Godley - The Man Behind the Myth by Terry Kinloch
$69.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and II ANZAC Corps during World War I. While Godley is generally remembered as being a poor field commander, Terry Kinl ...Show more
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Guide Rangi Of Rotorua by Rangitiaria Dennan with Ross Annabell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Second hand, 1968 first edition.
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
Heart Sounds by David Hay, Sir
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Sir David Hay's career parallels the most significant developments in 20th-century medicine. He helped bring international advances in cardiology home to New Zealanders and had a key role in the growth of the National Heart Foundation and the non-smoking movement. Heart Sounds is a highly readable and e ...Show more
Helen - Portrait of a Prime Minister by Brian Edwards
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's first elected woman Prime Minister remains an enigma to many, despite her almost daily exposure on television. In Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister, Brian Edwards has produced a comprehensive, balanced and absorbing account of the life, times and character of the real Helen Clark. Workin ...Show more
Hello Darkness by Peter Wells
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Description: It's now a year exactly since my urologist told me I had an aggressive cancer that was incurable. I was rushed into hospital and thus began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and all the ups and downs of a sickness that arrived in my life with the noise and terror of an old fashioned train. ...Show more
Hidden Places - A memoir in journalism by Michael King
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
His Way: a Biography of Robert Muldoon by Barry Gustafson
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Robert Muldoon was Prime Minister of New Zealand for eight and a half years (1975-1984) and Minister of Finance for fifteen years (1967-72 and 1975-84) during on the the most difficult periods in the country's history. He was the dominant figure in New Zealand's political life over the last half century ...Show more