{"title":"NZ Fiction Author V-Z","description":"\u003cp\u003eNZ Fiction Books with Author surname V-Z\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"losing-alice-by-noel-virtue-854c","title":"Losing Alice by Noel Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription  Arnold lives in a block of flats in London owned by Mr Bountiful, who lives on the ground floor. Their lives are separate and quiet, until an unsavoury young man claiming to be a poet starts visiting Mr Bountiful. Then their darker sides come to the fore, producing shocking and touching results.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795923247178,"sku":"854c","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/854c_c4a5a9dc-35c3-4bc5-b99b-1d641e098254.jpg?v=1764150978"},{"product_id":"land-of-my-children-by-helen-wilson-953p","title":"Land of my children by Helen Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795924852810,"sku":"953p","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_4c9db615-81b3-4889-9765-031c14120cae.png?v=1764151049"},{"product_id":"the-transfiguration-of-martha-friend-by-noel-virtue-957v","title":"The Transfiguration of Martha Friend by Noel Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook by Virtue, Noel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795924918346,"sku":"957v","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/957v_dd1d6be6-15e1-4358-9d94-23d36d000185.jpg?v=1764151052"},{"product_id":"in-the-country-of-salvation-by-noel-virtue-958c","title":"In the Country of Salvation by Noel Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795924951114,"sku":"958c","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/958c_a8b94c36-c48f-4d45-af3a-95fee651b947.jpg?v=1764151053"},{"product_id":"the-fainter-by-damien-wilkins-548e","title":"The Fainter by Damien Wilkins","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn emotionally charged comedy of manners - supremely elegant and funny but also with the power to shake the reader's feelings. Luke is a young diplomat on his first overseas posting. He's in New York, preparing for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. His photo has appeared in the New York Times. He has a knack for success. Then he witnesses a crime, the fallout from which threatens everything. His fainting spells return and he finds himself back in New Zealand, living on his sister's farm, caught up in another difficulty altogether, and involved in the life of a community whose personalities and rules of conduct he finds as bewitching and dizzying as anything experienced at the frontline of international diplomacy. By the end of his time there - which takes the reader only halfway through this novel - Luke has been asked the most testing questions about himself. In the second part of the book, these questions return with a new and surprising urgency. THE FAINTER is a superb novel, beautifully written, bracingly funny, rich with cutting insight and cool compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796020437066,"sku":"548e","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/548e_1_b09cb80b-243f-4f28-bb68-29069c8643bf.jpg?v=1764153900"},{"product_id":"new-zealand-short-stories-by-lydia-wevers-549r","title":"New Zealand Short Stories by Lydia Wevers","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpanning the decade from the mid-seventies, this selection explores the diverse directions New Zealand short fiction has taken since it left the realism of the farm in search of the surrealism of the modern city. This volume, including work by Owen Marshall, Shonagh Koea, Witi Ihimaera, and Keri Hulme, also reflects the emergence of women writers in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796020568138,"sku":"549r","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/549r_6744c783-3ceb-4049-ae4e-c755f16391a1.jpg?v=1765232005"},{"product_id":"the-fainter-by-damien-wilkins-602f","title":"The Fainter by Damien Wilkins","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn emotionally charged comedy of manners - supremely elegant and funny but also with the power to shake the reader's feelings. Luke is a young diplomat on his first overseas posting. He's in New York, preparing for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. His photo has appeared in the New York Times. He has a knack for success. Then he witnesses a crime, the fallout from which threatens everything. His fainting spells return and he finds himself back in New Zealand, living on his sister's farm, caught up in another difficulty altogether, and involved in the life of a community whose personalities and rules of conduct he finds as bewitching and dizzying as anything experienced at the frontline of international diplomacy. By the end of his time there - which takes the reader only halfway through this novel - Luke has been asked the most testing questions about himself. In the second part of the book, these questions return with a new and surprising urgency. THE FAINTER is a superb novel, beautifully written, bracingly funny, rich with cutting insight and