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The High Jump by Elizabeth Knox
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New Zealand Childhood. Acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Knox recreates the sensory pleasures and gathering shadows of a New Zealand childhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a collection of the novellas Pomare (1989), Paremata (1994) and Tawa (1998).
The Love School: Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Collects twenty years of Elizabeth Knoxnon-fiction, beginning with her 1988 essay Origins, Authority and Imaginary Games, which tells the story of her writing beginnings in childhood imaginary games played with her sisters and friends. Other autobiographical pieces deal with leaving home, working at Inl ...Show more
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard when he stumbles on an angel. Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to ...Show more
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: VUP Classics Ser.
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
Vintner's Luck - 10th Anniversary Ed by Knox Elizabeth
60.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard when he stumbles on an angel. Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to ...Show more
Wake by Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes ap ...Show more