NEW ZEALAND VINTAGE

Always the Islands of Memory
Noel Virtue

$24.95

Set in Te Aroha in the Sixties, Parnell Lark and her sister live alone with their dogs, their aged cow and their memories. Noel Virtue celebrates human resourcefulness and triumph of hope in this eloquent and compassionate study of how ordinary people cope with extraordinary suffering. Always the Islands of Memory is unforgettable.

A Population of One
Alice Glenday

$19.95

Innocence and knowledge, fortuity and choice: these are the themes that inform a young woman's uncertain progress towards understanding and grace. Alice Glenday writes with humour, economy of style, and a fine sense of irony. This novel is told as a series of episodes, each working as a short story. Chapter Four -'A Summer Thing' -won New Zealand's Mobil Dominion Sunday Times 1990 Short Story Award.

To the Is-Land      An Angel at My Table
Janet Frame

$19.95

The first and second volumes of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, re-released as Vintage paperbacks. With stunning new cover designs to link each volume, they also include a section of photographs relevant to those years covered in each individual book.

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