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  • The Open World

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    A fascinating novel about secrets, finding a home and early colonial New Zealand. 'I miss my smiling son more than any other man before or since.' London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive when she hears that her former New Zealand employers, Judge and Lady Martin, are returning to England. Accompanied by her dear friend, the lunatic Reverend Cotton, she makes a pilgrimage to settle ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Everything Changes

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    Buying a rundown motel to start a new life — what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us. ‘What a fabulous read. Stephanie Johnson’s characters choose an old motel with little to offer except an amazing view in order to start a ‘new life’. Their first guests are a classic cast of the sorrowful and dysfunctional that ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Swimmers' Rope

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen, Norman goes to visit him. There he is forced to confront a mysterious adult truth. Later, in ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • The Whistler

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    A brilliant novel about history, the forgetting and rewriting of it, and a satire on a society that has lost compassion in the process. Smooch is a 'Whistler', a genetically altered lapdog with special talents, including the ability to remember his previous incarnations and to communicate directly from his brain by electronically downloading his thoughts onto disc. Smooch has been reincarnated ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • The Writing Class

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    This unique novel is both a compelling love story and an insightful writing manual. 'Writers take what we learn of human nature and, fuelled by our longings for other existences and other times, forge new identities that can be as real as she is, sitting with her dog on the weathered step of the old house, stories that move us to tears or laughter.' Merle Carbury, an author in her own right, also ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Tanqueray

    by Brandon Stanton, Stephanie Johnson ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A deeply touching memoir . . . A beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature—until now.” —The Washington PostThe storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Lottery Girl

    The Complete Daily Serial

    by Stephanie Bond ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    This romantic dramedy is a glimpse into how the other half lives.Unlucky in life and in love....Like a lot of people, I was dealt a bad hand. I was raised haphazardly in the foster-care system and emerged less than prepared to deal with adulthood, but I tried to count my blessings and make the best of the hand I was dealt. Still, with three part-time jobs, a mountain of debt, and a shaky marriage, ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Booze & Cheers

    Your Survival Guide for Unforgettable Parties

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    Step into a World of Unforgettable PartiesImagine a world where every party you throw becomes the talk of the town, a memory etched in the minds of your guests long after the music fades. Booze & Cheers: Your Survival Guide for Unforgettable Parties opens the door to this very world, offering a treasure trove of wisdom to transform you into the ultimate host.Begin your journey with the art of ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Tomb's Head

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    Returning to the biting and hilarious satire of contemporary New Zealand conveyed so well in the prize-winning The Shag Incident, this is a daring, astute and rollicking novel. John Tomb saw more of the world than most Englishmen of the early nineteenth century. From England to Australia to New Zealand, he led a life of adventure and romance. Two hundred years after his death, his tattooed head is ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • The Writers' Festival

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    Wit, compassion and insight combine in this entertaining novel that explores the politics and human comedy behind writers’ festivals and the publishing industry. Writers’ festivals can be hotbeds of literary and romantic intrigue, and the Oceania is up there with the best of them. Rookie director Rae McKay, recently returned from New York, fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Pressure ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Belief

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    An epic novel of love and religion that sweeps across New Zealand and America at the turn of the nineteenth century. In 1899 William McQuiggan leaves his young Australian wife and new-born twins in New Zealand and travels to America in search of God. Belief is the story of his journey and of his marriage to Myra, who follows him from Auckland to Salt Lake City, Utah, and to Zion City, Illinois. ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • Kind

    by Stephanie Johnson ...
    High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a fallen man, like ‘a black exclamation mark on a white page, Kiwi-noir face down in the snow’. Is he still alive? This funny, fearless, thought-provoking novel trains its sights on us. Kerry-Anne is kind, unlike her foster sister Joleen, who is a different kind of person altogether. Being locked down for Joleen will mean behind bars. For Kerry-Anne’s ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD