Signs of Life by Amy Head
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol, and boomer Carla ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more
The Nature of Middle-Earth by J R R Tolkien
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
This elegant slipcased edition presents for collectors the first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects. Stamped in gold foil, and printed on heavyweight acid-free paper, it includes a ribbon marker and is housed in a custom-built matching ...Show more
Off the Map by Scot Gardner
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
By turns dark and light, funny and poignant, this unforgettable collection of stories takes us right to the heart of what it means to be young in today's world, from a CBCA award-winning author. Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of nowhere. We ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka; Alexander Starritt (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, ...Show more
Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers | VUP Classic by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and i ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #15
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
38.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...Show more
Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition by Ernest Hemingway
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of a veteran's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean. "A century since i ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two by Roald Dahl
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both". (Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction). Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular wr ...Show more