Report on Experience by John Mulgan
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Report on Experience is a compelling memoir written by a quietly heroic author. This brilliantly written work provides insight both into the mind of the author and the prevailing attitudes of wartime Britain and Europe.
Fairburn by Denys Trussell
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Countless Signs - The New Zealand Landscape in Literature: An Anthology by Trudie McNaughton (Compiled by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Native Wit - A Memoir by Hamish Keith
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Legendary art commentator Hamish Keith returned to much-deserved national attention last year when his television series and accompanying (Godwit) book The Big Picture seized the imagination of New Zealanders. Keith's witty, revealing memoir, gives readers an insight into his well-lived, rich and immens ...Show more
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
This superlative biography by Michael King is a major publishing event. Janet Frame is of course New Zealand's most celebrated but also least public writer. She is the author of a series of brilliant novels and the award-winning An Angel At My Table autobiographical series, but she is also a personal my ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield - Selected Letters by Katherine Mansfield; Vincent O'Sullivan (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence draws from the five volumes of her Collected Letters currently being published by Clarendon Press, and ranges from the period of her adolescence to shortly before her death twenty years later. The letters, many of which are to John Mi ...Show more
Jane Mander: The Story of a New Zealand Writer by Rae McGregor
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Jane Mander grew up in the kauri milling settlements of the North and her desire to depict life in those places produced a classic novel, "The Story of a New Zealand River". Mander uses this and her other five novels to work through ideas about male/female relationships. The dilemmas of Alice, her daugh ...Show more
The Envoy from Mirror City - An Autobiography Volume Three by Janet Frame
$18.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The third volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, this text describes her travels overseas and entry into the world of writers and the Mirror City that sustains them.
The World of Peter Newton - The Best of His High Country Writing by Peter Newton
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Piercing the Clouds - Tom Fyfe: First to Climb Mt Cook by John Haynes
$32.50 NZD
Category: Tramping & Mountaineering
By modern standards New Zealand mountaineers of last century were ill-equipped- no lightweight windproof clothing, sleeping bags or tents, no convenient food or cooking gear, no pitons, no crampons, no helmets. But those who tackled the peaks of Southern Alps under those conditions were fascinated by th ...Show more