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After Z-Hour by Elizabeth Knox
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. Each one of them is locked into the mechanisms of the past. As six people tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds. Lost somewhere in the house is the voice of Mark, a young New Zealand serviceman, who d ...Show more
Dreamhunter (Invisible Road #1) by Elizabeth Knox
$36.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Invisible Road | Reading Level: good
Set in 1906, "Dreamhunter" describes a world very similar to ours, except for a special place, where only a select group of people can go. These are the Dreamhunters and they harvest dreams which are then transmitted to the general public. This work is suitable for children aged 11 and above.
Dreamquake (Invisible Road #2) by Elizabeth Knox
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Invisible Road | Reading Level: very good
The story continues dramatically as Grace, overdreamt by Laura, introduces a nightmare instread of the happy holiday dream programmed to a packed Opera House audience, with chaotic results.
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: near fine
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family-and riddles within riddles-from the author of international sensation The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she s ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down, and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when Taryn's problems really begin. Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the driver's ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. ...Show more
The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft de ...Show more
The Love School: Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Collects twenty years of Elizabeth Knoxnon-fiction, beginning with her 1988 essay Origins, Authority and Imaginary Games, which tells the story of her writing beginnings in childhood imaginary games played with her sisters and friends. Other autobiographical pieces deal with leaving home, working at Inl ...Show more
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family's vineyard when he stumbles on an angel. Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to ...Show more
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: VUP Classics Ser.
A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the ...Show more
Wake by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes ap ...Show more
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