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Born in 1921 in Berlin, he emigrated to London in early 1939, he was interned as an 'enemy alien' mid - 1940 and taken to Australia, where he spent two Read more...years on the edge of the desert in New South Wales behind barbed wire studying mathematics and philosophy and passed the Melbourne University Entrance exam. Because of his English girlfriend he returned to England, only to discover that she was about to marry another. Spent two years in agriculture, then a year as a nurse and hostpital stoker. Married Gabi, a fellow refugee whom he had first met when he was fifteen, and studied theology at Wistow, an oecumenical college near Leicester. Did so well in the London University Intermediate exam that a grant enabled him to study English at Leicester University College. Graduated with First Class Honours and became a lecturer in English at Makerere in Kampala, Uganda .. Seven years later transferred to Auckland University, where he taught for 25 years. Since the early 1970's he has been an environmental activist, mainly with Friends of the Earth. After retirement he became an organic grower in the Far North of NZ and a founding member of their association, also of CBEC (Community Business and Environment Centre) whom he served as director and treasurer. He has frequently been urged to write a prose memoir but has throughout lived so intensely in the present that his past has always rapidly become somewhat nebulous. The closest he has come to a memoir is Past Present, though all his literary writings can be seen as a memoir where those close to him are part of his own experience. His book publications are: Twenty Four Sonnets (Lowry Press, 1982), The Albatross is Dead (Hudson Cresset, 2000), Loving Art (Hudson Cresset, 2004), Past Present (Hudson Cresset, 2005), Timeless Love (Hudson Cresset, 2007), Sex Poems (Words that Work, 2007), Undone (Words that Work, 2008). Read less...

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Timeless Love

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I was born in Sweden and emmigrated to NZ in 1966, I have had over 25 years of experience of spiritual counselling and healing. I have written these books to spread the Read more...truth around the globe from 'The Source'. It's a spiritual journey to assist and guide you. Read less...

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eternal truth with love and light
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Tim Brown BSc (Hons), PhD, FIBiol, is Emeritus Professor (Microbiology), Massey University where he was employed for 35 years. His research which encompassed water and public health necessitated good communication Read more...with the water consuming public. He was the first recipient of the, now much sought after, New Zealand Association of Scientists, Science Communicator Award 1991. Associate Professor David Shillington, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, MNZIC (Chemistry) is Head of the School of Applied Health Sciences at UCOL, Palmerston North. Research includes separation Science (central to metallurgical and mining industries), and elastomer vulcanisation (tyre and rubber industry). Current research includes dehydration studies in athletes (Health and fitness industry). David served as the communications liaison person for the Plastics and Rubber Institute and was a recipient of the Derek Lake Research award for 2000. Read less...

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Vocab Detectives

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Graeme Davidson graduated from Victoria University of Wellington and Oxford University with degrees in psychology, theology and philosophy and has worked as a clinical psychologist and counsellor in England, USA Read more...and New Zealand. He has also lectured in psychology and specialised in questions of ethics. He is currently a published author in New Zealand and Russia and a religion and ethics columnist for The Dominion Post. Read less...

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NICK DAVIDSON --------------------------------------------- NOTES ON THE AUTHOR -------------------------------------------- Nick Davidson is a retired lawyer. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand 25 years ago. He lives with his wife, Christine, in Read more...Tasman Bay. He practised as a solicitor in the City of London and in Wellington. A specialist in commercial law, he found himself in the thick of the pre-1987, New Zealand 'Wild West' business scene. As legal adviser to companies, ministers and government officials, he gained an intimate knowledge of politics, Parliament and the Wellington environment. He writes from the perspective of an ‘insider’. Unexpectedly, he became heavily involved on behalf of Maori interests in several high-profile, national and tribal Treaty negotiations. As a result, he has considerable experience of Treaty settlements and gained a first-hand insight into all levels of Maori politics and the Maori world. Nick has published serious and satirical articles over the years in the National Business Review and the Opinion. Nick Davidson Te Kotare Mytton Heights RD1 Motueka New Zealand 03 528 8733 0210 277 3553 Read less...

