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Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic by C K Stead
40.00 NZD
Category: History
For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, ...Show more
My Name Was Judas by C K Stead
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw it himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial version, recounted some forty years after the death of ...Show more
Risk by C K Stead
32.00 NZD
35.00 (8% off)
Category: General fiction
Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has never been better: a grown-up, half-French daughter f ...Show more
Risk by C. K. Stead
26.00 NZD
28.00 (7% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
In Risk, acclaimed New Zealand author C.K. Stead "has the ability to set the scene in a few pithy lines and condense more telling details into a handful of pages than many writers manage in their entire chapters" said the Sunday Times. Recently divorced New Zealand native Sam Nola returns to London, ...Show more
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectur ...Show more
South West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 by C K Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised a ...Show more
Table Talk: Opinions, stories and a play by C K Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more
The Black River by C K Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In May 2005 Karl Stead suffered a stroke which left him briefly dyslexic and innumerate but otherwise unaffected. During the days that followed he composed a series of short poems in his head, scribbling them into a notebook kept by his bed, ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃ ...Show more
The Name on the Door is Not Mine by C. K. Stead
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's subtle sense of humor evident at every turn. The collection can be read as a meditation on the writerly life, and include ...Show more
The Necessary Angel by C. K. Stead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A dazzling new novel from the award-winning Karl Stead.