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The Catastrophe by Ian Wedde
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
The Age of Excess has been good to Christopher Hare. One of the world's top food writers, he has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, with the chic dining companion known to readers of his lavish books as The Glace. But, in the new mood of austerity ushered in by the credit cr ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more
The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse by Ian Wedde (ed.); Harvey McQueen (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge ...Show more
The Viewing Platform by Ian Wedde
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
A sharply satiric novel looking at themes of home, hope, culture-making and identity from the perspective of the central characters personal experience and through the campaigns and slogans devised by the tourism industry. The title of the novel refers to DoC viewing platforms, places of scenic beauty w ...Show more
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty by Ian Wedde
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Five extended poems linked by themes of beauty and language make up this lively new collection from one of the best New Zealand poets writing today. The long poem gives Wedde room to explore these themes in detail, weaving back and forth, accumulating phrases, images and sounds, always with characterist ...Show more
Trifecta by Ian Wedde
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
TRIFECTA looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture and ‘real coffee’ to New Zealand. Many years after his early death from a heart attack, Klepka’s children are struggling in their ...Show more