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Dick Seddon's Great Dive and other stories by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: THW Classics
First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding's literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddon's Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was republished in The Shirt Factory and other stories by VUP in 1981. Dick Seddon's Great Dive traces the story of ...Show more
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
The Grass Catcher - A Digression About Home by Ian Wedde
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his r ...Show more
The Lifeguard : Poems 2008-2013 by Ian Wedde
25.00 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Poetry
'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfa ...Show more
The Reed Warbler by Ian Wedde
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge ...Show more
Trifecta by Ian Wedde
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
TRIFECTA looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture and ‘real coffee’ to New Zealand. Many years after his early death from a heart attack, Klepka’s children are struggling in their ...Show more
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