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As the Earth Turns Silver : A novel
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Alison Wong
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Finalist in the Fiction category.
Alison Wong's outstanding first novel is set in Wellington in the early twentieth century and spans the years 1905 to 1922. The area known as Haining Street has an infamous reputation in the city, allegedly full of opium dens, weird food, gambling and strange Chinese cultural practices. Nice Europeans stay away. But for the tiny number of Wellington Chinese, it is a safe haven, a refuge from the scarcely believable and often violent anti-Chinese racism which pervades the wider Wellington community. This is the setting for an unlikely love story. Katherine is a lonely European widow struggling to support her children. Yung is a young Chinese man who runs a vegetable shop. We also learn he has a wife back in China. At first tentative, their love affair is conducted in secret, away from the daylight. Later, they grow in confidence. But in this climate how can a European woman have a successful ...
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The Night Book
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'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton.' Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning home to the large, comfortable house she shares with her politician husband David and her two stepchildren. But this peaceful existence is about to be changed forever. In the next few months there will be an election, and, if the polls are correct, Roza will become the Prime Minister's wife. She has faced the prospect with relative calm, but a chance encounter with party donor Simon Lampton sparks a chain of consequences that will bring turmoil to both their lives. Award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw has turned her unflinching eye on contemporary New Zealand society in this intricate and elegant novel. Sharp, moving, brimming with ...
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Island
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Penelope Todd
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An island in a bleak harbour; an isolated quarantine station where a group of nurses works tirelessly to care for sailors and immigrants recovering from the effects of the long sea voyage to the new land. Kahu swims ashore, searching for a woman. Young nurse Liesel, caught in a passionate triangle, is faced with choices both harrowing and intoxicating. Martha, who oversees the hospital and guides the community, is making a kind of experiment with life. Some on the island are too sick to live. Others flame with life. The island is cradle and crucible. Penelope Todd's first novel for adults is full of brilliantly drawn characters and a narrative which sweeps the reader along with its power. This is literary fiction of the highest quality, and an intensely romantic page-turner.
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Sing to Me, Dreamer (Collector's edition with four stories)
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Shonagh Koea
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Shonagh Koea's classic novel is reissued together with an introduction by the author and four previously uncollected short stories "It is many years since I turned the pages of the little book I wrote for the holy man, and the ivory covers creak as I open on the story of how I went to India...As my voice ascends, thin as the song of a lark, I see again the black eyes of the holy man, irises flecked with gold as he hands me the pen and paper. "Oh sing to me, dreamer," he said, and I began to write.
First published 1994; this edition 2009.
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Limestone : A Novel
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Fiona Farrell
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Finalist in the Fiction category.
Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an Art History conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a couple of rotund earthlings, a singer whose song she does not understand. Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic,
The Year of the Hiker
by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love - and limestone.
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Tu
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Patricia Grace
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Winner of the 2005 Deutz Medal for Fiction & Poetry in the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards
Tu, Pita and Rangi follow in their father’s footsteps, travelling to Europe to fight for King and Country. Twenty years later, Tu decides his nephews deserve to know what happened. A deeply moving novel that offers insights into both men’s and women’s experience of war. “The crowning achievement of this fine writer’s career, Tu will surely become one of the classics of our literature.” - Sunday Star Times.
Waitakere Whispers: Short Stories and Poems by Querty Few
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Access Road
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Maurice Gee
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This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealand fiction doesn't get any better than this. Three brothers and sisters, all now in their eighties, two of them living in the old family home, are struggling to cope with events that have happened way back in the past. It all bursts into the open when an old school friend visits Loomis, with malice in his heart. He keeps the biggest secret of all, about the disappearance of a girl many years before. As the novel reaches its climax, the tensions reach breaking point, and violence breaks out. The death of one of the protagonists seems inevitable.
First published October 2009.
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A Recipe for Life
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Nicky Pellegrino
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A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little food. But life is rarely straightforward...Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile it can be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking. Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Italian coast, growing food to feed a family now grown and gone. One summer these two women are brought together in a crumbling Mediterranean villa, with the shared language of food and the soil they grow it from. There, under the heat of the Italian sun, or the shade of the pomegranate tree, secrets will be spoken, fears and hopes shared. But life's lessons are not learnt easily. RECIPE FOR LIFE is a novel about discovering how life never stops surprising us, and about how, with a little love and courage, its flavours can be richer than we ever imagined.
First published 2010.
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Book Book
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Fiona Farrell
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This isn't strictly autobiography nor is it entirely fiction, but, through a story of a life, it shows that books have a certain function and this is the way they have functioned in this life: as something mysterious, consolatory, instructive, enlightening and amusing. The life in itself - of the growth of a young girl into womanhood - is at once interesting, moving and worth reading in its own right, but the succession of books read at each stage offer a linking motif. In Fiona's accessible, beautiful style, the work unfolds; it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, touching and intriguing - a work for every lover of books. An evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction — from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry; from Enid Blyton to Aphra Behn.
Launched on 3rd September, at Our City, with a bevy of writers & readers, and MCB.
