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All Visitors Ashore by C.K. Stead
$13.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the foreground of All Visitor's Ashore is a set of bizarre characters, all of whom seem bent on escaping from New Zealand into a larger world. The 1951 waterfront lockout is on, the harbour is full of cargo vessels, but the passenger ships continue to sail. One by one or two by two the characters in ...Show more
Mansfield by C.K. Stead
$28.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
A fictionalised account of Katherine Mansfield's life, her loves and search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. A fascinating and enlightening account. Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and do ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas' name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Juda ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectur ...Show more
Smith's Dream by C.K. Stead
$13.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
When Smith is left by his wife and goes to hide away in the bush in the Coromandel he never imagines he will become the most wanted man in the country. In a right-wing coup one man, Volkner, has seized power in New Zealand and is using army and special police to maintain his government. Smith's Dream fo ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humor evident at every turn. The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and include ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The Singing Whakapapa by C K Stead
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Penguin Award-Winning Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Singing Whakpapais a tale for our time - a compelling historical detective story in which the truth is stranger than any fiction, and in which the present becomes a backseat driver to the past.What is the truth of history, what are the facts - and how are we to know them? This powerful novel is the ...Show more
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