Daughter Buffalo by Janet Frame
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Dr Talbot Edelman is obsessed by the mechanics of dying. Not his own death, for he is still a young man, but by the memory of his grandfather. He changes his speciality to Death Studies and by operations on his dog, Sally, establishes her as an honorary person. When the dog dies and his girlfriend leave ...Show more
Victoria in Maoriland by Margaret Blay
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brainpark by Anna Sanderson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brainpark is a wholly convincing experiment in the essay form. A core theme of disassociation of feeling (or truth value) and aesthetic effect is explored in a number of contexts - family, faith, art history, sanctuary - through 20 short autobiographical sketches, followed by a sustained investigation i ...Show more
Dreamboat Dad by Alan Duff
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Yank is an ordinary enough teenager, except that he lives in a thermal wonderland (frequented by tourists eager to view the geysers and boiling mud) and except for the fact that one of those tourists (an American soldier visiting during the Second World War) was his father. The locals gave the boy the n ...Show more
Four Short Stories 1931-35 by R A K Mason
$75.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
This book contains the only four short stories published by R.A.K. Mason (1905-71), one of New Zealand's most important poets. They appeared in the literary journals Kiwi, Phoenix and Tomorrow between 1931 and 1935 and show the influence of Freud and James Joyce. The book also contains facsimiles of poe ...Show more
Summer Fires and Winter Country by Maurice Shadbolt
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Incense to Idols by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Night of All Souls by Philippa Swan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Memoirs of a Peon by Frank Sargeson
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good