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An Albatross Too Many by James McNeish
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Life in the remote community of Te Kuaka.
Dance of the Peacocks - New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung by James McNeish
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a story based on letters and diaries and interviews in several countries. It is the story of a group of Rhodes scholars, five young men - James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, Ian Milner, John Mulgan - caught up in the turmoil of their times: Spain, Hitler's Germany, Greece and North Africa, E ...Show more
Lovelock by James McNeish
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Biography of Jack Lovelock - Gold Medal winner 1936 Olympic Games. "One cannot travel far in the mountains of Olympic conquest without encountering Lovelock. With some exceptions the sportsmen is notoriously short-lived and it is not often that an athlete who is remembered for only one race continues to ...Show more
Lovelock including The Man From Nowhere - Berlin Diary by James McNeish
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Now a classic, this new edition of Lovelock is republished together with 'Berlin Diary', McNeish's journal written in Germany while researching the novel; and an afterword, which contains a sobering commentary on Lovelock's death. Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous ...Show more
My Name Is Paradiso by James McNeish
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Seelenbinder The Athlete Who Defied Hitler by James McNeish
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is during the 1936 Berlin Games, the notorious summer festival designed to persuade the free world that the leader of Nazi Germany is a man of peace. Werner Seelenbinder's mission is an unknown story; the defiance and courage of the only Olympian in the resistance, subsequently concealed by the Ame ...Show more
The Crime of Huey Dunstan by James McNeish
36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Professor Chesney - Ches for short - recalls a court case from fifteen years ago in which he was an expert witness. At its centre is Huey Dunstan, a young man accused of murdering a taxi driver in cold blood. Ches, called in to try to determine the motivation behind this uncharacteristic act of violence ...Show more
The Sixth Man - The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello by James McNeish
11.99 NZD
24.99 (52% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'I think Costello was pursued by British Intelligence because there was an assumption that it might be an extension of the Philby "ring of five".' - Sir George Laking Auckland. Cambridge. Moscow. Paris. New Zealand's most brilliant envoy and the man who blew the whistle on Soviet possession of the atom ...Show more
Touchstones: A memoir by James McNeish
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
A young man leaves home a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, to travel the world. He returns to New Zealand changed almost beyond recognition. Along the way he meets nine people who influence his life and help make him the writer he becomes. James McNeish's Touchstones has a cast of characters who inclu ...Show more
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