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South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 by C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised a ...Show more
Talking About O'Dwyer by Stead, C. K.
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Talking About O'Dwyer by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Out of Print. Runner-up for the Montana Book Awards 2000 Deutz Medal for FictionWhat really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori Battalion, killed in battle for Crete during World War II? Half a century later, two Oxford dons attend the funeral of expatriate New Zealander O'Dwyer, and one reveals ...Show more
The End of the Century at the End of the World by C K Stead
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The End of the Century at the the End of the World by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 Necessary Angel by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The Red Tram by C K Stead
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Red Tram by C K Stead is another fine collection by one of New Zealand?s best writers. It includes some Auckland poems, some moving memories of childhood, poems about horses and cows, even one about his own legs. There are his usual satirical poems taking weapons from the writers of the past and ske ...Show more
The Right Thing by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Some of these poems are based on the same material as his recent well-received novel "Talking About O'Dwyer" and inclde a marvellous sequence "Crete" which will have meaning for many as Anzac Day approaches.
The Secret History of Modernism by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The arrival of a stranger to his house in Auckland leads renowned novelist Laslo Winter to look back to the past, to London, the late 1950s. The Empire was collapsing, yet young "colonials", for whom England remained a mythical place, were still drawn there from its farthest comers. Samantha Conlan had ...Show more
Three Poems For Kendrick Smithyman by Keith Sinclair; Murray Edmond C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good