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A Fine Pen: The Chinese View of Katherine Mansfield by Shifen Gong
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
For almost eighty years, Katherine Mansfield's stories and poems have been popular with Chinese readers, and she has had a significant influence on a number of short-story writers. In this book, Shifen Gong selects and introduces twenty texts about Mansfield and her work, translated into English for the ...Show more
A Needle in the Heart by Fiona Kidman
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
A collection of six stories linked by a central issue in the lives of the main characters, the defining incident that shapes their futures: the disappearance of a brother; an illegitimate child born to a young girl; a woman caught between the deep friendship of two men; a lost love; a betrayal.
A Roderick Finlayson Reader edited by Roger Hickin by Roderick Finlayson
$42.50 NZD
$43.00 (1% off)
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: new
Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992) was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who came to prominence in the 1930s. This selection of his fiction and non-fiction--some of it unpublished, much of it previously uncollected--edited with an introduction by Roger Hickin, includes stories from his four short st ...Show more
Akaroa Writers Association Selected Works June 2017-August 2019 by Various Authors
$26.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
An English Kiwi : Favourite Columns from the Christchurch Star by Brian Priestley; Drawings by Galina Kim
$11.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Early NZ TV icon who became a controversial newspaper columnist.
Auckland: The City in Literature by Edited by Witi Ihimaera
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Series: Our City Series | Reading Level: very good
Each book in this groundbreaking series is an anthology of writing featuring one of our major cities. Chosen with care by a well-known editor from each city, the selections are usually from works of fiction (short stories and novels), but extracts from writers' memoirs and some poems are also included. ...Show more
Book Book by Fiona Farrell
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
This isn't strictly autobiography nor is it entirely fiction, but, through a story of a life, it shows that books have a certain function and this is the way they have functioned in this life: as something mysterious, consolatory, instructive, enlightening and amusing. The life in itself - of the growth ...Show more
Christchurch: the city in literature by Anna Rogers
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Series: Our City S. | Reading Level: very good
Includes work by Ngaio Marsh,Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Fiona Farrell, Hone Tuwhare, Kate Flannery, Owen Marshall, Jennifer Maxwell, Denis Glover and more.