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Fish 'n' Chip Song and Other Stories by Carl Nixon
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Fish'n'chip Shop Song contains stories that evoke the South Island landscape as well as the New Zealand urban expanse. Stories that take surprising turns as they explore such things as 'saving' a pet parrot, a fruiterer's true love, a return to Crete, an anticipated seduction and the dreams of a suburba ...Show more
Settlers' Creek by Carl Nixon
24.99 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A poignant and contentious novel by a rising star of New Zealand literature. Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson's body in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up. What happens, though, when the boy's biological father, a Maori leader, unexpectedly turns up in the days before the fu ...Show more
The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
36.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth. From the top of the wooded bluff, where the rain-slick road had curved so treacherously, down to the swollen river at the base of the cliff, was easily six ...Show more
The Virgin & the Whale: A Love Story by Carl Nixon
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. Sh ...Show more
The Waters by Carl Nixon
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A novel in 21 stories. One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the fam ...Show more
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