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Katherine Mansfield : The Story-Teller
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Author:
Kathleen Jones
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I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have been jealous of.
—Virginia Woolf
Widely acknowledged as New Zealand's finest writer, Katherine Mansfield holds a special place in the hearts of New Zealanders. A new biography is a significant literary event.
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller
is the first new biography of Mansfield for a quarter of a century. It is published at a time when interest in Mansfield and her work is increasing throughout the world.
Kathleen Jones gives a vivid portrayal of Mansfield, correcting previous misinterpretations of her illnesses and relationships, and weaving a compelling drama from the detail. The story extends further still, beyond Mansfield's death in 1923, to include the subsequent life of her husband, John Middleton Murry, shedding fascinating new light on the way Murry controversially manipulated the publication of some of Mansfield's unpublished work.
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Katherine Mansfield : The Story-Teller
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author:
Kathleen Jones
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I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have been jealous of.
—Virginia Woolf
Widely acknowledged as New Zealand's finest writer, Katherine Mansfield holds a special place in the hearts of New Zealanders. A new biography is a significant literary event.
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller
is the first new biography of Mansfield for a quarter of a century. It is published at a time when interest in Mansfield and her work is increasing throughout the world.
Kathleen Jones gives a vivid portrayal of Mansfield, correcting previous misinterpretations of her illnesses and relationships, and weaving a compelling drama from the detail. The story extends further still, beyond Mansfield's death in 1923, to include the subsequent life of her husband, John Middleton Murry, shedding fascinating new light on the way Murry controversially manipulated the publication of some of Mansfield's unpublished work.
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Magnetic North : Travels in the Arctic
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Wheeler Sara
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Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.
The Magnetic North
is a spicy confection of history, science and reflection in which Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic fragmented lands which fed imaginations long before the scientists and oilmen showed up (not to mention desperado explorers who ate their own shoes).
The Magnetic North tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.
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Postcards from Tukums: A family detective story
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Ann Gluckman
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Hidden letters, ancient postcards, & years of piecing together fragments about Ann’s grandparents who, in 1904, left Tukums in Latvia (then part of Imperial Russia) to settle in Stratford, Taranaki. A gorgeous book full of photos & fascinating memorabilia.
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Dancing with the Seasons : Inspiration and resilience through times of change
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Author:
Juliet Batten
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LEARN HOW
the changing seasons affect our blood pressure, pulse, appetite and mood
to use energy more effectively, by flowing with seasonal change
to develop the art of resilience
"I loved the seasonal stories from different cultures."-- Carol Archie MBE, writer and director
"Beautifully written, absorbing and insightful."--
Nicola Campbell, director Spirited Leadership
Imagine if we could meet every twist and turn of fortune with flexibility. Imagine if we could embrace change, not as an affront to our existence, but as a natural and positive part of life. — Juliet Batten
Juliet Batten’s new book
Dancing with the Seasons
guides us to work consciously with the effect of the seasons on our bodies, minds and feelings. Through interviews with other New Zealanders, research into traditional wisdom, the telling of stories and myths, this seasonal expert reveals the secret to being both productive and peaceful — ...
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Nomad : A personal journey through the clash of civilizations
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In this highly personal follow-up to
Infidel
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali examines the high cost of freedom - estrangement from her family and country, the loud criticism of her by many Muslims (some of them women), the 24-hour security which came as a result of death threats, and her struggle to come to terms with an often lonely independence.
She records the painful reconciliation with her beloved father, who had disowned her when she began criticising Islam, and the sorts of conflicts inherent in feeling torn between heart and mind. And as she delves into Islam's obsessions with virginity and the code of honour, she asks the question on everyone's mind: why do so many women embrace a religion which shuns them?
Weaving together memoir and reportage, Ayaan confronts the complacency and ignorance that often colour intellectual debate on Islam. With disarming honesty, she shares her experiences, doubts and insights.
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The Pattern in the Carpet: A personal history with jigsaws
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Margaret Drabble
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This is a beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it plays in the puzzle of its distinguished author's life. It is a mix of memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of puzzling.
James Boswell described the 'innocent soothing relief from melancholy' of playing draughts, and Margaret Drabble - among countless others - has found a similar solace from assembling jigsaws. In
The Pattern in the Carpet
, she describes the history of this uniquely British form of meditation, from its earliest incarnation as a dissected map, used as a teaching tool in the late eighteenth century, to the other cut-outs and mosaics that have amused children and adults from Roman times until today.
