Second Chances - Facing my demons and finding a better me by Hayley Holt
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery, and courage in the face of loss Hayley Holt grew up in the public eye. On our screens for over twenty years, her highs and lows have been aired for everyone to see. Now it's time to share her side of the story. Raised a dancer in bedazzled dresses and fake ...Show more
Kiwi Farmers' Guide To Life: Rural Tales from the Heartland by Tim Fulton
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Stories of New Zealand farmers and their families, tracing the ancestral journeys that brought them to their particular piece of rural Kiwi paradise. Profiles some of the country’s most innovative farmers; their motivations, frustrations and legacies; the camaraderie amongst their local communities. Sto ...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
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Notes on Womanhood by Sarah Jane Barnett
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldn’t be “less of a woman” prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result. Her ...Show more
All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope (Revised edition) by John Kirwan
40.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self-Help
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
Dear Colin, Dear Ron - The Selected Letters of Colin McCahon and Ron Reilly by Peter Simpson
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
This substantial book of letters selected by esteemed Colin McCahon scholar Peter Simpson shines a light on one of the most remarkable relationships in New Zealand art. The painter Colin McCahon and the librarian Ron O'Reilly first met in 1938, in Dunedin, when McCahon was 19 and O'Reilly 24. They rem ...Show more
Sam the Trap Man - Cracking Yarns and Tall Tales from the Bush by Sam Gibson
45.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
With cracking yarns, hilarious tales and antics to rival Barry Crump, Sam Gibson is a modern outdoorsman with an incredible life story to tell.
Every Sign of Life - On Family Ground by Nicholas Lyon Gresson
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: new
Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldn’t be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. The story is exposed through the life and times ...Show more
The Feeling of Cancer: A psychotherapist's story of living with incurable cancer by Sandra Russell
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Even though close to half of us will now experience cancer in our lifetime, we tend to talk about it as a biomedical event; of doctors, medical treatment and disease. We do not talk about cancer as a traumatic emotional event, and because we can’t always express the overwhelming emotional impact, the ...Show more
Raiment - A Memoir by Jan Kemp
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual e ...Show more