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
Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Nic Low
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define your identity by sacred mountains, or actually see th ...Show more
First Things by Harry Ricketts
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of ‘firsts’: those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricke ...Show more
The Ones That Bit Me! - Camels, Cows & Other Young-Vet Stories by Marcus Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
This amusing and endearing hilarious memoir of a young New Zealand vet focuses on the trials and tribulations of being a newcomer to professional veterinary life in New Zealand and then in Newfoundland, southern England and Jordan. In The Ones That Bit Me!, there is sadness and personal challenge, too, ...Show more