We Can Make a Life by Chessie Henry
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling ...Show more
Whatever it Takes - Pacific Films and John O'Shea 1948-2000 by John Reid
$60.00 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Pacific Films was founded on the belief that without locally made feature films, a country imperils its very identity. Led by its idiosyncratic producer John O'Shea, the story of Pacific Films begins at the emergence of a New Zealand national cinema in the second half of the twentieth century, when Paci ...Show more
Winter Eyes by Harry Ricketts
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Poetry as comfort, poetry as confrontation. In Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts reaches into past and future, with other writers and artists - from Kipling to Dylan, Austen to Frame - in the crosscurrents. These are poems of friendship, of love's stranglehold, of the streets and buildings where history played ...Show more
With Them Through Hell by Rogers Anna
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. Signed by the author. The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with scalpels, bandages and drugs. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers,dentists, ch ...Show more