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I Saw a Strange Land by Arthur Groom
$16.00 NZD
Category: Adventure | Series: Text Classics
While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by its limitless distances and unbelievable colour. Hermannsburg, the home of artist Albert Namatjira and of other well-known painters, became Groom's headquarters, and from there he made ...Show more
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the Fr ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Text Classics
'I was sitting bolt upright in bed breathing fast and staring at the wall. The daylight was streaming into the motel room through the slats of the blinds. I seemed to have been awake, and asleep, for ages...' John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets are ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
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