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Different Kinds of Pleasure by Elizabeth Smither
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This beautifully drawn new novel by the acclaimed Elizabeth Smither features two families over a period of several decades. When we first meet Polly Bening and Daniel Maplethorpe they are 10-year-old ballet hopefuls at a dance school in a small New Zealand town. Daniel is the sole boy in the ballet clas ...Show more
Listening to the Everly Brothers and other stories by Elizabeth Smither
27.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
These stories are so good that they make you want to re-read them immediately because you just know there?s lots more that you?ve missed. The subjects are mainly about love, romance and relationships, with an array of fascinating characters. Smither?s talent for providing fascinating glimpses into the l ...Show more
Lola by Elizabeth Smither
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lola Dearborn marries into Dearborn & Zander, a family of funeral directors, when she falls for Sam Dearborn at a dance. But when Sam, and her friend Alice Zander, injured in a freak accident, die, Lola devotes the rest of her life to exploration. She takes up residence in an art-deco hotel, she bef ...Show more
Loving Sylvie by Elizabeth Smither
36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A sensual, witty novel that weaves together the stories of three women, beautifully written by one of our most clever wordsmiths. Sylvie rows across a lake to her wedding. Madeleine flees to Paris and works in Le Livre Bleu bookshop. Isobel is summoned to her doctor's surgery late one afternoon. Elizabe ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
The Blue Coat by Elizabeth Smither
24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whimsical and tender, this poetry collection examines the commonplace and the quirky for resonance, contemplation, and verve. From an out-of-season daffodil and a chipped Limoges plate to a lipstick stain on a poem and a bee being released, it illuminates the poetry in the everyday by focusing on a sing ...Show more
The Girl Who Proposed: New short stories by Elizabeth Smither
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
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The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Three musical sisters honour their mother with a piano recital every year in her memory. They compete with one another, practising in secret to see who can be the best. In other stories, music, food, and restaurants are themes. There is a woman who fends off a seducer by cooking up a storm; Fire Lady pr ...Show more
Elizabeth Smither - The Year of Adverbs by Elizabeth Smither
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Eight years after her last, prize-winning, collection, The Lark Quartet, this is a new book of poems from a major poet. The Year of Adverbs is full of the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities, alive with incidents and travelling from New Plymouth to Paris and back again. There is a wedding, a ...Show more
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