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A Many Coated Man by Owen Marshall
18.75 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What happens when an ordinary man becomes a messiah? A witty, prescient and eloquent satire by one of New Zealand's finest writers. Far into the twenty-first century, Albous Slaven's life is spectacularly and irrevocably altered after he hangs for an instant from a power line. While recuperating, he sen ...Show more
Author's Choice O/P by Owen Marshall
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A quirky, unusual New Zealand short story collection in which 24 of New Zealand's leading writers choose their own favourite story. Each writer supplies a short statement explaining why they regard this story so highly and there is a photograph.
Carnival Sky by Owen Marshall
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold. Sheff is disillusioned with journalism, and with plans to travel overseas chucks in his job. But first he goes south to Ale ...Show more
Essential New Zealand Short Stories by Owen Marshall (ed.)
39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This collection brings together 50 New Zealand short stories from a range of writers - from Katherine Mansfield to Emily Perkins. It is a broad picture of the achievements and promise of New Zealand poetry at the end of the second millennium. Paperback
Graham Sydney - Timeless Land by Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner; Owen Marshall
39.99 NZD
99.99 (60% off)
Category: NZ Pictorial | Reading Level: very good
Timeless Land is a unique collaboration between three of New Zealand's most steadfast and individual talents painter Grahame Sydney, poet Brian Turner and writer Owen Marshall. Much of their best and most enduring work has grown out of their deep attachment to, and familiarity with, the essence of the m ...Show more
Harlequin Rex by Owen Marshall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of 2000 montana Fiction medal. With the advent of the new millenium comes a new disease - Harlequin Rex - and a variety of reactions to it. The men and women in Owen Marshall's new novel find themselves caught up in a terrifying novelty, and all must cope as best they can. Their response is influ ...Show more
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
75.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Reading Level: near fine
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
Love as a Stranger by Owen Marshall
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brilliantly tracing the progress of unexpected love and the perils of relationships, this gripping novel is a tour de force. Temporarily in Auckland while her husband is undergoing treatment, Sarah enjoys a walk in the coolness of the Symonds Street Cemetery. As she pauses at the grave of Emily Keeling, ...Show more
Occasional: 50 Poems by Owen Marshall
18.75 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Owen Marshall has been writing occasional poems as the mood struck him hence the title of this, his first book of poems. The volume Occasional consists of 50 poetic texts celebrating a variety of occasions some small, some larger, but always thought-provoking. There are poems in honour of recently dec ...Show more
Owen Marshall: Selected Stories by Owen Marshall
16.99 NZD
39.99 (57% off)
Category: Fiction
A generous selection from New Zealand's foremost writer of short stories. Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers - generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is per ...Show more
Owen Marshall - Selected Stories by Owen Marshall; Vincent O'Sullivan (ed.)
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers -- generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is perhaps evoked not just by the superb quality of Marshall's writing but beca ...Show more
Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, intriguing, lyrical and ultimately moving, this entertaining and insightful novel from one of this country's best writers both skewers and celebrates small town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reput ...Show more