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A Beautiful Mind order quantity
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Author: Sylvia Nasar
At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, a triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.
 
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Author: Liz Fordred
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A Prison Diary (Volume 1- Belmarsh: Hell) order quantity
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Author: Jeffrey Archer
DAY 5
MONDAY 23 JULY 2001
5.53AM
    'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.'


On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most ... more
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Backwards to Forwards order quantity
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Author: Kevin Ireland
Echoing the erratic shape of remembrance, Kevin Ireland's second volume of memoirs is 'derived from impressions, conversations, anecdotes and poems, and its vague focus is a trip to Eastern Europe', which he took by chance in 1959.

Leading indirectly and haphazardly towards and away from this single happening - leaping from London to Bulgaria to New Zealand and back - it explores the process of recollection itself.

Outlining Kevin's experiences of friends, love and work - in such diverse places as a 'translation polishing' office in Bulgaria and the 'revisionists' department of The Times - this book shows the growth of a writer and his unique perceptions of the 1950s, 60s and beyond.
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Barbed Wire Between Us order quantity
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Author: Derek Round
Kenelm Digby and Mutal Fielder met on a P & O liner returning to the Far East from England on the eve of the Second World War. As a 21-year-old undergraduate, Kenelm had made headlines when he took part in the notorious 1933 'King and Country' debate at the Oxford Union. Now he was returning to Kuching as legal adviser to Sir Vyner Brooke, last of the legendary White Rajahs of Sarawak. Mutal, who had trained as a ballet dancer in London and Paris, was on her way back to Hong Kong where she and her parents enjoyed a life of privilege and comfort, waited on by Chinese servants in their home on The Peak, then the exclusive preserve of the upper ranks of the British expatriate community.

The young couple's shipboard romance led to their engagement in Singapore, celebrated with champagne at Raffles Hotel. But their idyllic world soon came crashing around them when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong and Sarawak at Christmas 1941. Kenelm spent ... more
 
Business as Unusual order quantity
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Author: Roddick, Anita
 
Count the Ways: the Greatest Love Stories of Our Times order quantity
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Author: Paul Aron
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Dickens order quantity
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This is a specially edited shorter version of the title that ties-in with the 3-part series on BBC 2 shown in March 2002.
It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture and period, as well as of Dickens himself.

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Elizabeth: the Queen Mother order quantity
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Author: Grania Forbes
The author, with unprecedented access to the archives of Glamis Castle where Elizabeth was brought up, paints a portrait of the life of the Queen Mother. The book links Elizabeth's life to the evolution of the 20th century.
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Ethel & Ernest O/P order quantity
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Author: Raymond Briggs
The story of Raymond Briggs's parents' marriage, from their first, chance encounter to their deaths. Told in Briggs's familiar strip-cartoon format, with nothing embroidered or altered, the book is also a social history of a kind, embracing such events as World War II and the advent of television.
First published 1998.
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From the Heart order quantity
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Author: Brown, Helen
From the Heart is a collection of recent columns by popular writer Helen Brown. Since moving to Melbourne a few years ago, Helen Brown has continued to be syndicated in various newspapers throughout New Zealand, and she also has a regular column in Next magazine. The columns have been specially selected for this book, and together form an enthralling narrative that tells the story of Helen Brown's life in Australia so far.

From the Heart includes Helen's first impressions of Australia, the death of her mother, the major illness and surgery of her son Rob, and a variety of life events from family separation and dealing with adolescence, to a trip to Sydney, a burglary and finding a new home. Helen Brown's writing has always touched people at an emotional level, and this book is no exception. Always witty and perceptive, Helen Brown's new collection is certain to delight her thousands of regular readers and will ... more
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Ghost Dance order quantity
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Author: Douglas Wright
Winner of the New Zealand Society of Authors E H McCormick Best Book Award for Non Fiction in the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Part love story, part memoir, Ghost Dance is a deeply felt meditation on the art of performance, on absence and on life itself. As in the best of Douglas Wright's dance-theatre work, light and dark are interwoven in deft, mysterious combinations.

