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A Man Walks Out of a Bar - Lucien Rizos, New Zealand Photographs, 1979-1982 by Lucien Rizos; Damian Skinner; Ian Wedde
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Pictorial | Reading Level: Very Good
Bill Culbert: Making Light Work by Ian Wedde
79.99 NZD
99.99 (20% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. In Bill Culbert: Making Light Work, the first substantial book on Culbert, Ian Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions that have formed Culbert's art over the past 50 years.
Chinese Opera by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.'Little Frank is 120 years old and he's lost his mind or the part that can put damaged memories back together. Once the gang boss of The Place hes traded his imagination for secure long life. Trapped ...Show more
Dick Seddon's Great Dive and other stories by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: THW Classics | Reading Level: near fine
First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding's literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon's Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was republished in The Shirt Factory and other stories by VUP in 1981. Dick Seddon's Great Dive traces the story of ...Show more
Ian Wedde - Selected Poems by Ian Wedde
39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1978; his sixteenth and most recent was a finalist in 2014. By the mid-1980s, as ...Show more
Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992 - 2004 by Ian Wedde
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Passionate, witty and erudite, these essays and talks disclose persistent questionings of the role of institutions in culture. One of New ZealandâÃÂÃÂs leading writers, Ian Wedde worked from 1994 to 2004 as a member of the conceptual team charged with developing the Museum of New Zealand Te ...Show more
Nine New Zealand Novellas by Witi Ihimaera; Janet Frame; Ian Wedde; Keri Hulme; Chad Taylor
39.99 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
This anthology features nine top authors in a fascinating anthology that groups the best examples of the novella, a form in which many New Zealand fiction writers have excelled. The collection includes:Janet Frame: Snowman, SnowmanMaurice Shadbolt: Figures in LightRonald Hugh Morrieson: Pallet on the Fl ...Show more
Ralph Hotere: Black Light - Major works including collaborations with Bill Culbert by Ralph Hotere & Cilla Mcqueen & Priscilla Pitts & Mary Trewby & John Walsh & Ian Wedde (eds.)
49.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
Black Light celebrates the work of one of New ZealandâÃÂÃÂs greatest artists, Ralph Hotere. Born in 1931 in the Te Aupouri community of Taikarawa in the northern Hokianga, Hotere has baffled commentators and awed viewers for more than forty years. In this book, which accompanied the exhibition Bl ...Show more
The Catastrophe by Ian Wedde
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Age of Excess has been good to Christopher Hare. One of the world's top food writers, he has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, with the chic dining companion known to readers of his lavish books as The Glace. But, in the new mood of austerity ushered in by the credit cr ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more
The Lifeguard : Poems 2008-2013 by Ian Wedde
27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfa ...Show more
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty by Ian Wedde
21.99 NZD
24.99 (12% off)
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Five extended poems linked by themes of beauty and language make up this lively new collection from one of the best New Zealand poets writing today. The long poem gives Wedde room to explore these themes in detail, weaving back and forth, accumulating phrases, images and sounds, always with characterist ...Show more