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Dance of the Peacocks - New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung by James McNeish
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
This is a story based on letters and diaries and interviews in several countries. It is the story of a group of Rhodes scholars, five young men - James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, Ian Milner, John Mulgan - caught up in the turmoil of their times: Spain, Hitler's Germany, Greece and North Africa, E ...Show more
Lovelock including The Man From Nowhere - Berlin Diary by James McNeish
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Now a classic, this new edition of Lovelock is republished together with 'Berlin Diary', McNeish's journal written in Germany while researching the novel; and an afterword, which contains a sobering commentary on Lovelock's death. Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous ...Show more
The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Professor Chesney - Ches for short - recalls a court case from fifteen years ago in which he was an expert witness. At its centre is Huey Dunstan, a young man accused of murdering a taxi driver in cold blood. Ches, called in to try to determine the motivation behind this uncharacteristic act of violence ...Show more
The Sixth Man - The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello by James McNeish
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
'I think Costello was pursued by British Intelligence because there was an assumption that it might be an extension of the Philby "ring of five".' - Sir George Laking Auckland. Cambridge. Moscow. Paris. New Zealand's most brilliant envoy and the man who blew the whistle on Soviet possession of the atom ...Show more
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