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All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of t ...Show more
And So It Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Hot on the heels of Being Here, O'Sullivan's capacious selected poems, which many chose as one of the poetry highlights of the year, comes a collection of 75 new poems. They show a mature poet, full of experience, still with the capacity to dazzle.
Being Here: Selected Poems by Vincent O'Sullivan
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O'Sullivan's poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature's finest poets.
Blame Vermeer by Vincent O'Sullivan
$12.50 NZD
Category: World poetry
Vincent O'Sullivan delights his many enthusiastic readers with another fine collection of poems, playfully entitled Blame Vermeer. He is the author of two novels - Let the River Stand, which won the 1994 The Montana NZ Book Awards, and Believers to the Bright Coast, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Ta ...Show more
Further Convictions Pending : Poems 1998-2008 by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Further Convictions Pending is the definitive collection of Vincent O'Sullivan's celebrated poetry of the last decade. Forty or so poems from each of four previous volumes are gathered here with forty-two new poems, displaying the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty for which O'Sullivan is re ...Show more
Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan by Vincent O'Sullivan
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
John Mulgan was part of a gifted yet uneasy group of young New Zealanders who madetheir mark between the wars – men such as Ian Milner, James Bertram, Dan Davin and Geoffrey Cox. An Oxford graduate, he worked as a publisher at Oxford University Press before leaving for the front in World War Two.Fascina ...Show more
Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan by Vincent O'Sullivan
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book award, Biography section. Author of the classic novel Man Alone, John Mulgan emerges from this penetrating biography as a man who spoke for the generation that grew up between the wars, overshadowed by one and matured in another. From one perspective he was a gla ...Show more
Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques and Other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back – only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south ...Show more
Nice Morning For It, Adam by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Poetry category in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2005. The judges said that OÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂSullivan was an extraordinary voice in New Zealand literature, and perhaps, only perhaps, this is best seen in his poetry. Vincent O'Sullivan is one of New Zealand's leading writers. ...Show more
Owen Marshall - Selected Stories by Owen Marshall; Vincent O'Sullivan (ed.)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers -- generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is perhaps evoked not just by the superb quality of Marshall's writing but beca ...Show more
Pictures by Goya and other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this collection of short stories from Vincent O'Sullivan, the characters find themselves at points of crisis - domestic, emotional, somethimes comic. These sharply observed, artful narratives test the borders of experience and imagination, confronting the assessment of memory. The characters are left ...Show more
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough - A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sullivan ...Show more