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Bangs by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Meridee Bang is brought up in a house on Olivine Street with too many children and too little money. It's the 1960s and while The Patty Duke Show and I Love Lucy depict what life should be like, things are somewhat different in the Bang household. For Meridee the movie of her life is called Getting Drag ...Show more
Oracles and Miracles by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling debut novel about Ginnie and Fag, twin sisters growing up in Christchurch in the thirties and forties, a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, dunnies and textile mills'. This colourful stor ...Show more
Oracles and Miracles (Popular Penguin) by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
13.00 NZD
14.00 (7% off)
Category: General fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Oracles and Miracles is Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling debut novel about Ginnie and Fag, twin sisters growing up in poverty in Christchurch in the thirties and forties and living in a world of dreams. It's a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, ...Show more
People, People, People : A Brief History of NZ by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
A short, very accessible snapshot of New Zealand's history written with tourists and anyone new to the country in mind. Written in a lively manner by Christchurch born and bred Stevan Eldred-Grigg, one of New Zealand's leading writers of both history and fiction, this book is also ideal for students or ...Show more
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg:Hugh Eldred-Grigg
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. Stevan ...Show more
The Great Wrong War - New Zealand Society in WWI by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
55.00 NZD
Category: History
For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we still feel its effects, both socially and culturally, today. This is excellent narrative non ...Show more
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril: China and New Zealand 1790-1950 by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand, and the peoples of China and New Zealand, during the whole of the seven or so generations after they initially came into contact. The Qing Empire and its successor states from 1790 t ...Show more
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