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ISBN / ISSN:
9780864735874
Relief
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Anna Taylor
Published by:
Victoria University Press
Winner of the 2010 NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction.
From a young girl’s improper visit to an adult neighbour to a family’s relief at the lifting of sex abuse charges, from a fasting Christmas Dinner guest to a messy stumble with an urn of ashes, these stories effortlessly mix the menacing and the comic, and handle real-life situations with warmth and subtlety.
Relief
introduces an astonishingly mature and confident new voice in New Zealand fiction.
First published May 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869694166
Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Tina Makereti
Published by:
Huia Publishers
Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa
is a collection of short stories by exciting new writer Tina Makereti. The stories explore a world where mythological characters and stories become part of everyday life. Old and new worlds co-exist, cultures mingle and magic happens.
Tina Makereti was the winner of the 2009 Royal Society Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing as well as the Best Short Story in English at the 2009 Pikihuia Awards for Maori Writers.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869791926
A Man Melting : Short stories
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Cliff Craig
Published by:
Vintage New Zealand
A son worries he is becoming too perfect a copy of his father. The co-owner of a weight-loss camp for teens finds himself running the black market in chocolate bars. A man starts melting and nothing can stop it, not even poetry.
This terrific collection of stories by an exciting new talent moves from the serious and realistic to the humorous and outlandish, each story copying an element from the previous piece in a kind of evolutionary chain. Amid pigeons with a taste for cigarette ash, a rash of moa sightings, and the identity crisis of an imaginary friend, the characters in these eighteen entertaining stories look for ways to reconnect with people and the world around them, even if that means befriending a robber wielding an iguana.
First published July 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780986463709
Hole In The Sky and Other Stories
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Adrienne M. Frater
Published by:
Atawhai Press
From their very first words, Adrienne Frater's original and compelling stories draw you in and her vividly realised characters stay with you long after you stop reading. Meet, in these pages, a frustrated legal clerk who goes to bed as Pauline and wakes up as Pohutakawa, a sociology professor moonlighting as a graffiti artist, a woman finding liberation in a Turkish bath house and many more, in settings ranging from small-town New Zealand to Norway.
Adrienne's work has already delighted a large audience through radio broadcasts; now Hole In The Sky collects her best work in print.
"Beneath the conventional surface of Frater's fiction lies an unusually shrewd understanding of human nature" - Owen Marshall
" Warmly human, touching and funny, and full of believable characters, these well-crafted stories are the work of a mature and thoughtful writer" - Anna Rogers
First published July 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869792510
Living as a Moon
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Owen Marshall
Published by:
Vintage New Zealand
Finalist in the Fiction category.
Being a celebrity impersonator, says the Aussie Elton John, is like living your life as a moon. 'We give up our identity and become just a reflection of another personality, like the moon having no fire of its own and being just a pale reflection of the sun when it's not there.' This new collection of stories from master short fiction writer Owen Marshall is rich in people exploring their identities and how they are affected by others. There is Patrick, whose life is radically alerted by a random encounter with a killer; widowed Margaret, who faces a new kind of existence alone; David, who experiences the 'spontaneous and passing friendship of strangers'; Ian, whose wife's demands for a better lifestyle lead him to a new career in telephone sex. Set in both Europe and the Antipodes, these twenty-five stories are at once arresting, moving, funny and full of insight into the human condition.
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9780864736253
Everything We Hoped For
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Pip Adam
Published by:
Victoria University Press
Everything We Hoped For
is an unusually strong first book, distinguished by an exquisitely crafted surface and barely contained emotional force. A young mother in shocked contemplation of her new baby and young women in rehab and jail feature in mostly short and oblique stories which echo and connect with cumulative power. A broad range of other characters, including a NZ serviceman returned from active duty in Dili, the employees of a $2 Shop and a vegan couple at a Samoan resort complete an impressive contemporary canvas.
First published May 2010
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780986455605
Scarlet Heels : 26 Stories About Sex
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Rachel McAlpine
Published by:
CC Press (NZ)
These stories happened decades ago or yesterday, in a pulpit, garden, airport, cupboard, train or bed. Twenty-six women, young and old, talk about moments when sex (or abstaining from sex) changed their lives in some way. Today, they all live in New Zealand's most prim and proper city ...but their sexual epiphanies occurred all around the world.
