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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
Countless Signs - The New Zealand Landscape in Literature: An Anthology by Trudie McNaughton (Compiled by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Country of Writing by Lydia Wevers
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
The first substantial study of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period, Country of Writing puts it into the wider context of the European settlement of new societies. It discusses a great range of writing often from little-known names and unexpected sources who all played a part in putti ...Show more
In Endless Fear: A True Story by Colin Crump
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
"He had a length of milking machine hose in his hand and I watched in terror as once more he laid into my brother Barry with a merciless thrashing that just went on and on, Barry just lying there, as he always did, and taking it all. Then he turned on me â they were really ferocious blows. The weapon ...Show more
In the Lifetime of a Goat: Writings, 1984-2000 by Marilyn Waring
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
New Zealand knew her first as a National MP; now this homegrown heroine works variously as a goat farmer, Associate Professor in Politics at Massey University (Albany) and international development consultant. Marilyn Waring's book collects her best writing â some published and some new â on i ...Show more
Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield by Joanna Woods
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: very good
Katherine, or Katya as she liked to be called, became addicted to Russian style during her first trip to London and believed she had a special affinity with the Russian temperament. Her early writing was likened to Russian writing, so much so that critics thought that she actually plagiarised Chekov. Ma ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield - Selected Letters by Katherine Mansfield; Vincent O'Sullivan (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence draws from the five volumes of her Collected Letters currently being published by Clarendon Press, and ranges from the period of her adolescence to shortly before her death twenty years later. The letters, many of which are to John Mi ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield in Picton by Julie Kennedy
$27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Katherine Mansfield, at 19 and 'bored with Wellington', left New Zealand to be a writer. She never returned. Shortly before her death at 34 in 1923, she wrote (in a story fragment): 'It was one of those days so clear, so still, so silent you almost feel the earth itself has stopped in astonishment at it ...Show more
Mary Taylor Friend of Charlotte Bronte Letters from New Zealand & Elsewhere by Joan Stevens (Editor)
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Ned and Katina: A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
$14.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far ...Show more
No.8 Re-charged: 202 World-changing Innovations from New Zealand by David Downs & Dr Michelle Dickinson
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Take notice, world, New Zealand is undergoing a re-charge.The 'No. 8 wire' thinking we have been so proud of is being expanded and improved.No. 8 Re-charged tells a compelling and accessible story of modern New Zealand and its world-beating products and ideas. From drone technology to electric farm bike ...Show more