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All Visitors Ashore by C K Stead
$6.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Once he watched the white ships sail past Rangitoto Island and dreamed of a future beyond New Zealand. Now he wants only to recapture the past. An Auckland community: two not-so-faithful restaurant-running musicians, a gay artist and his lodger, the recently electrified Cecilia Skyways who is writing he ...Show more
Between by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The first new collection of verse from this distinguished New Zealand writer for some years.
Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic by C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, ...Show more
C K Stead - Quesada - Poems 1972-74 by C K Stead
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
C K Stead - Straw into Gold - Poems New and Selected by C K Stead
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Kin of Place - Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers by C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Distinguished novelist and poet, C. K. Stead is also widely respected as a critic whose analytic sophistication is matched by a lively and engaging style. Here he combines most of the important essays in In the Glass Case (AUP, 1981), long out of print, and five from Answering to the Language (AUP, 1989 ...Show more
Mansfield by C K Stead
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
A fictionalised account of Katherine Mansfield's life, her loves and search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. A fascinating and enlightening account. Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and do ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial version, recounted some forty years after the death of ...Show more
Risk by C K Stead
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter f ...Show more
Sister Hollywood by C K Stead
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a girl who ran away from New Zealand to Hollywood, her affair with a producer, her marriage and her rise to power. C.K.Stead won the 1985 New Zealand Book Award for All Visitors Ashore. He also wrote The Death of the Body, Smith's Dream and Five for the Symbol.