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9780473113407
The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor
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NZ$ 145.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Judy Siers
Published by:
Millwood Heritage Press
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Montana Biography Winner 2008
'The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor' enables us to enter into the life and times of a man, a family, a society, and ways of thinking and acting different to, yet not so distant from, our own. We enter the world of an architect, who is also an artist; builder, craftsman; a theosophist, an astrologer, a photographer, a furniture maker. We are presented with the life story of a complex and talented man, a man who influenced the lives of others, and was influenced by particular beliefs, both religious and artistic.
To enter a Chapman-Taylor house is to enter into a world of warmth, comfort, re-assurance; of materiality and craftsmanship. It is a practical world touched by art. Chapman-Taylor’s world is where “beauty is really a by-product and comes almost of itself when our motives are right”. Lavishly illustrated, this book enables us to enter every one of Chapman-Taylor’s houses - not ...
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After Andrew: Two Kiwis Cross Australia
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Bill Lennox & Andrew Hunter Lennox
Published by:
Hunter Productions (NZ)
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In 2008, Lennox drove across Australia following his grandfather's diary. In this book
After Andrew - Two Kiwis cross Australia
, he documents Andrew's life and extraordinary solo journeys between Adelaide and Darwin.
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9780473152222
Tales of Anna Hoffmann Volume One
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Anna Hoffman
Published by:
Anna Hoffmann
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Tales of Anna Hoffman
is an autobiographical tale of a typical New Zealand girl growing up in a typical small town in New Zealand in the forties and fifties.
Anna Hoffman, born in Taumaranui, was a teenager searching for love who fell in the gay and bawdy Auckland of the fifties, rubbing shoulders with the bright, the liberal and disjointed, an independent woman who became the stuff of tabloid scandals.
It is a confession of life through the eyes of a growing girl, her emerging sexuality and how she assesses adults' behaviour in relation to her own growing rebelliousness.
She recognises the stifling conformity and repressiveness of the era and vows to break out - not only of her caring, closeting and happy home - but also out of Auckland and eventually New Zealand altogether. She concentrates on her music studies as a way out.
This story relates the twists and turns that her life takes while she follows her dream of ...
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9781869790592
Beside the Dark Pool : A memoir Part 2
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NZ$ 38.00 each
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Author:
Fiona Kidman
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
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In her first volume of memoir, Fiona Kidman described her background and childhood, evoking the places she lived in and the people she knew. It finished with the publication of her first, hugely successful novel. In this sequel she takes us through the writing of over 20 more books, of her involvement in New Zealand's literary circles, her championing of writing and writers, and the significant people she has met along the way. A beautifully written, thought-provoking and important record of the last 20 years.
First published June 2009.
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9781877252389
Bruce McLaren : A Celebration of a Kiwi Icon
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Michael Clark & Jim Barclay
Published by:
Celebrity Books
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This is a collection of personal recollections about Bruce McLaren and the world of motor racing as it was in his heyday.
Put together for the Bruce Mclaren Festival the book includes many photographs, some of them never before published.
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9781869711283
Changing Pace : A memoir
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Sir Richard Hadlee
Published by:
Hodder Moa
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This memoir recounts the last few years of Sir Richard Hadlee's cricketing career before describing the tumultuous period in his life that followed his retirement. He describes the way in which his life, once so successful and full of high achievement, was suddenly shattered as he experienced a debilitating heart attack that led to major surgery, and shortly afterwards his marriage of twenty-two years disintegrated and came to a painful end. He then describes how, with the help of the woman who was to become his new wife he picked up the pieces and created a new life, first as a cricket ambassador and commentator, and then as the chairman of selectors for New Zealand Cricket. If he had hoped that at that point his life might become smoother sailing he soon found that being a cricket selector brought with it fresh challenges and exposed him to close scrutiny and criticism from the media.
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