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David Davies is Welsh by birth and came to New Zealand 34 years ago. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman at age fifteen and a half, served Read more...a total of 33 years in the British and New Zealand Navies retiring as a Lieutenant Commander. He married Pauline and they have two children. His book "Morse Code and Snowflakes" is a delightfully different naval history of HMNZS Irirangi, and of several generations of sailors and Wrens who found themselves unceremoniously sent to the furthest point possible from the sea amid the totally rural community of the Central North Island. Read less...

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Morse Code and Snowflakes

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The Author: M. Ross Davies was born in Whakatane, a small town on the edge of the world in New Zealand. For 60 years he undertook a multitude of tasks; farming Read more...and working in the local timber mills were some of the jobs that occupied his time while he wondered what to be when he grew up. After years of procrastination he decided to try his hand at writing; it couldn’t be that hard. He was wrong, it was the hardest thing he had ever done, but also the most satisfying. Several short stories later, he brings you ClanDragon, his first full length novel. Read less...

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Written one book with the help of publish me. Interviewed tv1 breakfast show. The book is – “The Boys’ Flat guide to Housework”, available through Nationwide Book Distributors. Read more... Written to help young men around the house with the use of cleaning schedules, flatting account ideas and even laundry charts. Humorous with helpful cleaning tips. As for me i am married. A signwriter by trade. I study the bible. Into lots of sports. Read less...

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In 2004 Murray Dean, as Chairman of the New Plymouth Sportfishing and Underwater Clubs Underwater Sub-committee, lead the task of compiling information dated back to 1954 so the club could Read more...produce a 50 year celebrational book of the history of Diving Around New Plymouth. With assistance from local Taranaki companies like Taranaki Newspapers Ltd, Puke Ariki Archives, TSB Community Trust and Zenith Print & Design, 200 copies of this book were produced in June 2004. The combined effort of the clubs committee, members and friends has warranted great pride in the 200-paged jubilee publication. Read less...

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Malcolm Dennis is a New Zealand businessman with a background in management. After a career in sales, he moved to advertising and opened his agency at Manukau City in 1977. Read more...His other ventures have included mail order trading, publishing, consulting, training, manufacturing and latterly software. Malcolm is Managing Director of WORKLINX Systems Ltd - making it easier to manage success! Book Illustrations by Tony Hadlow, Rotorua. Read less...

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I specialise in childrens book illustrations but also graphic and web design. Freelance artist with the talent to make your ideas come to life. Find out more at http://www.lockerby.co.nz

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I am a cartoonist and have just written a story for children which I plan to illustrate myself. I have done cartoons for the Ministry of Economic Development and Read more...also for the IHC (Timata Hou). The latter was a particularly fulfilling job doing a series of cartoons to aid autistic young adults. Read less...

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Hi im 15 years old, still at highschool (yuss!) hee hee and have always loved reading and writing. Thanks to first chapters they have opened up a whole new world for Read more...me and i have now started writing my own story 'The pendant of Chance' and i have coaching lessons with New Zealand Aucthor James George. My dream is to have my book published and sold to many people so that way they can travel with me on this adventure i have created. Thnk the Lord for my oppurtunity!! =] Read less...

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Born 1948 in Germany Eve belongs to the post WWII generation. She has been working tri-lingual in the Export/Import business before she trained as a Psychothreapist. This was the start Read more...as a writer for her. She has published in Germany and is now publishing in the Australasian market. Her strength lies in assessing situations holistically. She works as a psychotherapist, body therapist in nutrionist in Tauranga, New Zealand. She has one daughter, married, and is blessed to be part of her grandson's growing steps. She is living with her partner in life Graeme. Read less...

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Reflections Down Under

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I have always been one of the best writers in class and have always enjoyed writing dinky stories and showing them to my family and friends. I would love to Read more...have my books published. Read less...

