Letters from the Bay of Islands - The Story of Marianne Williams by Marianne Williams; Caroline Fitzgerald (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1822 Marianne Williams, with her missionary husband Henry and their three small children, left England forever. Their new home, in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, was a remote one-house settlement - the Church Missionary Society mission station headquarters. This was nearly twenty years before the sign ...Show more
Geoff Murphy - A Life on Film by Geoff Murphy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good
The majorly entertaining memoir from a major entertainer - Geoff 'Goodbye Pork Pie' Murphy tells it like it really was in this director's cut of his life and times. "I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill!" It was the line that had cinema audiences cheering. Goodbye Pork Pie became an instant classi ...Show more
Tim Shadbolt - A Mayor of Two Cities by Tim Shadbolt
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | 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
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen; Karen Blixen
$7.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.' In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written, Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century, and the love affair that changed her life. A new series of twenty distincti ...Show more
Sir Edward William Stafford - A Memoir by Edward Wakefieldd
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A Bridge Over - The Story of John Masters, Veteran Fighter by Allan Marriott
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2009, Christchurch In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was ...Show more
A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement by C Warren Adams
$20.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good
Random Recollections - Notes on a lifetime at the bar by A C Hanlon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
Forza Amon! - A biography of Chris Amon by Eoin Young
$16.00 NZD
Category: motoring | Reading Level: very good
Chris Amon, Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren - three legends of New Zealand motor sport. Of them, Chris was always regarded as the unlucky one. Despite being described by Sir Jackie Stewart as one of the best racing drivers he ever knew or saw in action, Chris never won a Formula One Grand Prix. Forza Amon! ...Show more
Light and Reflections - The House and the Art in our Lives by Helen Beaglehole
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Light and Reflections is a story of a home filled with contemporary New Zealand art and the family who collected it over two generations and nearly 90 years. Author Helen Beaglehole and photographer Matthew O'Reilly open the red front door of the Beaglehole home in Messines Road, Karori, and invite read ...Show more
Jack Lovelock - Athlete and Doctor by Graeme Woodfield
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jack Lovelock remains one of New Zealand's greatest sportsmen, the diminutive figure in black who, "running in a rapture", won the Olympic 1500m gold medal in world record time in front of Hitler in 1936. Despite his fame, Lovelock has been an enigmatic, elusive figure. This prompted fellow Timaru Boys' ...Show more
Just Who Does He Think He Is? George Webby ,That's Who! by George Webby
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Drama | Reading Level: very good
Renowned drama educator and director George Webby's wryly-titled memoir begins in Wanganui with a young man intent on a theatrical career in a country where such a dream could earn more than a sideways look. George's journey is an affecting account of New Zealand life from the 1930s to the present as he ...Show more