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All Part of the Game - The Stories of A P Gaskell by A. P. Gaskell
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Dating from the 1940s, these short stories show Gaskell's style - vigorously idiomatic and varied in range: life in the forces and the home guard, on playing fields, in small towns, and city offices. Within these settings his observations of character are acute.
Follow the Call by Frank S. Anthony
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand fiction series | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of poorly-endowed Taranaki dairy farm in the 1920s. The author assumes that the lives he describes are interesting for their own sake, without the need to import any artificial devices of plot, or to move outside the natural idiom of his characters.
It Was So Late and Other Stories by John Reece Cole; Cherrie Hankin (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: The New Zealand Fiction Series
John Reece Coles' short stories were written during and immediately after World War II. They are not stories of war in action but of war as it affects the minds and lives of men, perhaps permanently. Arranged in sequence, they have the outline of a novel.
Maurice Duggan - Collected Stories by Maurice Duggan
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Roads from Home by Dan Davin
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Butcher Shop by Jean Devanny
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Butcher Shop first appeared in 1926. Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic in other words for promoting revolutionary ideas about women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life. On one level, the nov ...Show more
The Toll of the Bush by William Satchell
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
First published in 1905, and set in the Hokianga district, this portrait of pioneer farming and trading on the margin between sea and bush is also a traditional tale of heroes and heroines, of villainous jealousies and intrigues, and - above all - of the brooding forest.
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