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After Z-Hour by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. Each one of them is locked into the mechanisms of the past. As six people tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds. Lost somewhere in the house is the voice of Mark, a young New Zealand serviceman, who d ...Show more
An Unreal House Filled With Real Storms by Elizabeth Knox
10.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
An Unreal House Filled with Real Storms was presented as the Inaugural Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture at the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival on 31 August 2014. The audience reaction to the lecture was electrifying.
Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
"Knox, an energetic magical realist with a vibrant comic imagination, scores strongly again with this densely plotted tale of a waiflike shipwreck survivor's bizarre life and loves." Kirkus Reviews With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and all the surprising, earthy and magical qualities of her bestse ...Show more
Daylight by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Brian "Bad" Phelan, New Zealander and bomb disposal expert, likes to live dangerously. While on vacation on the French/Italian border in 2001, he helps to bring a body out of a rocky, wave-swept cove. The dead woman bears striking similarities to a young woman he met years ago, under mysterious circumst ...Show more
Dreamhunter (Invisible Road #1) by Elizabeth Knox
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Invisible Road
Set in 1906, "Dreamhunter" describes a world very similar to ours, except for a special place, where only a select group of people can go. These are the Dreamhunters and they harvest dreams which are then transmitted to the general public. This work is suitable for children aged 11 and above.
Dreamquake (Invisible Road #2) by Elizabeth Knox
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Invisible Road
The story continues dramatically as Grace, overdreamt by Laura, introduces a nightmare instread of the happy holiday dream programmed to a packed Opera House audience, with chaotic results.
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: Sci fi & fantasy
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
30.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family-and riddles within riddles-from the author of international sensation The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she s ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. ...Show more
The Angel's Cut by Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft de ...Show more
The High Jump by Elizabeth Knox
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A New Zealand Childhood. Acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Knox recreates the sensory pleasures and gathering shadows of a New Zealand childhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a collection of the novellas Pomare (1989), Paremata (1994) and Tawa (1998).
The Love School: Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Collects twenty years of Elizabeth Knoxnon-fiction, beginning with her 1988 essay Origins, Authority and Imaginary Games, which tells the story of her writing beginnings in childhood imaginary games played with her sisters and friends. Other autobiographical pieces deal with leaving home, working at Inl ...Show more