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From My Cold, Dead Hands by David McGill
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Student drop-out Greg Duffie's suicide off the Kapiti coast is interrupted by an immediate threat. He is mistaken for his uncle, Professor Ben Duffie, recently sacked from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences for allegedly pilfering commercially sensitve oil-locating data. Other interested p ...Show more
Landmarks: Notable Historic Buildings of New Zealand by David McGill
49.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
LANDMARKS is a celebration of our unique and diverse architectural history - from the extravagant to the modest, the venerable to the sleekly moderne, even the eccentric. Familiar landmarks like the Waitangi Treaty House and Christchurch Cathedral sit alongside equally remarkable but less well-known bui ...Show more
Reed Book of NZ Quotations by David McGill (ed.)
16.99 NZD
50.00 (66% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The Reed Book of New Zealand Quotations contains the best and worst that has been said about New Zealanders. Over 3000 quotations present the nation in every mood and situation, from the sublime to the silly. From the first wary encounters between Maori and European, New Zealanders are depicted at work ...Show more
Stacey: The Life, Style and Trials of a Great New Zealand Man by David McGill
39.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Roy Stacey was from the late 1940s to the 1980s the capital lawyer to go to. He defended the downtrodden and the different: displaced immigrants at war's end, warweary sailors jumping ship, bookmakers, brothel keepers, those charged with murder when hanging was the ultimate penalty, and most famously, t ...Show more
The First New Zealand Bushranger by David McGill
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In 1861, five months after gold was discovered in New Zealand at Gabriels Gully, Henry Beresford Garrett led a gang who robbed 15 miners of their gold on the trail back to Dunedin. He became notorious as the First New Zealand Bushranger for a robbery which, like the one he led on the Ballarat Bank, was ...Show more
The G'Day Country Redux: an Illustrated Rail Journey Back into New Zealand by David McGill
34.99 NZD
Category: Rail
In February 1985 David McGill set off to travel New Zealand rail in guards' vans, with guards as companionable dispensers of local knowledge. The Minister of Transport Richard Prebble launched the book at Wellington Railway Station, with traditional servings of block cake, ham sandwiches and thick NZR c ...Show more
The Girning of Government House by David McGill
19.95 NZD
48.00 (58% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Terrorists take hostage the entire Government House muster as Governor-General Sir Samuel Grocott Fitzpatrick hosts his distant cousin Senator Joseph X. Fitzpatrick, the putative next President of the United States, along with major oil movers and shakers. New Prime Minister Ron Doshe had been about to ...Show more
The Treadmill Tapes: Confessions of a Compulsive Pop Picker by David McGill
34.99 NZD
Category: Music
Everybody has a Top 20, give or take, of favourite pop songs. In his new book that has been 50 years in the making, David McGill has a Top 20 for every decade in this ever-changing personal record of the records that have mattered. From diaries and annual cassette recordings of his fave raves, the autho ...Show more
Wellington: A Capital Century by David McGill
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This book is a continuous commentary from Pat Lawlor's childhood investigating Katherine Mansfield's Thorndon, the sighting of the country's first car and the wreck of the Penguin. The story moves through the grim times of Depression and earthquake and war, waterfront strike and rebellious youth, the be ...Show more
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