First published January 2010.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869791438
Lost in Translation : New Zealand Stories
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Marco Sonzogni (ed.)
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures. This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart. This collection reflects our society in provocative, humane and intriguing ways.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780473155780
Tornado and Other Stories Written over Time
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Paul Maunder
Published by:
Maitai River Press
Many of these stories have a strong connection to place: Wellington, Petone, the West Coast, Samoa and Poland. Paul's stories explore the social dramas and dislocations of our journeys through time and place, the way we encounter "strangers" and our notions of the past that forms us.
Tornado won the South Island Writers Association Short Story competition and was read on Radio NZ's National Programme.
First published 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869693824
Huia Short Stories 8 : Contemporary Maori stories
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Huia Press editors
Published by:
Huia Publishers
Here are the best short stories as and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori Writers 2009, as judged by David Geary, Julian Wilcox and Briar Grace-Smith. For over ten years the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have been organising this unique and increasingly popular biennial writing competition, producing award-winning Maori writers. The awards and their subsequent publications have become well-known and much-anticipated as they bring more undiscovered gems to the attention of the New Zealand reading public. Past winners and finalists include James George, Briar Grace-Smith, Isabel Waiti-Mulholland, Kelly AnaMorey and Paula Morris.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869790622
The Best New Zealand Fiction #6
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author:
Edited by Owen Marshall
Published by:
Vintage New Zealand
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 things as redundancy, global warming, leaky homes and over-population, but they deal with them in quirky, moving, humorous and shocking ways. This is a surprisingly uplifting collection, where love reigns supreme and characters do live happily ever after.
Selected by Owen Marshall, these twenty stories introduce exciting new names as well as exhibit the recent
work of some of our top writers: Norman Bilbrough, Aaron Blaker, Jennifer Compton, Marie Duncan,
Laurence Fearnley, Sue Francis, Charlotte Grimshaw, Gay Johnson, Mike Johnson, Graeme Lay, Frankie McMillan, Kate Mahony, Andre Ngapo, Carl Nixon, Tina Shaw, Elizabeth Smither, Rebecca Styles, Vincent O'Sullivan, Campbell Taylor and Judith White.
First published October 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869791285
Essential New Zealand Short Stories
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Owen Marshall (ed)
Published by:
Vintage New Zealand
The short story has been the forte of distinguished New Zealand writers from Katherine Mansfield and Frank
Sargeson through to fresh young talents such as Eleanor Catton and Craig Cliff. There could be no better
guide to a sampler of their best work than Owen Marshall, who has been called New Zealand's best living
writer of short stories.
Marshall's indispensible collection features fifty arresting and significant stories that show why short fiction
has been so important in the development of our literature, and also why it continues to appeal. First
published in 2002, this new edition of the collection features five new stories from writers who excel at a
magnificent national genre: perfectly polished stories peopled by perceptive, quirky and intriguing characters.
First published 2002.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869419585
Owen Marshall : Selected Stories
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Owen Marshall (ed Vincent O'Sullivan)
Published by:
Vintage New Zealand
From the provinces to the cities, the remote landscapes to journeying overseas, Marshall's stories show a deep understanding of who and where we are. From the substantial body of work created over the last thirty years, Vincent O'Sullivan has selected sixty stories that give a wide representation of Marshall's range. He once wrote that short stories should aspire to a combination of 'intransigence and poetry', both of which are evident in this fine selection.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143202509
The Man in the Shed : Stories
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NZ$ 37.00 each
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Author:
Lloyd Jones
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family and longing. Jones's extraordinary tales take conventional family situations and tilts them sideways, delivering a memorable, beautiful blend of the suburban and the surreal.
First published September 2009, Auckland
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780143006817
The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Paula Morris (editor)
Published by:
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, edited by acclaimed novelist Paula Morris, provides a fascinating snapshot of New Zealand fiction in the early twenty-first century.
The 31-story collection includes significant work from our foremost fiction writers - including C. K. Stead, Patricia Grace, Fiona Kidman, Witi Ihimaera, Damien Wilkins, Owen Marshall, Vincent O'Sullivan, Fiona Farrell and Emily Perkins - alongside exciting work by a strong group of new, younger rising literary stars, such as Eleanor Catton, Carl Nixon, Julian Novitz and Alice Tawhai. The stories come from a variety of previously published sources, with a handful published here for the very first time.
First published September 2009.
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