Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life by Mason Ball
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The first biography of iconic cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats Let me show you how my dad became a leading cartoonist of his generation, how his endearing characters evolved and where the side-splitting ideas sprang from. Let's see the man behind the drawing desk and delve into the wor ...Show more
Everest Mountain Guide: The Remarkable Story of a Kiwi Mountaineer by Guy Cotter
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
The book follows the career of Guy Cotter, Kiwi mountaineer and mountain guide, who has been leading guided ascents of Mt Everest from the early 1990’s. Everest Mountain Guide is an authentic and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into what actually transpires on the mountain, the huge challenges faced ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff ...Show more
Blindingly Obvious by Minnie Baragwanath
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
A new book from one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs, business innovators, and changemakers is – not surprisingly, given its author’s history of social change – upending and expanding the model for how books are published to make them more accessible to all people. Blindingly Obvious: Th ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
A Vintner's Tale by Peter Hubscher
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Of modest stature, from Central European stock and born in West Auckland, Peter Hubscher first trialled as a winemaker in Hawke’s Bay in the 1960s. His apprenticeship completed, he returned to the Waitākere Ranges to begin his career with Montana Wines and put into practice his vision for the undevelope ...Show more
A Month at the Back of My Brain - A third memoir by Kevin Ireland
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: near fine
As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of "sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia." Unlike his earlier two memoirs, one of which won a Na ...Show more
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Accounts of Danger and Adventure from the Summit of Mt Everest to Kite-Skiing Across Antarctica by Mark Sedon
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
This is not a climbing book, it’s an easy read story book everyone can relate to from a life filled with adventure, visiting the far corners of the globe, and about surviving when things really go wrong! From the Himalaya to the Antarctic and back to New Zealand, it has been Kiwi adventurer Mark Sedon’s ...Show more
Gaylene's Take - Her Life in New Zealand Film by Gaylene Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand. Gaylene Preston has always sought out the stories that have not yet been told, and in this book she reveals the challenges and sometimes heartbreak that have come with that ambition. In both wide lens and close-up ...Show more
Dating the Kiwi Male by Olivia Caldwell
$37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Dating the Kiwi Male recounts the dates of Kiwi women looking for a Kiwi man - the fun, the funny, the awkward and the ugly, all the while laughing at our own expense. What is it like to date the Wellington hipster, the Auckland yacht owner, the Queenstown ski champ, the Canterbury bogan, the Waikato da ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more