Grid: The Life and Times of WWI Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
Category: Biography/Memoir
Grid - The Life and Times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell. This gripping biography of Air Commodore Keith (Grid) Logan Caldwell CBE, MC, DFC & Bar, Croix de Guerre, tells the story of his remarkable exploits during the First World War, by the end of which he was the leader of the rever ...Show more
My Father's Suitcase by MARY GARDEN
Category: New Zealand
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a ...Show more
The Survivors by Steve Braunias
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
True stories of death and desperation. One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer ...Show more
The Mermaid Chronicles: A midlife mer-moir by Megan Dunn
Category: New Zealand
The true tale of how one woman's lifelong obsession became a midlife mermaid odyssey, from the irrepressibly witty author of Tinderbox and Things I Learned at Art School. Forty, freckled and facing infertility, writer and disgruntled project manager Megan Dunn hears the siren call that reawakens her li ...Show more
A Very French Affair by Maria Hoyle
Category: New Zealand
A transcontinental, romantic memoir in the vein of A Year in Provence and Eat, Pray, Love. What do you say when a man you've dated a handful of times asks you to go live with him in a mill by a river in France? The obvious answer is: 'Are you out of your mind?' Maria Hoyle's was: 'Okay.' At the age of ...Show more
The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
Category: Biography/Memoir
This amusing and endearing hilarious memoir of a young New Zealand vet focuses on the trials and tribulations of being a newcomer to professional veterinary life in New Zealand and then in Newfoundland, southern England and Jordan. In The Ones That Bit Me!, there is sadness and personal challenge, too, ...Show more
The Last Secret Agent: The Untold Story of My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Enemy Lines by Pippa Latour, Jude Dobson
Category: New Zealand
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
The Road to Chatto Creek by Matt Chisholm
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Matt Chisholm's number-one bestselling book, Imposter, saw Matt and his family leaving Auckland to buy some land in Chatto Creek, Otago, with big dreams to build their own house and farm cattle and sheep. Fast forward a few years and it's been a huge shift for Matt, his wife Ellen and their three kids - ...Show more
Sam the Trap Man by Sam Gibson
Category: New Zealand
Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales from the bush. Sam Gibson, aka Sam the Trap Man, is a bushman through and through: hunting, fishing, trapping and adventuring - he does it all. As an unruly teenager starting to get into mischief Sam's parents and teachers struck an unusual deal, letting h ...Show more
Bits of String too Short to Use: A memoir of collecting, writing and the highs and lows of life by Jennifer Beck
Category: New Zealand
The author looks at her life as a series of ‘bits’, memorable episodes which, when joined together form a pattern both fascinating and thought-provoking. From early life in an unusual rural community, she describes growing up in a large family with money troubles, limited educational opportunities, a lo ...Show more
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change by Helen Brown
Category: New Zealand
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide the way. It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymo ...Show more
Learning To Be French (and Failing) - A New Zealander, a Tiny Village & an Ancient Stone House by Anna Bibby
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when an art gallery owner from New Zealand buys a dilapidated French house on a whim? Anna Bibby owned a successful art gallery in New Zealand until one day, on holiday in France, she bought a falling-down house in a picturesque medieval village. So began the process of renovating her beaut ...Show more
1 - 12 of 12