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A Communist in the Family - Searching for rewi Alley by Sandys Elspeth
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China. Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, A Communist in the Family ...Show more
Casting Off : A Memoir by Elspeth Sandys
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Near Fine
At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys absorbing memoir, What Lies Beneath, an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and begun to piece together the events of her early life and find her place in the world. Casting Off begins on the eve of Elspeths first marriage. She and he ...Show more
Obsession by Sandys Elspeth
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. It recreates the era in an atmosphere c ...Show more
Passing Guest by Elspeth Sandys
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Renate, a successful Pakeha novelist met Max Nene at Paremoremo, she didn't want to know what he was in for- she was just there to help with his writing. A do-gooder with a social conscience, married to an ex-radical who is now a successful QC. Inevitably, she becomes caught up in Max's compelling ...Show more
What Lies Beneath - A Memoir by Elspeth Sandys
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The first nine months of her life were spent in the Truby King Karitane Hospital in Dunedin, where she was known by her birth name, Frances Hilton James. This would ...Show more
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