Biography & Memoir

232 titles

The Dark Dad: War and trauma - a daughter's tale

by Mary Kisler

Road to Belonging

by Lynne Leppard

Two Passions: From the TV Studio to the Olympic Po...

by Kevin Cameron

High Heels and Gumboots: A city girl and a lot to ...

by Rebecca Hayter

No Words for This

by Ali Mau

Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World

by Ruth Shaw

Without Fear Or Favour: A Life in Law

by Kenneth Keith

Mrs D is Not on a Diet

by Lotta Dann

FLYING IN THE FACE OF GRIEF: The Ever Being of Lif...

by ANNWYN Katoosh Publishing NZ

Bound: a memoir of making and remaking

by Maddie Ballard

Kiwis Can Fly: Flying to Save Lives in Papua New G...

by Ted Crawford

Unreel: A Life in Review

by Diana Wichtel

A Deaf in the Family: Free range antics and family...

by Pete Majendie

For When Words Fail Us: A small book of changes

by Claire Beynon

Adventures of a Country Vet: True stories from the...

by Rory Dean

UnApologetically Me

by Bree Tomasel

Lily, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost

by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

This is the F#$%ing News: My Story

by Patrick Gower

The Pohutukawa Journal: Finding solace in nature t...

by Juliet Batten

The Twisted Chain

by Jason Gurney

Sam the Trap Man: Cracking yarns and tall tales fr...

by Sam Gibson

All Who Live on Islands

by Rose Lu

Small Bodies of Water

by Nina Mingya Powles

The Road to Chatto Creek

by Matt Chisholm

Mickey

by Helen Brown

The Fight for Freshwater: A Memoir

by Mike Joy

Life in Lashes (Audiobook)

by Kita Mean

Pay Packets & Stone Walls: A memoir of women's cau...

by Elizabeth Orr

The Longest Day: Standing up to depression and tac...

by Matt Calman

My Beautiful Island

by Chris Potter

The Modern Singhs: The true story of a marriage of...

by Abbey Singh

The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's remot...

by Chris Long

So Far, For Now

by Fiona Kidman

Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter

by Noelle McCarthy

Foundations

by Karin Speedy

Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zeal...

by Hazel Phillips

Home Is An Island: A writer's tribute to the islan...

by Neville Peat

In Pursuit of Champions: The Inspiring Story of th...

by Keith Woodley

Late Life Adventures in London and Beyond

by Annemarie Rawson

Buncha’s Tales

by Bruce Keys

From There to Here: A memoir from the award-winnin...

by Joe Bennett

Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station

by Redmer Yska

THE DEVIL'S HAIRCUT: My Life Before and After the ...

by Steve Anderson

Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa

by Olive Jones

Pearl of Great Price

by Karen Gazley

Inside Looking Out: A Memoir

by William Renwick

The Life of Dai

by Dai Henwood

I Only Know Happy People: A Psychologist's Memoir

by Sarah Beck

Hold my hand, Rosie. Don't let go: A mother-and-da...

by Rosie Redding

The One I Love: One woman's journey from uncertain...

by Carolyn Hurst

More Late Life Adventures in London and Beyond

by Annemarie Rawson

Fangufangu Mana: An Awakening to the Gospel in Ton...

by Graeme McNae

Butterflies in Tiger Country: A Narrative of Trave...

by Sid Marsh

Refugee Turned Patriot: One man's quest for securi...

by Karen M Brown

Snorkelling the Abyss: One woman, striving to surv...

by Jan Jordan

Not Just a GP: More than just a memoir

by Tony Townsend

The Quiet Hero: The extraordinary life and death o...

by Philip Matthews

Labour of Love: A Personal History of midwifery in...

by Joan Skinner

Strong Words 3: The best of the Landfall Essay Com...

by Lynley Edmeades

One of Them

by Shaneel Lal

The Ever-Widening Cirles

by Marg Schrader

Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea

by Kennedy Warne

The Burned Letter: A New Zealander's Holocaust Mys...

by Helene Ritchie

Ithaca

by Alie Benge

Second Chances: Facing my demons and finding a bet...

by Hayley Holt

Laughing at the Dark: a memoir

by Barbara Else

Not Set In Stone: The consequences of a mountain l...

by Dave Vass

Dad, You've Got Dementia: Conversations with my fa...

by Kristen Phillips

The Very Last Resort: Memoirs of a Motel Manager

by Sandra Waters

It is what it was: A guide to 90 years of life fro...

by Gerhard Ammermann

My Life as ‘WB’ IV: The First 80 Years

by William Bowes Clarkson IV

Mokolife - Joni Brooking: Te Kanoi ote uhi - the f...

by Tracey Cooper

In Memory of Travel: 2022

by Grant Sheehan

Gaylene's Take: Her Life in New Zealand Film

by Gaylene Preston

Out of the Jaws of Wesley: 1944–1972 a record

by Peter Olds

Here For a Good Time: Organised thoughts from a di...

