Life at the Top : Tales from Aoraki-Mt.Cook by Genevieve Willoughby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Life at the Top: tales from Aoraki-Mt. Cook brings to life the stories of those who lived and worked in the Mt. Cook area and explored the magnificent mountains surrounding it. The themes and issues that dominate the development of Mt. Cook are uncovered in the book. The mountains have great spiritual s ...Show more
Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Gaitanos Sarah
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Shirley Smith was one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of the 20th century, a woman whose lifelong commitment to social justice, legal reform, gender equality and community service left a profound legacy. She was born in Wellington in 1916. While her childhood was clouded by loss - her mother died ...Show more
The Light after the War by Anita Abriel
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In the bestselling tradition of THE GIRL FROM MUNICH and THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, an extraordinary tale based on the true story of how the author's mother survived World War II against all odds. In 1946 two young Hungarian refugees arrive in Naples determined to start a new life after losing everyon ...Show more
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Popular Penguins
The Gonzo memoir from one of the most influential voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, a ...Show more
Fearless: The life of Adventurer, Equestrian and Endurance Rider Chloe Phillips-Harris by Chloe Phillips-Harris
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The real-life adventures of a young woman pushing the limits, trusting her instincts and living her life off the beaten path. Suffering through searing pain and delirious illness in frigid, makeshift conditions, Chloe Phillips-Harris, at the age of 25 years, summoned every ounce of determination to brav ...Show more
Funny As by Horan Paul Matthews Philip
$60.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords, New Zealanders have made each other laugh in ways distinctive to these islands. Funny As tells the story of comedy in this country through more than 300 pictures and an engaging text base ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Sdecondhand. Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Ro ...Show more
Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke by John Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Introduction by Lorin Clarke This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Kareninain forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents. ...Show more
I Am More Than Just My Tits - Surviving Breast Cancer by Karin Horen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Karin Horen tells the remarkable story of her continuing battle with breast cancer. At just 26 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and immediately underwent two surgeries, resulting in a partial mastectomy, a twelve-month course of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiotherapy. Unphased by her health sca ...Show more
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Native Son: The Writer's Memoir by Witi Ihimaera
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is the second memoir of a remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published, and he has every reason to kick up his heels. But behind that joy ...Show more
We Can Make a Life by Chessie Henry
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling ...Show more