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Risk by C K Stead
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter f ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectur ...Show more
South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 by C K Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised a ...Show more
Talking About O'Dwyer by C K Stead
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Out of Print. Runner-up for the Montana Book Awards 2000 Deutz Medal for FictionWhat really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori Battalion, killed in battle for Crete during World War II? Half a century later, two Oxford dons attend the funeral of expatriate New Zealander O'Dwyer, and one reveals ...Show more
The Black River by C K Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In May 2005 Karl Stead suffered a stroke which left him briefly dyslexic and innumerate but otherwise unaffected. During the days that followed he composed a series of short poems in his head, scribbling them into a notebook kept by his bed, ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Very Good
Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humor evident at every turn. The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and include ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C. K. Stead
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning Karl Stead.
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The New Poetic by C. K. Stead
32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classic Criticism S.
A classic survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to Eliot, including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
The Secret History of Modernism by C K Stead
29.95 NZD
34.95 (14% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The arrival of a stranger to his house in Auckland leads renowned novelist Laslo Winter to look back to the past, to London, the late 1950s. The Empire was collapsing, yet young "colonials", for whom England remained a mythical place, were still drawn there from its farthest comers. Samantha Conlan had ...Show more