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Golden Weather : North Shore Writers Past and Present by Graeme Lay & Jack Ross (eds)
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This collection celebrates the past and the present. Famous names, and others not so well-known, make 'The Shore', that fabled Auckland region, a living, integral character in stories and poems. For dipping into and for savouring Golden Weather presents a roll call of writers from the Shore including ...Show more
In Search of Paradise - Artists and writers in the colonial South Pacific by Graeme Lay
24.99 NZD
50.00 (50% off)
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: very good
In this lavishly illustrated book, author Graeme Lay presents the lives of twenty-three of the finest artists and writers to have been inspired by the South Pacific, and a rich selection of their works. In Search of Paradise is a compilation of memorable visual and literary journeys, covering two hundre ...Show more
Inside the Cannibal Pot - Different ways to travel the world by Graeme Lay
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
On a tiny, sun-fried island in Melanesia, where visiting tourists provide the only income for a cash-starved populace, for a few bucks you can 'Have Your Photograph Taken with the Cannibals and the Cannibal Pot'. It's a microcosm of modern tourism, where the norms of cultural sensitivity are often sides ...Show more
James Cook's Lost World by Graeme Lay
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: Very Good
On his third and tragic voyage of discovery Captain James Cook traverses the world yet again, increasingly and uncharacteristically brutal toward his crew, and on a fateful course with destiny. It seems that having discovered a new world, we have been doomed to then lose it. The year is 1775. Captain Ja ...Show more
James Cook's New World by Graeme Lay
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: James Cook Trilogy 2 | Reading Level: very good
The sensational fictionalised account of James Cook's extraordinary second voyage of discovery, from the tropical isles of Polynesia to the icey seas of the great Southern Ocean, the furthest south anyone had ever sailed. James continued to stare at the vast, impenetrable sheet of frozen water. Beyond i ...Show more
Larry & Viv by Graeme Lay
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Larry and Viv is an extraordinary piece of first-class writing, built upon a marriage touge research. An impressive piece of first-class authorship.” - Max Cryer 1948. Europe is still shattered by the effects of World War II. For the British, austerity makes life bleak. They may have won the war, but i ...Show more
Leaving One-Foot Island by Graeme Lay
17.99 NZD
21.00 (14% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Tuaine doesn't choose to study in New Zealand, but she wants to try her best to pass her exams for the sake of her family back in the islands. Inspired by Anne Frank, Tuaine begins to write about her new life in her own diary. Her story will bring to all who read it an understanding of what it is like ...Show more
Pearl of One Foot Island by Graeme Lay
18.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Adam's parents have sent him away from Aitutaki to attend uni in Melbourne. But the real reason behind their decision is their disapproval of Adam's and Tuaine's growing relationship. Worried that her letters to Adam are unanswered, and still fighting to defend her reputation after her disastrous ter ...Show more
Return to One Foot Island by Graeme Lay
18.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
This is the sequel to Leaving One Foot Island, a Senior Fiction finalist in the 1999 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. After a disastrous term at school in Auckland, Tuaine is delighted to return to the Cook Islands where people have more time for each other. While everything is not perfect, Tu ...Show more
Temptation Island by Graeme Lay
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Here's a suspense novel that's right up to the minute. News headlines and stories only too often have suggested aspects of the plot - corruption and power-plays in an idyllic Pacific Island. It's a gripping story of how New Zealand photo-journalist Max Davidson joins forces with a fearless island news ...Show more
The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest - Travel Tales of the South Pacific by Graeme Lay
29.95 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For intrepid traveller Graeme Lay the islands of the South Pacific are the most intriguing places on earth: sublimely beautiful, blissfully remote, full of wonderful people and cultures - and a haven for bizarre misfits, would-be adventurers, and artists and writers in search of an earthly paradise. In ...Show more