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
The Story of Suzanne Aubert by Munro, Jessie
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Originally published 1996. This beautifully written story of a radical nun who founded a religious congregation sold thousands of copies when it won the Book of the Year award in the Montana Book Awards in 1997. Unusually, it simultaneously won the E. H. McCormick Award for the best first hook of non—fi ...Show more
The Story of a New Zealand River by Jane Mander
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
The narrative of Alice Roland's long and steady growth towards shared love, a new awareness of life and a sense of personal liberation flows through the pages of the first New Zealand novel to convincingly confront many of the twentieth century's major political, religious, moral and social issues - inc ...Show more
The Wind at My Back by Josh Komen
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
`I was a lost little boy, trapped in a world where I didn't belong, one that would tear me apart and build me back into someone new . . .' Twenty-three-year-old Josh Komen is on track to represent New Zealand in running at the next Commonwealth Games when he is diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. In ...Show more
They Let Me Write a Book (Jamie's World) by Jamie Curry
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 10-12, Age 15-18
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Jamie, I'm 19-years-old. I make videos on the Internet, and enough people watched them that they let me write a book. I know. What is life?" Inside these pages is my life so far, and what I've learnt - or haven't learnt - along the way. Read about my cowboy hat years, ...Show more