by Chris Parker

The Persimmon Journal: the art of growing older th...

by Juliet Batten

Drink, Smoke, Snort, Stroke

by Willy de Wit

Tales from the Wood's Edge: a memoir

by Wilma Laryn

Straight Up

by Ruby Tui

Needs Adult Supervision: Lessons in Growing Up

by Emily Writes

Owning It: The Ride that Changed my Life

by Brad Smeele

Keep in a Cool Place: The First Winter at Vanda St...

by Allen Riordan

Sons of a Good Keen Man: Life in the shadow of Bar...

by The Crump Brothers

The Golden Sands of Change

by Julia Giacomelli

Notes on Womanhood

by Sarah Jane Barnett

How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays

by Mohamed Hassan

The Bay and Beyond: Stories of a barefoot childhoo...

by Kathy Maclean

Things I remember, or was told: A memoir by Carol ...

by Carol Shand

Grape Expectations - Pohangina Valley Estate, Mana...

by Fiona McMorran

Notes From Inside: A Courageous Woman's Experience...

by Anne Thurston

Dancing with the Machine: Adventures of a rebel

by Jo Morgan

My Mother and Other Secrets

by Wendyl Nissen

Performer: a memoir

by Paul Maunder

Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barr...

by Tim Higham

This Twilight Menagerie: A Whakanui of 40 Years of...

by Jamie & Sam Trower Clements

Gone Bush

by Paul Kilgour

The Birds Began to Sing: A memoir of a New Zealand...

by Dorothy Buchanan

Come Back to Mona Vale: Life and death in a Christ...

by Alexander McKinnon

Busted Again!

by Ron McQuilter

Lost and Found: My story of heartbreak and hope

by Toni Street

Following God's Path

by John Knowles

The Accidental Teacher: The joys, ambitions, ideal...

by Tim Heath

Still Standing: What I've learnt from a life lived...

by Jessica Quinn

National Identity: Confessions of an outsider

by Simon Bridges

Imposter: On booze, crippling self-doubt and comin...

by Matt Chisholm

Prison Break

by Arthur Taylor

How to Escape from Prison

by Paul Wood

The Commercial Hotel

by John Summers

Surviving Centrepoint: My years in New Zealand's m...

by Rachel C. King

Prague In My Bones: A Memoir: 2021

by Jindra Tichy

Knock Knock: Confessions of a Kiwi Interviewer

by Trish Palmer

Green Grey Rain

by Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Tikanga

by Francis Tipene

Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell: The Old Dan...

by Jonathan Adams

Times Like These: On grief, hope & remarkable love

by Michelle Langstone

Faking It: My Life in Transition

by Kyle Mewburn

RHUBARB: The Sweet and Sour of a Life

by David Hoyes

My Mother and Other Secrets

by Wendyl Nissen

The Mirror Book

by Charlotte Grimshaw

The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie: Reports from...

by Polly Gillespie

From There To Here (With An Awful Lot In Between):...

by Pat Backley

Grief on the Run

by Julie Zarifeh

Nga Kete Matauranga: Maori scholars at the researc...

by Jacinta Ruru

The 52 Week Project

by Laura Keenan

Fair Weather Hitchhiker

by Julia Millen

I'm in a United State

by Paul Henry

How to Walk a Dog

by Mike White

Bus Stops on the Moon

by Martin Edmond

The Little Doctor: The Autobiography of Dr Guy Sch...

by Guy Scholefield

Ruff Justice

by Neville Higgison

Fishing, A Thread: Memories of a Kiwi angler

by Ivan Wilson

This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir

by Alison Jones

The Girl from Revolution Road

by Ghazaleh Golbakhsh

Fond Yarns & Tales of Woe

by Jack Elphick

The (Almost) True Story of a Man Called Jack

by Vivienne Lingard

This Farming Life

by Tim Saunders

Not That I'd Kiss a Girl: A Kiwi girl's tale of co...

by Lil O'Brien

Pull No Punches: Memoir of a political survivor

by Judith Collins

Over the Hill: On the Retired Life

by Ken Strongman

Know Your Place

by Golriz Ghahraman

Off the Hook

by Judy Fisher

One Minute Crying Time

by Barbara Ewing

Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death

by Caroline Barron

Memory Stick

by Anne Manchester

My French Platter: A Journey to a Dream Life in Fr...

by Annemarie Rawson

Timelights

by Martin Edmond

Husna's Story

by Farid Ahmed

Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice

by Susie Ferguson

Tools For The Top Paddock

by Kane Brisco

Tough Outback

by Mike Bellamy

Towards Compostela

by Catharina van Bohemen

Under a Big Sky: Facing the elements on a New Zeal...

