NZWG Library

The NZWG Library contains New Zealand’s most comprehensive collection of books, magazines, scripts and other materials related to script writing. All NZWG members can use the library to gain knowledge on writing scripts and experienced writers will find materials that can assist them improve their craft.

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Library

All scripts may be borrowed from the Auckland Head Office and will be posted out to members outside of Auckland, if requested.

The Timpson Collection is a collection of  classic and modern feature movie and television scripts that have been generously donated to the NZWG by Ant and Matt Timpson.​

General Lending Conditions

  • LOAN PERIOD: Items are loaned out for a maximum of 4 weeks. Please return before or on the due date.
  • EXTENSIONS: Upon request library items can be loaned for a further period of 2 weeks, provided another Member has not requested the item.
  • MAXIMUM: Up to 4 items may be borrowed at any time.
  • REFERENCE ONLY: Must be used on site and may not be borrowed.
  • MAIL LIBRARY: Upon request items will be mailed out to Members unable to visit the library in person - only for Auckland library.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon
Biopic
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Bugsy
James Toback
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Bull Durham
Ron Shelton
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Bulletproof Monk
Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris
Based on Thornton’s mother having extrasensory experiences.
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Burning brian
Gavin Strawhan
Available
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Butcher's Wife, The
Ezra Litwak and Marjorie Schwartz & Dr. Seuss
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Bye, Bye Love
Gary David Goldberg & Brad Hall
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Byte-Sized Television: Create Your Own TV Series for the Internet.
Ross Brown
Michael Wiese Productions, California
Book
2010
Available
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Book
Cage
Joe Doughrity
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Calendar Girls
Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth
Script
Film
2000
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Film
Script
Can't Hardly Wait
Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan & Hubert Selby Jr.
Book in library
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Cape Fear
Welsey Strick
NZ Film and DVD
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Captain Beefheart Vs The Grunt People
Frank Zappa
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Captain Blood
Jonathon Hensliegh & Channel 4 (Britain) – Traffik
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Carlito's Way
David Koepp
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Carolina
Katherine Fugate & Michael Chabon
Script
Film
2000
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Film
Script
Carrie
D. Lawrence Cohen
Script
Film
2000
Available
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Film
Script
Cars
Dan Fogelman, John Lasseter et al
This is the third film in von Trier's "Golden Heart Trilogy"; the other two films are Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998).
Script
2000
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Script
Casino
Nicholas Pileggi
Script
2000
Available
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Script
Catch-22
Buck Henry
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Celluloid Dreams – A Century of Film in New Zealand.
Geoffrey B Churchman
IPL Books,Wellington
Book
1997
Available
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Book
Chamber, The
William Goldman
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Changing Lanes
Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkin
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Chaplin
William Boyd
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Character and Conflict: The Cornerstones of Screenwriting.
Mark Axelrod
Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH
Book
2004
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Book
Chariots Of Fire
Colin Welland
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Chasing the Runaways: Foreign film production and film studio development in Australia 1988 – 2002.
Nick Herd
Currency House Inc., Sydney
Book
2004
Available
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Book
Cheers: Give Me A Ring Sometime
& Joe Connolly
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Cheers: Madame LaCarla
Phoef Sutton & John Irving
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Cheers: Pitch It Again, Sam
Dan O'Shannon & Tom Anderson & Daphne De Jong
Script, DVD and short story
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Cheers: Truce or consequence
Ken Levine & David Isaacs & Arthur Schintzler – Dream Story
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Chicken
Grant Lahood & Stephen King
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Chicken Run
Peter Lord, Nick Park and Kary Kirkpatrick & Stephen King
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Children of the Corn
Stephen King
Based on true events.
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Childsplay
Tom Holland
NZ film
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
China Syndrome
James Bridges
Biographical of Andy Kaufman
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Chinatown
Robert Towne & incl introduction by Robert Towne
Remake of the 1932 film
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Chocolat
Robert Nelson Jacobs
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Cider House Rules, The
John Irving & Homer Hickam – Rocket Boys
A biographical film of Hickam’s life.
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Citizen Kane
Herman J Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
City Hall
Bo Goldman & Paul Auster - Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
With Blue In The Face
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
City Slickers
Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel & David Guterson
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Clear And Present Danger
John Milius
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Clear, Concise, Compelling – How to Write Less and Achieve More
Simon Hertnon
Nakedize Ltd., Auckland
Book
2006
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Book
Cleese Encounters
Jonathan Margolis
Chapmans Publishers Ltd., London
Book
1992
Available
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Book
