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All the Tenderness Left in the World by Johnson, Stephanie
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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Everything Changes by Stephanie Johnson
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life - what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us.
John Tomb's Head by Stephanie Johnson
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
John Tomb saw more of the world than most Englishmen of the early nineteenth century. From England to Australia to New Zealand, he led a life of adventure and romance. Two hundred years after his death, his tattooed head is discovered in an American museum. His spirit reawakened, John Tomb wryly observe ...Show more
Music from a Distant Room by Stephanie Johnson
$26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
After jazz pianist Carl TylerÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs funeral in Auckland, his lover Tamara and mother Nola tell each other stories of ...Show more
Playing for Both Sides : Love Across the Tasman (BWB Texts) by Stephanie Johnson
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something ...Show more
The Heart's Wild Surf by Stephanie Johnson
$26.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Fiji at the end of 1918 the distant Great War is drawing to a close and Spanish flu is raging. Twelve-year-old Olive McNab is sent from Suva to stay with her aunt and uncle on a plantation on Tuveuni. On this magical and mysterious island she uncovers some startling, well-kept family secrets. The dea ...Show more
The Open World by Stephanie Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I miss my smiling son more than any other man before or since. London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive when she hears her New Zealand employers Judge and Lady Martin are returning to England. Accompanied by her dear friend, the lunatic Reverend Cotton, she makes a pilgrimage to settle old ...Show more
The Shag Incident by Stephanie Johnson
$26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner, Duetz Medal, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 The people who committed the act of revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly executed. Twenty years on the truth is revealed, the truth about the deception that started it all and the seemingly disparate characters involved: Jasper, currently in ...Show more
The Writers' Festival by Stephanie Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Wit, compassion and insight combine in this entertaining novel that explores the politics and human comedy behind writers' festivals and the publishing industry. Writers' festivals can be hotbeds of literary and romantic intrigue, and the Oceania is up there with the best of them. Rookie director Rae Mc ...Show more
The Writing Class by Stephanie Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A unique blend of a compelling story with insights into writing from a prize-winning author...some of us are not satisfied with that one life, even if it is shared with many friends and relatives. Writers take what we learn of human nature and, fuelled by our longings for other existences and other time ...Show more
West Island by Johnson Stephanie
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson.Roland Wakelin, Dulcie Deamer, Jean Devanny, Douglas Stewart and Eric Baume had little in common in personality, procli ...Show more
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