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Norcliffe James
James Norcliffe is one of New Zealand’s most widely published and anthologised poets. In Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe, he looks over the shoulders of many characters and creatures…
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Believable fantasy by an award - winning author for 8 to 12 year olds - grounded in the here and now - and charged with a dangerous, menacing edge. A…
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A gripping story about a boy who gains the power of flight, but loses touch with what makes him human. Is the cost of being a loblolly boy too high…
An enchanting story of a story, Twice Upon a Time is a charming junior fiction novel by award-winning writer James Norcliffe ..
Why did the princess throw the frog against the wall? A novel about a disappearance,A searching for love and the power of stories.
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Presents lyrics anchored by three sequences such as: the title sequence, which imagines a fifteenth-century French poet, Francois Villon, fetching up in the deserted West Coast town of Millerton; another…
When Mallory and her sidekick Arthur kidnap the tooth fairy, they get more than they bargained for in this sparkling fantasy adventure novel for children. Mallory is a nasty piece…
The Loblolly boy wants his old life back and his plight is all the more poignant for his searching. In this stunning junior fiction fantasy sequel to The Loblolly Boy…
Why did the princess throw the frog against the wall? A novel about a disappearance, searching for love and the power of stories.
A disappearance. An infatuation. The Frog Prince…
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The title of James Norcliffe’s tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. In Deadpan, Norcliffe writes in…
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In Letter to 'Oumuamua, James Norcliffe makes succinct observations about human life that traverse the personal and political. Grounded in the local but encompassing the global, they range through subjects…
The loblolly boy has the gift of flight: he’s invisible to most people, apart from a very few who are known as the Sensitives. When the loblolly boy swaps identities…
It’s Halloween and Mallory has a trick up her sleeve!
Scheming Mallory and her reluctant sidekick Arthur have a Halloween misadventure involving nasty tricks, time travel and a sneaky cat.
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A cunning kidnap and blackmail plot … what could go wrong?
When Mallory and her sidekick Arthur kidnap the tooth fairy, they get more than they bargained for in this…
Memorial For Sir James Norcliffe Innes, Baronet And James Horne Writer To The Signet, His Commiffioner, Purfuers Of An Action Of Reduction-Improbation has been considered by academicians and scholars of…
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Bonsai’ brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing essays on this increasingly…
Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art created in response to the editors’ questions: What is New…
Tarrant & Mowle
Full Title: In The House of Lords, Between John Bellenden Ker, Henry Gawler, and John Seton Karr, Esquires, } Appellants. and Sir James Norcliffe Innes, Baronet, and James Horne His…
Anonymous
Full Title: John Bellenden Ker Esq., Henry Gawler Esq., and John Seton Karr of Kippielaw Esq., } Appellants; Sir James Norcliffe Innes Bart., and James Horne, His Commissioner, } Respondents…
Thomas Longlands
Full Title: In The House of Lords. Brigadier-General Walter Ker of Littledean, Claiming Right to The Titles and Honours of Duke of Roxburghe, and Richard Hotchkis, Esq; Writer to The…
