Man on Integrity - A Biography of Sir Clifton Webb by Sheila M. Belshaw
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Books and Boots - The Story of New Zealand Publisher, Writer and Long Distance Walker, Alfred Hamish Reed by Ian Dougherty
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Remembered by many as an eccentric folk hero who walked the length of New Zealand at the age of 85, and from Sydney to Melbourne at the age of 89, Alf (A.H.)Reed was a pioneering publisher, prolific author and selfless benefactor. Leaving school at the age of 12, he transcended his working roots in New ...Show more
In Thy toil Rejoice - The story of J J Patterson, Taranaki pioneer by Arnold Pickmere
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
An engineer has his enterprise and then his life destroyed during the Land Wars in Taranki, New Zealand, back in the 1860s. In such troubled times one of his orphaned sons starts from the bottom to battle for his place in life. A stoy of pioneering New Zealand and of a man of remarkable vigour and ente ...Show more
A Greekish Trinity - Tales from the Book of Michael by Michael Nicolaidi.
$16.00 NZD
$35.00 (54% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In 1990 Aunt Tessa travelled with me by train from London to Tunbridge Wells to show me the graves of my grandparents. En route, she seemed to confirm my grandfather’s opium trading background in India and Turkey and a possible Irish connection on my grandmother’s side. On that cool spring afternoon, be ...Show more
McMeekan - A Biography by Gordon McLauchlan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Accidental Life by Phoebe Meikle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
As a teacher, a lecturer, a publisher and a friend, Phoebe Meikle has in long and not always accidental life, touched many. She writes engagingly of her childhood in Tauranga, education in Auckland, twin careers as teacher and publisher. She reached the peak of these professions and became a highly resp ...Show more
Not Only Affairs of State - An Autobiography by Jack Kent Hunn by Jack Kent Hunn
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Sir Jack Hunn was one of NZ's most distinguished public servants who received acclaim for the Hunn Report that promoted the rights of Maori
With a Pen in My Hand: The Memoirs of Ruth Flashoff by Ruth Flashoff
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering daughter of the 20th century, Ruth Flashoff was born in London in 1908 and arrived in New Zealand in 1916. After graduating from Auckland University she became one of the first women to study journalism. A stalwart of the NZ Women Writers Society, she contributed to a long list of daily pap ...Show more
Tooth and Nail - The Story of a Daughter of the Depression by Mary Findlay
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
This a the true story of Mary Findlay during the bitter days of the Depression. When her mother dies and her drunkard father harasses her, Mary is forced to fight tooth and nail for food, work and a place to live.
Barbed Wire Between Us - A Story of Love and War by Derek Round
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Kenelm Digby and Mutal Fielder met on a P & O liner returning to the Far East from England on the eve of the Second World War. As a 21-year-old undergraduate, Kenelm had made headlines when he took part in the notorious 1933 'King and Country' debate at the Oxford Union. Now he was returning to Kuch ...Show more
Easily the Best - The Life of Helen Connon (1857 - 1903) by Margaret Lovell-Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Helen Connon received her Masters of Arts degree from the University of New Zealand in1881, she became the first woman in the British empire to get an honours degree. This study of Helen Connon's life sheds new light on her early life, her professional career and her marriage. Above all, it explain ...Show more