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A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy by Gregory O'Brien
59.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
Graham Percy is one of New Zealand's highest achieving illustrators on a global scale. Though he lived in London from 1964 until his death in 2008, he grew up here and never ceased thinking of himself as an expatriate Kiwi. A Micronaut in the Wide World re-discovers the life and work of this talented, o ...Show more
A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O'Brien
39.99 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: New
The School Journal will be 100 years old in May 2007. A Nest of Singing Birds: One hundred years of the New Zealand School Journal - a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has sha ...Show more
A Nest of Singing Birds: One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O'Brien
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The School Journal was 100 years old in May 2007. A Nest of Singing Birds - a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has shaped the country we live in. Over the course of its histor ...Show more
Aberhart by Laurence Aberhart (Photos) & Gregory O'Brien (Essays) & Justin Paton (Essays)
125.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: near fine
LAURENCE ABERHART has been at the forefront of New Zealand photography since the late 1970s, and is recognised as a major international figure. Like the paintings of Colin McCahon-an artist with whom Aberhart is frequently paired-his photographs are a sustained meditation on time, place and cultural his ...Show more
Afternoon of an Evening Train by Gregory O'Brien
24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Gregory OÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂBrien is a poet, anthologist, art writer and painter. Born in Matamata in 1961, he trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland before returning to study art history and English at Auckland University. In ...Show more
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien and Mark Williams (eds)
59.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1997 Montana Book Awards, poetry section. This comprehensive Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English spans more than a century, revealing the richness, vitality and range of styles and voices to be found in the body of New Zealand verse. Established figures such as Ursula Bethell, Allen ...Show more
Back & Beyond - New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious by Gregory O'Brien
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Features art by contemporary painters and printmakers, who are seasoned travellers across time and space.
Big Weather : Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien (editor), Louise St John (editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Description: Capturing the vivacity and diversity of the capital, this poetic portrait is a celebration of Wellington and the creative life it inspires. Beginning with the inner city and harbour, the 100 poems move into the suburbs and parks, before heading to outer areas - and into the twenty-first cen ...Show more
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Every Wellingtonian - dammit, every New Zealander - should be severely tempted to buy Big Weather for the home bookshelf. It's a lovely book to handle, with a cool cover and excellent layout. If you think these are trivial aspects in a poetry book, think again. Design messages hit most readers sublimina ...Show more
Black Barn: portrait of a place by Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt (authors); Brian Culy (photographer)
85.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
Meandering across the foothills of Te Mata Peak and through the Tuki Tuki Valley, Black Barn Vineyards has become one of Hawke's Bay's most popular attractions. Its evolution over the past 20 years is a story of enterprise and creativity - from a single cottage into a wine, food and luxury accommodation ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
89.99 NZD
Category: Art and Design
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Euan Macleod: The Painter in the Painting by Gregory O'Brien
59.99 NZD
89.99 (33% off)
Category: Fine Art
Writer Gregory O'Brien looks at the works of artist Euan Macleod, and the many strands of Australasian art and history which have shaped them. He explores the ways Macleod has increasingly come to inhabit these tempestuous yet strangely luminous canvases.