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
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experie ...Show more
Down South by Bruce Ansley
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island of New Zealand in search of what makes it unique. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people ...Show more
A Spirit Companion - Celebrating the First 50 Years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust by Roger McDonald
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
For 50 years, people from all walks of life have stepped aboard first the Spirit of Adventure, and today the Spirit of New Zealand Te Waka Herenga Tangata o Aotearoa, for a voyage of personal discovery. They've had fun, made friends, and been given a taste of expanded possibility. Distinguished author R ...Show more
The Unexpected Patient: True Kiwi stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases by Himali McInnes
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases. A psychiatrist and a patient with supernatural connections. A plastic surgeon and a Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption survivor. A trauma therapist caught in the aftermath of a violent methamphetamine episode. The Unexpected Patient tells the ...Show more
Storms Ahead Rick Dodson: America's Cup champion to Paralympian by Rebecca Hayter
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In 1997, America's Cup winning strategist Rick Dodson thought he was invincible. He had a happy marriage, a stack of wins in national and international sailing, and was part-owner in one of the world's most technically advanced sailmakers. But a diagnosis of MS (multiple sclerosis) threatened his world. ...Show more
Doctors in Denial - The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment' by Ronald W Jones
42.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) - later called 'the unfortunate experiment' - had been in progress for seven y ...Show more
Sam Hunt: Off the Road by Colin Hogg
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years after Hogg and Hunt collaborated on the now-legendary Angel Gear: Off the Road with Sam Hunt, the pair have decided to throw caution to the wind and proceed without doctors' certificates, to create an older, possibly wiser twin to that earlier book. A backstage pass to the private side of ...Show more
Shirley Smith: An Examined Life by Gaitanos Sarah
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
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
Blood and Bone: Revelations of an orthopaedic surgeon by Russell Tregonning
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Russell Tregonning finished his fifty-year career in medicine as one of New Zealand's leading orthopaedic surgeons and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Otago School of Medicine. This memoir takes the reader through his journey from medical student to orthopaedic surgeon - from introducing pioneering ...Show more
Death Among Good Men by Nathalie Philippe
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Lindsay Merritt Inglis was a young man who found a talent for soldiering with the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force, commanding a Machine Gun company and rising to the rank of Major. From Egypt to the Somme, Messines and Le Quesnoy, he was driven to harness the tactical use of machine guns, the kill ...Show more
How to Walk a Dog by Mike White
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
The highs and lows, joy and heartache of owning a dog are told in this beautifully written story of life in and around a dog park. 'The book of the year. THE book on dogs. And people.' Andrew Dickens, Newstalk ZB