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All Visitors Ashore by C K Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Once he watched the white ships sail past Rangitoto Island and dreamed of a future beyond New Zealand. Now he wants only to recapture the past. An Auckland community: two not-so-faithful restaurant-running musicians, a gay artist and his lodger, the recently electrified Cecilia Skyways who is writing he ...Show more
Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic by C K Stead
39.99 NZD
45.00 (11% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, ...Show more
Collected Poems, 1951-2006 by C. K. Stead
59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead's most lasting and memorable works into a single volume. Drawn from previously published works though his distinguished career, from his debut collection Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previous ...Show more
Kin of Place - Essays on 20 New Zealand Writers by C K Stead
39.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Distinguished novelist and poet, C. K. Stead is also widely respected as a critic whose analytic sophistication is matched by a lively and engaging style. Here he combines most of the important essays in In the Glass Case (AUP, 1981), long out of print, and five from Answering to the Language (AUP, 1989 ...Show more
Mansfield by C K Stead
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A fictionalised account of Katherine Mansfield's life, her loves and search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. A fascinating and enlightening account. Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and do ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C.K. Stead
54.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Jud ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
28.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas' name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Juda ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial version, recounted some forty years after the death of ...Show more
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