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The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved i ...Show more
Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist by Diana Morrow
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievement as 'the first rays of the rising sun of female intellectual advancement'. Edger went on to become a pioneer of women's education in New Zealand. She also w ...Show more
Towards Compostela: Walking the Camino de Santiago by Catharina Van Bohemen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Travel Narratives
Catharina van Bohemen walked the Camino de Santiago in 1998. Jenny Shipley was New Zealand’s prime minister, Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky was exposed, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland, and the Russian rouble nearly collapsed. Catharina’s marriage had ended and ...Show more
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail: The Diary of a Country Vet by Danielle Hawkins
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Due April 2021 Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet. With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving ...Show more
This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie - Reports from a Riotous Life by Polly Gillespie
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
With a great deal of humour and honesty Polly Gillespie walks the reader through some of the ups and downs of life, with advice, warnings, and stories simply involving the awkwardness of being Polly. (She says that at the very least these will make you feel normal.) She has been on radio and in magazine ...Show more
Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Sarah Gaitanos
$20.00 NZD
$40.00 (50% off)
Category: NZ Biographies
Shirley Smith was one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of the 20th century, a woman whose lifelong commitment to social justice, legal reform, gender equality and community service left a profound legacy. She was born in Wellington in 1916. While her childhood was clouded by loss - her mother died ...Show more
The Mirror Steamed Over - Love and Pop in London 1962 by Anthony Byrt
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$45.00 (55% off)
Category: NZ Biographies
In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer from New Zealand, who transformed himself into one of po ...Show more
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough: A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sulliva ...Show more
Upstream on the Mataura: A Fly Fisher's Journey to Source by Dougal Rillstone
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Dougal Rillstone was born in Gore, close to the Mataura River, over seventy years ago. The river was both swimming pool and playground during his childhood. One summer's evening, while he stood chest deep in a long pool, facing downstream towards the fading light, he became mesmerised by the sight of ri ...Show more
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
Farm for Life by Tangaroa Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
The awesomely inspiring true story of how Tangaroa Walker turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone succeed. Tangaroa Walker's early years weren't easy. Born into a gang family, he was adopted out twice and attended six different schools before he was six. He only ...Show more