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All Visitors Ashore
  

All Visitors Ashore (Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.

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The 1951 waterfront lockout is on, the harbour is full of cargo vessels, but the passenger ships continue to sail. One by one or two by two the characters in the novel depart, leaving Curl Skidmore, the would-be poet and latterday professor (who is looking back on these events as ...

ISBN 9780143205937
Published 30 August 2010 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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Mansfield
 

Mansfield (Paperback, New title)

By Stead, C. K.

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Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' which she felt the times demanded.

ISBN 9780099468653
Published 23 April 2004 by Vintage
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Villa Vittoria
 

Villa Vittoria (Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.

An American professor working in London and a young female magazine photographer meet at an academic conference. The two fall in love and then find themselves on the run, from the Italian Riviera to London to a farmhouse in the north of France.

ISBN 9780141006079
Published 1 August 2001 by Penguin
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Smith's Dream
 

Smith's Dream (Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.

When Smith is left by his wife and goes to hide away in the bush in the Coromandel he never imagines he will become the most wanted man in the country. In a right-wing coup one man, Volkner, has seized power in New Zealand and is using army and special police to maintain his gove ...

ISBN 9780143204350
Published 1 March 2010 by Penguin
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Talking About O'Dwyer

Talking About O'Dwyer (Paperback, New edition)

By Stead, C. K.

Two Oxford dons, Mike Newall and Bertie Winterstoke, attend the funeral of Donovan O'Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals that O'Dwyer spent his life haunted by a Maori curse, the makutu , allegedly brought down upon him because he killed one of ...

ISBN 9781860468360
Published 1 July 2002 by Vintage
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Series Panther
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The Writer at Work: Essays by C K Stead
 

The Writer at Work: Essays by C K Stead (Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.

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Gathers a selection of essays by C K Stead, mixing literary criticism with autobiography. This title reviews the work of other writers, meditates on the teaching of literature, revisits some controversies and explores literary history.

ISBN 9781877133954
Published 1 January 2000 by Otago University Press
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Collected Stories
 

Collected Stories (Hardback)

By Duggan, Maurice; Volume editor Stead, C. K.

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This book, supebly edited and introduced by well-known writer C. K. Stead, collects all thirty of Duggan's published stories.

ISBN 9780196479934
Published 1 January 1981 by Auckland University Press
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Series New Zealand Fiction
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Paris: A Poem
 

Paris: A Poem (Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.; Illustrated by O'Brien, Gregory

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ISBN 9780196480343
Published 1 January 2005 by Auckland University Press
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Between
  

Between (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.

The first new collection of verse from this distinguished New Zealand writer for some years.

ISBN 9781869400248
Published 1 September 1989 by Auckland University Press
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Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers
 

Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Stead, C. K.

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A collection of 47 essays, lectures, reviews and articles covering a wide variety of topics, ranging from Yeats and Katherine Mansfield to Booker Prizewinners Peter Carey and Keri Hulme.

ISBN 9781869400385
Published 1 January 1989 by Auckland University Press
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