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Collected Poems, 1951-2006 by C. K. Stead
62.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead's most lasting and memorable works into a single volume. Drawn from previously published works though his distinguished career, from his debut collection Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previous ...Show more
Risk by C. K. Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.K. Stead "has the ability to set the scene in a few pithy lines and condense more telling details into a handful of pages than many writers manage in their entire chapters" said the Sunday Times. Recently divorced New Zealand native Sam Nola returns to London, ...Show more
Risk by C K Stead
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter f ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 by C K Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: Very Good
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised a ...Show more
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humor evident at every turn. The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and include ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C K Stead
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Award-winning author C.K. Stead takes us to the heart of contemporary Paris and into a world of books and witty conversation. The Necessary Angel is a story of people grappling with love and fidelity; a story about the importance of books; a commentary on living in complex modern-day Europe; and a page- ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C. K. Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning Karl Stead.
The Singing Whakapapa by C K Stead
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Award-Winning Classics | Reading Level: very good
"The Singing Whakpapais a tale for our time - a compelling historical detective story in which the truth is stranger than any fiction, and in which the present becomes a backseat driver to the past.What is the truth of history, what are the facts - and how are we to know them? This powerful novel is the ...Show more
The Yellow Buoy - Poems 2007–2012 by C K Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Exploring literature, cultures, and surroundings--both physical and social--the poems in this collection are firmly attached to the author's memories. With appearances by various other literary fellows, in person, dream, or conversation--including Curnow, Kawharu, Sargeson, Creeley, Mansfield, and Words ...Show more
What You Made of It - A Memoir, 1987-2020 by C K Stead
50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of C. K. Stead’s memoirs, from leaving the University of Auckland to write full-time until today. ‘These are my encounters and engagements with the world of books and writers, and of teaching and writing about them,’ C. K. Stead writes in this third and final volume of his mem ...Show more