Wild at Heart - The Dangers and Delights of a Nomadic Life by Miriam Lancewood
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Gripping sequel to the international bestseller Woman in the Wilderness, Miriam Lancewood's story of the quest for a simple life, unfettered by society's norms. Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand with her husban ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
Women, Equality, Power: Selected Speeches from a Life of Leadership by Helen Clark
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating insight into Helen Clark's career, throughout which she has consistently worked for equality and parity, most particularly for women.
From the Blitz to the Burmese Jungle & Beyond by Brian Hennessy; Karen McMillan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
One man's memoir of World War II which took him from the Blitz to the jungles of Burma, to the devastation of Hiroshima.'I consider myself lucky to have survived the global carnage still myself - a reluctant soldier who had to go to war, who only ever wanted peace for everyone.' Brian HennessyBrian immi ...Show more
Can You Tolerate This? - Personal essays by Ashleigh Young
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An Elle Ultimate Summer Read' Beautiful, unusual and memorable ... I love this book' MAGGIE NELSON, author of THE ARGONAUTS In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway ye ...Show more
Goneville: A Memoir by Nick Bollinger
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Bollinger was just 18 when he went on the road with the band Rough Justice and its smoky-voiced, charismatic leader Rick Bryant. The next two years were sometimes uplifting and exciting, other times enervating and depressing. It was the 1970s and pot was plentiful. Often, though, the band was short of o ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
$9.99 NZD
$40.00 (75% off)
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more