2000ft Above Worry Level by Marra. Eamonn
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Everything is sad and funny and nothing is anything else 2000ft Above Worry Level begins on the sad part of the internet and ends at the top of a cliff face. This episodic novel is piloted by a young, anhedonic, gentle, slightly disassociated man. He has no money. He has a supportive but disintegrating ...Show more
Catching The Current by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A terrific historical novel full of compelling events, vivid communities and the irresistible character of Conrad Rasmussen. In this companion novel to the bestselling Denniston novels, the free spirit is pitted against the forces of tradition. On the run from an unfortunate 'indiscretion', young Conrad ...Show more
Heart Of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow in h ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the Fr ...Show more
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existen ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
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
The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Daylight and the Dust' is a comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's short stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection 'The Lagoon and Other Stories', right up to 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'.
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. ...Show more
Fake Baby by Amy McDaid
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Fake Baby is a tender and funny exploration of the power of words, our perception of resilience and what it means to be real. Nine Days. One City. Three Oddballs. Stephen's dead father is threatening to destroy the world. If Stephen commits the ultimate sacrifice and throws himself into the harbour, he ...Show more
Halibut on the Moon by David Vann
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis etranger winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends ...Show more
The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In this highly entertaining novel, Edith Wharton is variously reimagined- as a host in the afterlife, a historical figure in a modern novella, and as an elusive presence in the pages of her own writing. But when a lifelong secret is exposed, it's almost too shocking to be true. Hugely acclaimed during h ...Show more