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Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News by David Hastings
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the mid-19th-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the 20th-century dominance of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star, the story of Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history of the people and the press in New Zeal ...Show more
Many Deaths of Mary Dobie by Hastings David
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ History
'Dreadful murder at Opunake', said the Taranaki Herald, 'Shocking outrage', cried the Evening Post in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been found lying under a flax bush near Opunake on the Taranaki coast with her throat cut so deep her head was almo ...Show more
Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by Hastings David
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. 'This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. 'He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Di ...Show more
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