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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Over her 20-year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller ...Show more
A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A candid exploration of the abiding bond between humans and horses from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres 'Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.'Jane Smiley, the Pu ...Show more
An Innocent Abroad : Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has ...Show more
Champion Horse (Abby Lovitt #4) by Jane Smiley
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her hor ...Show more
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning family saga from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, ov ...Show more
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy Book 2) (C-format) by Jane Smiley
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores ...Show more
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges ...Show more
Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy 3 by Jane Smiley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have s ...Show more
Mystery Horse (Abby Lovitt #3) by Jane Smiley
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
When Abby Lovitt gets to work at her family's ranch, she can hardly believe her luck. True Blue is a beauty, a dapple grey, and he needs a new home - his owner was tragically killed in a car crash, and no one has claimed him. Her father is wary, as always. But Abby is smitten. True Blue is a sweetheart, ...Show more
Private Life by Jane Smiley
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer an ...Show more
Private Life by Jane Smiley
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer - a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother cal ...Show more
Secret Horse (Abby Lovitt #2) by Jane Smiley
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: 10-13
When eighth-grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there's no place she'd rather be than her family's ranch - even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. But some chores are no work at all, like grooming young Jack. At eight months, his rough foal coat has sh ...Show more