Maud's Journal

The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascos, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum The Book of Proust by Philippe Michel-Thiriet Orwell: The Authorised Biography by Michael Shelden The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory Lost [...]

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Peter Sculthorpe His Music and His Ideas 1929-1979 by Michael Hannan Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1982 ISBN: 0702215899. 235pp, B/W plates, insc. on dedication page reads: Thanks for Quiros dear Brian, with best wishes, Peter. July, 1982 $30.00 A History of Japanese Music by Eta Harich-Schneider London: Oxford University Press, 1973 ISBN: 0193162032. 720pp, [...]

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Kiwis in Khaki:A Pictorial History of the New Zealand Soldier in World War II by David Filer Auckland: David Bateman, 1989. ISBN: 090861098X. 122pp, B/W plates. $25.00 The Rockies: New Zealand Minesweepers at War by Jack Harker Wellington: Silver Owl Press, 2000. ISBN: 0959797998. 240pp, B/W plates $30.00 The Kiwi Scorpions: The Story of the [...]

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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer Letters to J. D. Salinger edited by Chris Kubica and Will Hochman Thomas More by Richard Marius Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the City by Joseph Rykwert [...]

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A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowell The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft The Indian Army and the King’s Enemies 1900-1947 by Charles Chenevix Trench Like the Roman: The Life of [...]

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Chronicles of the Civil War: An Illustrated History of the War Between the States by David Phillips and John C. Wideman New York: Metro Books, 1999. ISBN: 1567997287. 372pp, colour & B/W plates Civil War Journal Volume Two:  The Leaders edited by William C. Davis et al. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997 ISBN: 1558534377 xii, [...]

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Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars by Solomon Volkov London The Biography by Peter Ackroyd Untold Stories by Alan Bennett Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati’s Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings by Jon R. Stone [...]

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Why the West Rules For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris The Discovery of France by Graham Robb The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope 1945-1953 by Robert Dallek American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham The Bridge: [...]

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Ratana the Prophet by Keith Newman A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveller by Jason Roberts An Egyptian Journal by William Golding Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking and Being [...]

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On Literature by Umberto Eco Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James Lost Years: A Memoir 1945-1951 by Christopher Isherwood Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin The Greeks & Greek Love by James Davidson Our Culture: What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses and Not With [...]

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New Zealand Medicinal Plants
by S. G. Brooker, R. C. Cambie  & R. C.  Cooper
Auckland: Reed Books , 1991. Reprint.
ISBN: 0790002507. 268pp, colour plates, [...]

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Legends of the Maori
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