Born to New Zealand - A Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson by Frances Porter
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Jane Maria Atkinson portraying a woman's view of life in colonial New Zealand.
Tim Shadbolt - A Mayor of Two Cities by Tim Shadbolt
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very goof
Written in Shadbolt's usual humourous style he covers a wide range of subjects from hippie communes, concrete, the peace movement, Tv appearances, to the world's fastest indian and the Invercargill mayorality First published October 2008, Auckland softcover
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
$45.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller. A book of hope for uncertain times. 'Feeling a little blue? Meet the new Winnie the Pooh.' - The Daily Mail .... 'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' - Richard Curtis. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikel ...Show more
Loyal: The Todd Blackadder Story - SIGNED by PHIL GIFFORD
$44.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Despite the fact he lost his spot in the All Blacks in 2001, this biography shows that Todd Blackadder remains one of New Zealand's favourite rugby players. He will probably be best remembered for his deeds with Canterbury in the NPC and the Canterbury Crusaders in the Super 12.
Katherine Mansfield in Picton by Julie Kennedy
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Katherine Mansfield, at 19 and 'bored with Wellington', left New Zealand to be a writer. She never returned. Shortly before her death at 34 in 1923, she wrote (in a story fragment): 'It was one of those days so clear, so still, so silent you almost feel the earth itself has stopped in astonishment at it ...Show more
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.