From covens and coming out, to rehab, this funny and daring book is not only an engrossing read, but a fascinating glimpse into a vital part of our social history.įICTION House of Earth Woody Guthrie (Fourth Estate) pb $35.00 Who Was That Woman Anyway?: Snapshots of a Lesbian Life Aorewa McLeod (VUP) pb $35.00Īorewa McLeod’s debut novel is a series of fascinating vignettes, traversing the thin, often insubstantial line between autobiography and fiction. An intriguing mix of love story and writing manual. While she mentors their ambitions, she observes the romantic entanglements of her colleagues, worries about her husband and is fascinated by their mysterious German lodger, she both imparts and embodies how to write a novel. Merle Carbury teaches Creative Writing and as the final semester of the year approaches, her students prepare to submit their manuscripts. The Writing Class Stephanie Johnson (Vintage) pb $38.00 Frame did not allow publication of this manuscript in her lifetime in case real life people recognised themselves in these characters. Drawing on her own experience, this biting satire is about Harry Gill, a writer who is awarded a fellowship in Menton but finds the writing room completely unsuitable. Janet Frame wrote this book in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. In the Memorial Room Janet Frame (Text) hb $35.00 Lay draws on deep knowledge of the South West Pacific and successfully personalises the man and the journey. A candid side-journal written by the Captain for his remarkable wife, Elizabeth, creates piercing side portraits of many, including Joseph Banks and translator Tupaia. Imagining Captain James Cook’s life through his first circumnavigation of the world, Lay explores Cook the explorer.
The Secret Life of James Cook: a novel Graeme Lay (Harper Collins) pb $37.00 Combining rhapsody, fear and humor, The Lifeguard opens with a major new series ‘The Lifeguard’, and finishes with a long sequence, ‘Shadow Stands Up’. In 2011 Ian Wedde was appointed a two year term as New Zealand’s poet laureate and this is a welcome new collection of poems. The Lifeguard: New Poems 2008-2013 Ian Wedde (AUP) pb $28.00 Also included are translated versions of poems by Montale, Vita and Jaccottet. These lively and reflective poems include elegies for friends, and Dylan Thomas, Vincent O’Sullivan and Katherine Mansfield are among some of the literary characters who appear in person, dream and conversation. Stead’s latest poetry collection arrives in his 80th year. Stead (AUP) pb $25.00Ī formidable force in New Zealand literature, C.K. NZ FICTION The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012 C.K. Click on an image to purchase in our online store!
Time for another Autumn newsletter, brimming with good books to read by the light of a cold hard five o’clock sunset. Late summer leads to late Autumn and we feel the leaves circling our feet.
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