Books by Elizabeth Knox

The story continues dramatically as Grace, overdreamt by Laura, introduces a nightmare instead of the happy holiday dream programmed to a packed Opera House audience, with chaotic results.

A novel set in early 19th century Burgundy, telling the tale of a man, his vineyard and an angel with whom he falls in love. It is a love triangle involving a man, a woman and an immortal. The story unfolds against the grand background and horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and on in...to the middle of the century.
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A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards..., was longlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize, and won the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Prize. Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an enquiring mind. Every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date, they meet again. Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep on improving-through the horrors of the Napoleonic wars, and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Elizabeth Knox is the author of ten novels - most recently The Absolute Book - a trilogy of autobiographical novellas, three fantasy novels for young adults, and a collection of essays. She has received many honours, including the 1988 PEN Best First Book Award for After Z-Hour, the 2006 Esther Glen Award for New Zealand children's literature for Dreamhunter, and an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Award for Young Adult Literature in 2008 for Dreamquake. She held the Victoria University of Wellington Writers Fellowship in 1997, and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton in 1999. She was an inaugural New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2000, and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. She lives in Wellington with her husband and son.
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Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie ...director and aircraft designer, and Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress. They see something in Xas that no one has ever seen before - not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed - Lucifer, who has lost Xas once, but won't let that be the end of it.
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One part Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, one part American Gods and one part Carter Beats the Devil, this is an extraordinary contemporary fantasy available for pre-order now . . . Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down, and killed. She believes it so hard... she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when Taryn's problems really begin. Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the death. Worse, others have their eyes on Taryn - those in a faraway place who know what Taryn's family have been carefully hiding in their vast library. The Absolute Book. They want it - and they want Taryn to help find it. For the lives of those in more than one world depend upon it . . . PRAISE FOR THE ABSOLUTE BOOK: 'An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book' FRANCIS SPUFFORD
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