Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775530256
A collection of short stories to dip into and devour, by a prize-winning writer. These 23 stories show the breadth of Stephanie Johnson's fine writing. It features poignant insights as well as her sharp wit, with characters as diverse as a woman arranging a second wife for her husband, a criminal returning to the care of his mother, and a widow who hears an octopus call her name.
Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775530213
Returning to the biting and hilarious satire of contemporary New Zealand conveyed so well in the prize-winning The Shag Incident, this is a daring, astute and rollicking novel. John Tomb saw more of the world than most Englishmen of the early nineteenth century. From England to Australia to New Zealand, he led a life of adventure and romance. Two hundred years after his death, his tattooed head is discovered in an American museum. His spirit reawakened, John Tomb wryly observes those who would lay claim to his relic. Among others, there's the New Zealand delegation headed by the Prime Minister and including Tomb's Maori descendants, a leading historian, a prominent carver, the Diplomatic Protection Squad and the Prime Minister's fifteen-year-old daughter. From England come Tomb's English descendants and supporters, eager to take the head back to the land of his birth and their family museum. There is also a wealthy private collector and his clever wife ...
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Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1776953789
To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand, this anthology brings together 50 enthralling stories from some of the country’s finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these stories track the changing styles, voices and preoccupations explored through the short story over the past five decades. Read – and celebrate!
Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143775545
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life — what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us. ‘What a fabulous read. Stephanie Johnson’s characters choose an old motel with little to offer except an amazing view in order to start a ‘new life’. Their first guests are a classic cast of the sorrowful and dysfunctional that every-day life throws at us these days. They are joined by their pregnant daughter, a mysterious young criminal from next door and a dog that knows more than all of them put together. The story is fast paced, and unpredictable, it’s smart, contemporary and heartbreaking all at once. And, just when it was about to make me cry, Johnson startled me into wild laughter. This is her best book ever, and I loved every page of it.’ – Fiona Kidman
Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1761047159
High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a fallen man, like ‘a black exclamation mark on a white page, Kiwi-noir face down in the snow’. Is he still alive? This funny, fearless, thought-provoking novel trains its sights on us. Kerry-Anne is kind, unlike her foster sister Joleen, who is a different kind of person altogether. Being locked down for Joleen will mean behind bars. For Kerry-Anne’s ex-husband, the National MP Lyall Hull, lockdown will also take on a new meaning when he goes on a cycle trip instead of staying at home. From lockdown in the Bay of Islands, Kerry-Anne tries to work out what both are up to. Will anyone come up smelling of roses? ‘Johnson has always had an eye for topicality’ — Steve Braunias
Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1869792416
A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in their twenties, the two men commit an act so appalling that it ruptures their friendship for many years. In 1972 the elderly Norman meets a young woman in a pub. Burdened by the memory he must at long last assuage, he presses Bronwyn into becoming his unwilling confessor.
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Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Юрий Нагибин
Publisher : Ann Arbor : Ardis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Rich in cultural significance, each title in this bestselling series includes a collection of 20 to 30 tales together with an introduction and a historical overview that give the reader compelling insights into the culture, the folk literature, and the lives of the people in the region.Mermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast destructive seas, to regulate the healing rains, to understand the tides, the merman emerged.
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Page : 2046 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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