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Hey Yeah Right Get a Life order quantity
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NZ$ 26.95 each
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Author: Helen Simpson
 
The Collected Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
Author: THEROUX Paul
 
The Penguin Book of the Beach order quantity
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NZ$ 26.95 each
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Author: unknown
 
The Scribner Book of New Irish Writing order quantity
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NZ$ 24.95 each
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Author: Somer, John
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Top Hat and Taiaha and Other Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 22.95 each
Author: Charman-Love, Lindsay
These stories travel through Druid landscapes and Tahitian coral islands, get caught in a cyclone, settle in Outback Australia, return to Aotearoa, eyeball a great white shark, pick up a kilt-clad hitchhiker on the way to Omapere …
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No One Belongs Here More Than You order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Miranda July
'I was both inspired and jealous. Sweet, tender, innovative and sexy in a sometimes slightly disturbing way, Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice — seductive, sometimes erotic, and a little creepy, too.'
- David Byrne
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Fine Just the Way it is : Wyoming stories #1 order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Annie Proulx
The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of 'Brokeback Mountain' and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears. In 'A Family Man', an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his father's unwelcome legacy. 'Them Old Cowboy Songs' follows Archie and Rosie, a young pioneer couple, and their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie, and 'Testimony of the Donkey' finds a young international couple, Marc and Caitlin, struggling with much ... more
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Paul Jennings' Weirdest Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Paul Jennings
Paul Jennings' books are enjoyed by millions of children throughout the world.

From the hugely popular UnCollected series comes this special selection of tales - a showcase of Paul's storytelling talents at their very best . . . and weirdest!

This collction first published 2006.
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Freedom order quantity
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author: Amnesty International
Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which starts memorably with Article 1: we are all born free and equal, "Freedom" is an enthralling anthology of short stories by some of the world's top writers. Most of the stories have been written especially for this anthology by a renowned array of internationally acclaimed writers, including Paulo Coelho, Yann Martel, AL Kennedy, Ali Smith, Amit Chaudhuri, Ariel Dorfman, Helen Dunmore, Marina Lewycka, Walter Mosley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James Meek, Kate Atkinson, David Mitchell, Hector Aguilar Camin, Ishmael Beah, Boris Akunin, Alice Pung and Banana Yoshimoto. Each acclaimed contributor has chosen one of the thirty UDHR rights as the basic inspiration for his or her story, and the result is an anthology that contains a complete mix of thoughtful, serious, funny and thrilling stories that provide some completely unexpected takes on the issue of human rights. ... more
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Eat, Memory - Great writers at the table: A collection of essays from the New York Times order quantity
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Author: Amanda Hesser
Memorable moments with food — collected by ‘one of the best of the young food writers’ (according to Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food critic). In New York Times Magazine, food editor Amanda Hesser has showcases the food-inspired recollections of some of America’s leading writers — playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists. Eat, Memory collects the 26 best stories and recipes to accompany them.

In this collection of essays, Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn’t prepared to navigate. And poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate. Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, ... more
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Etiquette For A Dinner Party : Short Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Sue Orr
This debut collection observes a subtle unravelling of social etiquettes. Often hopeful, always moving, these darkly quirky stories demand the reader's attention beyond the final page.
Etiquette for a Dinner Party showcases the breadth of this new writer's talent - from the oh-so-recognisable and desperate efforts of a homesick tourist to enjoy the 'perfect' holiday, to the descent into madness of a lonely high-country farmer. Varied and accomplished, this book is entertaining, stimulating and original.

First published August 2008, Auckland.
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Is She Still Alive? Scintillating Stories for Women of a Certain Age... order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Tessa Duder
Scintillating tales for women of a certain age. The wonderful, wise and witty women Tessa Duder has created will strike a chord with their tales of loves and dreams they have lived and lost, their tragedies and their triumphs and most of all, their enduring spirit and often unexpected strength. Is she still alive is a question women of a certain age hear all too often - in Tessa Duder's wonderful new stories the answer is a resounding yes.

First published May 2008.
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The Penguin Book of First World War Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Barbara Korte and Ann-Marie Einhaus (Eds.)
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.
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Ten Tall Tales order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Dr. Seuss
Here, combined in one volume, are ten of Dr. Seuss' tallest tales, taken from three of his best-loved storybooks -- The Sneetches, Yurtle the Turtle, and I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! Packed with zany pictures and hilarious rhymes, the tales make enchanting bedtime reading. Children will be tickled pink to meet the Star-Bellied Sneetches -- whose bellies bear stars -- and their rivals the Plain-Bellied Sneetches -- who have none upon thars! Or King Looie Katz, king of Zatzen-stein, who makes his courtiers follow him round so his beautiful tail won't drag on the ground. Then there is the little sister who thunks a glunk in The Glunk That Got Thunk and gets more than she bargained for. Or the stubborn Zax who would rather have highways built over them than budge in their tracks. With Dr. Seuss's unique combination of outlandish storytelling and bold illustrations, these and a host of other characters are hilariously brought to life in ... more
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The Girl Who Married a Lion order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Alexander McCall Smith
First published in 1989 as Children of Wax, The Girl Who Married a Lion includes all but one of the original stories and features six new folk tales, an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith and a letter from the one and only Mma Ramotswe. From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African folk tales and the particular magic of Africa's spiritual roots: a sense of unity with the environment. Simple, surprising, cruel and humorous, these beautifully rendered tales remain as fresh and vital as in the original African idiom.
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Marvellous Magical Stories order quantity
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NZ$ 15.00 each
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Author: Elizabeth Holland
Amazing tales of enchantment fill this collection of ten magical stories, which is sure to enchant young readers. Here is a winning combination of contemporary original stories and charming retellings of traditional tales. Easy-to-read type and appealing line art will provide just the right balance of support and challenge for readers ready to take on short stories.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? order quantity
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author: Edward Albee
Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.
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Outsiders order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Six strange and haunting stories, set in isolated communities inland and by the sea, where insiders stick together, and outsiders - a girl outlawed for her illegitimate child, a wild man who walks out of the sea - are regarded with suspicion.
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A Winter Book : Selected stories order quantity
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author: Tove Jansson (tr from Swedish Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff & Kingsley Hart)
"Written with such a lightness of touch that it seems miraculous, these stories are a further revelation of Tove Jansson's heart warming genius." - Ali Smith. "As smooth and odd and beautiful as sea-worn driftwood, as full of light and air as the Nordic summer. We are lucky to have these stories collected at last." - Philip Pullman. Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling "The Summer Book", here is a "Winter Book" collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith. The "Winter Book" features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, "The Sculptor's Daughter" (1968) plus 7 of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), ... more
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, and other stories order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Rose Tremain
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat.

Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction.
Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands - one a bit of a brute, the other very boring - but not the world-famous third one.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, ... more
 
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