Ghost Dance swoops from the Everest-highs of the stages of New York and London, down through the back rooms of Manhattan's gay baths of the 1980s. It sits in meditation on silent retreats before labouring at the unyielding coal-face of the performing arts in New Zealand. Malcolm Ross, Janet Frame, Tobias Schneebaum, Billie Farnell, Paul Taylor, Lloyd Newson and a stone from Emily Dickinson's garden are the supporting cast of his odyssey recounted from within the flickering shadows of chronic illness.
 
Keith Richards order quantity
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Author: Victor Bockris
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Nancy Wake Biography order quantity
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Author: Peter Fitzsimons
NZ native hero made famous for anti-Nazi efforts in WWII.Almost unbelievable but amazingly true story by popular journalist/author Peter Fitzsimons.
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Noonday Demon, The: an anatomy of depression order quantity
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Author: Andrew Solomon
This extraordinarily moving, shocking eye-opening work is set to become the classic text on the subject of depression, mental illness and the way we live now, for the literary market - the book that knocks even William Styron's Darkness Visible out of the water. Like Kay Jamison's An Unquiet Mind it digs deeply and painfully into personal experience, but it also looks at the much wider picture - the historical, social, biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease - broadening the scope immeasurably. What is crucial is that Solomon has not only experienced what he is writing about firsthand, and describes the experience from the inside terrifyingly and brilliantly, but also that he has researched every aspect of depression. From the historical treatment and study of 'melancholy' as far back as the Greeks and Romans (who believed that cauliflower was good for depression), right through to the ... more
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Peter Jackson: from Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings order quantity
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Author: Pryor Ian
This is the story of a Kiwi lad made good. It tells of the inspiration and the perspiration that have led to the making of the three world-famous Lord of the Rings films - and the six other films that preceded them. It traces the journey of a young movie fanatic, from Sunday afternoons spent fooling around with a camera, through low-budget cult movies, to control of the most ambitious film project yet to emerge from the southern hemisphere, on what is probably the best-loved fantasy novel ever written.

Topics covered include: The many talents of the young Peter Jackson - in which an army of Peter Jackson clones simultaneously work on all aspects of an amateur film. Details on the making of Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Brainhead, Heavenly Creatures, Forgotten Silver, The Frighteners and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The story behind the Rings - which tells how Jackson got ... more
 
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The Asquiths order quantity
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Author: Colin Clifford
This book recounts their lives as Britain descended into turmoil, with the Asquith sons fighting in the trenches as their father, the Prime Minister, struggled to direct the bloodiest war in his country's history. Margot Asquith's remarkable role as the most intriguing of primeministerial wives is fully explored: her feuds with Lloyd George, her mistrust of the gutter genius Winston Churchill, and her hatred of Lord Northcliffe, the press baron who ultimately drove her husband from power in 1916. At the heart of the story are four of the Asquith children, Raymond, the brilliant scholar and outstanding President of the Oxford Union, who died leading his men into attack on the Somme; the shy Beb, artillery officer and poet, who overcame shell shock to face the horrors of Passchendale; Oc, whom General Freyberg – himself a VC – described as the bravest man I ever knew; and their mercurial sister Violet, her father's most ardent supporter ... more
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The Flamboya Tree order quantity
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Author: Clara Olink Kelly
' "Why didn't you try to escape?" That was all she said. I had imagined my grandmother telling us how lovely it was to see us at last. I saw again in my mind's eye the barbwire fences and the soldiers with the glistening bayonets, and felt once more that excruciating fear in the pit of my stomach. Try to escape? Lots of people had tried to escape.'When the Japanese invaded the beautiful Indonesian island of Java during the Second World War Clara Kelly was four years old. Her family was separated, her father sent to work on the Burma railway, and she together with her mother and her two brothers, one a six week old baby, were sent to a 'women's camp'. They were interned there until the end of the war. Clara's descriptions of the appalling deprivations and impersonal brutality of the camp - standing in the baking heat for hours of 'Tenko' rolecall, living on one cup of rice a day - are countered by the courage and resilience shown by all ... more
 
The Ripening Sun order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Patricia Atkinson
 
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