Table of Contents
Volume 1 To the Is-Land 1
1 In the Second Place 5
1 In the Second Place 5
2 Toward the Is-Land 6
3 In Velvet Gown 11
4 The Railway People 16
5 Ferry Street, Wyndham 22
6 Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark 31
7 Fifty-six Eden Street, Oamaru 37
8 Death and a Sickness 48
9 Poppy 55
10 O.K. Permanent Wave 63
11 The Prince of Sleep 67
12 Cures 72
13 The Birds of the Air 75
14 Pastimes 78
15 Gussy and the Invercargill March 86
16 The Athenaeum 93
17 Clothed in White Samite 96
18 Picnics 108
19 A Death 113
20 Once Paumanok 118
21 The Hungry Generations 128
22 The Kingdom by the Sea 131
23 Scrapers and Bluey 138
24 Faust and the Piano 142
25 Marking Time 147
26 Early Spring Snow 153
27 'That's Not You, Jasper' 163
28 University Entrance 168
29 Imagination 176
30 A Country Full of Rivers 179
31 Leaving the Is-Land, Greeting the Is-Land 187
Volume 2 An Angel at My Table 191
Part 1 Tricks of Desperation
1 The Stone 197
2 Number Four Garden Terrace, Dunedin 198
3 The Student 204
4 Again 'A Country Full of Rivers' 219
5 Isabel and the Growth of Cities 224
6 Willowglen 235
7 1945 (One) 241
8 1945 (Two) 249
9 1945 (Three) 254
10 1945 (Four) 257
11 The Boardinghouse and the New World 262
12 Willowglen Summer 272
13 Another Death by Water 276
14 Dear Educated 283
15 Threading Needles 292
lPart 2 Finding the Silk
16 Grand Hotel 305
17 Mr Brasch and Landfall 312
18 The Photograph and the Electric Blanket 319
19 Up North 323
20 Mr Sargeson and the Army Hut 329
21 Talk of Treasure 334
22 The Pine Trees in the Cool of the Evening 342
23 A Death 347
24 The Silkworms 354
25 Miss Lincoln, Beatrix Potter and Dr Donne 358
26 Advice to the Traveller 370
27 The Traveller 380
Volume 3 The Envoy From Mirror City 385
lPart 1 Triple Witness
1 Earthless, the Sailing 391
2 The Gentleman 397
3 Keats and the Storytellers of Battersea 407
4 Three 413
5 A Game of Chess 425
6 Plaza Roma 429
7 Calle Ignacio Riquer 433
8 Soap-New People 441
9 The Pine Trees 446
10 El Americano 452
11 Figuretti's 457
12 Andorra 471
lPart 2 At Home in the City
13 London 487
14 Questions 490
15 The Investigation and the Verdict 496
16 Dr Cawley and the Luxury of Time 508
17 Grove Hill Road and the Life of a Writer 512
18 Friends in London 523
19 Meeting the Publisher 531
20 A Cottage in the Country 536
21 An Apartment in the City 545
22 The Return 559
23 Willowglen 567
24 Only to Please the Envoy 577
Acknowledgments 581
