(Paperback)
By: Rachel Barrowman
ISBN: 9780864739926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for TV and film. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Gee's life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming man in the grey cardy alongside his unsettling stories.
(Paperback)
By: Natasha Trethewey
ISBN: 9781408840207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Kerrie Davies
ISBN: 9781761470936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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After the success and celebrity of her coming of age novel My Brilliant Career, published when Miles Franklin was only 21, she disappeared. This is the story of the decade that made her second career as a fearless advocate for working women.
(Hardback)
By: Mary Ann Caws
ISBN: 9781789145540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A biography of the flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde Mina Loy.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In this treasured modern classic, one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets, Maya Angelou, shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick Mackie
ISBN: 9781783786008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity's most important figures.
(Hardback)
By: Patrick Mackie
ISBN: 9781783785995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction.
(Paperback)
By: Nell Stevens
ISBN: 9781509868216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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From the author of the beloved Bleaker House, Mrs Gaskell and Me is the story of two very modern women and their two love affairs, separated by a hundred and fifty years.
(Paperback)
By: Bixley Donovan
ISBN: 9781927262023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Upstart Press Ltd
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Take a peek behind the curtain to discover the boy, the youth, the man behind some of the greatest works of English literature. The life and times of William Shakespeare, richly imagined in this unique biography told using the Bard's own quotes.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Henry Handel Richardson
ISBN: 9781925773958
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Text Publishing
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The unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelistsHenry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Ethel F. Lindesay Robertson. From the author of The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney and The Getting of Wisdom, comes this lively and revealing self-portrait of the artist as a young woman.
(Hardback)
By: Ann Jefferson
ISBN: 9780691197876
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9781782276364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A dazzling, tour de force biography of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth.
(Paperback)
By: Lesley Chamberlain
ISBN: 9781911590460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2022
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Hardback)
By: Daisy Dunn
ISBN: 9781474615570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A real-life Brideshead Revisited that will appeal to fans of Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse and Nancy Mitford
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Krasnostein
ISBN: 9781760643904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Monica Dickens
ISBN: 9780349016016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.
(Paperback)
By: Les Wilson
ISBN: 9781913393779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: Saraband
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(Paperback)
By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781783785520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.
(Paperback)
By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472132987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Sturgis
ISBN: 9781803284347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.
(Hardback)
By: Ralph Dutli
ISBN: 9781839761584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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The personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book
(Paperback, Export/Airside)
By: Peter Hessler
ISBN: 9781805462866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
(Paperback)
By: Lucy Sussex
ISBN: 9781760645052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Adam Gopnik
ISBN: 9781847243928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2008
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Adam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in Paris
