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44 Things : A Year of Life at Home by Kirsty Gunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In "44 Things", Kirsty Gunn celebrates her home and her family. This bedside book is a mosaic of personal reflections written over the course of one year in moments stolen from the vibrant and chaotic world that inspired them. In these forty-four pieces - one for each year of her life - Kirsty Gunn shar ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A gin-fueled love story with one part One Day mixed with one part Zadie Smith and a splash of Ali Smith. Included in the Guardian's "Top Ten books about unrequited love" "Alright" I said, "I'll try..." This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroli ...Show more
Caroline's Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens the intricately involved account of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a tale of hop ...Show more
Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn
$26.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
All small communities resemble one another but each is unique in its own way. The rural town of Featherstone is hardly different. Kirsty Gunn's third novel offers a poetic gaze over a long weekend in the lives of those who people the place. It is a novel about memory and need, forgetting and faith - but ...Show more
Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Featherstone is an attractive small town and close-knit community. But in this spell-binding story, as we meet the townsfolk over the course of a weekend, something intense and intimate and foreboding forces its way to the surface. From the NZ-born author of Rain.
Goblin Market - An Illustrated Poem by Christina Rossetti; Kirsty Gunn (Editor, Foreword by); Georgie McAusland (Illustrator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
The first in a new illustrated poetry series. The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and s ...Show more
Infidelities by Kirsty Gunn
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good-very good
This new collection of stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships. In a series of interwoven dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the exhilarat ...Show more
Infidelities by Kirsty Gunn
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This new collection of stories offers a candid peek at infidelity in all its guises. These are tales of lust, deceit, resentment and regret - and of the secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships. In a series of interwoven dramas, we find mothers yearning for adventure, for the exhilarat ...Show more
My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn
$29.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: General Adult
A new work by a highly acclaimed author - The Big Music(2012) was described as 'One of the finest novels of the past decade' by the TLS The essay will appeal to all fans of Katherine Mansfield A profound meditation on the nature of home and artistic influence When Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowsh ...Show more
Such A Sweet Singing: Poetry To Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn (edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the people who read them. Here is poetry for those no longer being spoken to but speaking, no longer being looked at but looking, from the contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh to the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna ...Show more
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The Big Music" tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of d ...Show more
The Big Music [selected papers] by Kirsty Gunn
$42.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The Big Music" tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of d ...Show more