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Fuse Box by Chris Emily Price Perkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, The Fuse Box offers writing strategies and guidance on keeping the faith from some of our best writers. Starting with the instigating spark, through to currents and connections, these essays shine a light on the creative process. They ...Show more
Leave Before You Go by Emily Perkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
Tells a story about Daniel, who escapes the grind of his London life to find himself alone, penniless and paranoid on the other side of the world. And it is also about Kate, who lives in Auckland, working as an usherette. This book offers a witty examination of a generation cut adrift: what do people do ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood... This is an excellent novel' The Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
$46.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'Perkins is an extraordinary writer' The Sunday TimesYou know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me.From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-bui ...Show more
Not Her Real Name by Emily Perkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Not Her Real Name is the stylish and funny debut of a new international literary voice. Emily Perkins brings modern life into harsh comic focus with a cinematic vision for character and dialogue and a cast of young and painfully vulnerable metropolitans. With unnerving insight and wit these stories p ...Show more
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seem ...Show more
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Dark, sensuous and utterly compelling, this is a sexy, chilling novel about the secrets that lie at the heart of every marriage."If I could build her again using words, I would: starting at her long, painted feet and working up, meticulously shading in every cell and gap and space for breath until her p ...Show more
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wi ...Show more
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wi ...Show more
The New Girl by Emily Perkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A hip alternative to the babble of 'chick-lit' Julia, Rachel and Chicky, best friends since they can remember, have lived all their lives in one small town. Now, they have finished school and must set a course for the rest of their lives. But the choices which they face are far from clear-cut, especia ...Show more
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