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
The Short Life & Mysterious Death of Jane Furlong by Kelly Dennett
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Jane was 17 when she disappeared off Auckland's Karangahape Road in 1993. She was a girlfriend, a daughter, a sex worker, and the mother of a young baby. Her disappearance made sensational headlines across the country, particularly when it was linked to the sex crimes of a wealthy businessman, and it be ...Show more
High Street to Homestead by Angela Williams; Deborah Coddington
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
From her Grey Lynn apartment to one of New Zealand's most historic homesteads and horse studs, this is an inspirational journey from a corporate life working with Louis Vuitton back to the golden hills of rural Wairarapa. It's the middle of the night and Angela lies awake asking herself, not for the fir ...Show more
Journal kept in New Zealand in 1820 by Ensign Alexander McCrae of the 84th Regiment together with relevant documents by Alexander McCrae; Johannes Andersen (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin No 3 | Reading Level: very good
Popeye's War - A biography of Wing Commander F J Lucas DFC and Bar in war and peace by Lorie Lucas
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Every Sign of Life - On Family Ground by Nicholas Lyon Gresson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: new
Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldn’t be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. The story is exposed through the life and times ...Show more
Hidden Places - A memoir in journalism by Michael King
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Brother Wohlers - A biography of J F H Wohlers of Ruapuke by Sheila Natusch
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Tracking Captain Thomas - A journey in search of the unacknowledged founder of Canterbury by Colin Amodeo
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The continuing myth that Canterbury was born in December 1850 with the arrival of the First Four Ships has to be dispelled. Canterbury did not, like the legendary Athena, spring 'fully-armed from the head of Zeus' (in this case, John Robert Godley) as succeeding generations after 1851 have been led to b ...Show more
The Book Of Hat by Harriet Rowland
$8.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Like so many people her age, Harriet threw her thoughts down on a blog. However, her reasons for writing were different from her friends, and it was clear from the outset that she was a writer first and foremost. The Book of Hat captivates the reader with its facility for expressing everything from the ...Show more
Shooting Folly as it Flies - The Life and Lines of New Zealand’s First Political Cartoonist James Brown by Ian Dougherty
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Shooting Folly as it Flies is the first biography of New Zealand’s first political cartoonist, the Dunedin engraver and artist, James Brown, and reproduces and places in their historical context all of his surviving cartoons, many of which have not previously been published. They constitute a rare visua ...Show more