cool compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796030300234,"sku":"602f","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/602f_281a11eb-e996-4079-9b2e-8a84da812b95.jpg?v=1765533449"},{"product_id":"jump-start-by-virginia-were-602n","title":"Jump Start by Virginia Were","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelationships are under the microscope in Jump Start-what men do, what women do . . . sometimes. This is also a book which flits across the globe, from Waimauku to Kakadu. Virginia Were is one of the leading New Zealand poets of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796030333002,"sku":"602n","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/602n_1_ad08b8e6-3326-4d45-b312-1d857cd8e3ad.jpg?v=1764154103"},{"product_id":"time-out-by-pat-whitaker-953a","title":"Time Out by Pat Whitaker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796103733322,"sku":"953a","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/953a_1_9c421b11-a7bd-4b81-b7ee-349582137e72.jpg?v=1764154970"},{"product_id":"faith-of-our-fathers-by-spiro-bernard-zavos-1030z","title":"Faith of Our Fathers by Spiro Bernard Zavos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796161568842,"sku":"1030z","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1030z_1_fe13c69e-5bb7-4fcc-880a-8f9aea087730.jpg?v=1764155246"},{"product_id":"point-of-origin-by-redmond-wallis-1031h","title":"Point of origin by Redmond Wallis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796161667146,"sku":"1031h","price":36.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_70e826c5-0d4b-46e0-9be0-343bba12ff1a.png?v=1764155248"},{"product_id":"womens-work-contemporary-short-stories-by-new-zealand-women-new-zealand-classics-by-marion-mcleod-lydia-wevers-1185h","title":"Women's Work: Contemporary Short Stories by New Zealand Women (New Zealand Classics) by Marion McLeod,Lydia Wevers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last two decades there has been a marked increase in the quality and quantity of short fiction published by New Zealand women. This anthology, a celebration of the excellence of their work, includes stories by Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Fiona Kidman, Patricia Grace, Margaret Sutherland, Joy Cowley, Jean Watson, and others. The collection not only conveys a sense of excitement in these women's artistic production, but also encourages other women who are just beginning to find what they want to say.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796202496074,"sku":"1185h","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1185h_c4c3d012-84ef-4d6d-8339-45d6ed5e98c5.jpg?v=1764155501"},{"product_id":"museum-street-by-michael-alan-wall-1282i","title":"Museum Street by Michael Alan Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796276912202,"sku":"1282i","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1282i_25ce9c26-a6b7-4a36-afbe-64cdcc45fcb5.jpg?v=1764156547"},{"product_id":"always-the-islands-of-memory-by-noel-virtue-1392al","title":"Always the Islands of Memory by Noel Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796282744906,"sku":"1392al","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1392al_aff86c0f-6984-4b55-8c60-5a98f5619659.jpg?v=1764156830"},{"product_id":"long-and-happy-an-autobiography-by-arnold-wall-4269h","title":"Long and happy an autobiography by Arnold Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796335337546,"sku":"4269h","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_c011ff6f-ead7-4172-b306-b8de75590f78.png?v=1764159424"},{"product_id":"rakmason-by-j-e-weir-4269n","title":"R.A.K.Mason by J E. Weir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796335403082,"sku":"4269n","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4269n_e18a6e40-c7f3-4098-9c84-a2ce59fb0707.jpg?v=1764159426"},{"product_id":"an-outsider-looks-back-reflections-on-experience-by-ormond-wilson-4269p","title":"An Outsider Looks Back. Reflections on Experience by Ormond Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796335468618,"sku":"4269p","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4269p_d2309b22-cecb-4f2a-92ce-48eb36693447.jpg?v=1765659754"},{"product_id":"then-upon-the-evil-season-by-noel-virtue-4249b","title":"Then upon the evil season by Noel Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796343791690,"sku":"4249b","price":4.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4249b_c87ca5d1-4bcc-4ad4-9f56-5f1afbefee70.jpg?v=1764159654"},{"product_id":"motel-view-by-forbes-willaims-4249d","title":"Motel view by Forbes Willaims","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796343857226,"sku":"4249d","price":4.