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9781741668162
Together Alone : The story of the Finn brothers
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NZ$ 42.00 each
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Author:
Jeff Apter
Published by:
Random House
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To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount - where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would also work its way straight into his younger brother Neil's DNA.
Success for the brothers was a long time coming it took several turbulent years in Split Enz - an art-pop band Neil would join in 1977, despite Tim's reservations - before they produced a genuine hit and connected with the mainstream. And it was achieved by one of Neil's songs, 'I Got You', which wasn't the sweetest pill brother Tim had ever tasted. After all, Split Enz was his band, his odyssey, his obsession.
When the Enz came undone, their paths split. Neil led world-beaters Crowded House, while Tim immersed himself in a series of bold if not always successful solo ...
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Alexey
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Author:
Godyaew, Alexey
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tallpixie
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9781877340239
A Plume of Bees : A Literary Biography of C K Stead
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Author:
Judith Dell Panny
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Cape Catley
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C.K. Stead is certainly one of New Zealand's most honoured writers and probably the most argued about. Judith Dell Panny has become a literary detective in her remarkable research into the origins of the Stead opus, from his early life to his influences here and abroad and their effects on his work.
Controversies swirl around Stead. Why and how does he write as he does? What has shaped him, what are the patterns, repeated and intricate, that permeate his extraordinary and ongoing work? In her investigations of all this, Panny also assesses the many effects his writing has on others. With Stead nobody sits on the fence.
WHY DO THE LITERATI HATE KARL STEAD? was the feature in North and South. Yet Janet Frame had “a feeling of amazed gratitude” because of Panny's book on her own work, I Have What I Gave. Readers, said Frame, would now be able to approach her work from new and original perspectives, enabling them to find their ...
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9781869790684
Ben and Mark : Boys of the High Country
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Author:
Christine Fernyhough Photography by John Bougen
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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The true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount White Station, near Arthur's Pass. One of New Zealand's biggest and most remote high-country stations in the South Island, it is 45 minutes from the nearest village to their turnoff on the main road, and fourteen gates along a gravel road from there to the farmhouse. Their story is lovingly told by Christine Fernyhough, the author of
The Road to Castle Hill
, with stunning photographs by John Bougen. This story of life fashioned by the cycles and seasons of farming, far away from other people, where you have to make you own fun, will be enjoyed by adults as well as children.
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9781869792947
Bird on a Wire : The Inside Story From A Straight Talking CEO
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Author:
Theresa Gattung
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at such a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate was never far from the headlines. This no-holds-barred memoir tells of her ambition, her determination, and her rise to business power. It tells of the highs of running a vitally important company such as Telecom and also the lows, as the company struggled with the Australian AAPT acquisition, shareholder pressure, antagonism from the government, battles with its telco competitors and changing technology. After seven years she felt she'd given her all. The personal toll of those tough years at the top had been significant and Gattung is frank about how she had to rebuild her life with a clear focus. First with her chic Californian fashion store showcasing New Zealand fashion, and now with her ...
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9780143020677
First Pass Under Heaven : A 4,000 kilometre walk along the Great Wall of China
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Author:
Nathan Hoturoa Gray
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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The Great Wall of China is the largest man-made structure ever built, stretching for over 4,000 kilometres from central Asia, across the Gobi Desert, through the remote, cold mountains of northern China to end on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Gray, a young New Zealand lawyer, wanted to be the first person in history to walk the entire length of the Great Wall. In October 2000 he set off with four fellow travellers - a Buddhist monk from Singapore, a Jewish photojournalist from Argentina, a Catholic recording artist from Italy and a Mormon golfer. Conceived as an idealistic trek to mark the millennium in cultural, racial and religious harmony, one month in reality bit. Blizzards, lightning strikes, thirst, starvation, snakes and police detention all took their toll. After 3,000 kilometres, having witnessed the fatal stabbing of a Chinese friend and being chased at gunpoint by soldiers, Nathan succumbed to physical and mental ...
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9781921351075
In My Skin: A Memoir
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Author:
Kate Holden
Published by:
text publishing
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Shortlisted, Dobbie Literary Award for a first published book Shortlisted, Australian Newcomer of the Year, Australian Book Industry AwardsIn My Skin describes an extraordinary journey through an often hidden world of heroin and prostitution. Kate's story is one of survival and resourcefulness, and an unflinching look at the consequences of addiction.
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9781877427152
Kiwi Under Fire in Iraq
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Author:
Gary Brandon
Published by:
Willson Scott Publishing
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The true story of a private security company contractor in Afghanistan and Iraq.
An action packed book about what is going on behind the scenes.
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9781869506353
Ngaio Marsh : Her Life in Crime
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author:
Joanne Drayton
Published by:
HarperCollins New Zealand
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While Ngaio Marsh had a larger than life public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. No one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings and remove incriminating evidence than a crime fiction writer. This fascinating biography of Ngaio Marsh pieces together both the public and private Marsh in a way that is as riveting as a crime novel. Through Marsh's writing and her theatre productions and publications, Joanne Drayton assembles the peices to the puzzle that is Ngaio Marsh. Proving that life can be as thrilling as fiction.