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Don Donovan: Biography Don Donovan I was born on 20 January 1933, nine days before Hitler came to power in Germany, I grew up in south London. Although evacuated during the phoney Read more...war and the quieter times I lived in and out of air raid shelters during the blitz and experienced both V1 and V2 attacks on London. Left grammar school in 1948 aged 15 substantially undereducated. I wanted to go to art school but because of family ‘poverty’ joined a commercial art studio in the West End. I was, thereafter, variously a messenger boy, commercial artist and typographer. I was in the Royal Air Force from 1951 to 1953 when the only useful thing I did was to take part in King George VI’s funeral parade. In 1955 I married Patricia O’Donnell, a RADA graduate, at that time playing opposite Derek Nimmo, they were juvenile leads in a touring repertory company. He went on to great success because he had a funny voice. We came to New Zealand in 1960 where I worked in advertising. At length I became managing director of one of the companies of whose holding company (the largest domestic advertising complex in New Zealand) I was also a proprietor and shareholder. I left the industry in 1990 when my company was bought out by American interests. My timing was brilliant, at that point my first book had been published and the next was on its way. We have two daughters and four grand-children. Now, apart from writing, I function as a self-educated grumpy old man. Books & Writings ‘New Zealand Odyssey’, with Euan Sarginson, Heinemann-Reed, 1989. ‘One Man’s Heart Attack’, New House, 1990. (A special edition of this book was purchased by CIBA-Geigy for distribution to NZ doctors). ‘Open 7 Days’, Random Century, October 1991. ‘The Good Old Kiwi Pub’ by Saint Publishing in 1995 followed by: ‘New Zealand House & Cottage’ in 1997. (Saint Publishing have also published calendars for the years 1994 to 2004 using my watercolour illustrations). ‘The Wastings’, my first novel was published in July 1999 by Hazard Press. Although an international subject it had very limited distribution, only in New Zealand, and the rights have reverted to me. (Colin Dexter read 'The Wastings' and wrote to me: 'I enjoyed and admired "The Wastings"... a beautifully written work... a splendid debut in crime fiction... More please!'.) Also the texts of photographic books: ‘Auckland’ ‘Colourful New Zealand’ ‘New Zealand in Colour’ ‘Top of the South’ ‘Aoraki-Mt.Cook’ ‘Above Auckland’ ‘Hauraki Gulf Destinations’ ‘Otago’ ‘Bay of Plenty’ 'Wellington' and a compilation of photographs and quotations titled ‘Anzac Memories’ 2004 all published by New Holland. My written and illustrated book, ‘Country Churches of New Zealand’ was published in October 2002 by New Holland, who also published ‘Rural New Zealand’ 2004 (photographs and text), and a series of four humorous books of photographs and quotations in 2004 and 2005 titled ‘Woolly Wisdom’, ‘Chewing the Cud’, ‘Fowl Play’, and ‘Pig Tales’. My most recent book, published in August 2006 by New Holland, is titled ‘Political Animals’. Over the years I have written for NZ Herald, Heritage Magazine, Next Magazine and various local and overseas travel and general interest media. <.nz> http://donovansworld.blog.co [ENDS] Read less...

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Chewing The Cud
Fowl Play
One Man's Heart Attack
Pig Tales
Political Animals
Second Bite
The Wastings
Woolly Wisdom

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Brian J. Dooley is an author, analyst, and journalist with more than 25 years' experience. He has written six books, numerous user manuals, hundreds of reports, and more than 2,000 Read more...magazine features. Published books include four on computer-related items, one on the US Civil War, and one about aircraft. He also writes brief short stories, poetry and songs--some of the latter of which have been on radio. Read less...

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My name is Paul Dredge and I am a primary school teacher (Mr D). After being a professional musician for 10 years I decided to do a history degree. I Read more...then got interested in teaching. I have never looked back. I love it. However, I also love to write - songs, poems and stories. I am usually inspired by what might help the children in my class and school learn something. Last year I published 'Costas Kingdom' with Kanuka Grove Press. Read less...

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Bryan Duxfield describes himself as a Christian layman writing to pass on to future generations the encouragement and hope that many years have confirmed in his experience. 'Angels on a Read more...Mission' is his second self-published book. His first being 'The Mountain People'. Read less...

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Angels On A Mission
The Children of the Mountain
The Mountain People

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write poetry. accepted for publishing in 1998, but never published.

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