Woven carefully through her account are the author's intimate memories of her Auntie Phyl - her childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first visit to London together, the ...
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Tuamaka : The Challenge of Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Joan Metge
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Tuamaka' is the rope that Maui and his brothers used to snare the sun. Plaited with flax, the rope gained its strengths from bringing together its different strands. In her new book, Tuamaka, our most renowned anthropologist Dame Joan Metge asks what sort of rope we need to forge our multicultural future. She identifies the Treaty, the words, and the stories with which all New Zealanders can gain the strength that comes from twining people and ideas together. The Treaty is our founding narrative, Metge suggests and she tells a story of cultures meeting, arguing and then dealing with diversity. Maori and English, increasingly used in the same sentence, are our languages and Metge shows how Maori words are used and abused in everyday speech and the media. Finally, the art of storytelling – from myths of
Maui and James Cook to present day whakapapa is how we understand the land and ourselves.
Dame Joan ends Tuamaka with a ...
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An Afternoon In Summer: My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything and Finally Falling in Love
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Kathy Giuffre
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Kathy Giuffre wants to escape from her stressful life working full-time and raising two young children on her own. When a new boyfriend agrees to join her for a year in Rarotonga with her young sons, she takes a sabbatical from work, books their flights and packs their bags. Then at the last minute her boyfriend announces he isn't coming.
In captivating style Giuffre tells what happens when she finds herself alone with her boys on Rarotonga, a tiny speck in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, 11,000 kilometres from home. She knows no one, the house she's been promised doesn't eventuate, and almost every other outsider is on a ten-day package tour. Her unlikely saviour is Emily, an 82-year-old Māori woman with a large white house on the edge of the ocean, which the two women share with two callous missionaries, the ghosts of Emily's ancestors, and, briefly, a bizarre couple from Eastern Europe. As time passes, Kathy is ...
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Cat Among the Pigeons : A memoir
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Catherine Dame Tizard
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The Tizard political dynasty is headed by a woman many would consider a New Zealand matriarch, Dame Catherine Tizard, formerly mayor of Auckland and our first woman Governor General.
Feisty, irreverent, shrewd, fun-loving and resourceful, she built the Aotea Centre and lifted Government House out of its stiff and starchy past and into a more relevant present. When she bungy-jumped off the SkyTower for charity the Queen sent her a telegram: 'Well jumped. Elizabeth R.'
The daughter of left-wing Scots immigrants and born in a tiny Waikato town, she personifies the New Zealand story: how talent and determination and a zeal to leave the world a better place than you found it can take you to the top. This lively memoir captures her rich and remarkable life and is full of fascinating insights into some of the key social movements and political events and intrigues of our modern history.
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Half the Sky: How to Change the World
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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances.
More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.
Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration,
Half the Sky
is essential reading for every global citizen.
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Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement
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Catherine Redfern
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Discover the demands of the new feminist movement. In today's 'post-feminist' society, women and men are considered equal. For younger women and men, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the beginning of the new millennium a new generation have emerged to challenge these assumptions and assert a vibrant new agenda.
This groundbreaking book reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women's lives in today's society. From cosmetic surgery to celebrity culture and girl power to globalization, from rape to religion and sex to singleness, this book reveals the seven vital issues at stake for today's feminists, unveils the beginnings of a fresh and diverse wave of feminism, and calls a new generation back to action.
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Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey
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Jackie Kay
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In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic generosity and humour, Jackie Kay tells the most inspirational of stories: her own. ‘I was adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists. When people ask me if I’ve ever found my "real" Mum and Dad, it is them I think of.
A while ago I tracked down my Nigerian birth father and discovered him to be a born-again Christian, who didn’t want his current family to know anything about me. "If people were to know about You," he said, "they would lose their faith in God." Heavens, I said. I hadn’t realized I was that powerful. He had my hands, my father, my gestures. Years before, I traced my birth mother and discovered her to be a Mormon. She had my voice, my mother, my patterns.
Red Dust Road
is a book about belonging and beliefs, strangers and family, biology and destiny. What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’ ...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine.
The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.
If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons - as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the ...
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