Hot Water Sailor 1912-1962 & Landlubber Ho 1963-1980 by Denis Glover
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Howard - The Life and Times of Sir Howard Morrison by John Costello
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Personally Autographed by Howard Morrison
Hudson & Halls - The food of love by Drayton Joanne
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
I Know This to be True by Published by PQ Blackwell
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Second hand, ex library. Truth, wisdom, beauty and other stuff that matters for 60 New Zealanders. This is a book about New Zealanders living fascinating lives and the things they know to be true, the things they believe in and the things they have learned. You may have heard of some of them, but tha ...Show more
Ideals Are Like Stars - Dame Yvette Williams Story by Angela Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
The first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, a feat not repeated for forty years. Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. Ignoring the pressure to a ...Show more
Illiteracy To Millionaire - Just don't give up by Michael Marquet
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
This book tells the story of how Michael overcame the adversity of leaving school at the age of fifteen unable to spell his own name. Over the following decade, with sheer grit and determination, he succeeded in completing a horticultural apprenticeship, won a scholorship, and was awarded the prestigiou ...Show more
In A Strange Garden - The Life and Times of Truby King by Lloyd Chapman
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Education & Health | Reading Level: good
Truby King has touched the lives of most New Zealanders. Founder of the Plunket movement that led our mothers and grandmothers into military-style baby management, his influence is enormous. Although his extreme and restrictive views about women would be ridiculed today, he gave them a health regime tha ...Show more
Indirections - A Memoir, 1909-1947 by Charles Brasch
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good