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4249d_de2f9e3b-023d-4a45-9a1f-01aba5e80cb1.jpg?v=1764159656"},{"product_id":"catriona-kate-by-shirley-wine-4249f","title":"Catriona Kate by Shirley Wine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796343889994,"sku":"4249f","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4249f_7e406ffb-c926-4c90-bfda-b9c30908ae73.jpg?v=1764159665"},{"product_id":"tikera-or-children-of-the-queen-of-oceania-by-sygurd-wisniowski-4249h","title":"Tikera or children of the queen of Oceania by Sygurd Wisniowski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796343955530,"sku":"4249h","price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_8048fb43-5a96-4856-988d-0f8bdd4bae9c.png?v=1764159668"},{"product_id":"survival-arts-by-ian-wedde-4249aa","title":"Survival  arts by Ian Wedde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41796344021066,"sku":"4249aa","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/4249aa_4cfa0273-be88-4f95-bbab-0ed9db55c592.jpg?v=1764159672"},{"product_id":"lucky-bastard-by-peter-wells-151k","title":"Lucky Bastard by Peter Wells","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do you make sense of the past when it suddenly explodes into the present? In post-war Japan, Eric Keeling must investigate an alleged war crime, but do his actions constitute a further crime? In New Zealand, half a century later, this is the question that confronts his two children. They have grown up with a difficult father, who was traumatised by his past as a prisoner of war. Was he a war hero, or guilty of an unscrupulous act of revenge? As their father loses his hold on reality, they must sift through the facts and fictions of what really happened, and in the process they discover a new sense of family. Taking unexpected turns, Lucky Bastard is a powerful novel in three acts. The work of a prize-winning writer, it is vividly portrayed, moving and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809536319562,"sku":"151k","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/151k_1.jpg?v=1764167585"},{"product_id":"enemy-within-by-richard-webster-451w","title":"Enemy Within by Richard Webster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809772642378,"sku":"451w","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/451w.jpg?v=1764175232"},{"product_id":"visiting-ghosts-by-judith-white-460n","title":"Visiting Ghosts by Judith White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809791680586,"sku":"460n","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_aeacb8b8-b72e-4547-8157-f9b746a89c4d.png?v=1764175746"},{"product_id":"no-real-lady-by-jane-wordsworth-460o","title":"No Real Lady by Jane Wordsworth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809791877194,"sku":"460o","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_18fe9fc1-dd52-4437-9063-caab22ad9054.png?v=1764175759"},{"product_id":"human-remains-by-denis-welch-460q","title":"Human Remains by Denis Welch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809792630858,"sku":"460q","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_93053b4a-74c2-49c0-9ca2-30e9efe56083.png?v=1764175761"},{"product_id":"a-new-kind-of-zeal-by-michelle-warren-475i","title":"A New Kind of Zeal by Michelle Warren","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809820287050,"sku":"475i","price":17.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_6fe8ee08-9f67-4998-8841-536ad2501997.png?v=1764176629"},{"product_id":"coast-by-david-carnegie-young-475l","title":"Coast by David Carnegie Young","description":"","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809820352586,"sku":"475l","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/475l_3a3d8807-9ef6-4ff4-9f90-0748d06eb08c.jpg?v=1764176635"},{"product_id":"across-the-dreaming-night-by-judith-white-487ag","title":"Across The Dreaming Night by Judith White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809830576202,"sku":"487ag","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/487ag.jpg?v=1764177194"},{"product_id":"a-piece-of-cake-by-ralph-williams-487ai","title":"A Piece of Cake by Ralph Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Author(s). 290pp. Inscribed by author on title page.  Light tanning to page edges and ep's. A firmly bound copy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809830608970,"sku":"487ai","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/487ai.jpg?v=1764177196"},{"product_id":"a-flash-in-the-pan-by-ralph-williams-487aj","title":"A Flash in the Pan by Ralph Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Author(s). 221 pp.  A clean, firmly bound copy. This is the third book in a trilogy - Cry a Distant Shamrock -  A Piece of Cake  -  A Flash in the Pan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809830641738,"sku":"487aj","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/487aj.jpg?v=1764177197"},{"product_id":"buddha-and-a-boat-anchors-in-an-open-sea-trilogy-book-2-by-dyana-wells-494ai","title":"Buddha and a Boat   (Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy  - Book 2) by Dyana Wells","description":"\u003cp\u003e263pp.  Upper card fore corner creased otherwise a clean, firm copy.  Based on a true story of sailing adventures through the Pacific\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809836671050,"sku":"494ai","price":14.