Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
Finding Frank: The lfife of Frank Erceg - New Zealand dear hunter, mountaineer, photographer by Louise Maich
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
By 1965 at the age of thirty, Frank Erceg had established an impressive reputation as a marksman, mountaineer and photographer, with his work widely published in newspapers and magazines of the day. That same year, Frank and his mate Johnny Cumming were killed in New Zealand’s first helicopter hunting ...Show more
Brave Enough Not to Quit - How I Realised My Football Dream by Millie Farrow; Katie Field
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary and moving story of Millie Farrow, a footballer who has battled major injuries and mental-health problems in pursuit of her career. Millie dreamt of being a footballer from a young age and signed her first professional contract at 19. She has played for top clubs in England and Ameri ...Show more
The Forgotten Prophet: Tāmati Te Ito and his Kaingārara Movement by Jeffrey Sissons
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Te Ito’s vision was one of pan-tribal unity; he wanted to bring together all the people of Taranaki ‘from Mokau to Pātea’. Tāmati Te Ito Ngāmoke led the prophetic Kaingārara movement in Taranaki from 1856. Te Ito was revered by tribal leaders as a prophetic tohunga matakite; but others, including many s ...Show more
Jane & D'Arcy: Volume 2: Such Talent & Such Success by Wal Walker
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Such Talent & Such Success continues the story of Jane Austen and D'Arcy Wentworth, it begins in 1806, where Folly is not always Folly ends. Jane is still in Southampton, D'Arcy has returned to Sydney from Norfolk Island, awaiting approval to return to England, to be reunited with Jane.
Jane d'Arcy: Volume 1: Folly is Not Always Folly by Wal Walker
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Folly is Not Always Folly traces the rebellious, satirical and wild spirit of Jane Austen's youth, to late 1806. Such Talent Such Success takes up her story, after the move from Bath to Southampton. Jane D'Arcy relies on a close scrutiny of Jane Austen's writing, and reveals a multitude of unexpected ...Show more
Brownie: The Minister for Good Times by John Brown
$38.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Memoirs of John Brown AO, Minister for Tourism, Sport, The Arts, in the Hawke Labor Government. Written by John Brown the book covers his early years growing up in Sydney's western suburbs, winning the seat of Parramatta for the Labor party and his subsequent ministerial responsibilities. The "put a shr ...Show more
Robert Lord Diaries by Chris Brickell (Editor); Vanessa Manhire (Editor); Nonnita Rees (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
‘Sometimes I wonder why I have been forced to spend my creative life grappling with words & the logic & rationality they demand … I wish I could find a way of reaching directly into another’s heart. Words are my only tool. Sometimes I think perhaps I have not worked hard enough. I am still alive ...Show more
Far North by David White; Angus Gillies
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
June 2016, Far North, New Zealand. The job seemed simple: leave Auckland, pick up 500kg of meth from Ninety-Mile Beach and drive it back south, keeping a low profile. How hard could that be? This is the true story of one of New Zealand's biggest ever drugs bust, and how those responsible almost got away ...Show more
Sir Bruce Small: From Malvern Star To Mr Gold Coast by Rachel Syers
$69.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary story of a man born into hardship who became a legend in Australian sport and politics, appearing in thousands of news headlines for more than half a century. A brilliant entrepreneur and visionary, Sir Bruce Small's Malvern Star bicycle empire became a household name. As manager and b ...Show more
Sir Bruce Small: From Malvern Star To Mr Gold Coast by Rachel Syers
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary story of a man born into hardship who became a legend in Australian sport and politics, appearing in thousands of news headlines for more than half a century. A brilliant entrepreneur and visionary, Sir Bruce Small's Malvern Star bicycle empire became a household name. As manager and b ...Show more
John Mulgan and the Greek Left by C.-Dimitris Gounelas; Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
$43.95 AUD
Category: 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