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Boy Overboard by Peter Wells
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
An achingly insightful coming-of-age novel about discovering sexuality and selfhood. Hungry Creek runs out over mudflats and curves around to a tidal beach. Hungry Creek is where everything is put that nobody wants: a dump, a zoo, a loony bin. It is also a magical place. 'I'm two bits of mismatched biki ...Show more
Dear Oliver by Peter Wells
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mother's effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not-untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth-century human diaspora from Britain. His family experience ...Show more
Hello Darkness by Peter Wells
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Description: It's now a year exactly since my urologist told me I had an aggressive cancer that was incurable. I was rushed into hospital and thus began a year of chemotherapy, radiation and all the ups and downs of a sickness that arrived in my life with the noise and terror of an old fashioned train. ...Show more
Iridescence by Peter Wells
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Remittance men were sent away from Britain to live in a colony on a small and regular sum - a remittance. Usually behind them was some disgrace or scandal, a secret that each man carried, often to the grave. Scandal and secrets are at the heart of IRIDESCENCE, a novel that spans two decades of the Victo ...Show more
Long Loop Home - A Memoir by Peter Wells
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
We all live with and seek to make sense of the inadequate ideas that conceptualise out time and place. Peter Wells was born in 1950, in Auckland, New Zealand, to sporting parents, with the complication of a brother who shared his sexuality. In his own words, he took a wrong turning: at eleven he decided ...Show more
Mutzig the Clown Cat by Peter Wells
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Eccentric and charming, Mutzig the Clown Cat is the first ever book by Peter Wells. In 1981 he made 30 copies of this book by hand to celebrate a stray cat that wandered into his life and took over his heart. A small art book, tactile and inviting, with drawings by the author.
The Duration Of A Kiss by Wells Peter
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
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