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/494ai.jpg?v=1764177458"},{"product_id":"the-viewing-platform-by-ian-wedde-495g","title":"The Viewing Platform by Ian Wedde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809836736586,"sku":"495g","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/495g.jpg?v=1764177461"},{"product_id":"in-the-same-room-conversations-with-new-zealand-writers-by-elizabeth-alley-mark-williams-519e","title":"In the same room: Conversations with New Zealand writers by Elizabeth Alley,Mark Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of interviews with 15 successful contemporary New Zealand writers, who discuss their lives and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809876254794,"sku":"519e","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/519e.jpg?v=1764178912"},{"product_id":"little-masters-by-damien-wilkins-548f","title":"Little Masters by Damien Wilkins","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel. It tells the story of young New Zealanders abroad. Adrian lives in a London squat with his son. Emily is nanny to a Midwest doctor's daughter. The story moves from Wellington to meadows in England. Damien Wilkins won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction with his novel 'The Miserables' in 1994. He has also published short stories and poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41809896800330,"sku":"548f","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/548f_1.jpg?v=1764179704"},{"product_id":"the-kahutahuta-by-douglas-v-van-belle-586y","title":"The Kahutahuta by Douglas V. van Belle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41810072207434,"sku":"586y","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_d8e979be-1901-4ab1-80bb-fd9143fa1bd7.png?v=1764180932"},{"product_id":"a-kiwi-legend-by-mark-wilson-599au","title":"A Kiwi Legend by Mark Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41810172739658,"sku":"599au","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_512a0d69-879e-4e35-a10a-3996c04f6c1f.png?v=1764181416"},{"product_id":"wicked-women-by-fay-weldon-603ab","title":"Wicked Women by Fay Weldon","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of 16 diverse and all consuming stories on the most serious of things, observed with irony, humour and intrigue.  Editorial Reviews  Amazon.com Review Fay Weldon is a writer who understands the value of holding a grudge. Who can forget the years-long vengeance the heroine of her best-known book, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, exacted on her faithless husband and the romance writer who stole him from her? Even the physical extremes to which Weldon's scorned wife goes in order to remake herself in the image of her rival--including broken bones and plastic surgery--are worth it when she finally succeeds in destroying their lives. Horrifying as the conceit might seem in real life, Weldon's fictional revenge, whether served hot or cold, is a most tasty dish. In Wicked Women, a collection of short stories, Fay Weldon continues her one-writer crusade to ensure that bad people get exactly what's coming to them.   But if Fay Weldon's stories are dark, they are also savagely satirical. In Santa Claus's New Clothes, the children of a recently divorced father have some telling questions for their not-so-nice new stepmother, who also happens to be their father's former therapist. In Not Even a Blood Relation, a mother turns the tables on her three heartless daughters in a manner sure to delight the reader. Weldon has a clear-eyed view of right and wrong--not for her are the concepts of no-fault divorce or infidelity without consequence--and in her fiction, if not in life, victims receive Fay Weldon's fierce brand of justice. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From Booklist Readers can always count on Weldon's fiction for sophisticated entertainment, and her latest book, a collection of short stories, will not fail them. Although not especially known for her work in the short form, she shows her usual flair for pungent delivery of social commentary. Her frank, funny, and painfully truthful stories--piquant examinations of the annoyances and even dilemmas of contemporary life--feature imaginative contexts as framework and brilliant word choice as material. In one story, a past affair rears its risky head (The past may be another country, but there are frequent international flights from there to here); in another, the relationship between a man and his long-distance mistress has changed with the times, much like the eastern European city in which she lives (a thinly disguised Prague). In yet another story, a woman's dream conjures up her grandmother, with whom she shares her fears about her marriage. This marvelously enticing collection could well bring hesitant short story readers to an appreciation of the form. Brad Hooper --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From Kirkus Reviews The antagonists who populate these 20 stories are indeed very wicked (no surprise to readers of Weldon's 21 novels, including Worst Fears, 1996), but they're not always women. Both sexes and all ages come in for some merry tweaking by this master