The Envoy from Mirror City - An Autobiography Volume Three
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature
The Envoy from Mirror City is the third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It describes her travels overseas and entry into the saving world of writers and the 'Mirror City' that sustains them. Fir ...Show more
A History of Silence - A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The 2011 earthquake which shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, ...Show more
Can You Tolerate This? - Personal essays by Ashleigh Young
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
An Elle Ultimate Summer Read' Beautiful, unusual and memorable ... I love this book' MAGGIE NELSON, author of THE ARGONAUTS In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway ye ...Show more
My Father's Island - A Memoir by Adam Dudding
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
After the death of his brilliant, eccentric father, Adam Dudding went in search of the stories and secrets of a man who had been a loving parent and husband, but was also a tormented, controlling and at times cruel man. Robin Dudding was the greatest New Zealand literary editor of his generation - frien ...Show more
Long Loop Home - A Memoir by Peter Wells
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
We all live with and seek to make sense of the inadequate ideas that conceptualise out time and place. Peter Wells was born in 1950, in Auckland, New Zealand, to sporting parents, with the complication of a brother who shared his sexuality. In his own words, he took a wrong turning: at eleven he decided ...Show more
Beside the Dark Pool - A memoir Part 2 by Fiona Kidman
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
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 i ...Show more
R. A. K. Mason at Twenty-Five The Text of an Extended Diary-Style Letter Written in the Month of the Poet's Birthday January 1930 by Mason, R. A. K.
$70.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
The Letters of D'Arcy Cresswell by Walter D'Arcy Cresswell; Helen Shaw (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Delinquent Days by John A Lee
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Frank Sargeson by R. A. Copland
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: New Zealand Writers And Their Work | Reading Level: Very Good