The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton.
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the film Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. This film launched Jackson's international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winnin ...Show more
The Selling of New Zealand Movies : The inside story of the deal-making, shrewd moves and sheer luck that took New Zealand films from obscurity to the top of the world. by Lindsay Shelton
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The inside story of the deal-making that took New Zealand films to the top of the world. Includes filmography and index.
The Serpent Queen Catherine de Medici: A Biography by Leonie Frieda
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTON The bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France ...Show more
The Settler's Plot - How Stories Take Place in New Zealand by Alex Calder
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Settler's Plot is a fresh and engaging study of the relationship between literature and place in New Zealand. Drawing on an engrossing selection of documentary and literary sources, Alex Calder explores the places our writers have turned to most often - the beach, the farm, the bush, the suburb and ...Show more
The Shaky Isles - New Zealand Earthquakes by Anna Rogers
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Earthquakes are perhaps the most terrifying of all natural disasters. They strike without warning, they cannot be controlled, there is no escape. And New Zealand has suffered more than its fair share of major shakes, which have brought with them death, injury, fear and sometimes cripplingly expensive da ...Show more
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
The Spinoff Book by Toby Manhire
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Five years ago, The Spinoff burst onto New Zealand's media scene with smart, screamingly funny and seriously relevant writing. Since then, it has enraged and inspired all the right people, respectably won Website of the Year at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards, and expanded into television, podcasts and no ...Show more
The Spitfire Story - Told by Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during ...Show more
The Story of a Treaty by Claudia Orange
$23.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a central document in New Zealand history. This lively account tells the story of the Treaty from its signing in 1840, through the debates and struggles of the nineteenth century, to the gathering political momentum of recent decades. The third edition of T ...Show more
The Swinging Sixties by Graham Hutchins
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
In the rest of the world they say that if you can remember the sixties you weren't really there - but what was it like in New Zealand? For us the decade began with conservative prosperity - the establishment knew best and most Kiwis knew their place. Doors were left unlocked in postwar 'golden weather' ...Show more
The Taming of Distance: New Zealand's First International Telecommunciations by Elisabeth Airey
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
On 19 February 1876, New Zealand became telegraphically linked to the world - it joined the international Victorian "internet". Contact with Sydney now took only seconds and London less than 24 hours. But unlike today when everybody is their own instant "telegraphist", in 1876 the system needed a small ...Show more
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Marina Dan: Amaral Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful' The Times. The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global confli ...Show more