Sure To Rise: The Edmond's Story by Peter Alsop, Kate Parsonson, Richard Wolfe
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind the company, Thomas Edmonds, came to New Zeala ...Show more
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more
Second Chances - Facing my demons and finding a better me by Hayley Holt
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery, and courage in the face of loss Hayley Holt grew up in the public eye. On our screens for over twenty years, her highs and lows have been aired for everyone to see. Now it's time to share her side of the story. Raised a dancer in bedazzled dresses and fake ...Show more
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife - The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: Unravelling the many mysteries surrounding one of the first Pakeha women residents in New Zealand.This is a story of doubt. It is a story of people who left little trace. . . . There are no writings to pore over; no monuments to gaze at; no perfectly preserved homes to visi ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more
Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious stories from a junior doctor's first year by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
An insight into what it's like to be a first year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remotest family to the world beyond by Chris Long
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life. On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's most isolated family, his parents committed to freedom from ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more