Landfall 239 by Emma Neale (Editor)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Periodicals | Series: Landfall Ser. | 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, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books , art, film, drama and dance. Landfall is a high-quality production, with artist portfolios in full colour. FEATURED ARTISTS: Vita Cochran, Star Gossage, Robert West. AWARDS & COMPETITIONS: Results from the 2020 Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition. WRITERS: John Adams, Johanna Aitchison, John Allison, Shaun Bamber, Tony Beyer, Iain Britton, Medb Charleton, Ruth Corkill, Doc Drumheller, Mark Edgecombe, Lynley Edmeades, David Eggleton, Johanna Emeney, Rhys Feeney, Michael Giacon, Carolyn Gillum, Patricia Grace, Eliana Gray & Jordan Hamel, Isabel Haarhaus, Bernadette Hall, Sarah Harpur, Jenna Heller, Stephanie Johnson, Erik Kennedy, Brent Kininmont, Megan Kitching, Claire Lacey, Leonard Lambert, Malinna Liang, Emer Lyons, Carolyn McCurdie, Cilla McQueen, Owen Marshall, Talia Marshall, Zoë Meager, James Norcliffe, Keith Nunes, Kotuku Tithuia Nuttall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Leanne Radojkovich, essa may ranapiri, Gillian Roach, Pip Robertson, Jo-Ella Sarich, Tim Saunders, Sarah Scott, Sarah Shirley, Elizabeth Smither, Charlotte Steel, Nicola Thorstensen, Rushi Vyas, Susan Wardell ...Show more

Love America - On the Trail of Writers & Artists in New Mexico by Jenny Robin Jones

$18.00 NZD

Category: Travel

A Home in This World by Robin Hyde

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Robin Hyde, author of The Godwits Fly, died in 1939 at the age of thirty-three. The autobiographical A Home in this World and the attached fragment 'A Night of Hell', both published here for the first time, reveal uncompromising insights into both the struggles and achievements of her life. In a direct and compelling style, A Home in this World tells of Robin Hyde's life in the decade following her return to New Zealand in 1927 from Australia after the birth and death of her first child, years dominated by her continual struggle to cope with the pressures of working as a journalist while reserving time and energy for more serious writing. The stresses of her situation were dramatically increased with the birth of a son, the result of a brief affair. When her predicament became known, she lost her job, and therefore the means of support for herself and her child. Desperately short of money and very alone, she felt alienated from her family and their 'tradition of respectability' Despair about her circumstances and concern for the welfare of her son drove her from city to city in search of a solution. In 1933 unable to cope any longer, Robin Hyde entered the Auckland Mental Hospital as a voluntary patient. As part of her recovery she was encouraged to write, and she wrote prolivically. In 1937 she ran away, to the boarding-house in the Waitakeres where A Home in this World was written. While A Home in this World can be seen as a sequel to The Godwits Fly, it has a more open style, a greater frankness. As Derek Challis notes in his Introduction, 'It is this frankness combined with the exceptional beauty and sensitivity of the writing that makes the work Robin Hyde's finest.' A Night of Hell', a third person account of her drug experiences, was written later in 1937, when Robin Hyde was living in Milford. ...Show more

The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield - A Selection by C. K. Stead (Editor)

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Mason: The Life of R. A. K. Mason by Rachel Barrowman

$40.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

The full story of the gifted but troubled R A K Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons after his extraordinary beginning that Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated. The legendary story of how Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book , 'The Beggar', into Auckland harbor in disappointment, disgust, or despair because no one would buy it is explored as a symbol of a time (the 1920s and 1930s) when a true, vital, native literature struggled to be written or heard in a provincial and puritanical country. Also explored are how Mason's political beliefs prompted him to turn his creative energies to left-wing theater movements in the 1930s, the impact that family pressures had on his life, and his late-in-life diagnosis with manic depression. ...Show more

I Have What I Gave: The Fiction Of Janet Frame by Judith Dell Panny

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Ending the Silences: Critical Essays on Works of Maurice Shadbolt by Ralph J Crane (Editor)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Fairburn by Denys Trussell

$40.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Margaret Mahy - A Writer's Life by Tessa Duder

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Margaret Mahy needs no introduction to anyone reading or working in the area of children?s literature over the past forty years.Twice winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, and twice short listed for the Hans Christian Anderson Award, amongst numerous other awards and achievements, she is universally acknowledged as one of world?s most inventive and brilliant writers for children. The story of her life as a writer provides a fascinating insight into the creative life of a unique mind, and the influence of her personal and public roles on the creative process provides a fascinating portrait of the artist that is Margaret. Written by her close friend and esteemed colleague, Tessa Duder, this thoroughly researched biography of a leading writer will be warmly received by Margaret?s legion of readers, admirers and those who wish to follow in her footsteps."Duder has accomplished what must have been a mammoth task; to write an excellent book providing a wealth of information and insight about this exceedingly popular author...As I read I was constantly amazed at Mahy's accomplishments and delighted in reading about them...The cover is gorgeous...I think the photographer has captured the essence of the book beautifully in the photo." - Marlborough Express "The book is largely made up of excerpts from Mahy's huge output of speeches and writing about her craft and her life, especially her childhood, so is an absorbing account of a writer's mind." - Manawatu Standard "This well-written, carefully documented biography is an important milestone in the study of writing for young people." - Magpies First published 2005. ...Show more

News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories a nd a dream-like present, O’Brien introduces a cast of underwater characters that includes Jacques Cousteau, the French secret service agent Dominique Prieur, Henri Matisse and the naked river-swimming nineteenth-century nun Mother Aubert. Modernism, the politics of French nuclear testing, swimming, drowning and underwater explosions are twined together with the life of a family in an innovative and engaging exploration by one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers. ...Show more

Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers by Greg O'Brien

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

A Dissolving Ghost: Essays And More by Margaret Mahy

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Margaret Mahy is known throughout New Zealand as a brilliant and prolific writer - and for her brightly coloured wig. One of our most internationally successful writers, she has received a string of awards and honours including the Order of New Zealand and the AW Reed Award for contribution to literatur e. Less widely known but equally remarkable are Mahy's commentaries on fiction, writing and the imagination. She has said 'other people's stories take me by surprise'. The sense of delight and careful attention which she brings to the writing of others has germinated many astute and fascinating talks and essays which are collected here for the first time. Most of us began our acquaintance with Margaret Mahy with A Lion in the Meadow; the pieces gathered in A Dissolving Ghost contain a different but equal kind of magic. ...Show more