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All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of t ...Show more
And So It Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Hot on the heels of Being Here, O'Sullivan's capacious selected poems, which many chose as one of the poetry highlights of the year, comes a collection of 75 new poems. They show a mature poet, full of experience, still with the capacity to dazzle.
Being Here: Selected Poems by Vincent O'Sullivan
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature's finest poets.
Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 by Vincent O'Sullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is re ...Show more
Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan by Vincent O'Sullivan
60.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
John Mulgan was part of a gifted yet uneasy group of young New Zealanders who madetheir mark between the wars – men such as Ian Milner, James Bertram, Dan Davin and Geoffrey Cox. An Oxford graduate, he worked as a publisher at Oxford University Press before leaving for the front in World War Two.Fascina ...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
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough - A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Books | Reading Level: very good
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sullivan ...Show more
Selected Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Presenting thirty-five stories from seven collections published over more than forty years, Vincent O'Sullivan's Selected Stories is a milestone in the career of one of New Zealand's leading writers.
Still Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
The thrushes are back. The blackbirds too are back, already worrying the thrushes, filching their choice worms. The gorse is running the hills along the Aramoana Road, spills the slopes yellow; the broom, so much more politely, you call it gold. Look again, the gorse walks prickling against the skyline. ...Show more
The Families by Vincent OSullivan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fourteen magnificent new stories from a New Zealand master.
The Movie May be Slightly Different by Vincent O'Sullivan
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Movie May Be Slightly Different offers a rich harvest of recent poems displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which Vincent O’Sullivan is renowned.
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems ...Show more