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Frances Hodgkins - A Private Viewing by Joanne Drayton
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Frances Hodgkins crossed hemispheres, cultures, epochs and styles. She encouraged young artists and won support from her peers, yet she suffered hurtful dismissals. Art historian Dr Joanne Drayton captures Hodgkins life vividly and displays her achievements in context. The result is a beautiful, compell ...Show more
Hudson & Halls - The food of love by Drayton Joanne
$49.95 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that unspoken thing - homosexuality. Peter Hudson and David Halls became reluctan ...Show more
Ngaio Marsh - Her Life in Crime by Joanne Drayton
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
Second hand. While Ngaio Marsh had a larger than life public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. No one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings and remove incriminating evidence than a crime fiction writer. This fascinating biography of Ngaio Marsh pieces together both ...Show more
The Queen's Wife by Joanne Drayton
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
A modern love story: whakapapa, archaeology, art and heartbreak. A memoir of a turbulent time — and a chess game that broke all the rules. In 1989, two married women met by chance. They instantly hit it off, but little did they know that their new relationship would turn their lives upside-down. This is ...Show more
The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton.
$45.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the film Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. This film launched Jackson's international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winnin ...Show more
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