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Together Apart: Life In Lockdown by BELINDA JACKSON & JUDE VAN DAALEN
$79.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Portraits from a pandemic When COVID-19 hit Melbourne harder than a runaway tram, our lives changed - literally overnight.?Together Apart is a historical account of Melbourne's experiences during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, told through 60 stories of lives in lockdown. The book captures the poignanc ...Show more
Believer - Conversations with Mike Moore by Peter Parussini
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Michael Kenneth Moore was probably the country's last working class Prime Minister and while the book is inevitably political, it is also a remarkable New Zealand story about an ordinary kiwi achieving extraordinary things. This book is based on conversations held with Mike Moore over the past 12 months ...Show more
Llew Summers - Body and Soul by John Newton
$71.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Llew Summers (1947-2019) was a rarity in the art world - a figurative artist in a scene dominated by abstract practices. Llew Summers: Body and Soul depicts the work and life of one of New Zealand's most recognisable sculptors, a man of great warmth and astonishing vitality, whose works are daring, sens ...Show more
Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days, 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. 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 participant' ...Show more
In the Time of the Manaroans by Miro Bilbrough
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre-industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of ...Show more
Bourke Street My View from Here by Jen Hutchison; Tony Brooks (As told by); Nicole Melbourne (Cover Design by); Nikki M Group (Designed by); Lisa Heffernan (Photographer); Journeys to Words Publishing (Produced by); Daniel Chelchowski (Compiled by, Text by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Bourke Street, My View from Here follows the untold story of Tony Brooks through a journey that sounds to be more fiction than fact. Jen converses with the man people call 'The Mentor of Bourke Street' about tattoos, leading to his past - alcohol dependency, a stint in prison for a murder he claims he d ...Show more
You have a Lot to Lose - A Memoir, 1956 - 1986 by C. K. Stead
$54.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser.
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more
White Moko by Tim Tipene
$36.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A memoir from award-winning writer and inspirational speaker Tim Tipene. Tim founded the Warrior Kids programme 22 years ago. His courses now empower families and children. Himself the product of rape, Tim spent a miserable childhood in which he was abused by both his birth and foster families. This me ...Show more
Hold the Front Page! - For the First Female Star of Fleet Street by Anne Scott-James; Clare Hastings
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1953 pioneering journalist Anne Scott-James started to write a weekly column for the Sunday Express newspaper. 'The Anne Scott-James Page' set the bar for a new way of writing. Scott-James perfected the art of the short, sharp column - and many of the topics she covered are equally on-trend today. Sh ...Show more
The Paper Nautilus by Michael Jackson
$38.95 AUD
Category: Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth since, for new life to begin, the angelically beau ...Show more
We Don't Go Far But We Do See Life: Adventures on a Dutch Barge by KEITH HARRIS
$23.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Follow Dutch barge Saul Trader on her voyages through the canals of Europe. Author Keith Harris and his merry crew journey from England to Belgium and Holland through the centre of France to the Southern extremities of the extensive French canal system. There are stories and anecdotes about the people t ...Show more
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$43.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more