Clerks
Kevin Smith & Jeffrey Eugenides
Script
Film
1999
Available
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Film
Script
Client, The
Akiva Goldsman & Robert Getchell & Alan Duff
Script
Film
1999
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Film
Script
Cliffhanger
Michael France
Donated by Liz DiFiore
Script
Film
1998
Available
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Film
Script
Cliffhanger: Storyboards Book #1
Michael France
Script
Film
1998
Available
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Film
Script
Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror.
Stephen Jones
BBC Books, London
Book
1997
Available
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Book
Clockers
Richard Price and Spike Lee
Timpson
Script
Film
1998
Available
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Film
Script
Closet Land
Radha Bharadwaj
Donated by Michael Bennett. Formerly titled "Take It Like A Man"
Script
Film
1998
Available
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Film
Script
Coastlines
Victor Nunez
Script
Film
1998
Available
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Film
Script
Cocoon
Tom Benedek & Peter Wells
NZ film
Script
Film
1998
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Film
Script
Color Of Money, The
Richard Price
Timpson
Script
Film
1998
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Film
Script
Coma
Michael Crichton
1 x Timpson
Script
Film
1998
Available
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Film
Script
Combat
William Wisher
Available
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Come See The Paradise
Alan Parker
Script
1998
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Script
Comedians.
Trevor Griffiths
Faber and Faber, London
Book
1980
Available
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Book
Comedy Writing Secrets: How to Think Funny, Write Funny, Act Funny and Get Paid For It.
Melvni Helitzer
Writer’s Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio
Book
2004
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Book
Comedy Writing Step by Step: How to Write and Sell your Sense of Humour.
Gene Perret
Samuel French Trade, USA
Book
1990
Available
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Book
Comics and Sequential Art.
Will Eisner
Poorhouse Press
Book
2005
Available
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Book
Commitments, The
Nick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Timpson
Script
1998
Available
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Script
Con Air
Scott rosenberg
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Conan The Barbarian
John Millius
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Conversation, The
Francis Ford Coppola & Andrew Neiderman
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Cool Hand Luke
Frank R. Pierson and Hal Dresner
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Copland
James Mangold
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Copycat
Frank Pierson
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Cosi
Louis Nowra
1 x Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Could It Be A Movie? – How to get ideas out of your head and up on the screen.
Christina Hamlett
Michael Wiese Productions, CA
Book
2005
Available
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Book
Courage Under Fire
Patrick Duncan. Revised by Susan Shilliday
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Covenant, The
J.S. Cardone
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Craft, The
Peter Filardi
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Crafting Short Screenplays that Connect.
Claudia Hunter Johnson
Focal Press. US.
Book
2000
Available
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Book
Crash
David Cronenberg & Terry McMillan
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Crimson Tide
Michael Schiffer
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Crooked earth
Greg McGee, Waihoroi Shortland, Gavin strawhan
Available
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Crow: City of Angels, The
David S. Goyer
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Crowded Room, A
James Cameron
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Crusade
Walon Green
Donated by Liz DiFiore
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Crush
Alison Maclean & Anne Kennedy
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Cultural Intelligence: People skills for global business.
David C Thomas & Kerr Inkson
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., USA
Book
2003
Available
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Book
Cupid’s Prey
Lynne Leuders
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
Available
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Film
Script
Damage
David Hare
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett.
James Knowlson
Bloomsbury Publishing, London
Book
1996
Available
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Book
Dan In Real Life
Pierce Gardner
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dances With Wolves
Michael Blake & Joseph Conrad – “Amy Foster”
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dangerous Game
Nicholas St. John
1 x Timpson. Based on true events
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dangerous Minds
Ronald Bass
NZ Film. 1 x Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dante's Peak
Leslie Bohem
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Daredevil
Mark Steven Johnson
Based on the life of Oscar Wilde
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dark Blood
James Barton
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dark City
Alex Proyas & Nikolaus Laszlo - The Shop Around The Corner
Timpson
Script
Film
1997
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Film
Script
Dark Victory
Casey Robinson
Donated by Liz DiFiore
Script
Short Film
1997
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Short Film
Script
Dark empire
Alex Proyas
Available
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Dark horse, the
James Napier Robertson
Available
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Darkman
Joshua and Daniel Goldin, Sam and Ivan Raimi and Chuck Pfarrer
Timpson
Script
Film
1996
Available
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Film
Script
Dave
Gary Ross
Timpson
Script
Film
1996
Available
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Film
Script
David Geffen: A Biography of New Hollywood.
Tom King
Random House, London
Book
2000
Available
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Book

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