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 first time. Together, they bring fresh insights to the largely Eurocentric criticism of Mansfield's work, and at the same time provide a commentary on Chinese literary history. The story of the rises and falls in Mansfield's popularity is fascinating, as it shifts with the major social, political and literary trends, which have given rise to modern China and its literature. 'Because hers is pure literature, its brilliance not shown, it is hidden deep within. It required careful perusal to reach the essence.' Xu Zhimo (1923) 'With remorseless irony she lays bare the hypocrisy and shallowness of the leisured class and their men of letters ...' Tang Baoxin (1982) ...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 Pocketful of Years by Frances Cleary

$15.00 NZD

Category: NZ Literature

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 This selection of his fiction and non-fiction--some of it unpublished, much of it previously uncollected--edited with an introduction by Roger Hickin, includes stories from his four short st ory collections, two chapters from the novel Tidal Creek, excerpts from an unpublished novel, the 1940 essay Our Life in this Land, autobiography, memoir, articles, letters and poems. 'If the honours and rewards now available for New Zealand writers included canonization, Roderick Finlayson would be the obvious candidate, probably the only one.' --Dennis McEldowney '. . . our first writer to move with any ease or authenticity among the most vital traditions this country has.' --Vincent O'Sullivan '. . . an artist whose commitment to the recognition and celebration of taha Maori was exemplary and prophetic.' --O. E. Middleton '. . . it was he who wrote of Maori and Pakeha and the importance of conserving the land, fifty years before there was a bandwagon for protesters to jump on.' --Kay Holloway 'I cross my heart when I say there are stories of yours, there are pages, which I would rather have written than anything I have written.' --Frank Sargeson in a letter to Roderick Finlayson. ...Show more

Akaroa Writers Association Selected Works June 2017-August 2019 by Various Authors

$26.50 NZD

Category: NZ Literature

Among the Cinders by Maurice Shadbolt

$35.00 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. The writers are both contemporary and historical and all have either lived in or visited the city concerned. All the extracts have something significant to say about the character of the city, and together they create a strong picture of what makes the city the unique place it is. Most of New Zealand's great writers are represented in the series. Each book is presented in an attractive cased and jacketed format. They can be dipped into at leisure or given to friends as a splendid memento of the city. The pictures on the jackets were specially commissioned from Christchurch born and Wellington-based artist Jacqueline Henderson, whose work is included in many private and corporate collections. Includes work by Maurice Gee, Paula Morris, C.K. Stead, Diane Brown, Albert Wendt, Tina Shaw, Peter Wells, Allen Curnow and more. ...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 of a young girl into womanhood - is at once interesting, moving and worth reading in its own right, but the succession of books read at each stage offer a linking motif. In Fiona's accessible, beautiful style, the work unfolds; it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, touching and intriguing - a work for every lover of books. An evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction — from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry; from Enid Blyton to Aphra Behn. Launched on 3rd September, at Our City, with a bevy of writers & readers, and MCB. ...Show more

Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrieson

$75.00 NZD

Category: NZ Literature

Check to Your King by Robin Hyde

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Literature

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.