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All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: near fine
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of t ...Show more
And So It Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Hot on the heels of Being Here, O'Sullivan's capacious selected poems, which many chose as one of the poetry highlights of the year, comes a collection of 75 new poems. They show a mature poet, full of experience, still with the capacity to dazzle.
Being Here: Selected Poems by Vincent O'Sullivan
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature's finest poets.
Believers to the Bright Coast by Vincent O'Sullivan
33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The infamous Dr. Crippen's mistress finds a new life in disreputable Auckland in the early days of the century. A French nun, Marie Claire, gives herself to working among the disabled and the poor... Young Spicer, a slow-witted lad who looks great in a chauffeur's uniform, finds himself deeply involved ...Show more
Blame Vermeer by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Vincent O'Sullivan delights his many enthusiastic readers with another fine collection of poems, playfully entitled Blame Vermeer. He is the author of two novels - Let the River Stand, which won the 1994 The Montana NZ Book Awards, and Believers to the Bright Coast, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Ta ...Show more
Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 by Vincent O'Sullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is re ...Show more
Let the River Stand by Vincent O'Sullivan
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This first novel by Vincent O'Sullivan is set in rural New Zealand in the 1930-40s against a backdrop of the depression and two World Wars. Alex, tall and solitary, finds himself in Spain fighting with the Republicans.
Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan by Vincent O'Sullivan
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book award, Biography section. Author of the classic novel Man Alone, John Mulgan emerges from this penetrating biography as a man who spoke for the generation that grew up between the wars, overshadowed by one and matured in another. From one perspective he was a gla ...Show more
Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan by Vincent O'Sullivan
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
John Mulgan was part of a gifted yet uneasy group of young New Zealanders who madetheir mark between the wars – men such as Ian Milner, James Bertram, Dan Davin and Geoffrey Cox. An Oxford graduate, he worked as a publisher at Oxford University Press before leaving for the front in World War Two.Fascina ...Show more
Lucky Table by Vincent O'Sullivan
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This collection shows Vincent O'Sullivan -- one of New Zealand's leading poets -- at the height of his artistic powers. Demonstrating the author's effortless command of a wide range of poetic forms, the varied themes range from satirical treatments of contemporary intellectual and political culture, to ...Show more
Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques and Other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back – only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south ...Show more
Nice Morning For It, Adam by Vincent O'Sullivan
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Poetry category in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005. The judges said that OÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂSullivan was an extraordinary voice in New Zealand literature, and perhaps, only perhaps, this is best seen in his poetry. Vincent O'Sullivan is one of New Zealand's leading writers. ...Show more