Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
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
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