The Transformation
CATHERINE CHIDGEY

Sultry Tampa, Florida in 1898 is the setting of the eagerly awaited third novel from the writer recently judged the best New Zealand novelist under 40 in the Listener critics’ poll. $29.95

Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason
RACHEL BARROWMAN

‘This wonderful, scrupulous book at last explains the writer who produced New Zealand's first great poems - as well as the damaged, courageous man who lost his gift.’ (Bill Manhire) $49.95

Change of heart
BARBARA ANDERSON

Oliver Gurth Perkins is 75, and the darkest cloud on his horizon is that the local bookshop no longer stocks paperbacks of the Times cryptic crosswords … Barbara Anderson at her best. $27.95

Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932–1945
LAWRENCE JONES

The story of the generation of NZ writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of our literature. $49.95

Slow Water
ANNAMARIE JAGOSE

‘She offers us a wealth of physical, period detail in a rich study of social relationships and the mannerisms of an era. Jagose's love of language permeates every sentence.’ (margie Thomson, NZ Herald) $29.95

Surfaces of Strangeness: janet frame and the Rhetoric of Fiction
SIMONE OETTLI-VAN DELDEN

Surfaces of Strangeness explores the discourses that surround the concept of madness, focusing primarily on the autobiography and novels of Janet Frame. $39.95