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A Micronaut in the Wide World: The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy by Gregory O'Brien
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | 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
After Bathing at Baxter's - Essay's and Notebooks by Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
This is a personal exploration of-and homage to-some of the important New Zealand poets and painters of the 20th Century , beginning-as the title suggests-with James K. Baxter. The author writes: ' After bathing, as a young man, in the Wanganui River of Baxter's poetry, much of my subsequent reading, wr ...Show more
Big Weather - Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien & Louise White (eds)
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Drinks | 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
Denis O'Connor - What The Roof Dreamt by Denis O'Connor; Lara Strongman; Gregory O'Brien;
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Kermadec - Art Across The Pacific by Bronwen Golder (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
Lands & Deeds: Profiles of contemporary New Zealand painters by Gregory O'Brien
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Out of Print edition, published 1996. Second-hand copies may be available. The book focuses on the work of eighteen New Zealand painters all of whom have contributed to the rich pictorial tradition in New Zealand art, by means of interview-based profiles together with imags of their work.
Location of the Least Person by Gregory O'Brien
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Man with a Child's Violin by Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Mary Macpherson - The Long View - Auckland Photographs 2014-2017 by Mary Macpherson; Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: PhotoForum #89 | Reading Level: near fine
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Since Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New ZealandÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs gre ...Show more