of sexual satire--making this outing a familiar pleasure for old fans and a thoroughly satisfying introduction for newcomers. When Defoe Desmond's middle-aged wife confronts him about his affair in End of the Line,'' she's covered with white ash (she happens to be cleaning the fireplace), and when she kisses him she leaves the ashy mark of death on his cheek. What better indicator that it's time for Defoe to bail out with the fiendishly seductive Weena Dodds, a New Age Times journalist itching to move into the manor house? Weena is certainly evil (she specializes in married men, taking pleasure in ruining their lives and leaving them begging as she moves on to greener pastures), but there comes a day when even the cleverest siren racks up one too many enemies. On the other hand, it's sometimes the man who turns out to be cold- blooded, as in Wasted Lives,'' whose film-executive narrator casually dumps his Eastern European mistress the moment he learns that she's pregnant with his child. In Valediction,'' an aging couple's children show their true colors by trying to push said parents out of the family home. And in Through a Dustbin, Darkly,'' a ghost works her vengeance by pushing her former husband's young second wife to burn down the house they live in. Every kind of evil that lurks in the heart is gleefully explored in all its permutations here, and somehow it all ends up very cheering--wherein lies Weldon's tremendous talent. Though the stories date from as far back as 1972, and in one or two cases their age shows, there are far more hits than misses in this unsentimental education in the war between the sexes. -- Copyright  1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From the Back Cover With Wicked Women, Fay Weldon has created an incisive collection of stories, turning her sharp eye on love, men, therapy, and the myriad of self-deceptions we depend on. Here we meet nuclear scientist Defoe Desmond, a post-Cold War irrelevancy, who is ineptly drawn to a youthful, wily, husband-stealing New Age journalist; three sisters named Edwina, Thomasina, and Davida, who are appalled when their mother finally gives their father a male heir-two years after his death; and Paula, who keeps so still waiting to hear evidence of her husband's adultery that she does not notice she's giving birth. Weldon's world is peopled with therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their detachment, and clever women navigating the perils and pitfalls of domesticity. Her wicked humor and seasoned wisdom are as evident here as always-and tempered by great compassion for the foibles of the human heart.   A bristling new collection of stories . . . Weldon has become one of the most cunning moral satirists of our time.-The New York Times Book Review   It is Fay Weldon's gift that the humor she writes seems to emerge unbidden from the weirdness of human nature and the inscrutable equation of the relationship between the sexes.-Chicago Tribune   A latter-day Aesop of wronged women, Fay Weldon specializes in satiric moral tales in which divine justice is granted to the abandoned wife or forsaken daughter. Weldon's wit is as sharp as ever.-People   Fay Weldon's comic shafts have never been better directed, her acid tone has never had more of the real Tabasco taste and her ironies have never been more outrageous. . . . [An] entirely satisfactory collection.-Star-Ledger Fay Weldon was born in England, raised in New Zealand, and received her M.A. in economics and psychology from St. Andrews University in Scotland. She is the author of twenty-two novels, including Big Girls Don't Cry, Worst Fears, Splitting, and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. She lives in London. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From Library Journal In these 20 stories, some previously published, Weldon continues to pursue the themes of love, relationships, and family with the humor and poignancy that have made her other writings (e.g., Worst Fears, LJ 5\/15\/96) so engaging. Delivering these themes with varying degress of satire, sincerity, and subtlety, she offers intricate moments in the lives of defeated lovers, insecure cuckolds, perplexed offspring, daring widow\/ers, keen children, and underdogs who overcome the oppression of love. Weldon brings together all facets of the relationship race with a unique mastery, using sharp and cultivated prose. Recommended for all libraries. -?Judith A. Akalaitis, Chicago, Ill. