Stevan Eldred-Grigg

• Jun-1988
• / General Fiction
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A BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL 'FICTION' NOVEL ABOUT TWO WORKING CLASS SISTERS GROWING UP IN CHRISTCHURCH IN THE 1930S AND 1940S. FAG AND GINNIE LOOK AT THEIR LIVES, DESCRIBING THEIR FAMILY LIFE, THEIR SCHOOLING, THEIR FANTASIES (A STRONG ELEMENT IN THE BOOK...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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‘What a wonderful woman. My mother, warm and wise.’ Mum, a story about a girl and a boy growing up in poverty in the postwar suburbs, is the third in the saga begun with the much-acclaimed Oracles and Miracles. The saga, which also includes The S...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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In this new, bold novel Stevan Eldred-Grigg returns to the family at the centre of his bestselling Oracles and Miracles. Meridee Bang is brought up in a house on Olivine Street with too many children and too little money. It's the 1960s and while The...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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The Shining City tells the story of two boys growing up in postwar affluence in the suburbs. Ashley is the son of Fag and Roddie and lives in a suburb where each house looks like a motel. Christopher, his cousin, inhabits a high wealthy slope. These ...

• Aug-2015
• / Mystery
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Summer, 1929. Three young women are rocketing across the hot Canterbury Plains in a fast roadster: smoking, drinking - laughing. But soon all this is to change. In a plot worthy of a Ngaio Marsh fiction, lives are about to be shattered by shafts of j...

• Oct-2015
• / Historical
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'I am such a free spirit, am I not?' she said. 'Free to be despised.' Fiery, flirtatious, the femme fatale of Sunnydowns, Celia Wylde sets tongues wagging and hearts breaking as she cuts a swathe through polite society in the fledgling Canterbury pro...

• Oct-2020
• / Literary
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Pru has been married to Guy for a quarter of a century. She hasn’t had sex for ten years. ‘Why the hell do I live my life this way?’ she says to herself. ‘I mean – really!’ Change comes from out of the blue when od...

• Dec-2022
• / Horror
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The best-selling novel about twin girls growing up in New Zealand is back - with zombies!We all know about the zombie virus that ravaged New Zealand between the two world wars, but little has been written about how the biters it created affected the ...

• / General Fiction
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Rain on iron rooftops. A radio streaming the latest hit songs. It’s the early 1950s. The baby boom. Valerie is a talkative, singing, slanging, pregnant daughter of the slums. Gilbert, her husband, is the well-spoken son of a landed family. They...

• / Horror
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We all know about the zombie pandemic that ravaged New Zealand between the two world wars, but little has been written about how the zombie virus affected the lives of women, especially working class women. Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best selling novel ab...