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Alan Miller - New Zealand photographs by Alan Miller; Martin Edmond; Kriselle Baker
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Lyricism, beauty and spirit inspire photographer Alan Miller’s personal response. He has said of his work that ‘you are trying to dig something out of things anything that can sustain you’. Alan Miller has travelled extensively and for prolonged periods in the pursuit of his subject matter. The mapping ...Show more
Barefoot Years by Martin Edmond
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field.' Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, f ...Show more
Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond
$20.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbe ...Show more
Bus Stops on the Moon - Red Mole Days 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Drama | Reading Level: near fine
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participant' ...Show more
Chronicle of the Unsung by Martin Edmond
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Biography Award at the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Chronicle of the Unsung mingles biography and autobiography in an unusual work, beautifully written and often powerful and moving.Four quite separate periods or episodes in author Martin Edmond's life are linked by a number of the ...Show more
Endless Yet Never by Martin Edmond
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A short yet highly informative introduction to the life and work of New Zealand’s esteemed artist Colin McCahon. There is something about the way Colin McCahon’s life and work intertwine that resists interpretation. He always insisted it was the work that was important, not the life; while at the same ...Show more
Luca Antara : Passages in Search of Australia by Martin Edmond
$15.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good
Luca Antara is a rich tapestry of history and the present. Essentially, it parallels the life of the author, an
Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes by Martin Edmond
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4,000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern ...Show more
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