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Inheritance
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Jenny Pattrick
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Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. But why should Jeanie avoid her after twenty-four years apart? They had been so close when they were young women, when Jeanie had turned up in Samoa with her bullying husband and gentle father, who had unexpectedly inherited a plantation there. Elena's confusion turns to intrigue when she discovers the gallery is exhibiting the work of Jeanie's daughter, a daughter Elena had been unaware even existed but who shows definite hints of Samoan ancestry. Was there more to Jeanie's flirtation with Elena's brother than Elena had realised, or are there other secrets to uncover? A compelling novel that takes us to Samoa in the 1960s and NZ in the 1990s.
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Lost in Translation : New Zealand Stories
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Marco Sonzogni (ed.)
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Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures. This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart. This collection reflects our society in provocative, humane and intriguing ways.
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Opportunity
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Charlotte Grimshaw
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'You could look back after a long time and ask, who wanted what from whom?'
A man confronts death after an operation, a devout Christian encounters a man who hurt her long ago, a secretary uncovers her boss's secret shame. And in a house in Auckland an elderly woman is writing the last book of her life, one which, she says, contains all of her crimes. How are the characters connected and who is writing the stories? Each of these astute stories is an inspection of motive, rich in vivid insight into a diverse range of lives. Together, they form a unified whole. Opportunity is a book about storytelling, about generosity and opportunism; above all it is a celebration of the subtleties of human impulses, of what Katherine Mansfield called the LIFE of life.
Winner Montana Fiction or Poetry Award 2008
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Somebody Loves Us All
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Damien Wilkins
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DoP November 2009, Wellington
Title change from "Speech Marks"
Paddy Thompson, speech therapist, newspaper columnist, is fifty and happy. His dark period is behind him: a failed marriage, a career crisis. Now he lives with Helena (‘the best thing that ever happened to him’), helps kids with their speech problems, and has moved his mother into the next-door apartment. His life feels sane and settled.
So what are these new signs of upset? One of his clients refuses to speak. Helena is under stress at work. His newspaper column has run out of puff. Paddy buys a bicycle. He feels, with a typical metaphorical flourish, that ‘one of those great wheels of life had begun a revolution’. Then his mother presents him with the biggest challenge of his life. What follows, in this wonderfully expansive novel, takes Paddy deep into the vortex of family love.
The book, boldly and exuberantly, asks large questions about how we express ...
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Sport : New Zealand New Writing : 35 or 36 or 37 or 38 ( Winter 2007 or 2008 or 2009 or 2010)
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Fergus Barrowman (ed.)
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Sport, a magazine of new writing from New Zealand and elsewhere, is edited and published by Fergus Barrowman.
This ISSN covers various issues of Sport.
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Sydney Bridge Upside Down
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David Ballantyne
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Harry Baird lives with his mother, father and younger brother Cal in Calliope Bay, at the edge of the world. Summer has come, and those who can have left the bay for the allure of the far away city. Among them is Harry's mother, who has left behind a case of homemade ginger beer and a vague promise of return.
Harry and Cal are too busy enjoying their holidays, playing in the caves and the old abandoned slaughterhouse, to be too concerned with her absence. When their older cousin-the beautiful, sophisticated Caroline-comes from the city to stay with the Bairds, Harry is besotted. With their friend Dibs Kelly, the boys and Caroline spend the long summer days exploring the bay and playing games.
But Harry is very protective of Caroline and jealous of the attention she receives from other men. And what looked to be a pleasurable summer is overshadowed by certain 'accidents' in the old slaughterhouse and a general air of ...
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The Bone People
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Keri Hulme
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Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times.
The Bone People
is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper. The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.
'In this novel, New Zealand's people, its heritage and landscape are conjured up with uncanny poetry and perceptiveness'
Sunday Times
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The Crime of Huey Dunstan
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James McNeish
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Professor Chesney - Ches for short - recalls a court case from fifteen years ago in which he was an expert witness. At its centre is Huey Dunstan, a young man accused of murdering a taxi driver in cold blood. Ches, called in to try to determine the motivation behind this uncharacteristic act of violence, is at first baffled by an ordinary, unassuming, polite young man who seems determined at all costs to incriminate himself. The crux of the case involves the twin enigmas of buried memory and provocation, both contentious elements that require risk-taking at the edge of New Zealand law. But Ches is no foreigner to dilemmas of this kind he is a trained psychologist, specialising in trauma, and he is blind. This is a compelling, beautifully written novel. It is both emotionally engaging and thought-provoking - an important insight into the workings of the law and of humanity.
First published June 2010.
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The Denniston Rose
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Jenny Pattrick
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The bleak coal-mining of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother. Set in the 1880s, this is story of a spirited child who remains a survivor.
First published 2003. This has been a best-selling book
since publication. The sequel is
Heart of Coal
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The Rehearsal
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Eleanor Catton
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New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction Winner
A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance, and every platform into a stage.But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theatre are forced to meet, and soon the bounds between private and public begin to fade…
Eleanor Catton is 22 and was born in Canada and raised in Canterbury. She won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for this, her first novel.
'This is a daring book, full of velvety pleasures but never afraid to show its claws. Eleanor Catton is crazily talented and insightful - and best of all, she makes language seem new.' - Emily Perkins
First published July 2008.
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