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44 Things : A Year of Life at Home by Kirsty Gunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In "44 Things", Kirsty Gunn celebrates her home and her family. This bedside book is a mosaic of personal reflections written over the course of one year in moments stolen from the vibrant and chaotic world that inspired them. In these forty-four pieces - one for each year of her life - Kirsty Gunn shar ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a tale of hop ...Show more
Goblin Market - An Illustrated Poem by Christina Rossetti; Kirsty Gunn (Editor, Foreword by); Georgie McAusland (Illustrator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The first in a new illustrated poetry series. The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and s ...Show more
Infidelities by Kirsty Gunn
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This new collection of stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships. In a series of interwoven dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the exhilarat ...Show more
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The Big Music" tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of d ...Show more
The Big Music [selected papers] by Kirsty Gunn
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The Big Music" tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of d ...Show more
Thorndon, Wellington and Home - My Katherine Mansfield Project (BWB Texts) by Kirsty Gunn
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opportunity to walk the very streets and hills that Katherine Mansfield left behind on her departure from New Zealand, but later longed to revisit. In this exq ...Show more
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