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A sample of our biographies and autobiographies

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Author Catalogue:

- Biographies and autobiographies-

Frank Sargeson. A Life
by Michael King
Bk No. 006779
$25.00

Edmund Hillary. The Life of a Legend
by Pat Booth
Bk No. 005589
$30.00

Harry's Absence
by Jonathan Scott
Author's father was killed on Mt Cook.
Bk No. 004552
$30.00

Krystyna's Story
by Halina Ogonowska-Coates
Composite life of Polish
immigrant.
Bk No. 004176
$25.00

The Interpreter
by Angela Caughey
Life of Richard 'Dicky'Barrett
Bk No. 000883
$35.00

Disputed Ground
sel. by Gillian Boddy and Jacqueline Matthews
Robin Hyde's journalism.
Bk No. 004403
$35.00

Confident Tomorrows
by Antony Alpers and Josephine Baker
Bk No. 003999
$35.00

Then and There. A 1970s diary
ed. Dennis McEldowney
Bk No. 003693
$30.00

Change for the Better. Story of Georgina Beyer
as told to Cathy Casey
Bk No. 004540
$35.00
Working Girls
ed. Jan Jordan
Bk No. 005516
$35.00
Sandra Edge. Full Circle
by Joseph Romanos
Bk No. 006617
$20.00
Walter Nash
by Keith Sinclair
Bk No. 003925
$25.00
Susan Devoy. Out On Top
by Robyn Scott-Vincent
Bk No. 006160
$25.00
Brierley
by Yvonne Van Dongen
Bk No. 006756
$25.00
Johanna's World
by O.M. Andresen
Bk No. 006453
$25.00
There Was A Time
by Dorothy Butler
Bk No. 002177
$30.00
A Fighting Withdrawal
by Keith Ovenden
Life of Dan Davin
Bk No. 003790
$25.00
Bolger. A View From the Top
by Jim Bolger
Bk No. 006703
$35.00
Mr Surveyor Thomson
by John Hall-Jones
Bk No. 006597
$75.00
Rangimarie.
Recollections of
her life

by Rora Paki-Titi
Bk No. 004563
$20.00
Sylvia!
by Lynley Hood
Life of Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Bk No. 006327
$30.00
Farrell
by David Jillett
Bk No. 006101
$25.00
Black Beech and Honeydew
by Ngaio Marsh
Bk No. 000323
$35.00
The Colonial One
by Dorothea Joblin
Bk No. 001811
$15.00
The Scrim-Lee Papers
by C.G. Scrimgeour, John A. Lee, Tony Simpson
Bk No. 003345
$20.00
Katherine Mansfield by Isabel C. Clarke
Bk No. 006475
$40.00
Adventures and Experiences of a Pioneer Colonist
by Captain W. Jackson Barry
Bk No. 006845
$95.00
Ronald Hugh Morrieson
by Julia Millen
Bk No. 004359
$20.00
Let Me Tell You
by Anthony McCabe
Bk No. 006370
$20.00
Most Happy Fella
by Beryl Te Wiata
Bk No. 000694
$20.00
Moving On
by Sonja Davies
Bk No. 001887
$25.00
The Unlikely Bureaucrat
by Ian Cross
Bk No. 000687
$35.00
Memoirs, Vol. 1, 1912-1960
by John Marshall
Bk No. 001936
$10.00
You Are a Brave Man
by Elizabeth Harding
Working in the Himalayas.
Bk No. 003718
$20.00
Berkahn. Fashion Designer
by Kevin Berkahn, with Maggie Blake
Bk No. 003892
$35.00
Pam's Political
Confessions

by Pam Corkery
Bk No. 001759
$20.00
A Voice on the Wind
by Nellie F.H. MacLeod

Life of poet Jessie MacKay
Bk No. 005294
$55.00
Fitzroy. Governor in Crisis 1843-1845
by Paul Moon
Bk No. 006848
$45.00
A Stake in the Country
by Dick Scott
Bk No. 008232
$65.00
Looking for the Phoenix
by
W.H. Oliver
Bk No. 008301

$35.00
Franquin
by Jennie Rowley Lees
Bk No. 003848
$35.00
The Legacy of Guilt
by Judith Binney
Life of Thomas Kendall.
Bk No. 005345
$85.00
Katherine Mansfield. The memories of L.M.
(Ida Constance Baker)
Bk No. 006486
$15.00
McMeekan
by Gordon McLauchlan
Bk No. 001992
$25.00
Kate Sheppard
by Judith Devaliant
Bk No. 008126
$35.00
Katherine Mansfield
by
Gillian Boddy
Bk No. 007803

$30.00
Flowers from my
Mother's Garden

by
Miranda Harcourt
& Stuart McKenzie

Bk No. 008293
$25.00
The Doctor Must Get Through
by R. Burns Watson
Bk No. 005456
$25.00
Mr Explorer Douglas
by John Pascoe, rev. Graham Langton

Bk No. 005014
$35.00
Sir William Martin
by Guy Lennard
First Chief Justice.
Bk No. 005378
$26.00
Capt F.G. Moore
by John O. Ross
Mariner and coastal pioneer.
Bk No. 005464
$40.00
Ettie
by
Jane Tolerton
Life of Ettie Rout

Bk No. 008192

$45.00
John Robert Godley of Canterbury
by C.E. Carrington
Bk No. 007870
$25.00
Bent Not Broken
by Lauren Roche
Bk No. 007780
$25.00
From Archangel to New Zealand
by Gregor McShane
Ex lib.
Bk No. 007831
$25.00

Brother Wohlers
by Sheila Natusch
Bk No. 008181

$65.00
Crusoes of Sunday
Island

by
Elsie K. Morton
Bk No. 007769

$55.00
Bishop in the Dock
by Rory Sweetman

Bk No. 008127

$45.00
Early New Zealand Engineers
by
F.W. Furkert
Bk No. 009241

$165.00
To Be a Hero
by
Edmund Bohan
Life of Sir George Grey
Bk No. 008277

$45.00
We Will Not Cease
by
Archibald Baxter
Bk No. 008195

$30.00
Deadline
by Pat Booth
Bk No. 007800

$35.00
From the Heart
by Donna Chisholm
Life of Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes.
Bk No. 007956
$25.00
Within Sound of the Bell
by Rhoda J. Barr
Bk No. 007869
$20.00

One day my mother blew me a kiss
by Odette Hill
Adoption story.
Bk No. 008029
$20.00

Shaggy Dogs and other stories
by David Marshall
Bk No. 007865
$20.00
I Sang for my Supper
by Margaret Fulton
Bk No. 007820
$25.00
Biographies selections - Pages: 2, 3
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