Biography

Born into love but then thrust into violence, and shaped by struggle, Timoti Te Moke was never destined to be a leader. After an early start as a bright boy in the eastern Bay of Plenty, nurtured by...

A fascinating and in-depth insight into the remarkable life and career of one of the most influential and adroit politicians of his generation In this illuminating and beautifully written book, Grant Robertson reflects on the major events in...

Photographs by Manuel Bauer. 1990-2024 Captures the public and private life of the Dalai Lama through decades of photographs.The fourteenth Dalai Lama is one of the most famous personalities of our time. As the exiled principal spiritual leader...

One of the most successful coaches in world sport offers insights on leadership, high performance, teamwork and creating a winning culture. Mike Cron was an All Blacks coach over 217 games. He was instrumental in the success of...

To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.”Gidon Lev, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, has...

A no-holds-barred account of what it was really like to cover some of the most dangerous and extraordinary moments in recent history 'If being a war correspondent can be addictive, this book might just leave you hooked. From...

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III, as Prince of Wales, this updated edition includes Lily...

One Soul, One Survivor tells Debbs Murray’s harrowing yet ultimately uplifting journey. A life of adversity, and extreme violence in adulthood ended in her courageous escape. Her partner’s use of multiple forms of violence resulted in her entrapment,...

Coach George Raveling is a living icon in the fields of sport and leadership. His story begins in the 1930s, under the shadow of segregation, and stretches over eight decades of excellence and achievement against the odds. In...

I stumble across a photo of me, aged ten. My immediate thought is: 'Who is that girl?' I remember her but I don't recognise myself in her. She was so determined. Once she knew what she wanted, she'd...

Fasten your seatbelts as Formula 1's favourite underdog, Guenther Steiner, takes you on a wild ride through his ten years at Team Haas.From the first seeds of his idea to establish a new F1 team to the challenges...

A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri Lanka. A perfect read for first-time visitors, Sri Lankans abroad or at home, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one...

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry.  From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, he...

It's not beautiful, not at all, when it's there in front of you, but writing transforms.Makereti stands at the foot of her mounga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tupuna at her elbow she casts around...

Using previously undiscovered material, Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dali,(1894-1982) who broke away from the her cultured but penurious background in pre-Revolutionary Russia to live in Paris with both France's most famous poet, Paul Eluard, and...

In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining 'a peer-to-peer electronic cash system' called Bitcoin to an arcane Listserv populated by Cypherpunks. No one in the community had heard of Nakamoto, and just as people were...

Nothing can prepare a man for the horrors of war, nor the haunting memories that linger long after the battle is over. In The Impossible Survivor, Jeff Steel invites readers into the life of Neil Lindsay, a retired...

A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand ‘If I’d been asked to vote on it I would’ve said I’d landed at the centre of the universe. Standing on our corner of Sylvan Road and Victoria Street, with...

Christine thought a year in South Korea would hit the pause button on her messy life. Her dad's death had left her anxious and depressed, and her career in musical theatre had reached a new low of shopping-centre...

When Marg and her husband, Norm, moved from their farm in Southland to run a menswear shop in central Queenstown, they found the two to be vastly different experiences. After all, the needs of customers were very different...

When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: "Mother, get a life!" And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been.In The Art...

Zero to 60 and Beyond" by Tony Quinn - The Unstoppable Journey of a Self-Made Businessman and Motorsport Legend "Everyone's got to live their own life, make the most of the cards they're dealt, and write their own...

The brilliantly funny, achingly nostalgic memoir of a life spent watching and writing, from the award-winning reviewer and bestselling author of Driving to Treblinka. Born to a Polish Holocaust survivor father and a 1950s Kiwi tradwife too busy to...

Bill Gates is one of the most powerful figures of the past four decades. But the world-famous public image he has so carefully crafted is not the whole truth. In this explosive new book, Anupreeta Das (finance editor...