Marsh wrote her fist detective novel in a London flat in the depths of the 1930's Depression. In 'A Man Lay Dead' she broght to life dectective Inspector Roderick Alleyn. through thirty-two novels he would establish himself as one of the great super-sleuths, and Marsh as one of four Queens of Godlen Age dectitive fiction writing, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and ...
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9781869793913
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Rebel With A Cause : New Zealander of the year
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Author:
Ray Avery
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Ray Avery is an amazing person. He is the current New Zealander of the Year because of his clever work in the third world using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations, cheap and more effective incubators for babies and other creative scientific solutions. His childhood was very 'Angela's Ashes' - brought up in an orphanage (his own mother had tried to sell him), then ran away and lived on the streets. But Ray went on to become a scientist, a millionaire, very successful businessman and now someone who literally does help to change the world. During the mid-nineties Ray spent most of his time working in Eritrea and Nepal setting up two world class Intraocular lens laboratories. At that time the cost of an Intraocular lenses was about US$300 but Ray managed to put the technology together to produce lenses for under US$10.00 making modern Cataract surgery accessible to the poor throughout Africa and ...
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9781869404543
South West of Eden : A Memoir 1932-1956
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Author:
C K Stead
Published by:
Auckland University Press
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'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised and without a passport, back and forth across that border, and prefers it should be unmarked and without check-points.' - C K Stead. Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C K Stead has changed his mind. In
South-West of Eden
, a coming-of-age memoir by New Zealand's leading poet, novelist and critic writes of a life 'lived by history' -running wild in Cornwall Park, joining the Labour Party aged seven, discovering poetry in a third-form English class and enjoying a newly married annus mirabilis in a flat on Takapuna Beach down the road from Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869508371
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Telling Tales : A Life In Writing
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author:
William Taylor
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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In this warm and witty memoir William Taylor writes engagingly about life as a writer, teacher and solo father.
An imaginative, original and spirited individual, he taught for many years in the Central and the Lower North Island, often in single - or two-teacher schools. After the first of his six adult novels was published in 1970, he continued to play a prominent role in his local community. He was Principal of Ohakune School and Mayor of Ohakune from 1981 to 1988.
His first novel for younger readers was published in 1981, and in 1986 he began writing full-time - his work adapted for theatre and television, frequently translated, and continuously in print for over 40 years.
This is a fascinating and entertaining memoir from a renowned New Zealand author.
First published May 2010.
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9781869792077
The World's Fastest Indian : Burt Munro - a Scrapbook of His Life
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Author:
Roger Donaldson
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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This book reveals the real Burt Munro - the man behind the movie. Roger Donaldson has been studying Burt Munro for many years. He made a documentary on him back in 1971, called
Offerings to the God of Speed
, as well as the 2005 international hit movie
The World's Fastest Indian
. During research for both films, he collected lots of material which has never been published, and Burt's son also released Munro family scrapbooks to Roger, allowing them to be published here for the first time. In preparation for the doco Roger interviewed Burt and also taped Burt chatting to several of his cronies and coworkers. These tapes have been transcribed for this book, presenting the real Burt Munro in his own words.
The book includes a bonus DVD with 2 hours of special features including the
God of Speed
documentary.
First published October 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869710941
Working with David : Inside the Lange Cabinet
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NZ$ 60.00 each
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Author:
Michael Bassett
Published by:
Hodder Moa
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David Lange's Fourth Labour Government was a watershed in New Zealand history. Whether it was international politics (ANZUS, Mururoa tests, Oxford Union debate) or domestic economics (Roger Douglas's reforms), New Zealand was a vastly different country in 1990 than it had been when Lange won in 1984. The real story of this time has never been told until now, and Lange's own bestselling autobiography was disappointing in the lack of detail it contained. Written by Lange's cousin, and senior cabinet minister in that Government, Michael Bassett, here is the "inside the cabinet room" view of some of the most heady and turbulent times in recent history. Bassett writes of the real David Lange, a hugely gifted but hugely flawed politician, with his gift of communicating to the public but an inability to lead his own cabinet. Based on diaries kept at the time, private papers, and extensive interviews, Working with David brings together ...
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9781877242366
Wrestling with God : The Story of My Life
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Lloyd Geering
Published by:
Bridget Williams Books
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Lloyd Geering is one of New Zealand's foremost thinkers, a man of clarity and vision who continues to present new and challenging ideas about the spiritual life of the culture he lives in. His life almost spans the twentieth century, and his stories of growing up in the Depression, cycling trips around the country, and a lively but impoverished student life all embellish the historical record of that time.
Embarking on life as a newly-wed young minister, he was left suddenly bereft by his wife's death; he writes movingly of his work as a solitary young father, caring for two small children with the support of his Dunedin parishioners. Later, he became a university teacher, first at Knox College in Dunedin, then at Victoria University in Wellington. His second marriage, and the birth of a third child, brought much happiness that forms a backdrop to the public life. This became increasingly controversial as Geering wrote about his ...
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