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  • The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest

    Travel Tales of the South Pacific

    by Graeme Lay ...
    This marvelous collection of travel stories from the South Pacific reveals Paul Gauguin's shocking Tahitian secrets, retraces the last tragic days of Robert Louis Stevenson, and recounts the author's own haunting by Herman Melville, as well as his attempts to seduce the Slovenian Olympic ski team in the Cook Islands. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Zealand Book of the Beach

    selected and introduced by Graeme Lay

    by Graeme Lay ...
    A thematic anthology from the cream of New Zealand’s writers. ‘This book is so redolent of the beach you can smell the lupins. The baches and beaches and the cool front cover are as we all remember them. Fibrolite baches, pohutukawas leaning into the sand, silvery seas, big fish, rips and tides. These stories have heart, soul and that inimitable, unsettling, New Zealand undertow woven into them.… ... Read more

    $6.05 USD

  • Alice and Luigi

    by Graeme Lay ...
    ‘Graeme Lay brings to tumultuous life all of Luigi’s triumphs and tragedies as he strives for a new beginning in 19th century New Zealand. And every reader will surely remember Alice, Luigi’s great love, as one of the most indomitable heroines ever.’ Stephanie Johnson ... Read more

    $6.05 USD

  • Way Back Then Before We Were Ten

    New Zealand Writers and Childhood

    by Graeme Lay ...
    In this wonderful collection of stories and memoir from childhood, twenty-six distinguished New Zealand writers evoke memories of their early years. Their stories and memoirs resonate with love and betrayal, friendship and disloyalty, elation and anxiety. The writing features parents and teachers, peers, siblings and other relatives, the loveable and the unloveable. There are wondrous discoveries ... Read more

    $6.05 USD

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    An affectionate and hilarious tribute to the childhood of another era, from one of Australia's favourite authorsA memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work ... Read more

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  • A Wife On Gorge River

    by Catherine Stewart ...
    Life with New Zealand's remotest family in a follow-on from the bestselling A Life on Gorge River by Robert Long. In 2010, New Zealand met its remotest family, through the writing of Robert Long - aka Beansprout - and we were intrigued. Now Beansprout's wife, Catherine Stewart, tells her story, and answers many of our questions. Why did she decide to join him on the wild West Coast, two days' walk ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Decline and Fall on Savage Street

    by Fiona Farrell ...
    A fascinating prize-winning novel about a house with a fanciful little turret, built by a river. Unfolding within its rooms are lives of event and emotional upheaval. A lot happens. And the tumultuous events of the twentieth century also leave their mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and princesses to new waves of music, art, architecture and political ideas. Meanwhile, ... Read more

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  • Auckland

    The city in literature

    Edited by Witi Ihimaera (ed) ...
    Series Book 1 - Our City
    In his introduction to this anthology, Witi Ihimaera describes Auckland, Tamaki makau rau, as the place desired by many. The variety in this absorbing collection of short stories, poetry and extracts from novels and memoirs shows that while Auckland may not always have been desirable, it has certainly fascinated generations of very different writers, who have explored almost every part of this far ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments

    by Ann Quin ...
    This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Book Book

    by Fiona Farrell ...
    An evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction from an award-winning novelist. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home and returned, and in all these years books have shaped her life and made sense of the world ... Read more

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  • A Life On Pittwater

    by Susan Duncan ...
    This special story edition takes the words from Susan Duncan's bestselling A Life on Pittwater and offers a rare glimpse of a remarkable part of the world.Susan Duncan came to Pittwater when she impulsively bought a tumbledown, boxy little shack in Lovett Bay. The move changed her life forever, as she describes in her bestselling title, Salvation Creek. Now Susan lives in Tarangaua, the gracious ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One

    Two enchanting stories from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

    by Mary Stewart ...
    The sweeping long-lost novella, now available in paperback for the first time in 40 years, alongside recently rediscovered short story 'The Lost One', from the original queen of romantic suspense'Total heaven' Harriet EvansLanzarote. A wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family distraught.Perdita West, secretary to a famou... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD