Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw by Philip Matthews
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Genetic scientist Andrew Bagshaw put his life on hold to help the people of Ukraine. His selfless actions would cost him his life. This is his story. Andrew Bagshaw was many things - a genius-level geneticist, keen cricketer and sailor, private pilot, much-loved son, brother and uncle, as well as a hug ...Show more
Te Manu Huna a Tane: The hidden bird of Tane by Jennifer Gillam
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
This special photo book documents a wananga or class for three generations of women from Ngati Torehina Ki Mataka to learn the customary practice of pelting North Island brown kiwi so their feathers can be used for weaving. This passing on of customary knowledge developed out of a partnership between co ...Show more
Kiwi Bikers - 85 New Zealanders and Their Motorbikes by Ken Downie (Photographer)
65.00 NZD
Category: Cars
From Vincents to Moto Guzzis and the legendary Britten to the BSA Goldstar 350, Kiwi Bikers captures the love affair New Zealanders have with motorcycles.From north to south and from veteran bikes to the latest high performers, this book showcases 85 incredible motorbikes and their passionate owners. Sh ...Show more
Needs Adult Supervision by Emily Writes
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Needs Adult Supervision is Emily Writes' take on growing up and feeling like a real adult. This book looks at the growing pains of kids and their parents and their attempts to navigate a world that's changing by the minute. Emily paints a vivid picture of all the feelings, fortunes and failures that com ...Show more
Making Space - A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture by Elizabeth Cox (Editor)
65.00 NZD
Category: Architecture / Design | Reading Level: near fine
Overlooked, underpaid, and often undermined, New Zealand women architects have faced decades of struggle to maintain a position in a male-dominated profession yet their work has been both important and of significance. This groundbreaking new book tells the story of their contribution to the creativity, ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
An Exquisite Legacy - The Work and Art of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson by George Gibbs
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest naturalist-artists, G. V.Hudson. George Hudson, 1867-1946, was one of New Zealand's pioneer naturalists, who devoted his life to collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably the largest collection of New Zealand insect ...Show more
She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man's Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired by Matt Brown
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Cycles repeat until one person has the courage to say, 'This stops with me.' At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference - a safe space to be seen and heard without judgement. From his barbershop chair, Matt has inspired a new generation of New Ze ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Bill & Shirley: A Memoir by Keith Ovenden
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith were two of New Zealand's most significant twentieth-century figures: Sutch as an economist, influential civil servant, and inspirational proponent of innovation in the fields of social and economic development, and Smith as glass-ceiling breaker in the formerly male-dominat ...Show more
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 — Volume 2 by C.K. Stead
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more