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Animals Indoors by de Montalk, Stephanie
19.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Full of the rhythms and billowing forms of everyday life, 'Animals Indoors' is the product of considerable industry and perfect strategy" - Gregory O'Brien. 'Animals Indoors' is a striking literary debut, introducing a distinctive and beguiling new poetic voice.
Cover Stories by Stephanie de Montalk
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Born in 1945, Stephanie de Montalk has worked as a nurse and a documentary film maker. She is a former member of the Film and Literature Board of Review. Since the mid-1990s she has published poems in Landfall, Sport and a range of other periodicals and anthologies. She was joint winner of the Victoria ...Show more
How Does it Hurt? Narrating Pain by Stephanie de Montalk
40.00 NZD
Category: Animal Biographies | Reading Level: very good
'It was pelvic pain and it started slowly in November 2003, two weeks after a fall. I slipped on the marble bathroom floor of a Warsaw hotel and bounced off the sharp edge of the bath, breaking three ribs on the lower left side. The pain was intermittent at first. It was also familiar...' In How Does It ...Show more
The Fountain of Tears by Stephanie de Montalk
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
This historical novel imagines the story behind Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's 600-line verse tale, 'The Fountain at Bakhchisaray', about the impossible love of a Tatar khan for a Polish countess held captive in his Crimean harem. The year is 1752. Young Polish countess, Maria Potocka, abducted from her ...Show more
The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang by Stephanie de Montalk
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The second collection from the award-winning author of Animals Indoors. ‘Stephanie de Montalk writes with unusual grace. . . . Animals Indoors is the best first book of poetry this year.’ Guy Allan, NZ Herald ‘Stephanie de Montalk has a flair for the theatrical, though she matches her artifice to the re ...Show more
Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk by Stephanie de Montalk
39.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Poet, polemicist, pagan, and pretender to the throne of Poland, Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk was one of the glittering generation of New Zealand poets of the 1930s. His career took a strange turn after he was imprisoned for obscene libel. Following a celebrated trial in London, he became increasing ...Show more
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