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Bill Culbert: Making Light Work by Ian Wedde
$100.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: Near Fine
Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. In Bill Culbert: Making Light Work, the first substantial book on Culbert, Ian Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions that have formed Culbert's art over the past 50 years.
Chinese Opera by Ian Wedde
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.'Little Frank is 120 years old and he's lost his mind or the part that can put damaged memories back together. Once the gang boss of The Place hes traded his imagination for secure long life. Trapped ...Show more
The Catastrophe by Ian Wedde
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Age of Excess has been good to Christopher Hare. One of the world's top food writers, he has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, with the chic dining companion known to readers of his lavish books as The Glace. But, in the new mood of austerity ushered in by the credit cr ...Show more
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: good-very good
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more
The Lifeguard : Poems 2008-2013 by Ian Wedde
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfa ...Show more
The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge ...Show more
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