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A comprehensive record of New Zealand writing in accessible form. Contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements and professional organisations. The companion is the culmination of more than five years meticulous preparation.
Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardback with dust jacket. 608 pages. SECONDHAND
Novel. FIRST EDITION. Printed in London. Slight chips to dust jacket otherwise fine.
Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1963. Hardback with dust jacket. 192 pages. SECONDHAND
Novel. FIRST EDITION. Slight chips to dust jacket, otherwise fine.
Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1965. Hardback with dust jacket. 270 pages. SECONDHAND
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’.
Penguin Classics, Auckland. Paperback. 159 pages. NEW
Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories, with an introduction by Ali Smith.
Penguin Classics, Auckland. Paperback. 779 pages. NEW
Charles Brasch is remembered as a patron of the arts and founder of Landfall, however he was also a New Zealand poet of some distinction. This collection of his work was selected and edited by Alan Roddick.
Oxford University Press. Hardback with sunned dustjacket. 256 Pages. SECONDHAND
A Voice for the Mintour, Selected poems by Maurice Duggan. Printed for the Holloway Press by Tara McLeod, this is number 78 of a limited edition of 150 copies. Includes a photograph opposite title page of Duggan by Marti Friedlander.
Holloway Press. Hardback. 51 Pages. SECONDHAND
Poet and writer Lauris Edmond died in 2000. This definitive edition of Edmond's poetry is introduced by her fellow poet and critic K.O. Arvidson.
Bridgit Williams. Softback. 198 Pages. SECONDHAND
A book of poetry was written by Hone Tuwhare during his term as Poet Laureate. It celebrates a specific place, his home at Kaka Point in South Otago. This is number 1805 of a limited edition of 2000 copies.
Godwit. Hardback with dustjacket. 78 Pages. SECONDHAND
Former M.P. MariIyn Waring is an erudite writer and professor of politics. 'Lifetime of a Goat' contains the best of her Listener columns along with new work.
Bridget Williams. Softback. 158 Pages. SECONDHAND
In 1850, scandal, desperation and ambition create an upheval in the lives of many English people. They are encouraged to leave England and seek a new life in a place called New Zealand. On arrival in the new colony, old habits die hard. In the mad scramble for fame and fortune, huge risks are taken, morals are compromised and those in authority hoodwinked. Wool becomes king and the new rich build their opulent mansions. The foundations of a nation are laid and the resilient and triumphant character of its people evolves. A inspiring human drama set amid the birth of a great nation.
McDonnell Publishing Co., Christchurch, 2011. Popular fiction. Softback. 398 pages. NEW.
The first biography of the Triad's founder and editor. Notoriously outspoken, he was feared and respected as a critic, his music criticism was particularly intelligent. An engaging portrait of a facinating man and his interesting magazine.
Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2008. Softback. 247 pages. NEW
For much of the twentieth century New Zealand Truth was the tough, vulgar tabloid newspaper that tapped the pulse of Kiwi populism. By the mid 1960's the 'peoples paper' claimed an astonnishing one million readers a week. This book tells how Truth revolutionised the local newspaper industry by introducing a 'new journalism' in 1905, which aimed a core diet of sex, crime, radical politics and random muck-raking directly at the masses. The scandal ridden history of Truth has never been told before.
Craig Potton Publishing. Softback. 204 Pages. NEW.
This is a survey and history of women in New Zealand journalism from the 1860s to the 1940s who took up their pens as freelance writers, jobbing journalists and occasional editors.
Frazer Books, Masterton, 2009. Softback. 237 pages. NEW
