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Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Wild futuristic ride by author of Vintner's Luck. Black Oxen is the story of Carme Risk's pursuit of her beautiful and not quite human father through two worlds and three changes of identity. In her forties, in the year 2022, Risk has entered narrative therapy. Her memories and her father's journal take ...Show more
Glamour and the Sea by Elizabeth Knox
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a swift wind-jammer of a novel, and the hurricane in the middle of the voyage is a dark wartime love story. Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Knox's fifth book is a tale of missing persons and mistaken identity, of living memory and its shadow, amnesia. In 1947 Ray Knox is 20, a merchant seaman a ...Show more
Tawa by Elizabeth Knox
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He had something to show her, he said. He sat on his narrow lumpy bed and patted the cover beside him. He unfolded a long concertina of pictures - like The Silhouette Theatre, Steph explained - of men and women doing things to each other. It was old, this pamphlet, with the ink gone in its creases; it ...Show more
The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft de ...Show more
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
Treasure by Elizabeth Knox
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. American preacher Deane Omo flies in to the Wellington mission of his family's Charismatic church to heal the sick, and to bring his cousin Mayhew Quitman back into the fold. In a flat high above the city, Kath and Martin play out the dif ...Show more
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