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A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Set in Australia in the 1840s, A Fringe of Leaves combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner ...Show more
Flaws in the Glass - A Self-Portrait by Patrick White
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography
The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man who intervi ...Show more
Memoirs of Many in One by Alex Xenophon; Demirjian Gray; Patrick White (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction
Orpheus on Highbeam by Patrick White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Valley Poet Series | Reading Level: very good
Patrick White's Sixth volume of poetry
The Cockatoos by Patrick White
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The wild and beautiful birds of the title are the cockatoos who - welcome trespassers in a surburban garden - transform the lives of those they condescend to visit. The Davorens, who for seven years have lived in total silence, are united suddenly in mutual worship of their exotic guests. Miss Le Cornu, ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick White Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates it ...Show more
The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick White Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates it ...Show more
The Hanging Garden by Patrick White
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bo ...Show more
The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
"Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In The Solid Mandala Patrick White draws a telling and touching portrait of twin brothers. Waldo is the competent man of reason, he sees himself as the superior intellect. Arthur, accepted as a half-wit is the innocent, God's fool, loving and outgoing in a blund ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and ...Show more
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