The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony Alpers
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
The Accidental Anthropologist by Michael Jackson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
THE ACCIDENTAL ANTHROPOLOGIST is a fascinating, impeccably written memoir, or more accurately, a series of fragments. Compelling and absorbing as well as intense and insightful, Jackson writes a far from classically autobiographical text. There is nothing predictable about the mode or incidents he has ...Show more
O Darkly Bright by John Summers
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Conversation in a Train and Other Critical Writings by Frank Sargeson; Kevin Cunningham (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Frank Sargeson wrote fiction for over half a century as well as occasional criticism in many forms and on many topics. Writers considered include D H Lawrence, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood and Olive Schreiner besides fellow New Zealanders such as Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Dan ...Show more
The Carpathians by Janet Frame
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
What happens when the town of Puamahara begins to profit from its legend and the astronomers discovering the Gravity Star predict an unthinkable future? Mattina Brecon, a New Yorker, arrives in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, where her painstaking study of her neighbours is interrupted by a new kind of catacl ...Show more
Introducing Maurice Gee by David Hill
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Somewhere a Cleaner - Their voices in poems and prose by Adrienne Jansen et al (eds)
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It’s steeped in tradition and culture. It’s essential, it’s ordinary and it’s surprisingly poetic. Somewhere a cleaner ...Show more
Complete With Instructions by David Howard (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
As not seen on TV / David Howard & John Kinsella -- Design and poetry: the engineering of sense / Keith Russell -- The narration of pain and suffering: culture, meaning, healing / Grant Duncan -- Familiars: R.A.K. Mason, Jenny Barrer & James K. Baxter in 1963-1964 / Elizabeth Glanville -- Strait ...Show more
Landfall 234 by David Eggleton (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers and artists, plus reviews of the lates ...Show more
How the Land Lies - Of Longing and Belonging by Pat White
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
How the land lies is a powerful and moving memoir. After an anxious childhood spent in a series of railway settlements in the post-War years, White kept moving through places, occupations and lives, slowly learning where and how he wanted to live.
The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield by Cherry Hankin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good