The Public Be Damned by Alexander Paterson O'Shea
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. Second Edition. Criticism of the Government's economic policy from the farmers' point of view.
Verbatim 1 by Various Authors
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. Rare. A poetry pamphlet where he writers of the articles are trying to fight their own forgetfulness and the feeling of empty unreality that results from forgetting.
The Treasury of American Short Stories by Nancy Sulivan (ed.)
$22.50 NZD
Category: Literature
Secondhand. First published in 1981. Selected and With An Introduction by Nancy Sulivan.
The Last Devil To Die (#4 Thursday Murder Club) by Richard Osman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The\Thursday Murder Club Ser.
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home. With ...Show more
The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945 by MacDonald P. Jackson and Vincent O'Sullivan
$19.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. This is an invaluable collection of the best New Zealand poetry and short fiction of the last forty years, including work by Janet Frame, Maurice Duggan, Joy Cowley, Maurice Gee, and important younger writers.
Fourteen Poems to say I Love You by VARIOUS AUTHORS
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
How many ways are there to say the words "I love you"? According to poetry, the ways are countless and rich with room for humour, lust, tenderness and a healthy dose of self-mockery. These fourteen poems are not about love but declare it with an immediacy that's captivating and irresistible. Longing may ...Show more
Ten Poems for Autumn
$15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Autumn can be so many things. There are some years when summer seems to pack up her bags and disappear in the space of just a few days. Other times there’s a delicious lingering of warmth so that autumn seems to be merely a softer, more gentle version of what has gone before: “The trees glittered with ...Show more
Dark Sky by Marie Connolly
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Criminal psychologist Nellie Prayle loves solving murders. The more complicated, the better. But when a professor of astronomy is found dead at Tekapo’s Mount John Observatory during its internationally-attended 50th anniversary conference celebrations and Detective Jack Simmons calls on Nellie to help ...Show more
The Best of Lupin: Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Ars ne Lupin is a gentleman and a thief, a world-famous master of disguise and a planner of elaborate heists. His exploits are regularly splashed across newspaper pages, entertaining all of France as Inspector Ganimard of the Paris Police fruitlessly pursues him. Lupin often turns detective himself when ...Show more
Speaking for Ourselves by Frank Sargeson (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. This is an anthology of short stories compiled and edited by Frank Sargeson and published by Caxton Press. Many of the writers included in this collection were mentored by Sargeson.
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Sdecondhand. Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Ro ...Show more
The Complete Plays William Shakespeare 8 Volumes by William Shakespeare
$375.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Secondhand. The superb Jubilee Set, complete 8 volume set in two slip cases – set in Baskerville by Oxford University Press – printed at the Bath press on Caxton wove paper and bound by them in Oxford Library Buckram.A revised edition of the 1988 issue with corrections. Some of the frontispiece engrav ...Show more