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After Z-Hour by Elizabeth Knox
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. Each one of them is locked into the mechanisms of the past. As six people tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds. Lost somewhere in the house is the voice of Mark, a young New Zealand serviceman, who d ...Show more
An Unreal House Filled With Real Storms by Elizabeth Knox
$10.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction
An Unreal House Filled with Real Storms was presented as the Inaugural Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture at the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival on 31 August 2014. The audience reaction to the lecture was electrifying.
Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Knox, an energetic magical realist with a vibrant comic imagination, scores strongly again with this densely plotted tale of a waiflike shipwreck survivor's bizarre life and loves." Kirkus Reviews With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and all the surprising, earthy and magical qualities of her bestse ...Show more
Dreamhunter CD by Elizabeth Knox
$29.95 NZD
Category: No Category
The new book from the highly original and talented author - unabridged on audio-CD. A rich novel filled with beauty, danger, politics, and intrigue. Fast-paced and dazzlingly imaginative, Dreamhunter will draw the listener into an extraordinary fictional world in which dreams are as vividly described as ...Show more
Dreamhunter (Invisible Road #1) by Elizabeth Knox
$35.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Invisible Road | Reading Level: good
Set in 1906, "Dreamhunter" describes a world very similar to ours, except for a special place, where only a select group of people can go. These are the Dreamhunters and they harvest dreams which are then transmitted to the general public. This work is suitable for children aged 11 and above.
Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
$39.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Dreamhunter Duet Ser.
The highly anticipated sequel to Dreamhunter (also available in audio by Bolinda). Inventive and richly imagined, Elizabeth Knox's dramatic conclusion will satisfy readers - whether or not they've read Book One. The explosive and captivating sequel to Dreamhunter. The horror of the Rainbow Opera riot is ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
$38.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family-and riddles within riddles-from the author of international sensation The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she s ...Show more
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. ...Show more
The High Jump by Elizabeth Knox
$24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New Zealand Childhood. Acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Knox recreates the sensory pleasures and gathering shadows of a New Zealand childhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a collection of the novellas Pomare (1989), Paremata (1994) and Tawa (1998).
The Long and The Short Of It by Elizabeth Knox (selected by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The best New Zealand Stories over 10,000 and under 1,000 Words as judged by Elizabeth Knox, Bill Manhire and Emily Perkins. Cover and illustrations by Anastasia Doniants.
The Love School: Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Collects twenty years of Elizabeth Knoxnon-fiction, beginning with her 1988 essay Origins, Authority and Imaginary Games, which tells the story of her writing beginnings in childhood imaginary games played with her sisters and friends. Other autobiographical pieces deal with leaving home, working at Inl ...Show more