The Lost Pilot by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
On 6 April 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot breaks cloud at 3,000 feet, near the island of Ishigaki. He plunges his Suisei divebomber into a fatal dive at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. On the signals deck, Chief Petty Officer W. T. Holman sees him coming - he has just seconds to react. ...Show more
The Man Who Created Narnia: The Life of CS Lewis by Michael Coren
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The Story of C.S. Lewis
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk by David Malcolm Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, ...Show more
The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more
The Political Years by Marilyn Waring
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as ...Show more
The Price of Bacon by Jeanette Aplin
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
Living on the isolated and beautiful D'Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds, Jeanette Aplin writes candidly about the challenges of daily life - no electricity, no roads to the door, a solar-powered computer giving her contact with family and friends elsewhere. Pigs are the focus of this book - this ...Show more
The Real McKay : The Remarkable Life of Alexander McKay, geologist by Graham Bishop
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Geologists all over New Zealand have long acknowledged Alexander McKay as a major figure in their field. And he is a folk hero, the explorer who liked whisky in his porridge and wrote epic poems. This book tells McKay's story.
The Red Thread by Leslie Walters
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
As single threads we join this world, as single threads we leave, In between weÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ...Show more
The Sabotage Diaries by Katherine Barnes
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Based on the wartime diaries of Allied soldier and saboteur Tom Barnes, this account of thrilling WWII wartime deeds deep behind enemy lines in Greece is based on fact but reads like fiction. The Satotage Diaries tells the WWII story of Allied engineer Tom Barnes, who was parachuted behind enemy lines i ...Show more
The Secret Diary of Charlotte Gatland: It Was 1847, and This Is Her True Teenage Life Story... by Patricia Charlotte Dennis
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Near Fine
AT 19 YEARS OLD SHE PARTIED WITH LONDON SOCIETY, STRUCK GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND FOUGHT TRAGEDY, DESTITUTION AND DANGER TO CARVE A FUTURE IN PIONEER NEW ZEALAND. IT WAS 1847, AND THIS IS HER TRUE TEENAGE LIFE STORY... If you think today's teens have it tough, spare a thought for Charlotte Gatland: "Washi ...Show more
The Short Life & Mysterious Death of Jane Furlong by Kelly Dennett
$42.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Jane was 17 when she disappeared off Auckland's Karangahape Road in 1993. She was a girlfriend, a daughter, a sex worker, and the mother of a young baby. Her disappearance made sensational headlines across the country, particularly when it was linked to the sex crimes of a wealthy businessman, and it be ...Show more
The Sixth Man - The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello by James McNeish
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
'I think Costello was pursued by British Intelligence because there was an assumption that it might be an extension of the Philby "ring of five".' - Sir George Laking Auckland. Cambridge. Moscow. Paris. New Zealand's most brilliant envoy and the man who blew the whistle on Soviet possession of the atom ...Show more