NZ Biography
This is a story of contrasts: contrasting countries, cultures, attitudes and fates. The thread connecting them is the commentary of one articulate and strong-willed woman, my mother. In her letters, n..
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When Wendyl Nissen's mother was suffering with Alzheimer's, she told some extraordinary stories about her background that Wendyl had never heard before. Determined to get to the bottom of these f..
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This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is ..
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Ever thought 'I wish there was an adult around', then realised you're the adult? Emily Writes, best-selling author of Rants in the Dark, shares stories of growing up as your children grow up. ..
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Author Pamela Wood's New Zealand Nurses draws on a wealth of nurses' personal stories to identify the values, traditions, community and folklore of the nursing culture from 1880 - when hospital reform..
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More than just a memoir. Based on the author's 50 years of medical practice, teaching, and writing but supported and expanded by the international medical literature. I remember my friend and me..
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Between the 1980s and 2015, Dave Vass became one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. In 'Not Set in Stone' he recounts the beginning of his outdoor life caving and rafting, before turning to climbi..
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'An unforgettable love story set in perilous circumstances. It is a reminder that even in the most horrific times love will find a way and ultimately conquer. I can't recommend it enough.' Heather Mor..
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The Danish concept of hygge is a wonderful thing. Even if most fail miserably when they try to pronounce or explain its true essence. Unless you're a Viking of course. As Keri stood in th..
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Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight..
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NUKU is a powerful and important snapshot of Indigenous wa hine today. Through wide-ranging voices this ambitious social documentary showcases diverse representations of leadership, systems change and..
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NUKU is a powerful and important snapshot of Indigenous wahine today. NUKU is a powerful and important snapshot of Indigenous wahine today. Through wide-ranging voices this ambitious social docum..
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Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon 'Ruthlessly honest and viscerally beautiful. The book I wish I had read as a medical student.' Emma Espiner It's all ..
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'Shaneel is not like anyone you have ever met. An absolute must-read.' - Ruby Tui What would you do if you were told by the people you loved the most that the way you were born was evil and wrong..
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Out of the Jaws of Wesley--a Peter Olds miscellany which includes much previously unpublished material--records in word and image his sometimes tortured progress from Methodist boy to bodgie to poet. ..
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Owen Wilkes (1940-2005) was known throughout the Pacific and across the world as an outstanding researcher on peace and disarmament. His work exposed plans to build a US Navy satellite tracking statio..
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PEARL of Great Price is a story of hope in these days in which fear of the future haunts the minds of many people. It is the entwining of three love stories: Karen's love for her late husband, Paul ..
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The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet. Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s and of univer..
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WINNER 2021 Ockham Book Awards - Non Fiction Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. It is already in hi..
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This is the story of a man, his family, and his determination to survive the Holocaust by fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria and Czechoslovakia. It's all the more compelling for having been told without ..
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Sometimes I wonder why I have been forced to spend my creative life grappling with words & the logic & rationality they demand ... I wish I could find a way of reaching directly into another's heart. ..
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Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992), storyteller and prophet, was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who emerged in the 1930s. Vincent O'Sullivan once described him as 'our first writer to move wit..
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Background to the book In this book, Kathy draws on her diary notes from her 12-year stint from 1997 as Keeper of Quarantine Island in the Otago Harbour for the St Martin Island Community, a communi..
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'Snorkelling the Abyss' explores the two worlds of one woman and the apparently unnavigable void between them. With searing honesty, Jan Jordan shows how she fought to free herself from an inner cultu..
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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 ..
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Speargrass is a memoir about a child (Hilary Capper, nee Clingin) living on a farm in the 1940s near Arrowtown New Zealand. Hilary's recall and attention to detail highlight the places and people tha..
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Steven Joyce was one of the most senior ministers in the Key National Government and the National Party's campaign strategist from 2005. He entered Parliament in 2008 when National came back into powe..
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For decades, whenever a heritage building in Christchurch has been under threat, especially in the aftermath of the 2010-11 earthquakes, one woman has consistently defended this city's architecture an..
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Nock an arrow or load your rifle and get set to experience some old-school hunting tales told by a real character who has devoted his life to hunting!..
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In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny Gipsy Moth he had named Kia Ora, across London s Croydon aerodrome. His plan was to fly to Australia, which was sheer madness as h..
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Based on the life of 'The Bird Lady', Sylvia Durrant, who helped over 140,000 sick, injured and lost birds during her lifetime, it inspires a reverence for the natural world and is a call to action to..
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Bob Calkin was born in 1935 and grew up as Aotearoa New Zealand was entering a period of unprecedented stability and boom times. Tales from the Lucky Generation follows Bob's rise from humble roots in..
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In a reversal of the usual 'Tuscan Dream', a small Italian family of parents, daughter and dog, move to New Zealand in search of adventure. Here are their stories, as well as memories of life in Italy..
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The highs and heartbreak of caring for the animals we love You never know who or what is going to walk, crawl or slither through the doors of veterinary hospital... Clumsy Luna the Greyh..
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With his sharp wit and poet's eye, Tim Heath writes of a forty-year career, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa. He's worked in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence Sc..
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His research was urgent fifty years ago. Now, it's critical. In the early 1970s, budding Kiwi scientist Dave Lowe was posted at an atmospheric monitoring station on the wind-blasted southern coast of ..
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"The Book Collector" is a fascinating bibliomemoir of the writer's lifetime joy of reading, the books and authors that have touched him, and how they have shaped his passion for book collecting. ..
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'An extraordinary story.' Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stor..
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The Dressmaker & the Hidden Soldier is based on the extraordinary true story of Peter Blunden, the New Zealand soldier, and Thalia Christidou, the young Greek dressmaker, and Tasoula Paschilidou, the ..
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The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the moment the firs..
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The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the moment the firs..
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A short memoir whose main focus is unpacking a family story that was never told: that a farm in Taranaki on which the family's generations-long comfortable fortunes rested had been directly taken ..
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The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special oper..
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