Biography

In My Day: A highly-personal insight into the working life of a career nurse

Ever wondered what really happens in the wards and corridors of our hospitals and medical facilities? Wonder no more. In My Day is the personal memoir of a retired nurse who devoted her career to helping patients within the New Zealand health system. She’s written the book under the pen name Ann Nurse to protect […]

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The Buddha from Birmingham

The Buddha from Birmingham centres on the lives of Arthur Swain and Dorothy May Swain née Cadman, especially their ten years of service as medical missionaries in China and India 1925-1935. It draws upon family oral history, documents and photographs, Western and Chinese archives, academic and missionary literature, and Western and Chinese key informants, to tell their poignant and thought-provoking story.

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The Two of Me

This print edition of The Two of Me tells moving story of how John Dybvig — widely regarded as New Zealand’s loudest man — turned his life around after a trail of destruction that wrecked his relationships, more than 100 jobs and his health.

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