Can You Tolerate This? - Personal essays by Ashleigh Young
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
An Elle Ultimate Summer Read' Beautiful, unusual and memorable ... I love this book' MAGGIE NELSON, author of THE ARGONAUTS In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway ye ...Show more
Goneville: A Memoir by Nick Bollinger
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Bollinger was just 18 when he went on the road with the band Rough Justice and its smoky-voiced, charismatic leader Rick Bryant. The next two years were sometimes uplifting and exciting, other times enervating and depressing. It was the 1970s and pot was plentiful. Often, though, the band was short of o ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
$9.99 NZD
$40.00 (75% off)
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more