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Oh, to be a Writer, a Real Writer - Winners of the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield short story award
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Nuanua - Pacific Writing in English since 1980 by Albert Wendt (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: Talanoa Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This important anthology of contemporary Pacific writing in English is a successor to Lali, first published in 1980 and widely read and admired. Nuanua, like Lali, edited by distinguished Samoan writer Albert Wendt, shows the growing strength and confidence of Pacific writing in fiction and poetry since ...Show more
The Faber Book Of Contemporary South Pacific Stories by C K Stead (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
This is the fifth in a series of collections of short stories from around the world. It offers examples from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Papua New Guinea and Tonga together with work from the longer established Anglophone literature of New Zealand. Many of the stories are about the island experience. ...Show more
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume 5 1922-1923 by Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott (eds)
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Katherine Mansfield's letters are as finely written as her stories and prized by ordinary readers as much as by literary critics and feminists. The fifth and final volume of this celebrated edition reveals Mansfield's courage, wit, independence, and honesty in the final year of her life.
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
$120.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more
To the Is-Land by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
To the Is-land is the first book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holryod as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It chronicles her childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 30s. ...Show more
One of Ben's - A New Zealand Medley by Maurice Shadbolt
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner by Lynley Hood
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
For four years, writer Lynley Hood, was obsessed, or possibly possessed, by New Zealand writer and educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner. This compelling diary is a record of Hood's experiences and reflections as she pieced together the multi-dimensional puzzle of Sylvia Ashton-Warner's life for her award-winni ...Show more
Landfall 240 by Emma Neale (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Periodicals | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, reviews and cultural commentary. Landfall 240 also features the winner of the 2020 Landfall Essay Competition as well as judges comments. ...Show more
The Writing Life - Twelve New Zealand Authors by Deborah Shepard
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with ...Show more
Whole Men: The MasculineTradition in NZ Literature by Kai Jensen
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992 - 2004 by Ian Wedde
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Passionate, witty and erudite, these essays and talks disclose persistent questionings of the role of institutions in culture. One of New ZealandâÃÂÃÂs leading writers, Ian Wedde worked from 1994 to 2004 as a member of the conceptual team charged with developing the Museum of New Zealand Te ...Show more