From the Hills above Taiamai by John Stirling
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. From the Hills Above Taiamai by John Stirling. 'From the hills Above Taiamai is the successor to John Stirling's first book On Four Legs and Two, short stories from a New Zealand country vet's practice. This new book is John Stirling's autobiography from the time he arrived in New Zealand i ...Show more
Going West by Maurice Gee
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider - takes that prize. Is he also a murderer? And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and is drawn to examine their lives. Going Westhas l ...Show more
Good Looks by Bill Manhire
$13.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Words themselves are the material from which poems are made, and Bill Manhire constructs his poems from words with unusual precision and style. This collection opens with poems which record the death of a father, and ens with poems about children and fatherhood.
Grave Mistake by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel. At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and - it later appeared - a debilitating disease, it was no wonder she took her own life. But no one believed she was the type - especial ...Show more
Greenstone by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
$19.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
The story of Greenstone is loosely based on the authors' own birth family, taking the romantic and legendary - and therefore more palatable - parts and making them into a novel. To the large family, the crippled father with a long heritage, and the mother at war with her employers, Ashton-Warner adds a ...Show more
Gulf (First edition and autographed) by Barry Crump
$95.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. First edition and signed by the author.
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$13.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
Lloyd Jones, author of the bestselling Mister Pip, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has delivered a poignant tale of a mother's quest to be united with her child. Hand Me Down World tells the story of a nameless Afric ...Show more
Hang On a Minute Mate by Barry Crump
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. Barry Crump writes once again of back country life as he knows it, of men who can turn their hands to any job, and he proves that A Good Keen Man was only a foretaste of the humor and story telling of which he is capable.
Harbouring by Jenny Pattrick
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
It is 1839 and Huw Pengellin is desperate to find a better life for his family than the one he ekes out in Wales. His wife, Martha, is fully aware just how foolhardy Huw's schemes can be, but she is keen to escape the foundry slums, as well as Huw's brother Gareth, with his hot eyes and roving hands. Mi ...Show more
Hard Frost by Newton John
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
"How did New Zealand writers make nationalism out of modernism? What did the process owe to a revolution in sexuality? And what did this mean for writing by women as the 1920s gave way to the 1930s? Writing as a poet as well as a historian, as a critic of ideology, and as a self-confessed fan of the nat ...Show more