(Paperback)
By: Bornholdt/O'Brien
ISBN: 9780864735058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Icludes memoirs, stories, and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writers - among them Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, and Michael King. French writers - including Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis Lalanne, and Charles Juliet - have, in turn, visited New Zealand and their engagement with the region is also represented.
(Paperback)
By: Rachel Feder
ISBN: 9781683693574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2023
Publisher: Quirk Books
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"An examination of how the romantic narrative from Pride and Prejudice was born out of Gothic horror, how it influenced pop culture since its publishing, and how it has reinforced harmful cultural concepts of real-life romance"--
(Paperback)
By: Douglas Glover
ISBN: 9781771962919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Biblioasis
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A practical and illuminating collection of essays on writing and reading fiction, focusing on the relationship between form and theme.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Williams
ISBN: 9780849904882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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The perfect companion to C.S. Lewis's classicThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeand other Chronicles of Narnia books.
(Hardback)
By: Claire Saim
ISBN: 9781835410639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Martin Edwards
ISBN: 9780008192426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical book.
(Paperback)
By: Roger Osborne
ISBN: 9781743327692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 9781760899943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 9781760899967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 9781761048159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Anne E. Duggan
ISBN: 9781789147698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A recovery of the lost, plucky heroines of historic fairy tales.
(Paperback)
By: Alistair Owen
ISBN: 9780241987339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jane Gillette
ISBN: 9781935935223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Oro Editions
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An invitation to tour ten beautiful gardens, as depicted in the pages of fiction written by the most skilful of novelists.
(Paperback)
By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780143566410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours.
(Paperback)
By: Rebecca Mead
ISBN: 9781922079329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780141194714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong." From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist in a novel which, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the futility of human life.
(Hardback)
By: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781604336511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus
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(Hardback)
By: Travis Elborough
ISBN: 9780711268722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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The Writer's Journey invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the travels that inspired their greatest works.
(Paperback)
By: David Malouf
ISBN: 9780857984074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Brigid Rooney
ISBN: 9781743329665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jill Matus
ISBN: 9780719044489
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is an introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction focusing on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. Jill Matus approaches Morrison's fiction as a form of cultural memory concerned with obscured or erased history.
(Paperback)
By: Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780007196784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Womens Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor Nick Groom
ISBN: 9781838957001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9781804294796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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In this volume we find collected together Benjamin's most sensitive and probing writing on the dramatic and poetic work of his friend and tutor Bertolt Brecht. Benjamin's work still exerts an influence over philosophical and cultural thinking today.
