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This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
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
Charles Brasch Journals 1945-1957 by Peter Simpson (Selected by)
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Series: Charles Brasch Journals | Reading Level: near fine
This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48. It begins with his return to New Zealand after World War II to establish a literary quarterly to be published by the Caxton Press. The journals cover the first decade ...Show more
Farm for Life by Tangaroa Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
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
Never, Ever Give Up?: A Memoir by John Hellemans
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
John Hellemans looks back on his long career in triathlon, initially as a successful competitor, and subsequently as a coach and sports medicine doctor for some of New Zealand's best-performing triathletes. Hellemans won six national titles and represented New Zealand at several world championship even ...Show more
South Sea Vagabonds by Johnny Wray
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
75th anniversary edition of the timeless New Zealand classic of adventure at sea. Johnny Wray's gripping and often hilarious account of his adventures around the South Pacific has inspired readers and changed lives since its first publication 75 years ago. Fired from his day job during the Great Depress ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
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
A Mild Touch of the Cancer by David Downs
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
An amazing account of Davids battle with terminal cancer, as documented in a highly successful blog, with over 100,000 followers. (Spoiler alert he lived.) With guest sections by some of NZs most well-known comedians, including Jeremy Corbett, Michele ACourt and Paul Ego, and an introduction by The Amaz ...Show more
A Way Home by Jillian Sullivan
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
When life as she knew it ended, with her marriage over and her last child off into the world, writer Jillian Sullivan set out to fulfil a long-held dream of building a strawbale house. She settled in a small community in Central Otago, and A Way Home tells the story of how she eventually managed to buil ...Show more
Annette King: The Authorised Biography by John Harvey; Brent Edwards
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Annette King is New Zealand's longest-serving women MP - 1984-2017 less three years in the wilderness from 1990-1993. In her 30 years in Parliament, she spent 15 in government (10 as a cabinet minister) and 15 in opposition. She is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party, and held a number of senior ...Show more
Being Chinese : A New Zealander's Story by Helene Har Lin Wong
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
Three decades ago I began a quest - the search for my Chinese identity. My journey unravelled the personal, professional and historical threads in my life, and revealed how bound together they are by 'being Chinese'. But I am a New Zealander too. So this became a story not only about Chinese identity bu ...Show more
Charles Brasch: Journals, 1958-1973: Selected with an Introduction by Peter Simpson by Charles Brasch and Peter Simpson
$59.95 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Series: Charles Brasch Journals | Reading Level: very good
This third and final volume of Charles Brasch's compelling private journals covers the years from when he was 48 to his death at 64. By the 1960s, Brasch, though very private by temperament, was a reluctant public figure, especially as editor of Landfall - indisputably New Zealand's leading cultural qua ...Show more
Disobedient Teaching: Surviving and Creating Change in the Classroom by Welby Ings
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential. More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who trans ...Show more