All Is Not Lost: How I Friended Failure on the Island and Found a Way Home by Shannon Kenny Carbonell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
All Is Not LOST is the story of what happened when one woman set aside a lifelong dream in favor of her kids, only to find herself battling her own ego and unfulfilled ambition. Shannon Kenny Carbonell—wife of actor Nestor Carbonell of LOST, Bates Motel, and The Morning Show fame—knew she was making the ...Show more
Searching For Charlie - In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar by Tom Scott
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has int ...Show more
Nga Kete Matauranga - Maori Scholars At The Research Interface: 2021 by Jacinta Ruru; Linda Waimarie Nikora
$64.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for all New Zealanders into how mātauranga is positively influencing the Western-dominated disciplines of knowledge ...Show more
Paddy Cole: King of the Swingers by Cole Paddy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
The colourful story of the 80-year-old saxophone player and singer affectionately know as The King of The Swingers. Paddy Cole has taken his style of Jazz, Dixieland and Swing band music all over the world - and back home too. Paddy Cole is the grand old man of Irish Showbiz who still is young at heart ...Show more
The Unforgiven: Missionaries or Mercenaries? The Untold Story of the Rebel West Indian Cricketers Who Toured Apartheid South Africa by Ashley Gray
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In the early 80s, 20 West Indian cricketers were paid more than $100,000 each to take part in rebel tours of apartheid South Africa. When they returned home to the Caribbean they were banned for life and shunned by their countrymen. Some turned to drugs, some to God, while others found themselves beggin ...Show more
the Reluctant Rebel Who?: The Story of Tony Greig If Not Me by Andrew Murtagh
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In March 1977, England cricket captain Tony Greig was arguably the most famous and popular sportsman in the country, and the best all-rounder in world cricket. He had recently led England to a famous series victory in India, her first successful campaign on the subcontinent since the Second World War. T ...Show more
Fridays with Jim: Conversations about our country with Jim Bolger by David Cohen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A FORMER NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER CANDIDLY REVIEWS HIS LIFE AND THE STATE OF THE NATION. A self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, rough-hewn King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Rob ...Show more
Bill & Shirley: A Memoir by Keith Ovenden
$38.95 AUD
Category: 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
Believer - Conversations with Mike Moore by Peter Parussini
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Michael Kenneth Moore was probably the country's last working class Prime Minister and while the book is inevitably political, it is also a remarkable New Zealand story about an ordinary kiwi achieving extraordinary things. This book is based on conversations held with Mike Moore over the past 12 months ...Show more
Freyberg: A Life's Journey by Matthew Wright
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In this fresh account of one of the 20th-century's great New Zealanders, Matthew Wright approaches Bernard Freyberg the man rather than the more widely known figure of a military leader. What took a humble immigrant child in Wellington to become a hero in two wars, friend to literary giants and politici ...Show more
Llew Summers: Body and Soul by John Newton
$71.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Llew Summers (1947-2019) was a rarity in the art world - a figurative artist in a scene dominated by abstract practices. Llew Summers: Body and Soul depicts the work and life of one of New Zealand's most recognisable sculptors, a man of great warmth and astonishing vitality, whose works are daring, sens ...Show more
Letters of Denis Glover by Sarah Shieff
$87.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Oh Christ, a bloody half-witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said th ...Show more