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Bloody Marvellous: George Haydn 1915 - 2005 by Dinah Holman; Christine Cole Catley (eds)
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
George Haydn so loved life, and lived it with such gusto, that his trademark response was either "Marvellous" or "Bloody marvellous". Sent away by his large and loving family in Hungary to escape Hitler, he arrived in New Zealand in 1939, alone except for one cousin. Together with business partner Georg ...Show more
Bright Star - Beatrice Hill Tinsley Astronomer by Christine Cole Catley
45.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Kiwi Beatrice Tinsley became a professor at Yale, and her work on the evolution of galaxies has affected scientific knowledge profoundly yet she little known here today. Beatrice Hill Tinsley is a famous New Zealander we don't yet know about. She is honoured in the United States and United Kingdom for ...Show more
Fairburn and Friends by Dinah Holman; Christine Cole Catley (eds)
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps never was a more remarkable group of people centred around any other single New Zealander than the friends of Rex Fairburn. This book celebrates these friends with pieces by their near and dear or by those who knew them well, which are affectionate but not uncritical. They add up to a unique pic ...Show more
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