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Gumboot’s selection of Biographies and Autobiographies covers a wide topic range. Whether you are looking for a true story or a book on an inspirational sporting hero, a memoir, or the latest who is doing what in entertainment we have it all.
 | Brief Lives(Paperback)Chris Price won the NZSA Award for Best First Book of Poetry with her collection Husk (AUP, 2002). This second book, Brief Lives, is a surprise - a collection of prose poems of varying lengths, followed by a long essay, all elaborate and inventive variations on a theme. Brief Lives is a dictionary of biographical fragments and reflections on known....
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 | Something for the Birds(Paperback)A memoir by a well-known artist and Auckland personality. She traces her roots from her childhood in Timaru and back to her Irish ancestors, her bohemian life as a student and her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser Macdonald.
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 | On the Wings of the Morning: Pioneering Stories of My Family and Personal Memoris(Paperback)On Wings of the Morning is both a family history and an autobiography of the award-winning artist Deirdre Helmore (nee Philips). Deirdre takes pride in her early Cantabrian heritage and the fact that two sets of her great-grandparents arrived on the First Four Ships that established the fledgling settlement of Canterbury in 1850. She recounts her childhood holidays on the....
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 | Living at Mt Algidus(Paperback)Living at Mount Algidus is a compelling story of life at Mount Algidus, New Zealand's best known high country station. Told through the eyes of city dweller Gail Turner, it is the tale of her son, Ben, and his wife Anna's five years spent living in this spectacular setting. A beautifully told story of a life dictated by river crossings,....
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 | Kin: A Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-class Family(Paperback)What can the study of one individual tell us about the many? This book focuses on the issue of variance within the New Zealand working class by examining the life, culture and identity of Jack McCullough, Workers' Representative on the Arbitration Court 1908-1921, and his four siblings - margaret, Jim, Sarah and Frank.
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 | Mud Beneath My Boots: Private Coley's War(Paperback)Tells the story of a young New Zealander in the trenches from two perspectives - the raw, vulnerable boy and the seasoned man - providing a unique insight into one of the blackest periods of our history.
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 | The Mal Tongue Story(Paperback)The book explores the life and times of leading golf coach Mal Tongue who played a leading role in revolutionizing the game in New Zealand with his infamous washing machine swing method. Best known as Michael Campbell's coach during the 1990's, Mal has helped countless other young kiwis follow their golfing dreams. Some have been successful while others have....
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 | My Home Now: Migrants and Refugees Tell Their Stories(Paperback)Fifty highly readable, often startling, short interviews.
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 | Arawata Bill: The Story of Legendary Gold Prospector William James O'Leary(Paperback)Since the publication of the original title on Arawata Bill, much new material relating to his life has been discovered by the author. A number of photographs of "Arawata" and his back country have also surfaced to add interest to this "extraordinary life of an ordinary man".
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 | Henare Te Ua: In the Air(Paperback)Henare te Ua is well known and loved by radio listeners throughout New Zealand. During his radio career, Henare te Ua has met many Maori and Pakeha people who helped to shape our nation. His pen pictures of many of them add new dimensions from his perspective. Descended from heartland Maori stock, he spent forty years as a respected....
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 | Swamp Fever: A Golden Bay Memoir(Paperback)Swamp Fever is the fascinating tale of one man's life as an alternative lifestyler in Golden Bay, northwest of Nelson. As a nineteen-year-old, Gerard Hindmarsh quit his public servant job as a cartographic cadet for the Department of Lands and Survey and bought a block of scrub-covered, swampy land at Tukurua near Collingwood. Gerard was part of the homesteading movement....
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 | King of the Castle: A Biography of William Larnach(Paperback)'King of the Castle' is the story of nineteenth century businessman and politician William Larnach, In New Zealand William Larnach is perhaps best remembered for the home he built on the Otago Peninsula, known as Larnach Castle. He also has the tragic distinction of being the only politician to commit suicide in Parliament building. King of the Castle is a....
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 | Kippenberger: an Inspired New Zealand Commander(Paperback)Major General Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, ED, was an exceptional New Zealander and one of the truly great military commanders of World War Two. Here Glyn Harper examines his formative years, including his WW1 experiences, and shows how they influenced his style of leadership and performances on the battlefield.
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 | After the Fireworks: A Life of David Ballantyne(Paperback)This is the biography of a New Zealand journalist and novelist who believed he 'never really made it' and whose fiction has been quickly forgotten (he died in 1986). The account of his life is also a picture of the worlds of journalism and literary endeavour in the postwar period. Australian author.
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 | Chronicle of the Unsung(Paperback)Mingling biography and autobiography, this title links four quite separate periods or episodes in Martin's life that are linked by a number of themes and which are often the excuse for discussions of historical figures, typically on society's margins, or reflections on the nature of art and its relation to personal life.
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 | This Piece of Earth: A Life in My New Zealand Garden(Paperback)In this captivating autobiography, the author magically weaves the story of his life--from a Banks Peninsula boyhood to the Executive Wing of Parliament--with the seasons of his Wellington garden and mouth-watering recipes from his kitchen.
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 | Being Pakeha Now: Reflections and Recollections of a White Native(Paperback)First published in 1985, "Being Pakeha" was a strong reply to Maori who were asserting their own identity and to Pakeha who thought they didn't have an identity of their own. "Being Pakeha Now" was updated in 1999 and is reprinted with a foreword by Kerry Howe.
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 | War and Pieces(Paperback)War and Pieces is an autobiographical third-person account of one man's experiences in the Navy during the Second World War. John Pilgrim enlists for the Navy because "If the world was about to end he wanted to go out with his guns blazing". His training, first at Devonport naval base, later near Wellington, is interspersed with stories of mateship, chasing....
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 | Letters from the Bay of Islands: Story of Marianne Williams(Hardback)In 1822, nearly twenty years before the Treaty of Waitangi imposed British control over Maori land, Marianne Williams, her husband, Henry, a missionary, and their three children, left England bound for the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
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 | Broken Angels: A Mother's Story of Triumph Over Tragedy(Paperback)Drama and tragedy have pursued Nancye O'Reilly throughout her life. Adopted as a baby and sexually abused from a young age, in 1980 she discovered her daughter Alicia had been raped and murdered in her own home overnight. Then, in 1987 her older daughter was killed in a car crash and two years later a third daughter died after childbirth.
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