All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope (Revised edition) by John Kirwan
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
All Blacks Don't Cry is the remarkable story of hope and healing from well-known mental health campaigner, and legendary former winger, Sir John Kirwan. While 'JK' is now famous for sharing his own experiences with depression, there was a time when he suffered alone. One of the most devastating wingers ...Show more
Billy Bush - A Front Row View on Life by Bill Bush
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ biography
AWESOME BOOK LAUNCH, Released 8th June 2023, IN STOCK enquire online or ph 03 358 4835 Bill Bush has a life story unlike any other All Black. A kina diver at primary school, a labourer at the Marsden Point refinery at 14, it took a promise of a Fanta and a pie to get him to play rugby, a sport he i ...Show more
Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa by Olive Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
In 1979, teenager Olive Jones was one of a group of hippies, idealists, and subsistence farmers that set up an alternative community on a farm in the Motueka Valley near Nelson. Influenced by the countercultural movement sweeping the country during the 1970s and 80s, they were part of a widespread inter ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | 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
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success by Carl Hayman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success. Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby pla ...Show more
Here Goes... My Life by Charlotte Peirse
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
I have cerebral palsy and this is my attempt at passing on some of what it is to have a physical disability and how life has panned out for me. In her beautifully illustrated memoir, Lottie describes her life in a clear-eyed and whimsical way — from loving family to institutional care to independence a ...Show more
How to Escape from Prison by Paul Wood
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
A book on how to break free from prison A powerful lesson in personal change As an 18-year-old, Dr Paul Wood was completely off the rails. He wasn't coping with the impending death of his mother, he was dependent on drugs, and was an unemployed high-school dropout committing crimes to feed his habit. Tw ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: good-very good
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following th ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ biography
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff d ...Show more