Introducing Maurice Gee by David Hill

$8.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Somewhere a Cleaner - Their voices in poems and prose by Adrienne Jansen et al (eds)

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine

Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It’s steeped in tradition and culture. It’s essential, it’s ordinary and it’s surprisingly poetic. Somewhere a cleane r captures the spirit, the highs and the lows, of this occupation that often falls below the radar. The poems range across hospitals, offices, marae, clocks, schools, boat hulls, sneakers and more. The poets themselves, a mix of novice and established writers, are equally diverse. Through songs, rhymes, deeply insightful poems and poignant small stories, this anthology gives a voice to a profession both invisible and indispensable. "Having walked the corridors of hospitals for more than a few years, I can tell you that cleaners can sometimes be the best doctors of all. And now I find they can write some great poems too. This book is wonderfully democratic. The art here is in the work done before and beyond the writing. The endless picking up, mopping, smoothing and shining. And always, it seems, for someone else. These are poems with strong forearms. My deepest congratulations to every poet in this collection – and my long overdue thanks. I will never walk on a neatly mopped floor again." - Glenn Colquhoun ...Show more

Complete With Instructions by David Howard (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

As not seen on TV / David Howard & John Kinsella -- Design and poetry: the engineering of sense / Keith Russell -- The narration of pain and suffering: culture, meaning, healing / Grant Duncan -- Familiars: R.A.K. Mason, Jenny Barrer & James K. Baxter in 1963-1964 / Elizabeth Glanville -- Strait is the gate: an excerpt / R.A.K. Mason -- Imaginary toads in real gardens: poets in Christchurch / Jack Ross -- Magic murder & the weather: an interview with David Howard / Richard Reeve -- Te Papa: a mythinterpretation / Gerald Melling -- Fixed infinity: an interview with Dean Nixon / Josef Celan -- Accidents: the screenplay / John Cranna -- The drum that sings: piano music in New Zealand and a recital by Dan Poynton / Denys Trussell. ...Show more

Fenua Imi - The Pacific in History and Imaginary by Martin Edmond

$12.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

A description of the history of the Pacific Region and its people.

Landfall 234 by David Eggleton (ed.)

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | 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 and artists, plus reviews of the lates t books, art, film, drama and dance. ...Show more

How the Land Lies - Of Longing and Belonging by Pat White

$14.00 NZD

Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine

How the land lies is a powerful and moving memoir. After an anxious childhood spent in a series of railway settlements in the post-War years, White kept moving through places, occupations and lives, slowly learning where and how he wanted to live.

Dragon Rampant by Robin Hyde

$45.00 NZD

Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good

The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield by Cherry Hankin

$25.00 NZD

Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good

Samuel Butler's Notebooks by Samuel Butler; Geoffrey Keynes (ed.);

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good

Utopias in Literature since The Romantic Period by J C Garrett

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: The Macmillan Brown Lectures 1967; University of Canterbury Publications No. 10 | Reading Level: very good

A Century of New Zealand Novels A bibliography of the period 1861-1960 by A S Burns

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good

Roderick Finlayson - A Man from Another World

$45.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Literature

Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992), storyteller and prophet, was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who emerged in the 1930s. Vincent O'Sullivan once described him as 'our first writer to move with any ease or authenticity among the most vital traditions this country has'. Brown Man's Burden, his fir st and best-known collection of short stories, was published in 1938. His friend, the Australian poet Bruce Beaver, called him a 'maker of stories about men and women in unremarkable, comical, tragical situations' who 'once lived with the Maori people as an adopted son and now chronicles the comedie humaine and that of the Pakeha, nervous usurper.' His story-telling was direct and unsentimental in its sympathy for the inarticulate, the foolish, the poor and the dispossessed. Years ahead of its time, his prophetic voice was raised on behalf of the environment and race relations in a stream of polemical essays, articles and letters. This long overdue biography of Roderick Finlayson draws from his unpublished memoir, 'Scenes from a Writer's Several Lives', and from his correspondence with his friends D'Arcy Cresswell, Frank Sargeson, Bruce Beaver, James K. Baxter, O. E. Middleton, and the Greek artist Lydia Sarri. A Roderick Finlayson Reader, a selection of stories, essays, memoir, poems and letters, was published by Cold Hub Press in 2020. ...Show more