Leap of Faith : My DanceThrough Life by Shona Dunlop MacTavish
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Leap of Faith is the lively and inspirational story of Shona Dunlop MacTavish's life. It's an extraordinary mix of drama, upheaval and the overcoming of great personal tragedy. The text draws from her diaries which she has kept throughout her life and encompasses some of the most tumultuous times of thi ...Show more
Over the Hills but Not to Stay by Jane Hascombe
$30.00 NZD
Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula
Young Kauri 1875-1975 Personal recollections of Sir Alfred Hamish Reed by A.W. Reed
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
Denis Glover: His Life by Gordon Ogilvie
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Denis Glover is one of New Zealand's outstanding literary figures. This first comprehensive biography investigates the turbulent life of this celebrated poet., typographer, publisher, wit, sportsman and war hero, and offers an illuminating portrayal of the New Zealand cultural scene during its most vita ...Show more
Marching On by Sonja Davies
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
In this second autobiography, Sonja Davies continues the story of her life. In this volume she traces her election as the first woman vice-president of the FOL and as Labour MP for Pencarrow as well as providing an insight into the events in her personal life.
Old Heroes by Warwick Roger
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
The story of the 1956 Springbok tour, a year that left a lasting impression on New Zealanders.
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
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
Hot Water Sailor 1912-1962 & Landlubber Ho 1963-1980 by Denis Glover
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Three women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far more to the Soong sisters than thes ...Show more
Gadfly - The Life and Times of James Shelley by Ian Carter
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
In this biography of the Director of Broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s, Ian Carter gives a sense of Shelley's multi-faceted character, of his dynamism and his view of himself as a grand actor on the stage of life. He also offers insights into the country's cultural life between the wars.