Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward by Oliver Soden
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noel Coward's songs - "Mad About The Boy", "Mad Dogs and Englishman" - are forever lod ...Show more
Tà's Red Book - The Life of Wanda Ferragamo by Ginevra Visconti (Contribution by)
$72.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Wanda Ferragamo's life is an opportunity to analyze the role of a woman at the head of an important entrepreneurial business during the economic boom. This volume is being published on the occasion of the exhibition Women in Balance at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. Wanda Miletti Ferragamo ...Show more
It Happened in Eketahuna - Four Years in the Life of a Boy: Handset Limited Edition by Wesley T. Parker
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Richardsons Of Napier by Gavin Mclean
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Series: NZ Shipping Monographs 2 | Reading Level: very good
Young Bloomsbury the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Entirely original and thrilling . . . this is Gatsby made real' JULIET NICOLSON'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYESIn the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to invigorate the Bloomsbury Group - creative young people who tantalised the original 'Bloomsberries' with ...Show more
They Did It First - 50 Scientists, Artists and Mathematicians Who Changed the World by Julie Leung; Caitlin Kuhwald
$19.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: They Did It First
The greatest challenge is believing it's possible . . . They Did It First features fifty trailblazing scientists, artists and mathematicians who were not afraid to dream big and be the FIRST. Discover the pioneers who defied the boundaries of possibility and went on to revolutionise the world. Writte ...Show more
Persian Myths and Legends - Tales of Heroes, Gods and Monsters by Sahba Shayani (Introduction by); J. K. Jackson (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mythology | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. From such texts as the Shah Nameh(the Persian Book of Kings), Masnavi-e Ma'navi, the Anvar-i Suhaylifables and works by the great poet Nizāmī, come ancient tales of a civilization that once stretched across the known world. Find here the wonderful stories of the magical bir ...Show more
Janet Frame: An Autobiography (fair, annotated) by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections.
Earliest New Zealand: The Journals and Correspondence of the Rev. John Butler (fair, ex-library) by Compiled by R.J. Barton
$125.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ
Letters of a Naturalist - The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island by Richard Treacy Henry; Susanne Hill; John Hill; Victoria Jaenecke
$150.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Richard Henry was New Zealand's first wildlife ranger and champion of our flightless birds. He was appointed caretaker of Resolution Island in 1894, living and working -often alone- for fourteen years in wild and remote Dusky Sound. Henry's perceptive observations and descriptions of the wildlife of D ...Show more