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After Z-Hour by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. Each one of them is locked into the mechanisms of the past. As six people tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds. Lost somewhere in the house is the voice of Mark, a young New Zealand serviceman, who d ...Show more
Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Knox, an energetic magical realist with a vibrant comic imagination, scores strongly again with this densely plotted tale of a waiflike shipwreck survivor's bizarre life and loves." Kirkus Reviews With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and all the surprising, earthy and magical qualities of her bestse ...Show more
Daylight by Elizabeth Knox
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brian "Bad" Phelan, New Zealander and bomb disposal expert, likes to live dangerously. While on vacation on the French/Italian border in 2001, he helps to bring a body out of a rocky, wave-swept cove. The dead woman bears striking similarities to a young woman he met years ago, under mysterious circumst ...Show more
Dreamhunter (Invisible Road #1) by Elizabeth Knox
35.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Invisible Road | Reading Level: good
Set in 1906, "Dreamhunter" describes a world very similar to ours, except for a special place, where only a select group of people can go. These are the Dreamhunters and they harvest dreams which are then transmitted to the general public. This work is suitable for children aged 11 and above.
Dreamquake (Invisible Road #2) by Elizabeth Knox
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Invisible Road | Reading Level: very good
The story continues dramatically as Grace, overdreamt by Laura, introduces a nightmare instread of the happy holiday dream programmed to a packed Opera House audience, with chaotic results.
Glamour and the Sea by Elizabeth Knox
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a swift wind-jammer of a novel, and the hurricane in the middle of the voyage is a dark wartime love story. Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Knox's fifth book is a tale of missing persons and mistaken identity, of living memory and its shadow, amnesia. In 1947 Ray Knox is 20, a merchant seaman a ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
29.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family-and riddles within riddles-from the author of international sensation The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she s ...Show more
Tawa by Elizabeth Knox
19.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He had something to show her, he said. He sat on his narrow lumpy bed and patted the cover beside him. He unfolded a long concertina of pictures - like The Silhouette Theatre, Steph explained - of men and women doing things to each other. It was old, this pamphlet, with the ink gone in its creases; it ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
37.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy
Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down, and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when Taryn's problems really begin. Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the driver's ...Show more
The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox
15.50 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft de ...Show more