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Carnival Sky by Owen Marshall
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Beautifully written, brilliantly observed and ultimately optimistic, this novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers powerfully captures those times when death puts life on hold. Sheff is disillusioned with journalism, and with plans to travel overseas chucks in his job. But first he goes south to Ale ...Show more
Essential New Zealand Short Stories by Owen Marshall (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This collection brings together 50 New Zealand short stories from a range of writers - from Katherine Mansfield to Emily Perkins. It is a broad picture of the achievements and promise of New Zealand poetry at the end of the second millennium. Paperback
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
$75.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
Love as a Stranger by Owen Marshall
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brilliantly tracing the progress of unexpected love and the perils of relationships, this gripping novel is a tour de force. Temporarily in Auckland while her husband is undergoing treatment, Sarah enjoys a walk in the coolness of the Symonds Street Cemetery. As she pauses at the grave of Emily Keeling, ...Show more
Owen Marshall - Selected Stories by Owen Marshall; Vincent O'Sullivan (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers -- generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is perhaps evoked not just by the superb quality of Marshall's writing but beca ...Show more
Pearly Gates by Owen Marshall
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, intriguing, lyrical and ultimately moving, this entertaining and insightful novel from one of this country's best writers both skewers and celebrates small town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reput ...Show more
Sunday 22 - The winners of The Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition by Various (intro Owen Marshall)
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
For over two decades, the judges of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition have had the daunting task of selecting, from up to eighteen-hundred entries, one winning story. This prestigious competition has lauded a range of New Zealand writers as diverse as the stories they've penned, honouring ma ...Show more
The Author's Cut - Short Stories by Owen Marshall
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by the author, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination of readers and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they ...Show more
The Best New Zealand Fiction: Vol. 5 by Owen Marshall
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Widely admired and regularly cited as our best living writer of short stories, Owen Marshall turns the focus on his contemporaries. He has searched the country for the finest selection of stories being written today by a variety of local writers. Their current preoccupations range from a dog with no hea ...Show more
The Best New Zealand Fiction: Vol. 6 by Owen Marshall
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand is a very different place from six years ago, when this series began. The preoccupations of writers constantly shift from year to year, and in this volume characters face such issues as redundancy, global warming, leaky homes and over-population, but they deal with them in quirky, moving, hu ...Show more
The Larnachs by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Based on a real love triangle, this fascinating novel is by one of New Zealand's most-respected authors. 'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it.' William Ja ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
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