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The House Guest

Author Barbara Anderson

Read by Peter Elliot

Robin Dromgoogle, the son of a widowed mother,learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he mined when she was a baby, is the girl he marries.

2 Tape set only 2 available - $10.00

 

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Author Barbara Anderson

Read by Alannah O'Sullivan

Portrait of the artist's wife follows Sarah's deremined and succesful efforts to keep her talent alive and growing, while contending with two daughters and her amiably selfish and philandering husband.

2 Tape set only 2 available - $10.00 

 

Kirsa - A Mother's Story

Written and read by Robyn Jensen

This is the compelling story of the life and disappearance, in 1983, of Napier schoolgirl Kirsa Jensen, and just as important, the aftermath.

2 Tape set only 2 available - $10.00

 

To the Is-land

Author Janet Frame

Read by Christine Bartlett

An Autobiography: Volume 1

To the Is-land is a haunting account of a childhood and adolescence in a New Zealand

railway family in the 1920s and 30s. It is the first volume of the autobiography of Janet Frame, one of the finest novelists writing in English today.

2 Tape set only 4 available - $10.00 

 

Crime Story

Author Maurice Gee

Rread by John O'Leary

There are many crimes in this often chilling novel by Maurice Gee. Crime Story asks questions about perpetrators and victums of crime, and about the price of greed and personal isolation. It is a haunting pportayal of human frailty but also of human courage.

2 Tape set only 2  available - $10.00

 

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Author Witi Ihimaera

Read by Michael Keir-Morrissey

David Munro has everything that any man could wish for - a beautiful wife, two adoring daughters, a first class job and a circle of devoted friends. He also has another life, lived mainly at night and frequently in what he comes to know as "the Gardens of Spain" where gay and bisexual men meet. this is the story of his two lives.

2 Tape set only 2 available - $10.00

 

Once Were Warriors

Author Alan Duff

Read by Rawiri Paratene

This hard-hitting novel is frank and uncompromising in its portrayal of Maori in New Zealand Society. The driving force of writing xarries the reader into a world of frustration, resentment and waste. It is a raw, powerful story, in which everyone is a
victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new alternative.

2 Tape set only 7 available - $10.00

 

Music CD's

Wild Music New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

MMT2059  only 3 available $12.00

Winds That Whisper - NZ Choral Music from the 20th Century

MMT 2016 only 1 available - $12.00

Gareth Farr - Owhiro - works for String Quartet

MMT 2019 only 2 available - $12.00 

Tito Schipa

AWCD29120 only 1 available - $12.00

Alex Lindsay String Orchestra

CD SLC107 only 1 available - $12.00

NZSO Symphony Showcase '94 - William Southgate

Continuum NZSO100 only 2 available - $12.00

Steve Thomas and the Bardic Trio

CD only 1 available - $12.00

The Gypsy Pickers and Friends

D30766 only 1 available - $12.00

Richard Bonsall - Encore

VPS494CD only 1 available $12.00

Early Rock & roll From NZ 

Volume 9 & 10 with Dinah Lee, Peter Posa andJudge Wayne and many more.

CLCD 7757-A/B 2 CD set only 1 available $12.00

 Music Tapes

Beauty Spot - NZSO

3998784 only 1 available $10.00

Gin & Raspberry - Martin Curtis

CFC 004 only 1 available $10.00

Upside down world - Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band

4 tracks only $6.00

Wild Geese Tapes

The Leaving

RR 9106 $10.00

Betwixt Time and Place

CAS 9625 $10.00

Occasionally Celtic

CAS 9309 $10.00

Hymns ans Inspirational Songs - Cliff Richards

WRDC 3017 Only 1 available $6.00

Bold Endeavour - The Jimmy Cook Band

CUJ 1 only 4 available $6.00

Islands - Mike Nettmann

Only 6 available $6.00

Sun Over Kapiti - Tony Chad

TC951T Only 3 available $6.00

Way To Go - Songs written by Marion Rego

20 original songs for children.

Only 3 available $6.00

Out With A Lark - In The Forest

Matthew Lark has what scientists call "bird ears". He can detect a bird call from long way off and like a hunter in the wild can accurately track down the bird he wishes to observe more closely. Matthew enthusiastically tells of his observations of eight native bush birds; Kea, Bellbird, Parakeet, North & South Island Saddleback, NZ Robin, Tui and Yellowhead.

CAS9606 (discounted) tape $10.00

Out With A Lark - By The Sea

With bird songs and expert comment, they make fascinating listening. Red Billed Gull; Pied Stilt; White Fronted Tern; Wrybill; Southern Black Backed Gull; Pied Oyster Catcher; New Zealand Doterel; Variable Oyster Catchers.

CAS9632 (discounted) tape $10.00

BBC Double Tape Sets

People Like Us

The cult BBC 4 report on profeeional working lives with broadcaster Roy Mallard.

Only 1 available $10.00

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Only 2 available $10.00

Hancock's Half Hour # 5

Cyrano De Hancock  The Threatening Letters

Visisting Day  The Impressionist

Only 1 available $10.00

Round the Horne 2

With Kenneth Horne, Kenneth williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Only 1 available $10.00

Round the Horne 3

With Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Only 2 available $10.00

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Read by Alan Bennett

Only 2 Available $10.00

The Animals of Farthing Wood

Based on the stories by Colin Dann

Only 1 available $10.00

The Further Adventures of The Animals of Farthing Wood

Based on the stories by Colin Dann

Only 1 available $10.00

Burton at tha BBC

Richard Burton's greatest BBC Radio performances, including Under Milk Wood.

Only 3 available $10.00

Johnners At The Beeb

Introduced by his son Barry this is the best of Johnners, including the gaffes and the giggles.

Only 1 available $10.00

Educating Archie

With Peter Brough and Archie Andrews.

Only 1 available $10.00

Cricket The Golden Age 

E.W Awanton introduces cricketing highlights from the time of W.G Grace through to the end of the Thirties.

Only 1 available $10.00

Tales From The Long Room

By Peter Tinniswood.

Ten tales by Robin Bailey as The Brigadier.

Only 1 available $10.00

Hancock's Happy Christmas

With The Christmas Club,  Bill and Father Christmas and The Diary

2 CD set only 1 available $12.00

 

Books

The Other Side Of the Ditch

A cartoon century in the New Zealand - Australia relationship. By Ian F Grant.

Only 2 available $10.00

Going The Distance

Women outdoors in New Zealand. By Tess Redgrave and photogrphs by Becky Nunes.

Only 1 available $10.00

Trip With My father (children's book)

Written by Pauline Cartwright and illustrated by Julie Greig.

Only 2 available $10.00

Bad Jelly The Witch by Spike Milligan

Only 2 available $8.00

 Arthur Cushen's Radio Listeners Guide

A look at the radio listening hobby as a pastime and has over 60 articles.

Only 1 available $10.00

New Zealand Year by Year in the 20th Century

By Jim Sullivan.

The dramatic, humorous, tragic and unusal events fo our last hundred years in chronological order 1900 - 1999.

Only 1 available $10.00

Broadcasting House 1963 - 1997

If these walls could talk....

$5.00

Michael King's The Penguin History of New Zealand

New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered aand settled by humankind.

Only 1 available $20.00


 


 

 

 

 

 


 


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