Do You Still Have Time For Chaos? by Lynn Davidson
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, in the frightening quiet of a Covid-emptied Edinburgh, she begins her memoir; temporarily at home at the Ra ...Show more
The Bookshop Woman: The Smash-Hit Japanese Bestseller by Nanako Hanada
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air. Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and inter ...Show more
The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain by Gregory Hill
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train -- across 19 countries in 89 days on 33 different trains. From New Zealand's Northern Explorer to the Eurostar, the book captures the romance of rail travel, exploring cultures, cuisines, history and people a ...Show more
Under The Henfluence by Tove Danovich
$28.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
‘Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen’ Sunday Times ‘Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping … Brilliant’ New York Magazine An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock. Since first domest ...Show more
Nothing Significant To Report - The misadvenures of a kiwi soldier by Dario Nustrini
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
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, kill and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving leaving high school the year before, he had been o ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change by Helen Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Still Standing - A Memoir by Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
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 and history against shortsightedness and the threat of bulldozers - Dame Anna Crighton. Fearless and art ...Show more
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Sophie Elmhirst
$45.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can get back to it' RACHEL JOYCE' Beautiful, moving and genuinely unputdownable' JOANNA CANNON 'Easily one of the most captivating works of narrative nonfiction I've ever read' OLIVER BURKEMAN What begins as an eccentric En ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Years by Ranulph Fiennes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth...Ran Fiennes truly is the world's greatest explorer, and this book celebrates his 80th birthday by showcas ...Show more
Consolations of Insignificance: A New Zealand Diplomatic Memoir by Terence O'Brien
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Terence O’Brien was a born diplomat – urbane, clever, adaptable and hardworking, with a talent for strategy and negotiation.Although born in England, he was a loyal and dedicated New Zealander and spent most of his life working to improve the country’s position internationally. In his 50-year foreign af ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more