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The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The New Poetic by C. K. Stead
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Classic Criticism S.
A classic survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to Eliot, including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
The Red Tram by C K Stead
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Red Tram by C K Stead is another fine collection by one of New Zealand?s best writers. It includes some Auckland poems, some moving memories of childhood, poems about horses and cows, even one about his own legs. There are his usual satirical poems taking weapons from the writers of the past and ske ...Show more
The Singing Whakapapa by C K Stead
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Award-Winning Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Singing Whakpapais a tale for our time - a compelling historical detective story in which the truth is stranger than any fiction, and in which the present becomes a backseat driver to the past.What is the truth of history, what are the facts - and how are we to know them? This powerful novel is the ...Show more
What You Made of It - A Memoir, 1987-2020 by C K Stead
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of C. K. Stead’s memoirs, from leaving the University of Auckland to write full-time until today. ‘These are my encounters and engagements with the world of books and writers, and of teaching and writing about them,’ C. K. Stead writes in this third and final volume of his mem ...Show more
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 — Volume 2 by C.K. Stead
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more