough to give growing olives in the New Zealand situation a go.
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan by Bariz Shah
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only wa ...Show more
Still Standing - A Memoir by Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
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
Aiming High: The Story of Byron Brown and his Granddaughter Mary-Annette by Di Buchan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Byron Brown – entrepreneur, businessman, community leader, benefactor, broadcaster, environmentalist, philosopher, poet and storyteller, and an internationally recognised expert on the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. Mary-Annette – artist, actor, event organiser, broadcaster and the Queen of Wool for ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
The Art of Winning: 10 Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential by Dan Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
A unique and inspiring deep dive into leadership, strength and resilience from one of sport's true masters: All Black legend Dan Carter. Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. You might think success at t ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more