by Tim Saunders

Under the Covers: Secrets of a Magazine Editor

by Jenny Lynch

Unmasking Monsters

by David Henwood

Upstream on the Mataura: A Fly Fisher’s Journey to...

by Dougal Rillstone

View from the Second Row

by Samuel Whitelock

Vital Signs: Heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious st...

by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers

Voyages and Wanderings in Far-Off Seas and Lands

by J. Inches Thomson

Wake Up and Believe: A memoir

by Junko Monica Preston

We've Got Cancer: An insight into one couple's cha...

by Kushla Rolls

Wild at Heart: The Dangers and Delights of a Nomad...

by Miriam Lancewood

Wild at Heart: The Dangers and Delights of a Nomad...

by Miriam Lancewood

World Adventures of a Polish Surgeon

by Mark Witoszka

You'll never make it

by Rod Hall-Jones

Zen Heart: What I've Learned From Animals and Life

by Mark Vette

Bits of String too Short to Use: A memoir of colle...

by Jennifer Beck

Bite Back: A compassionate guide to navigating eat...

by Genevieve Mora

Bit Part Actor

by Frank Edwards

Beyond the Pale

by Farrell Cleary

Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing l...

by Bariz Shah

Between Two Worlds

by Emma Outteridge

Becoming Pakeha

by John Bluck

Becoming Karl

by Norma Delgarno

As It Was

by Thomas Paterson

Anxious Autumn

by Chris Maclean

An Unusual Life: A long lonely journey from a sick...

by Peta Raggett

An Unexpected Life: The compelling story

by Graham Ashby

An Adventurous Life: The high country & beyond

by William Bowes Clarkson IV

An Addict in the Family: A Mother's Tale of Heartb...

by Stephanie Hammond

Always Going Home

by Frances Edmond

All Veils Are Off: The True Housewives of Qatar

by Marguerette Heding

All Experience Is An Arch: A collection of writing...

by Dick Sainsbury

After the Tampa

by Abbas Nazari

Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail ...

by Victoria Bruce

Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion

by Brigitta Baker

A Vintner's Tale

by Peter Hubscher

A Very French Affair

by Maria Hoyle

A Thousand Cycles of the Moon: A Memoir

by Pamela Glading

A Palmy Boy's Story: Growing up in Palmerston Nort...

by Lawrence Robert McCallum

A Natural Year: Living Simply Through the Seasons

by Wendyl Nissen

A month at the back of my brain: a third memoir

by Kevin Ireland

A Forager's Life: A tender and spellbinding debut ...

by Helen Lehndorf

A Feeling for Food

by Lis Cowey

A Canoe Before the Wind

by Vitale Lafaele

A Backpack, a Chair and a Beard

by Eamon Wood

138 Dates: The true story of one woman's search fo...

by Rebekah Campbell

Dances with Death: Perilous Encounters Reporting o...

by Tuma Hazou

Things I Learned at Art School

by Megan Dunn

The Tap Dance ...

by Colin Clough

Bluff in Wartime: By One Who Was There

by Bruce Moon

Confounded Biographies

by Michael Glynn

Rolling Seas to Rowling Heights

by Tom Rowling

FREE To Be Me

by Joan Bryant

S Speargrass: Growing up on a 1940s farm near Arro...

by Hilary Capper

Hine Toa

by Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

by Lynn Davidson

Keeping the Joneses Up, Vol. 1

by Sacha Jones

Articulations

by Henrietta Bollinger

Heart Stood Still

by Miriam Sharland

The Last Secret Agent

by Pippa Latour

End Times

by Rebecca Priestley

Tales Of A Vet Nurse

by Jade Pengelly

Dame Suzy D: My Story

by Susan Devoy

After the Tampa

by Abbas Nazari

Where We Swim

by Ingrid Horrocks

Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Ke...

by Chris Finlayson

You Probably Think This Song is About You

by Kate Camp

The Photo on the Wall: The search for a missing WW...

by Wendy St George

No Second Prize

by Sean O’Tuathail

Tama Pasifika Wellbeing Journal: Connect, Talanoa,...

by Mani Malaeulu

Teine Pasifika Wellbeing Journal: Seen, Heard, Val...

by Dahlia Malaeulu

The Maori Princess

by Liz Heenan

Home Base: poems - life as a regular force cadet 1...

by Keith Westwater

James Courage Diaries

by Chris Brickell

Lockdown Sketch Mind

by Fifi Colston

Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Ali...

by Ian Trafford

Woman in Love: Katherine Mansfield's Love Letters:...

by Richard & Scarlett Curtis

A Young Man's Antarctic Discovery: Diary of New Ze...

by Maureen Lee

1942 1942: A Kiwi O.E.

by T. F. Hegglun

Not Swinging, Swooning

by Stevan Eldred-Grigg

They Said I Couldn't Do It: John Mercer Langston, ...

by Robyn R Pearce