Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
$44.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu: Volume Two by Helen Brown & Michael Stevens
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngāi Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngāi Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapū and whānau in myriad ways: here ...Show more
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: an Illustrated History by Claudia Orange
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully revised and updated edition (previously entitled An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi) brings the Treaty's history to life with a richly informativ ...Show more
Comrade - Bill Andersen - A Communist, Working-Class Life by Cybèle Locke
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand's trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke's biography recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades. Starting with Bill's experien ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Tāngata Ngāi | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
Punch a Hole in the Wind Stories behind 50 of the Greatest Flat Racehorses
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Simon Gault: No Half Measures by Simon Gault
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault’s on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and more. The former MasterChef New Zealand judge is a successful businessman with his name on stocks, seasonings, cookware and cocktails, but that’s not the full s ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$38.95 AUD
Category: 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
Solo - Backcountry Adventures in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to th ...Show more
Keep in a Cool Place - The First Winter at Vanda Station, Antarctica by Simon Cutfield; Allen Riordan
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1969 Al Riordan, a US Exchange Scientist, joined Simon Cutfield and three other New Zealanders to spend a year at Vanda Station on the shores of Lake Vanda in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The men lived in a strange world - a snowless place that had not seen a glacier for millions of years. The surf ...Show more
The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi by Ned Fletcher
$69.95 AUD
Category: Biography
How was the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi understood by the British in 1840? That is the question addressed by historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher, in this extensive work. With one exception, the Treaty sheets signed by rangatira and British officials were in te reo Maori. The Maori text, Te Tiri ...Show more
Roger Federer Effect, The: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers & Simon Graf
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The Roger Federer Effect tells the story of the world's most famous tennis player in a fresh, innovative way - through the eyes of his friends, rivals, coaches, fans and many others who have been drawn to him as he blazed a trail and transcended the sport.In a glorious career spanning more than two deca ...Show more