The Writer Abroad : Literary Travellers from Austria to Uzbekistan by Lucinda Hawksley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
From the grand tour to the global village, novelists and poets have made particularly observant travellers. Many writers have been prone to wanderlust, eager to explore the world and draw inspiration from their travels. They recorded their notes in letters, journals, essays and books. In some cases, the ...Show more
On 1984 - A Biography by D J Taylor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named f ...Show more
The Life And Times Of Henry Wynn Williams by Wynn-Williams R. B.
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Near Fine
May Your Shadow Never Grow Less : The Life and Times of Henry and Jane Holland, Canterbury, New Zealand 1863-1945 by Helen Thomas
$49.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: Near Fine
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
Samuel Ironside in New Zealand 1839 – 1858 by W.A. Chambers
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Ben and Eleanor Farjeon by A.H. Reed
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Journalist Ben Farjean arrived in Dunedin in 1861 annd worked on the Otago Daily Times and The Colonist. His writing kept people all over the country and abroad aware of developments in Otago, especially during the gold-rush era.
There's Gold in Them Hills: The Saga of a Colonial Cove by D. Mundy
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Guthrie-Smith of Tutira by A.E. Woodhouse
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Second hand. 1959 first edition, ex library. Hard cover. Timaru Library name plate on inside front cover with number stamped above. Library stamp also on book information page.
John Grigg of Longbeach A Biographical Essay by P.G. Stevens
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Second hand.
Portrait In Mosaic of Ann Clifton Firth by Mona Gordon
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs