Stop the Clock - A Memoir on Ageing with Dignity, Grace and Humour by Gordon McLauchlan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The best way to learn anything is by doing it - this is a maxim that goes back to Aristotle. Gordon McLauchlan agrees. He has concluded that the only way of learning how to manage growing old is by growing old. He doesn't believe that wisdom is necessarily a concomitant of old age but suggests that, whi ...Show more
Her Say - Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories by Jackie Clark and the Aunties
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
In 2012, Jackie Clark launched The Aunties, a grassroots charity helping women to rebuild their lives after a period of trauma. She quit her job, turning her back on her comfortable life, to focus on The Aunties full-time, becoming Aunty in Charge and assisting hundreds of women with material needs and ...Show more
Auckland Minds and Matters by Nicholas Tarling (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
A Distant Music - The Life and Times of Alfred Hill 1870-1960 by John M Thomson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Nine Lives - New Zealand Writers on Notable New Zealanders
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A selected group of NZ writers have chosen a favourite New Zealander to write an essay on. These pieces are personal, illuminating and often moving. Around 5,000 words per essay, the writers had full choice on who to write about and what approach to take, so there is great variety in the styles. Writers ...Show more
Memories of Mansion House Kawau Island New Zealand by Nora Creina Wilson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: good
"Memories of Nora Creina Wilson, covering the years 1923 to 1945, when her parents Mr and Mrs Lawford Reeves owned [Mansion House]"--Foreword.
Sonja Davies - Bread and Roses - Her Story by Sonja Davies
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
Quondam Quaker in Birmingham, New Zealand and Surrey by Philip T Kenway
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more