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Return to Harikoa Bay by Owen Marshall
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
New work from the master of the short story and author of the story 'Coming Home in the Dark' made into a major feature film. 'Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it's always in a strong wind, and that's blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.' So begins on ...Show more
Sleepwalking In Antarctica and Other Poems by Owen Marshall
5.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This fine new collection of poetry, Owen Marshall's second, is rich in the themes and preoccupations that have made his short stories and novels so admired. Here are wise, elegiac poems on love and loss, longing and regret, and ageing; beautifully observed, affectionate poems about New Zealand countrysi ...Show more
Spinning a Line: NZ Writing About Fishing by Owen Marshall (ed.)
19.95 NZD
22.50 (11% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
The story goes that Maui hooked the North Island out of the sea from his waka, the South Island, so it is little surprise that fishing is much loved in New Zealand. Its appeal, though, is personal and the experiences it has engendered are as various as they are fascinating. Owen Marshall has netted a ca ...Show more
Sunday 22 - The winners of The Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition by Various (intro Owen Marshall)
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
For over two decades, the judges of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition have had the daunting task of selecting, from up to eighteen-hundred entries, one winning story. This prestigious competition has lauded a range of New Zealand writers as diverse as the stories they've penned, honouring ma ...Show more
The Author's Cut - Short Stories by Owen Marshall
36.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by the author, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination of readers and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they ...Show more
The Best New Zealand Fiction: Vol. 5 by Owen Marshall
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Widely admired and regularly cited as our best living writer of short stories, Owen Marshall turns the focus on his contemporaries. He has searched the country for the finest selection of stories being written today by a variety of local writers. Their current preoccupations range from a dog with no hea ...Show more
The Best New Zealand Fiction: Vol. 6 by Owen Marshall
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand is a very different place from six years ago, when this series began. The preoccupations of writers constantly shift from year to year, and in this volume characters face such issues as redundancy, global warming, leaky homes and over-population, but they deal with them in quirky, moving, hu ...Show more
The Larnachs by Owen Marshall
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Based on a real love triangle, this fascinating novel is by one of New Zealand's most-respected authors. 'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it.' William Ja ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
Watch of Gryphons And Other Stories by Owen Marshall
20.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The empty tussock dryness of New Zealands South Island, the ancient stone buildings of Italys Perugia, unsolved murder, the capricious indignity of Alzheimers disease, adoption there is a rich variety of setting and subject in this superb new collection by short fiction master Owen Marshall. Several lo ...Show more
When Gravity Snaps: Short Stories by Owen Marshall
26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
A collection of 24 short stories by one of New Zealand's top living writers of short stories. These stories explore the worlds of small-town communities, their loves and losses, their dreams and everyday lives.