Literature & Biography

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Books about New Zealand Literature, Language & Biography

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MORE» PARLIAMENT'S LIBRARY 150 YEARS
John E. Martin
ISBN9781877448430
$59.99

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. 

MORE» ON THE ORIGIN OF STORIES.
Brian Boyd.
ISBN9780674033573
$75.00

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. 

MORE» MISTER PIP
Lloyd Jones
ISBN 9780143020899
$35.00

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. A novel set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war.

Paperback, Auckland, Penguin, 2006, 23 cm, 220 pages. NEW


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THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES
Katherine Mansfield
ISBN 9780141441801
$27.00

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

MORE» KATHERINE MANSFIELD, THE COLLECTED STORIES
Katherine Mansfield
ISBN 9780141441818
$29.95

Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories, with an introduction by Ali Smith.

Paperback, Auckland, Penguin Classics, 2007, 20 cm, 779 pages. NEW

MORE» THE HOUSE OF STRIFE
Maurice Shadbolt
ISBN 0340599669
$30.00

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

MORE» THE LETTERS OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRAY TO KATHERINE MANSFIELD
C.A. Hankin (editor)
ISBN 009153500X
$22.50

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

MORE» LETTERS AND ART IN NEW ZEALAND
E.H. McCormick
0106
$30.00

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


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FINDING OUR OWN VOICE
Elizabeth Gordon
ISBN 9781877257773
$24.95

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

MORE» THE OXFORD HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Terry Sturm (editor)
ISBN 019558385X
$32.50

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

MORE» IN MY FATHER'S DEN
Maurice Gee
ISBN 0143019414
$28.00

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

MORE» COUNTLESS SIGNS, THE NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE
Trudie McNaughton
ISBN 0474000516
$27.50

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