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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. Katherine Mansfield
 
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author: Lloyd Jones
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 6
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family and longing. Jones's extraordinary tales take conventional family situations and tilts them sideways, delivering a memorable, beautiful blend of the suburban and the surreal.

First published September 2009, Auckland
Trade paperback
Short stories
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9781869508494
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Deborah Challinor
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
In Stock: 5
A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists.

B Format paperback.
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9781869791438
Lost in Translation : New Zealand Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Marco Sonzogni (ed.)
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 4
Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures.
This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart.
Lying at the core of our interactions, words are both salves and weapons, they can be simple and fork-tongued. How we read, how we misinterpret each other, can reveal the nature of our society, its diversity, complexity and richness. Written by a mix of leading New Zealand writers, with Maori, British, Irish, Polynesian, ... more
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9781869418687
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Janet Frame
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
In Stock: 4
'The Southern Cross cuts through my heart instead of through the sky.' A weekend away from home. But where is home? Is it London? Or New Zealand? Grace Cleave, expatriate novelist living in London, is holidaying in the north of England. Her host asks why she has abandoned her homeland: 'Don't you ever want to go back?''I was a certified lunatic in New Zealand. Go back? I was advised to sell hats for my salvation.' In this previously unpublished novel, Janet Frame explores themes of travel and return, homesickness and belonging. Grace is a migratory bird, longing for her own place in the world, if she can only decide where it is. She is struggling to establish her identity as a writer, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin (feathers and all). Written in 1963, this work is an exquisitely composed precursor to An Angel at My Table, the autobiography Janet Frame wrote 20 years later (inspiring Jane Campion's memorable ... more
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author: Peter Wells
Published by: Vintage (Random House imprint)
In Stock: 3
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book Award, Fiction section

Can you keep a secret? Remittance men were sent away from Britain to live in a colony on a small and regular sum - a remittance. Usually behind them was some disgrace or scandal, a secret that each man carried, often to the grave. Scandal and secrets are at the heart of Iridescence, a novel that spans two decades of the Victorian age. It follows the intrigues and sexual shenanigans of the theatre world in a brilliantly amoral London to the small and dusty town of Napier in New Zealand. Can you keep a secret? Samuel Barton, a remittance man, is blown into Napier in 1871, after an undisclosed scandal. He is damaged goods, but he carries with him an earring made up of fabulous jewels. With this earring he will buy his freedom. As we follow the story of the jewel, so Samuel Barton's secret life is revealed, piece by piece, We are taken into the very heart of a ... more
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9780143203612
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Vanessa Johnson
Published by: Puffin
In Stock: 3
DoP January 2010, Auckland

Lydia Kyriacos has it all - a stylish flat in Notting Hill Gate, a successful banker boyfriend, a great job in the West End and friends who can always be relied on to keep the party going. But within the next 48 hours that's all about to change, because Lydia also has a big problem that's not going away. When her perfect life crashes down around her there's nowhere to hide from the truth that she's out of control. Can she put down her wineglass long enough to discover the party's over, and will she recognise the one man who truly 'gets' her before it's too late?
 
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