James K. Baxter 1936-1972 - a memorial volume
$85.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Frank Sargeson - A Life by Michael King
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Beloved Chicago Man by Simone de Beauvoir
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
The Letters of A.R.D. Fairburn by Lauris Edmond (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up stayin ...Show more
Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch - The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, 1932-66 by Diana Cooper; Evelyn Waugh
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A correspondence that is entertaining, absorbing, thought-provoking and revealing about two of the most fascinating figures of their times.
The Life of James K. Baxter by Frank McKay
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Widely considered to be the greatest poet New Zealand has produced, James K. Baxter (1926-1972) was full of contradictions: a poet who spent much of his time exercising a concern for society's outcasts; a man with intense loyalty to his country who frequently condemned its institutions; a devout convert ...Show more
The Contented Botanist : Letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific by Sophie C. Ducker (ed)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Inside Memory - Pages from a Writer's Workbook by Timothy Findley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Timothy Findley is on the bestseller lists again. Pilgrim, hisnewest and most ambitious novel yet, has gone like a bullet to the upperechelons of all the Canadian lists. Findley fans are out in full force, and manywill be looking for another Findley fix. Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer sNotebook will ...Show more
Devonport: A Diary/Esplanade by Bill Direen
$100.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
To the Is-Land: An Autobiography by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The first part of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, this text chronicles her childhood and adolescence, spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 1930s.
Flaws in the Glass - A Self-Portrait by Patrick White
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography
The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man who intervi ...Show more