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Everything Changes by Stephanie Johnson
36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life - what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us.
Good Dog!: New Zealand Writers on Dogs by Stephanie Johnson (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
Funny, insightful, lyrical and touching, this is the perfect book for every dog lover. that night a wet nose in the dark sniffed me awake From good dogs to bad, adored pets to hard-working sheep dogs, canine companions have not only settled into New Zealand hearts but also into their books. Author Steph ...Show more
Kind by Stephanie Johnson
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Super yachts and stereotypes, #MeToo blunders and post-apocalyptic bolt holes, locking down and locking up - a thoroughly entertaining novel!High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a fallen man, like 'a black exclamation mark on a white page, Kiwi-noir face down in the snow'. Is he still alive? Th ...Show more
Playing for Both Sides : Love Across the Tasman (BWB Texts) by Stephanie Johnson
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something ...Show more
The Heart's Wild Surf by Stephanie Johnson
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Fiji at the end of 1918 the distant Great War is drawing to a close and Spanish flu is raging. Twelve-year-old Olive McNab is sent from Suva to stay with her aunt and uncle on a plantation on Tuveuni. On this magical and mysterious island she uncovers some startling, well-kept family secrets. The dea ...Show more
The Open World by Stephanie Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I miss my smiling son more than any other man before or since. London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive when she hears her New Zealand employers Judge and Lady Martin are returning to England. Accompanied by her dear friend, the lunatic Reverend Cotton, she makes a pilgrimage to settle old ...Show more
The Writers' Festival by Stephanie Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Wit, compassion and insight combine in this entertaining novel that explores the politics and human comedy behind writers' festivals and the publishing industry. Writers' festivals can be hotbeds of literary and romantic intrigue, and the Oceania is up there with the best of them. Rookie director Rae Mc ...Show more
The Writing Class by Stephanie Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A unique blend of a compelling story with insights into writing from a prize-winning author...some of us are not satisfied with that one life, even if it is shared with many friends and relatives. Writers take what we learn of human nature and, fuelled by our longings for other existences and other time ...Show more
West Island by Johnson Stephanie
39.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson.Roland Wakelin, Dulcie Deamer, Jean Devanny, Douglas Stewart and Eric Baume had little in common in personality, procli ...Show more
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