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Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Hello Darkness by Peter Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Description: It's now a year exactly since my urologist told me I had an aggressive cancer that was incurable. I was rushed into hospital and thus began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and all the ups and downs of a sickness that arrived in my life with the noise and terror of an old fashioned train. ...Show more
Journey to a Hanging - The Events That Set New Zealand Race Relations Back By A Century by Peter Wells
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
new Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about an event that set back race relations in New Zealand by one hundred years. In 1862, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. His shrunken he ...Show more
Mutzig the Clown Cat by Peter Wells
$17.50 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Eccentric and charming, Mutzig the Clown Cat is the first ever book by Peter Wells. In 1981 he made 30 copies of this book by hand to celebrate a stray cat that wandered into his life and took over his heart. A small art book, tactile and inviting, with drawings by the author.
The Cat's Whiskers: New Zealand Writers on Cats by Peter Wells(ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The cat has purred its way into the hearts of many a New Zealander, and into the pages of this country's writers. Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, James K. Baxter and Frank Sargeson all wrote about cats, and here many current writers - from Fiona Kidman to Sarah Quigley, Brian Turner to Kevin Ireland - ...Show more
The Hungry Heart - Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
"I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled ...Show more
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