After Everest - Inside the Private World of Edmund Hillary by Paul Little
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
'Well if you have a big life, a lot of stuff happens. Dad had a big life.' - Peter Hillary. Edmund Hillary is a towering figure among adventurers. His conquest of Everest and his dedication to the welfare of the Nepalese people is well known. While much has been written about what Sir Edmund Hillary did ...Show more
Amassing Treasures for All Times - Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector by Donald Jackson Kerr
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Brilliant and inscrutable, Grey, who was in contact with key Victorians from Darwin to Whately throughout his life, played a central role in overseeing ...Show more
Amiria - The Life Story of a Maori Woman by Amiria Manutahi Stirling; Anne Salmond (As told to)
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
An Angel at My Table - An Autobiography: Volume Two by Janet Frame
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor bu ...Show more
An Autobiography Vintage Collectors' Edition by Janet Frame
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame by Michael King
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This accessible book features 120 photographs from the life of famous NZ writer Janet Frame, ranging from amazingly gothic family photos to new images of past homes and other significant locations. Accompanied by a lively text and Frame ephemera such as book covers, scribbled notes and even bus tickets. ...Show more
And Some Found Graves: The Goldfields Diary of John Aspinall by A.J. Thompson (Compiled by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Record of a young prospector who travelled from New Zealand to the Mt Margaret goldfields of Western Australia in February 1895, and who died, struck by lightning, in March 1896. Includes a brief biographical introduction by the editor who found the diary by chance while prospecting at Hawks Nest in the ...Show more
Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Angel of the Anzacs - The Life of Nola Luxford: The Life of Nola Luxford by Carole Van Grondelle
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
Nola Luxford's life spanned the twentieth century and circled the globe, taking her from turn-of-the-century Hawke's Bay, to Hollywood's golden Age, and the elite circles of New York society. She became well-known in New Zealand for her radio broadcasts, but it was the Anzac club, which touched the live ...Show more
Ann Gilchrist Strong: Scientist in the Home by Helen & Sylvia Thomson
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Annette King: The Authorised Biography by Harvey John Edwards Brent
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Annette King is New Zealand's longest-serving women MP - 1984-2017 less three years in the wilderness from 1990-1993. In her 30 years in Parliament, she spent 15 in government (10 as a cabinet minister) and 15 in opposition. She is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party, and held a number of senior ...Show more