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An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame by Michael King
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This accessible book features 120 photographs from the life of famous NZ writer Janet Frame, ranging from amazingly gothic family photos to new images of past homes and other significant locations. Accompanied by a lively text and Frame ephemera such as book covers, scribbled notes and even bus tickets. ...Show more
Being Pakeha Now - Reflections and Recollections of a White Native by Michael King
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Social & Cultural History | Reading Level: good-very good
A reprint of Michael King's seminal book on what it means to be a non-Maori New Zealander.First published in 1985, Being Pakeha Now became a kiwi classic, a strong reply both to Maori who were asserting their own identity and also to Pakeha who were mumbling that they didn't have a strong culture or ide ...Show more
Hidden Places - A memoir in journalism by Michael King
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Moko: Maori Tattooing in the 20th Century by Michael King
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maori History, Society & Culture
Moko is written by Michael King, one of New Zealand's most celebrated historians, and photographed by Marti Friedlander, one of the country's most eminent photographers. One of New Zealand's iconic books, originally published in 1972, it was a milestone in New Zealand publishing. Maori subject matter w ...Show more
New Zealanders at War by Michael King
$42.50 NZD
Category: General NZ Military History | Reading Level: very good
The Collector. Andreas Reischek - A Biography by Michael King
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The Coromandel by Michael King & Robin Morrison
$32.50 NZD
Category: Waikato | Reading Level: very good
The Coromandel brings together the talents of Robin Morrison, who until his untimely death in 1993 was New Zealand's most distinguished documentary photographer, and the insights of Michael King, one of the country's best-known writers and historians. The result of this collaboration is an arresting and ...Show more
The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Michael King
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, it has been continuously in print for twenty years and has sold over 300,00 ...Show more
The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Second hand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more inte ...Show more
The Silence Beyond: Selected Writings by Michael King by Michael King; Rachael King (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: good
The late Michael King was one of New Zealand's most respected and popular historians. The author of the bestselling The Penguin History of New Zealand and many significant works otherwise, he was a writer of remarkable skill, sensitivity and importance. The Silence Beyond is a wide-ranging and often per ...Show more
Tread Softly for You Tread on My Life: New and Collected Writings by Michael King
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Society | Reading Level: very good
This is a rare book, for the general reader and the writer, the researcher and the academic. Fresh from writing "Wrestling With The Angel", the biography of Janet Frame, Michael King tells riveting stories as he considers questions which beset all intelligent writers and readers. What should biographers ...Show more
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
This superlative biography by Michael King is a major publishing event. Janet Frame is of course New Zealand's most celebrated but also least public writer. She is the author of a series of brilliant novels and the award-winning An Angel At My Table autobiographical series, but she is also a personal my ...Show more