(Hardback)
By: Oliver Sutherland
ISBN: 9781927145432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Raymond Richards
ISBN: 9781877257926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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Palmer: The parliamentary years is the product of research involving more than 200 linear metres of archives, as well as interviews with Palmer, his family and associates, some now deceased. It is a fascinating warts-and-all account of the political career of one of New Zealand's brightest sons.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Callaghan
ISBN: 9781927277492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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(Paperback)
By: Julie Glamuzina
ISBN: 9781927242650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Helene Ritchie
ISBN: 9780992247614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Fraser Books
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(Book detail unspecified)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Really Good Books
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(Paperback)
By: Stephanie Johnson
ISBN: 9780947492991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
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In this BWB Text Johnson explores her elusive and ambivalent feelings about the sunburnt country.
(Paperback)
By: Warwick Broadhurst
ISBN: 9780473316679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Broadhurst Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Bridget Quinn
ISBN: 9781797211879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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(Hardback)
By: Liz Flavell
ISBN: 9781781454077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2020
Publisher: GMC Publications
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A guide to Prince's life, work and legacy, featuring facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the musician behind the music.
(Paperback)
By: Keith Newman
ISBN: 9781990042584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Oratia Media
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(Paperback)
By: Rick Peacock-Edwards
ISBN: 9781911714125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2024
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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As the proud son of one of the Few, Rick Peacock-Edwards was inspired to follow his father into the Royal Air Force and become a fighter pilot. This is an action-packed account of a foremost flyers life with endless good stories, and a colourful cast of characters to match. Amust for all lovers of derring-do in the air.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Willis
ISBN: 9780995105348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Quentin Wilson Publishing
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In Barry Crump-style Michael Willis tells about his saving rare breeds from extinction, including rediscovering the kune kune pig, saving the goats of Arapawa Island, wild pigs on Auckland Island, the lost wild cattle of Enderby Island, and the threatened wild donkeys on the Galapagos. A life full of adventure with the animals he loves.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Brickell
ISBN: 9781990048586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Capturing the life of playwright Robert Lord from 1974, when he first moved to New York, until his death in Dunedin in 1992, the Robert Life Diaries reveals the internal world of one of Aotearoa's most influential and important figures in literature and theatre.
(Hardback)
By: Helen Exley
ISBN: 9781784852306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Helen Exley Giftbooks
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(Hardback)
By: Diane Keaton
ISBN: 9780847871285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2022
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
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Diane Keatons cabinet of saved and found photographic curiosities is a visual autobiography of sorts and scrapbook of her fascinations and reflections.
(Paperback)
By: Geoff Saunders
ISBN: 9780473521813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Mayfly Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: R.J. Bunce
ISBN: 9781988531359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Otago University Press
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Biography of a colourful and controversial politician, church elder and convicted debtor
(Hardback)
By: Ian Shircore
ISBN: 9781913062071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: RedDoor Press
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A fascinating biography of the poetry of Clive James
(Paperback)
By: Alan Mark
ISBN: 9781927322048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Otago University Press
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For more than five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand.
(Hardback)
By: Helen Doe
ISBN: 9781911667919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2023
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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The first full reappraisal of one of Britain's great fighter aces, this book examines the truth behind Tuck's 1956 biography, Fly for Your Life. It looks at the evidence behind the myths, checks out some of the exaggerated stories and reveals the real Stanford Tuck.
(Paperback)
By: Dan Peel
ISBN: 9781497104679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2024
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
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Jam-packed full of fascinating information about Elvis Presley: his childhood as told by his father, Vernon, his rise to fame in the music world by his mid-twenties when the world lay at his feet, his military career, and sizable film career, and the pressures that led to his self-destructive behavior and early death.
(Paperback)
By: Neil Crossley
ISBN: 9781497104358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2024
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
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Peek inside the life and career of John Wayne, or "The Duke," in this amazingly detailed book, featuring a review of the top 10 Wayne movies for each decade. Learn how he became a star, how he got along with his co-stars, his political influence and ambitions, his foray onto the small screen, and ultimately his diagnosis of incurable cancer.
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Tessa Duder
ISBN: 9780947506315
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Oratia Media
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Award-winning author Tessa Duder tells the gripping story of Sir Peter Blake's life for teenage readers, revealing what made him an inspirational leader. The book features boxes backgrounding sailing skills, the America's Cup and other key points, and is richly illustrated with photos from his life (including 8 pages of colour).
