Parliament's Library 150 Years by John E. Martin. This well illustrated book tells the full story of the founding, growth and development of New Zealand's Parliamentary Library over the past 150 years.
Softback. 270 pages. NEW.
On the Origin of Stories by Brian Boyd. "Integrating a vast array of findings in the social and biological sciences and in the history of the arts, Boyd makes a compelling case for art as an adaptive human behavior". The book is indispensible reading for anyone who wants to think about the nature of fiction.
Hardback. 540 pages. NEW.
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. A novel set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war.
Paperback, Auckland, Penguin, 2006, 23 cm, 220 pages. NEW
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. ‘Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen short stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield’s tragically short life’.
Paperback, Auckland , Penguin Classics, 2007, 20 cm, 159 pages. NEW
Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories, with an introduction by Ali Smith.
Paperback, Auckland, Penguin Classics, 2007, 20 cm, 779 pages. NEW
The House of Strife by Maurice Shadbolt. Plagiarist Ferdinand Wildblood flees to New Zealand only to find himself caught up in the battle between Maori and Pakeha settlers during the colonial era. Another volume in Shadbolt’s New Zealand Wars trilogy. Auckland, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. 1st edition.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 23.5 cm, 294 pages. SECONDHAND
The Letters of John Middleton Murray to Katherine Mansfield, selected and edited by C.A. Hankin. Auckland, Hutchinson , 1983.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 22.5 cm, 394 pages. SECONDHAND
Letters and Arts in New Zealand by E.H. McCormick. Centennial Surveys, part 10. Wellington, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, 1940.
Hardback with dust-jacket, slightly foxed, illustrated, 21.5 cm, 205 pages. SECONDHAND
Finding Our Own Voice, New Zealand English in the Making by Elizabeth Gordon. From the Macmillan Brown Lecture Series. Christchurch, Canterbury University Press, 2008.
Softback, 21 cm, 108 pages. NEW
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English edited by Terry Stum. 2nd edition, Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 24 cm, 890 pages. SECONDHAND
In My Father’s Den by Maurice Gee. A tale of murder and a family fragmented by the consequences. Auckland, Penguin Books, (1972) 2004.
Paperback, 19.5 cm, 175 pages. NEW
Countless Signs, The New Zealand Landscape in Literature, an anthology compiled by Trudie McNaughton. Wellington, Reed Methuen, 1986.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 25 cm, 389 pages. SECONDHAND
