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For many Kiwi baby boomers, growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s was a special time heaps of playmates, freedom to run wild, and opportunity to exercise imagination. Pete Majendies stories of his childhood in New Brighton capture those experiences.

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In 2013 the Hautapu family went through the extremely traumatic experience of their 7 year-old daughter Quinn being diagnosed with brain cancer. Quinns mother, Roanne Barnes Hautapu, has written a profoundly moving account of what the family went through, living at Ronald McDonald House whilst undergoing treatments at Starship Hospital.

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'A Feeling for Food' began as a letter to two sons leaving home, giving them the recipes of the food they'd grown up with so they could feed themselves, but Lis Cowey soon realised she was giving them another kind of nourishment that was all about who they were, where they'd come from and the adventures awaiting them.

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In 2015 Natalie was diagnosed with breast cancer. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, she found new ways of coping as the illness progressed and became incurable. Hers is a story of diagnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies - but also of faith and community, hope and family.

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As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of 'sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia...'.

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A story describing the power of a single individuals passion for medical research achieving remarkable outcomes through collaboration with scientists and clinicians across disciplines.

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Memoir by former managing director of Montana Wines, Peter Hubscher. Covers Montanas early days through to its emergence as NZs biggest winemaker and exporter.

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Always Going Home is the compelling personal story of Frances Edmonds relationship with her beloved, complicated, difficult mother, the award-winning poet Lauris Edmond (19242000). Frances takes a more intimate look at areas of Lauriss private life than have been detailed in previous family histories and autobiographies.

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Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Bessers career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the 70s and 80s.

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Astride a Fierce Wind is a story of the life of an immigrant and what it means to leave one home behind and cross the world to find another.

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Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood.

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Helene Wong writes eloquently of her New Zealand childhood, student life in the 1960s, coming of age in Muldoon's New Zealand, and coming to terms with 'being Chinese'.

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The journey started on a night at Cook's Garden, Wanganui, where a youthful Norman Harris from the New Zealand Herald was the only national media witness to Peter Snell's world-record mile. That launched a wave of exciting writing, described by reviewers as "fresh" or "vivid".

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'Bit Part Actor' is the memoir of the 50-year career of a Kiwi actor/writer in the film, television and theatre industries, who has featured in blockbusters 'King Kong' and 'The Hobbit', iconic theatre productions like 'Foreskin's Lament' and well-known Speight's ads and road safety campaigns.

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The memoir includes behind-the-scene encounters with writers such as Margaret Mahy, Fiona Kidman and Dorothy Butler. Despite the traumatic loss of several loved family members and the challenges of ageing, Jennifers love of writing has continued, culminating in this memoir.

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In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth other doctors don't always understand and often won't share if they do-that chronic illness is complicated, and that treatment is not just matter of test results and prescriptions but requires a more comprehensive approach.

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As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participants-eye view of the early years of avant-garde theatre troupe Red Mole.

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Robbie Burton is a tramper and book publisher, who has had a life-long passion for the wild places of New Zealand. In his memoir, 'Bushline', he reflects on this love of the outdoors and how this has been interwoven into his career at the helm of Potton & Burton, one of New Zealand's largest independent publishers.

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Elspeth Sandys' refreshing honesty and her skill as a writer of fiction and drama propel the reader through an absorbing life story that is equally a commentary on the meaning of memoir and the peculiarities of memory.

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Come Back to Mona Vale is a beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century.

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