Biography & Memoirs

Summary Author Description Specs This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand acto...

Summary Specs The extraordinary true story behind New Zealand's most infamous career...

Summary Reviews Author Description Specs Heather Morris, author of the interna...

Summary Reviews Author Description Specs An incredible memoir by a trailblazi...

Summary Specs The making of a New Zealand coaching great Between the years 2012 and ...

Summary Specs At the height of its success in the wealth-saturated 1980s, the Parnel...

Summary Specs Theophila Pratt was born Honey Faithful in Gloriavale, the fundamenta...

Summary Specs 'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I c...

Summary Specs For the first time ever, sporting legend Sonny Bill Williams is tellin...

Summary Specs 'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winnin...

These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people w...

Summary Specs Notes An extraordinary true tale o...

Summary Specs Notes Ever thought 'I wish there w...

Summary Specs An authoritative and refreshing accou...

Summary Specs Notes Jeremy Clarkson takes us int...

Summary Specs A tribute to her father, Makaziwe Mand...

Summary Specs "Her life was a bridge from the ninete...

Summary Specs Born in Greece and abandoned as a chil...

In 2014, Joko Widodo - popularly known as Jokowi - was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-ye...

In this unique memoir, Charles Higham, one of the great archaeologists of his generation, describes the inside story of how his many excavations ha...

Gossamer Years is a remarkably frank diary written by an unnamed noblewoman in Tenth-century Japan-the same period as Murasaki Shikibu's celebrated...

Frank Edwards has one of those faces Kiwis recognise. A working actor and writer for over fifty years, he's been part of projects like blockbuster ...

Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand's trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke's biograph...

Auckland chef Simon Gault opened his first restaurant aged 22, piling up awards and accolades at Bell House, Gault's on Quay, Euro, Giraffe and mor...