(Hardback)
By: Redmer Yska
ISBN: 9780947522544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Otago University Press
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A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Robb
ISBN: 9781781453643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2019
Publisher: GMC Publications
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A guide to Dicken's life, work and legacy, featuring irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the writer behind the words.
(Hardback)
By: Jamie Pumfrey
ISBN: 9781781453438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2019
Publisher: GMC Publications
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A guide to Hemingway's life, work and legacy, featuring irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the writer behind the words.
(Paperback)
By: Hazel Hutchison
ISBN: 9781843919230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
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A brand new, accessible biography of Henry James. Written by British academic and author, Hazel Hutchison, Brief Lives: Henry James examines James' travels through Europe, his settling in England and the close relationships that shaped his life and writings - in particular the women that were to become his most renowned female heroines.
(Hardback)
By: Peter Simpson
ISBN: 9781927322284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Otago University Press
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This volume of Charles Brasch's journals covers the years from late 1945 to the end of 1957, when the poet and editor was aged 36 to 48, and the first decade or so of his distinguished editorship of Landfall, a role that brought Brasch into contact with New Zealand's leading artists and intelligentsia.
(Paperback)
By: Carol Markwell
ISBN: 9781988595399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: The Cuba Press
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Long-awaited biography of one of NZs first women poets and travel writers also a prison reformer, humanitarian, botanist and conservationist. One of the first writers with an authentic NZ voice.
(Hardback)
By: Cilla McQueen
ISBN: 9781877578717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Ze Wheddon
ISBN: 9781399071123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was anything but and that the parsonage Jane Austen lived in was a very lively and literary place.
(Paperback)
By: Philip Temple
ISBN: 9781927305447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: David Ling Publishing Limited
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(Paperback)
By: Philip Temple
ISBN: 9781927305706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: David Ling Publishing Limited
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(Hardback)
By: Jack Torry
ISBN: 9780764362682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of the World War II in Asia.
(Hardback)
By: Steve Kemme
ISBN: 9784805317600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Jim Wright
ISBN: 9780764359026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim
(Paperback)
By: Elspeth Sandys
ISBN: 9781877578892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Mary Edmond-Paul
ISBN: 9781877578212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Helene Hanff
ISBN: 9781860498503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This book is the story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London.
(Paperback, 2nd Edition)
By: Jacqueline Kent
ISBN: 9781742236025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Originally published to great acclaim in 2001, A Certain Style introduced Beatrice Davis to thousands of readers and told a history of books and publishing in twentieth-century Australia. This reissue has a new introduction and updates throughout as the author presents a compelling account of a contradictory woman and her times.
(Paperback)
By: Nawal El Saadawi
ISBN: 9780755651566
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Timothy Beaglehole
ISBN: 9780864735355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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The life of one of New Zealands greatest scholars, J.C. Beaglehole, is presented through firsthand writings, including previously unpublished letters, in this comprehensive volume. A prolific writer and critic Beaglehole devoted his life to academic freedoms, civil liberties, and improving the cultural life of New Zealand.
(Paperback)
By: David Vann
ISBN: 9781922182081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780099285045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.
(Paperback)
By: Dymphna Stella Rees
ISBN: 9780702263200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Francesca Wade
ISBN: 9780571372294
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Pym
ISBN: 9781529091946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
