Born 1941 · New Zealand
NZ Book Awards 2020 · Shortlist
Pearly Gates
Owen Marshall · 78 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Pat 'Pearly' Gates, a former Otago rugby player who owns a successful property agency, is in his second term as mayor of a small town in the South Island and weighs whether to stand again.
NZ Book Awards 2017 · Shortlist
Love as a Stranger
Owen Marshall · 75 when first published
Novel · 304 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Staying in Auckland while her husband has cancer treatment, Sarah meets a stranger, Hartley, at an 1886 grave in the Symonds Street Cemetery, and their friendship soon becomes an affair.
NZ Book Awards 2010 · Shortlist
Living as a Moon
Owen Marshall · 68 when first published
Short stories · 304 pages
AI-generated summary:Twenty-five stories about people whose sense of self is shaped by others: a celebrity impersonator, a widow facing life alone, a man whose life turns on a chance meeting with a killer, a husband driven into telephone sex work.
NZ Book Awards 2006 · Shortlist
Watch of Gryphons and Other Stories
Owen Marshall · 64 when first published
Short stories · 316 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories of New Zealanders at home and abroad, among them a student recovering from a breakdown on a North Otago farm, a young man paid to mind an old man with dementia, and an engineer in Perugia befriending his Italian neighbours.
NZ Book Awards 2003 · Shortlist
When Gravity Snaps
Owen Marshall · 61 when first published
Short stories · 213 pages
AI-generated summary:Twenty-four stories, among them a tour party travelling through southern Europe, two brothers meeting again after many years when one of them is dying, and a love that goes unanswered after a tender start.
NZ Book Awards 2000 · Winner
Harlequin Rex
Owen Marshall · 58 when first published
Novel · 299 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:In a near-future New Zealand hit by Harlequin, an incurable epidemic that strips away inhibitions, David Stallman arrives at a remote sanatorium near Havelock to nurse the sufferers.