Knock Knock: Confessions of a Kiwi Interviewer by Trish Palmer
$5.00 NZD
$40.00 (87% off)
Category: NZ Biography
Extraordinary stories from a lifetime spent conducting interviews. This is the world of the dreaded door-knock from the other side of the door. Trish Palmer has been working as an interviewer and area manager for market research companies for over 20 years, invited into the homes and private lives of a ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
Down They Forgot - A Memoir by Abby Letteri
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A memoir of an American childhood and adolescence set in the turbulent 1960s and 70s, down they forgot traces the story of a girl finding her way in a family overshadowed by mental illness. Social and political discontent-assassinations, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, drugs and dropping out ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
Nine Lives: Expeditions to Everest by Robert Mads Anderson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote North Face, and finally guided a team to the top of ...Show more
From the Edge of the Sky: A Memoir by Maurice Shadbolt
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Compelling and revealing, From the Edge of the Sky continues the often hectic and sometimes poignant tale of the life and times of New Zealand's most distinguished storyteller. As lively as his novels, this new memoir teems with the often improbable New Zealanders who have coloured Shadbolt's life as a ...Show more
Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery ‘I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.’ I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I’d never met. ...Show more
Bill & Shirley: A Memoir by Keith Ovenden
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith were two of New Zealand's most significant twentieth-century figures: Sutch as an economist, influential civil servant, and inspirational proponent of innovation in the fields of social and economic development, and Smith as glass-ceiling breaker in the formerly male-dominat ...Show more
Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
For fifty years, Marti Friedlander (1928-2016) was one of New Zealand's most important photographers, her work singled out for praise and recognition here and around the world. Friedlander's powerful pictures chronicled the country's social and cultural life from the 1960s into the twenty-first century. ...Show more
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has int ...Show more
He Pukapuka Tataku I Nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha by Tamihana Te Rauparaha
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A biography of Te Rauparaha by his son Tamihana, published for the first time in a bilingual Māori/English edition. Kaore kau he kaumatua hei rite ma Te Rauparaha te mahio ki te whawhai, me te toa hoki, me te tino tangata ki te atawhai tangata. There has never been a man equal to Te Rauparaha in terms o ...Show more