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Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there. In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was ...Show more
Ragweed's Farm Dog Handbook by Anne Vittur Kennedy
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category
This tongue-in-cheek primer on how to be a good farm dog and how ignoring the rules may result in a biscuit is a guaranteed treat. Being a farm dog is a tough job, but luckily, Ragweed s handbook will tell you everything you need to know. Step one: don t wake the farmer! You may really, really want to, ...Show more
Ragweed's Farm Dog Handbook by Anne Vittur Kennedy
$19.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
This tongue-in-cheek primer on how to be a good farm dog--and how ignoring the rules may result in a biscuit--is a guaranteed treat. Being a farm dog is a tough job, but luckily, Ragweed's handbook will tell you everything you need to know. Step one: don't wake the farmer You may really, really want ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
Sing-song by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Winner of the Poetry section Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004. Anne Kennedy's first book of poems, a natural progression from her fiction, deals with the domestic life of a family, but in particular about the gruelling experience of eczema from which the little girl suffers. This may not seem a pr ...Show more
The Darling North by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
This unique collection both longs for and resists the North. In storytelling couplets, the title poem engages with a woman’s past as she looks outward from the shores of the Hokianga harbor in New Zealand. Other poems also explore present and future, dislocation and migration, north and south, and Earth ...Show more
The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Ice Shelf - an eco-comedy. On the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she's away. En route she ...Show more
The Last Days of the National Costume by Anne Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Narrated by one of the funniest, wisest literary observers of all time this is a brilliant, charming and heartwarming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast.
The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. "The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You’d take it all back if you could. Everything.You’d go down there and you’d." And talks back too. "If I’m fucked, you’re coming with me. Sincerely, the stream." From rai ...Show more
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