Philip Temple: 8 books

NEW ZEALAND'S FIRST MAJOR CLIFI NOVEL BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PHILIP TEMPLE Elliott from Generation Zero says, 'I've barely slept. I've been up until early hours of the morning all week. I've been surviving on coffee with bloodshot eyes. I've been obsessed. The reason?  I've been...

It is not the courage to go back up that we need. It's the courage to go down. Just to go on … ' In 1977 a British expedition led by Himalayan veteran Geoff Strickland, summiteer of K2 and Everest among others, set off to attempt the first ascent of unclimbed Puthemojar - the 'Mantis' - in the Karakoram....

A compelling and thoughtful memoir about a significant figure on New Zealand's literary - and natural - landscape.'The stories that I think worth telling are of how, as a young man, I left home on the other side of the world half a century ago and took the chance to become a New Zealander. More, of...

**Based on real events in Germany, this vividly told and deeply moving novel tells of one woman's love for a fellow artist, her struggle to survive the war and her desperation to keep alive the spirit of creativity.**Most novels about the Nazi period portray Germans as the perpetrators of war and...

'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’ Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary...

Beak of the Moon  is unique in New Zealand literature, a celebratory parable of the natural world and, like George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a political allegory that has never been more relevant than today.

This in-depth portrait of the Wakefield family, who played such a major role in British overseas settlement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in the 19th century, is written with a novelistic flavor, using personal letters and journals to bring to life this group of talented but morally complex...

**Mysterious and evocative, tantalising and erotic, this unique novel explores the qualities of love and obsession.**Marienbad, the central European spa resort, is immortalised in the romantic imagination for its legendary doomed love affairs - Goethe and Ulrike von Levetzow, Chopin and Marie Wodzinska,...