Sylvia and the Birds by Johanna Emeney; Sarah Laing
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children's Non Fiction
Part graphic biography, part practical guide to protecting our bird wildlife, this remarkable book for young readers and their families is fully committed to detailing the wonders of our native birds, the threats they face and how we can help them. Based on the life of 'The Bird Lady', Sylvia Durrant, ...Show more
Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Barry Crump by The Crump Brothers
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father. 'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'- Martin Crump Barry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling more than a million copies. In his time, he was held up a ...Show more
Showtym Viking by Kelly Wilson, Amanda Wilson
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A thrilling equestrian novel to delight all fans of the Wilson sisters, inspired by true events - 17-year-old Amanda's nail-biting bid to win the top national Pony of the Year competition. Viking is the pony of Amanda's dreams, but does she have what it takes to win? An exciting middle-grade novel about ...Show more
Ideals Are Like Stars - Dame Yvette Williams Story by Angela Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, a feat not repeated for forty years. Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. Ignoring the pressure to a ...Show more
So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Evocative, wry and thought-provoking, this is a rewarding journey with one of our finest writers. It is a little over a decade since Fiona Kidman wrote her last volume of memoir. But her story did not end on its last page; instead her life since has been busier than ever, filled with significant changes ...Show more
Solo - Backcountry Adventures in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to th ...Show more
Raiment - A Memoir by Jan Kemp
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual e ...Show more
Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Until now. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School ...Show more
The Forgotten Coast by Richard Shaw
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A short memoir whose main focus is unpacking a family story that was never told:that a farm in Taranaki on which the family's generations-long comfortable fortunes rested had been directly taken from the people of Parikaha and given to an ancestor, a member of the Armed Constabulary following the invasi ...Show more
Home Base - Poems on life as a Regular Force Cadet 1964-1966 by Keith Westwater
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Keith's stepmother 'Maw' gives him an ultimatum - at fifteen he either leaves school to work or joins the army. So, Keith departs Auckland and reports to the Waiouru military camp, enlisting as a regular force cadet. Home Base is a snapshot of Keith Westwater's boy-soldier life in the New Zealand Army d ...Show more
Mana Whakatipu - Ngāi Tahu Leader Mark Solomon on Leadership and Life by Mark Solomon; Mark Revington
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In 1998, just as South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu was about to sign its Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the government — justice of sorts after seven generations of seeking redress — a former foundryman stepped into the pivotal role of kaiwhakahaere or chair of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the tribal council of ...Show more