C.K. Stead

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1986
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • The Death of the Body

    "Will appeal to lovers of the wayward novel game as it is played by Lawrence Sterne or Italo Calvino" - Jackie Wullschläger, Financial TimesProfessor Harry Butler is obsessed with the Mind/Body problem. Unfortunately, this is not the least of his pr...

  • Sister Hollywood

    Seen from New Zealand during the war, Hollywood seemed to Bill Harper and his family too magical to be real. Bill's sister, Arlene, disappears from home. She is found - having an affair with a producer, arraigned before the UnAmerican Activities Comm...

  • Miss Herbert

  • The Singing Whakapapa

  • Villa Vittoria

    An American professor working in London and a young female magazine photographer meet at an academic conference. The two fall in love and then find themselves on the run, from the Italian Riviera to London to a farmhouse in the north of France....

  • The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair

  • The Secret History of Modernism

    A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s. The Empire might be in a state of collapse, but for young 'colonials', England remains a mythical place that draws them from the farthest cor...

  • Mansfield

    'A vivid and engrossing historical novel' Daily TelegraphSpanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, Mansfield follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle...

  • My Name Was Judas

    We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how he saw himself? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial a...



  • Talking About O'Dwyer

    In his new bachelor flat, too close to comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past.When Donovan O'Dwyer, his colleague and fellow expat...

  • Risk

    Recently divorced New Zealander Sam Nola returns to London, where he spent two years in his early twenties. It is early 2003, and on both sides of Atlantic the case for military intervention in Iraq is being made - or fabricated. But life for Sam has...

  • The Name on the Door Is Not Mine

    A striking new collection of accessible yet elegant stories from literary giant and master craftsman C.K. Stead. Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensu...

  • The Necessary Angel

    Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself entangled with Helen, a troubled young English stud...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.K. Stead has published 13 books.

C.K. Stead does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Necessary Angel, was published in February 2018.

The first book by C.K. Stead, The Death of the Body, was published in September 1986.

No. C.K. Stead does not write books in series.
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