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Aspiring by Damien Wilkins
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all. Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in Aspiring, a town that’s growing at an alarming rate. Ricky’s growing, too — 6’7”, and taller every day. But he’s stuck in a loop: student, uncommitted basketballer, and puzzled son, burdened b ...Show more
Chemistry by Damien Wilkins
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Webb family seem genetically disposed towards medicine. Don, the eldest brother, runs a small town pharmacy. Penny, the abused wife, neglectful mother and firebrand sister, is a doctor. And Jamie, the youngest son, has been self-medicating with heroin for longer than seems physically possible. When ...Show more
Dad Art by Damien Wilkins
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It’s Wellington, now. Acoustic Engineer Michael Stirling’s old life is gone. He’s on the dating scene, learning te reo Maori, living in an upmarket apartment complex, and visiting his father who has dementia. Wearing his online dating disguise, Michael meets Chrissie, the widowed mother of a young son. ...Show more
For Everyone Concerned & other stories by Damien Wilkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This exhilarating mixture of fables, satires, notes to self and short shorts will further enhance Wilkins's reputation as one of the most daring and innovative of New Zealand's leading writers. First published June 2007.
Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport Magazine 1988-2004 by Damien Wilkins (ed)
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Emily Perkins and Catherine Chidgey are just two writers who first appeared in print in Sport's pages. They appear here in an invigorating mix of celebrated writers and new discoveries. This anthology defines the most exciting and creative era in New Zealand's literary history. It is also an entertainin ...Show more
Little Masters by Damien Wilkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
It’s 1928 and the world’s most famous novelist, Thomas Hardy, is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his high-powered literary friends are becoming locked in a bitter fight with local supporters. Who owns Hardy’s remains? Who knew the great man b ...Show more
Nineteen Widows under Ash by Damien Wilkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Evelyn has left her home and her husband. She has taken her thirteen-year-old daughter two thousand miles across the USA to her childhood home. The drizzly Pacific Northwest suits Evelyn's mood perfectly. She takes small doses of liquor from a secret supply and spends her time smoking under wet trees in ...Show more
Somebody Loves Us All by Damien Wilkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Speech therapist Paddy knows better than most how our speech marks us and shapes our destiny, but even he is totally unprepared and unable to cope when his mother Teresa wakes up one morning speaking in a heavy French accent. Deeply moving and disarmingly funny, Speech Marks is Damien Wilkins' finest no ...Show more
The Veteran Perils by Damien Wilkins
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Pacific Writers | Reading Level: good
When Famous People Come to Town (Montana Estates Essay Series) by Damien Wilkins
$5.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Montana estates essay series | Reading Level: very good
Four Winds Press is a new publishing venture established by Llyod Jones (author of "The Book of Fame" and "Here At The End of the World We Dance") to encourage and develop the essay genre. The first in The Monatna Estates Essay Series are essays by Vince O'Sullivan, Damien Wilkins and Kate Camp.
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