No Excuses: My Story - From Crime to Community and Fat to Fit by Dave Letele
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Dave Letele's life has taken him from crime to community, footy to failure, riches to rags (and back again), and from fat to fit. Today, he is a businessman, community leader and life coach who helps literally thousands achieve their goals as the face of Buttabean Motivation. He gives out free meals for ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Brendon Mccullum - Declared by Mccullum Brendon & Mcgee Greg
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Brendon McCullum is known as an explosive wicketkeeper, then batsman, who went on to captain the New Zealand cricket team to glory. The holder of many records, "Baz" is known for speaking his mind. He talks about growing up loving sport more than anything, getting better and better at cricket (although ...Show more
A Life on Gorge River - New Zealand's Remotest Family by Robert Long
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside wo ...Show more
A Wife on Gorge River: Raising New Zealand's Remotest Family by Catherine Stewart
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Second hand. In 2010, New Zealand met its remotest family, through the writing of Robert Long aka Beansprout and we were intrigued. Now Beansprout's wife, Catherine Stewart, tells her story, and answers many of our questions. Why did she decide to join him on the wild West Coast, two days' walk from th ...Show more
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear- mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
Bushline - A Memoir by Robbie Burton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Robbie Burton is a tramper, mountain-lover and book publisher, who has had a life-long infatuation with the wild places of New Zealand. In this memoir he recalls a childhood in which the natural world played a central part, and led to a youthful obsession with tramping, skiing and mountaineering. In hi ...Show more
What Just Happened?! by Marina Hyde
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era.'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.'PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'The most brilliantly funny columnist of our time.'GARY LINEKER'It's a scientific FACT: Marina Hyde is Britain's funniest writer.'CAITL ...Show more
Lewis Hamilton: The Biography by Frank Worrall
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The biography of the record-breaking multi-world champion - and the most dominant British sportsman of all time.
Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
During Tasmania’s gruesome Black War of 1823-31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history. His Oyster Bay Nation of southeast Tasmania and his ally Montpelliatta’s Big River Nation of central Tasmania embarked on 710 attacks, killing 182 colonists and wo ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$26.00 NZD
Category: Environment
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more