1982. 1st edition. Author has brought together some of his favourite New Zealand Country Diaries. The collection is illustrated by Sir Gordon Minhinnick. A very tidy humorous book.
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1997. 100 of the entries in a competition for the best mini-fiction; stories of 500 words or less.
1984. An extraordinary, alive and intense book, which has already been widely acclaimed in Keri Hulme's native New Zealand. HARDCOVER
1986. A reference book providing information on New Zealand and Pacific Island books in print, publishers and distributors.
1944. 1st edition. 18 stories including; A White boy amongst Malaitan savage - Murder on a Tahitian schooner - Gauguin the mad genius of the South Seas - Tubuai, the first hide-out of the Bounty muti
2009. The second anthology of poems, short stories and articles published by Waitakere Writers.
1988. A feast of images and relevant excerpts from Mansfield's stories and journals.
1953. 1st edition. A novel based on fact which offers a detailed study of the pioneering days in New Zealand, describing the years of conflict between the white settlers and the Maoris in the 1800s.
1976. 1st edition. Works by a New Zealand poet.
1691. 1st edition. Another book by famous New Zealand author Barry Crump and Crump's sequel to the bestselling A Good Keen Man.
1963. 1st edition. Another book by famous New Zealand author Barry Crump. Sam Cash is now a New Zealand legend. Here are some more of his adventures and exploits.
2010. Koana has organised a Talkstory, Mo'olelo Festival 'to let the spirit fly between people' with indigenous storytellers from around the globe meeting in Hawai'i.
2004. An eco-thriller combining action and suspense from one our most gifted Pacific novelists, Matakana author, Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford.
1993. New writing by New Zealand Women from one our most gifted Pacific novelists, Matakana author, Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford.
2007. Limited edition. From one our most gifted Pacific novelists based in Matakana, New Zealand, author Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford.
1997. An irreverent, funny and fresh approach to cross-cultural literature.
2000. Cowrie boards a ship bound for Moruroa Atoll during the French nuclear tests.
1998. A Novel from one our most gifted Pacific novelists, Matakana author, Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford.
2000. Cowrie boards a ship bound for Moruroa Atoll during the French nuclear tests.
2012. Kaitiakitanga Pasifika draws on the brilliance of the historical celestial navigation of the Pacific in waka.
2014. SIGNED. Limited edition 99/100. Her latest novella is a witty, sharp and intelligent comment on the current housing crisis in New Zealand.
2007. A novel from one our most gifted Pacific novelists, Matakana author, Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford.
2003. Translation of a novel from one our most gifted Pacific novelists, Matakana author, Dr. Cathie Koa Dunsford.
2001. As an ancient mystery unravels on a distant Scottish Isle, Cowrie must turn detective to discover the truth behind the song of the selkies, mythical creatures who live on land and in the sea.
1973. This is a tale of the High Country of the North Island - the hinterland of Hawkes Bay.
1973. New Zealand Classics series, first published in 1914.
1988. 1985 marked the end of the United Nations Decade for Women.
1995. Signed by Author. A collection of yarns and ditties on New Zealanders in Antarctica.
1981. 1st edition. Selected letters between 1924 and 1957. Includes letters to R. A. K. Mason, Geoffrey de Montalk, Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Charles Brasch etc.
Circa 1940. Autographed. A fictional story of Corporal Herbert Simkins of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force.
1972. New Zealand literature - an occasional publication of the South Canterbury Writer's Guild.
1978. New Zealand literature - an occasional publication of the South Canterbury Writer's Guild, which ceased with no. 9 (Sept 1990).
1986. Echoes from New Zealand's Past form the Award-Winning 'Spectrum' Radio Series
1992. 1st edition. Another yarn from one of New Zealand's greatest storytellers.
1970. 1st edition. Another book by famous New Zealand author Barry Crump.
1965. Barry Crump, with a plot of characters of this kind, is in top form, His characters are true-to-life, down to the last tiny detail of dialogue and behaviour.
1991. SIGNED. A fascinating book that is a collection of short stories written about trips and excursions of the Papakura and Districts Historical Society Inc.
1977. 1st edition. Works by a New Zealand poet John Mulgan.
1977. 1st edition. Works by a New Zealand poet.
1977. 1st edition. Works by a New Zealand poet.
1969. In February 1961 Jim Henderson launched a radio programme called 'Open Country', and for four years it has been bringing the New Zealand countryside and its life.
1998. Collection of Memory Lane columns by Gordon Parry, writer and former features editor of the Otago Daily Times.
1950. Airini Elizabeth Woodhouse 1896 - 1989 Canterbury Runholder, wool-classer, cattle breeder, historian, community leader.
1967. 1st edition Book of trees and tree-lore', articles originally published in the Weekly News under the name Grammaticus Edward Musgrave.
1967. Third volume and completion of the author's Taranaki Maori Wars trilogy.
1986. 1st edition. Anthology of short stories, essays and poetry that pictures New Zealand's landscape through the eyes of authors contained.
1998. New Zealand's 'custodian of country lore' recalls the whims and foibles, the inconsistencies and achievements of ordinary and extraordinary folk in this slice-of-life ramble.
1991. SIGNED. A collection of seventeen multi-cultural short stories from the Islands of the South Pacific.
2009. SIGNED. Collection of short literary pieces on Banks Peninsula, mainly by local or resident authors from early to late 20th century.
2015. 1st edition. Collects the stories from The New Land.