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All The Green Year by Don Charlwood; Michael McGirr (Introduction by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It was the end of an era; a year of 'outlandish happenings'; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula. His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble, and his be ...Show more
Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop:Text Classics by Amy Witting
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Selected Stories: Text Classics by Katherine Mansfield
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: Very Good
Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form. This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist ...Show more
The Long Prospect by Elizabeth Harrower
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house, twelve-year-old Emily Lawrence befriends Max, a middle-aged scientist who encourages her to pursue her intellectual interests. Innocent Emily will ...Show more
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut." Fourteen-year-old Neddy Poindexter and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chook-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into Klynham. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is i ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
The Watcher in the Garden by Joan Phipson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
Trespassing in Mr Lovett's secluded garden was a welcome escape for sixteen-year-old Catherine. A haven away from the parents who didn't understand her moodiness and from her pretty, even-tempered sister, Diana, who she resented. It was a place to be alone. But this all changes when Catherine is confron ...Show more
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