The Life and Times of a Good Keen Man - An Autobiography by Barry Crump
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
An Autobiography Vintage Collectors' Edition by Janet Frame
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Drawn Out - A Seriously Funny Memoir by Tom Scott
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Tom Scott is a political commentator, political cartoonist, satirist, scriptwriter, playwright, raconteur and funny man. He's been drawing political cartoons for Wellington's Dominion Post since 1988, was in the Press Gallery and was famously banned by PM Muldoon. He's observed David Lange, ...Show more
Wrestling with the Angel: a Life of Janet Frame by Michael KIng
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame is of course New Zealand's most celebrated but also least public writer. She is the author of a series of brilliant novels and the award-winning An Angel At My Table autobiographical series, but she is also a personal mystery - a recluse and a person who has known the abyss of mental illness ...Show more
Vibrant With Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell by Ursula Bethell (ed. Peter Whiteford)
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ursula Bethell (1874-1945) stands at the beginning of modern poetry in New Zealand. This rich collection of letters provides us with much evidence of her 'writerly' life and the origins of her poems. It also tells the moving personal story of an early life of travel and social work followed by happy yea ...Show more
Country of Writing by Lydia Wevers
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
The first substantial study of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period, Country of Writing puts it into the wider context of the European settlement of new societies. It discusses a great range of writing often from little-known names and unexpected sources who all played a part in putti ...Show more
Report on Experience by John Mulgan
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Report on Experience is a compelling memoir written by a quietly heroic author. This brilliantly written work provides insight both into the mind of the author and the prevailing attitudes of wartime Britain and Europe.
Fairburn by Denys Trussell
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Countless Signs - The New Zealand Landscape in Literature: An Anthology by Trudie McNaughton (Compiled by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Native Wit - A Memoir by Hamish Keith
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention last year when his television series and accompanying (Godwit) book The Big Picture seized the imagination of New Zealanders. Keith's witty, revealing memoir, gives readers an insight into his well-lived, rich and immens ...Show more
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
This superlative biography by Michael King is a major publishing event. Janet Frame is of course New Zealand's most celebrated but also least public writer. She is the author of a series of brilliant novels and the award-winning An Angel At My Table autobiographical series, but she is also a personal my ...Show more