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  Review With the year 2000 and its tidy string of zeroes reawakening our eternal longing for conclusive endings, Weldon's wrap-ups are eloquent and absolute. They are born of her belief in the dogged persistence of genetic bonds and in an uncompromising universe of clear rights and wrongs with their own inevitable consequences. -- The New York Times Book Review, Deborah Mason --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41810184536138,"sku":"603ab","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/603ab_1.jpg?v=1764181452"},{"product_id":"the-ice-house-by-minette-walters-740r","title":"The Ice House by Minette Walters","description":"","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41810926469194,"sku":"740r","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/740r_ac9c8af9-7860-4b6b-87e7-d95e99c97a1e.jpg?v=1772598139"},{"product_id":"the-redemption-of-elsdon-bird-by-noel-virtue-826aa","title":"The Redemption of Elsdon Bird by Noel Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003eReminiscent of Oscar and Lucinda, this is the story of an imaginative child raised in the intolerant atmosphere of New Zealand's Christian Brethren. Elsdon Bird is an affectionate and imaginative child raised in a family steeped in the religious intolerance of the Christian Brethren sect. When his father is fired from his city workplace for proselytizing and trying to save his coworkers, the Birds are forced to leave Wellington and their odd-ball neighbors with whom the lonely, marginalized boy had some affinity, and move to a small, remote town in the north. Here, life might have changed for the better, but instead the family begins to disintegrate. Socially isolated beyond regular infusions of bigotry from the other Brethren families or holy rollers in the town, his parents descend further into a rigid looking-glass world of religious fundamentalism that uses Elsdon as a whipping boy for all its frustrations. Driven more and more into himself and inspired by TheJungle Book, Elsdon builds a fragile internal world maintained by conversations with cows and sheep. He also talks to a small voice in his head which, for a time, is the closest thing he has to a confidant. Yet, when a sequence of disasters finally breaks up the family, the endearing Elsdon's amazing resilience and precocious humanity see him win through in the end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811303989322,"sku":"826aa","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/826aa.jpg?v=1764187860"},{"product_id":"the-shirt-factory-and-other-stories-by-ian-wedde-826ac","title":"The Shirt Factory and Other Stories by Ian Wedde","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of short stories written in the 1970's by this New Zealander. The book also contains a novella Dick Seddon's great dive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811304087626,"sku":"826ac","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/826ac_1.jpg?v=1764187863"},{"product_id":"a-new-zealand-artists-travels-by-keith-wilson-100bg","title":"A New Zealand artist's travels by Keith Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook by Wilson, Keith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811347832906,"sku":"100bg","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/100bg.jpg?v=1764189390"},{"product_id":"leaving-the-highway-six-contemporary-new-zealand-novelists-by-mark-williams-877r","title":"Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists by Mark Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe major New Zealand novelists of the 1980s have begun to receive international acclaim. This first critical study of Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Maurice Gee, Ian Wedde, and C.K. Stead concentrates on their important works to explore how deeply-rooted anxieties about New Zealand's cultural situation and national identity are articulated in New Zealand fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811348947018,"sku":"877r","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/877r.jpg?v=1764189425"},{"product_id":"symmes-hole-by-ian-wedde-891e","title":"Symmes Hole by Ian Wedde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811359957066,"sku":"891e","price":14.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/891e.jpg?v=1764189779"},{"product_id":"the-newcomers-by-t-e-wilson-891g","title":"The Newcomers by T E Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811360022602,"sku":"891g","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/891g.jpg?v=1764189780"},{"product_id":"parasites-by-t-e-wilson-891i","title":"Parasites by T E Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811360055370,"sku":"891i","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/891i.jpg?v=1764189782"},{"product_id":"fugitive-from-fear-by-te-wilson-891j","title":"Fugitive from Fear by T.E. Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811360120906,"sku":"891j","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/891j.jpg?v=1764189792"},{"product_id":"harvest-of-gold-by-te-wilson-891k","title":"Harvest of Gold by T.E. Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811360153674,"sku":"891k","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/891k.jpg?v=1764189794"},{"product_id":"yellow-fever-by-te-wilson-891l","title":"Yellow Fever by T.E. Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41811360219210,"sku":"891l","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/891l.jpg?v=1764189795"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/collections\/nz-fiction-books-by-author-v-z.oembed?page=2","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}