A Fine Pen: The Chinese View of Katherine Mansfield by Shifen Gong

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

For almost eighty years, Katherine Mansfield's stories and poems have been popular with Chinese readers, and she has had a significant influence on a number of short-story writers. In this book, Shifen Gong selects and introduces twenty texts about Mansfield and her work, translated into English for the first time. Together, they bring fresh insights to the largely Eurocentric criticism of Mansfield's work, and at the same time provide a commentary on Chinese literary history. The story of the rises and falls in Mansfield's popularity is fascinating, as it shifts with the major social, political and literary trends, which have given rise to modern China and its literature. 'Because hers is pure literature, its brilliance not shown, it is hidden deep within. It required careful perusal to reach the essence.' Xu Zhimo (1923) 'With remorseless irony she lays bare the hypocrisy and shallowness of the leisured class and their men of letters ...' Tang Baoxin (1982) ...Show more

Countless Signs - The New Zealand Landscape in Literature: An Anthology by Trudie McNaughton (Compiled by)

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Literature

Country of Writing by Lydia Wevers

$35.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

The first substantial study of travel writing about New Zealand in the colonial period, Country of Writing puts it into the wider context of the European settlement of new societies. It discusses a great range of writing often from little-known names and unexpected sources who all played a part in putti ng New Zealand on the map of the wider world. From Wevers' perspective readers are as important as the writers, as their interests and expectations often tailored the kind of travel books that were written, and she shows how New Zealand was presented to the rest of the world through a rich and colourful range of voices. Visual impressions of various kinds played a role too and the book is well-illustrated with contemporary pictures. ...Show more

In Endless Fear: A True Story by Colin Crump

$15.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

"He had a length of milking machine hose in his hand and I watched in terror as once more he laid into my brother Barry with a merciless thrashing that just went on and on, Barry just lying there, as he always did, and taking it all. Then he turned on me – they were really ferocious blows. The weapon he had chosen was, without doubt, the worst we had ever endured. I yelled, screamed, pleaded, cried, and of course, wet myself." This book is Colin Crump’s courageous and heart-warming story of growing up in a New Zealand farming family with his brother Barry. Stories of an often-idyllic country boyhood, running wild half a century ago, are interwoven with almost unbearable scenes in which an abusive father delivers brutal beatings to his spirited sons. In Endless Fear casts powerful new light on the Crump story. ‘I keep reminding myself that the old man did in fact give me one very great lesson in life. All I had to do was not be like him.’ (Preceeding text courtesy www.penguin.co.nz) Paperback ...Show more

In the Lifetime of a Goat: Writings, 1984-2000 by Marilyn Waring

$25.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

New Zealand knew her first as a National MP; now this homegrown heroine works variously as a goat farmer, Associate Professor in Politics at Massey University (Albany) and international development consultant. Marilyn Waring's book collects her best writing — some published and some new — on i nternational questions, New Zealand politics, feminist issues, women of influence and life on the farm. ...Show more

Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield by Joanna Woods

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Art & Artists | Reading Level: very good

Katherine, or Katya as she liked to be called, became addicted to Russian style during her first trip to London and believed she had a special affinity with the Russian temperament. Her early writing was likened to Russian writing, so much so that critics thought that she actually plagiarised Chekov. Ma nsfield took on Russian lovers, attended the Ballet Russe and Russian concerts and plays, wore Russian-style clothing and threw herself into reading Russian literature. She even died with the Russians, at a bizarre commune run by the Rasputin-styled guru, Gurdieff. This new biography gives an intimate view of a more colourful and warmer Katherine Mansfield, and a fascinating slant on the Bloomsbury world of people like D.H. Lawrence, Otteline Morrell and Virginia Woolf. Revealing and original. ...Show more

Katherine Mansfield - Selected Letters by Katherine Mansfield; Vincent O'Sullivan (Editor)

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

This completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence draws from the five volumes of her Collected Letters currently being published by Clarendon Press, and ranges from the period of her adolescence to shortly before her death twenty years later. The letters, many of which are to John Mi ddleton Murry, Lady Ottoline Morrell, S.S. Koteliansky, the painters Anne Estelle Drey, and Dorothy Brett, as well as her own family, literary friends, and chance aquaintances chart her wide range of writing styles and reveal the vitality, warmth, and wit that places Mansfield among the most poignant and entertaining of modern letterwriters. ...Show more

Katherine Mansfield in Picton by Julie Kennedy

$27.50 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good

Katherine Mansfield, at 19 and 'bored with Wellington', left New Zealand to be a writer. She never returned. Shortly before her death at 34 in 1923, she wrote (in a story fragment): 'It was one of those days so clear, so still, so silent you almost feel the earth itself has stopped in astonishment at it s own beauty.' The setting, though unnamed, is almost certainly the Marlborough Sounds. Katherine Mansfield first made the Wellington-Picton crossing to the Marlborough Sounds when she was six months old. The area helped form her, and its images appeared in her letters and stories throughout her life. Her story The Voyage is included here. Previously unpublished material appears in Katherine Mansfield in Picton. It quotes extensively from Mansfield and her relatives, and traces the links she and her family had with the Sounds. Featured family are her grandparents, Arthur and Mary Beauchamp, one-time residents of Picton, and her great uncle Cradock Beauchamp, who farmed the land at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound where the Cobham Outward Bound School now stands. ...Show more

Lush Green by Mike Ward

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

Mary Taylor Friend of Charlotte Bronte Letters from New Zealand & Elsewhere by Joan Stevens (Editor)

$42.50 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

Ned and Katina: A True Love Story by Patricia Grace

$14.50 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good

A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far North. They live a long, rich and happy life together, raising a family and involving themselves in community affairs there and in the Wellington region. Ned dies in 1987, Katina in 1996. Years later, the whanau of Ned and Katina approached writer Patricia Grace to compile their parents' story. Ned & Katinais the result. This warm, beautifully written true story is impossible to put down. Also available as an eBook ...Show more

No.8 Re-charged: 202 World-changing Innovations from New Zealand by David Downs & Dr Michelle Dickinson

$45.00 NZD

Category: NZ Non-Fiction

Take notice, world, New Zealand is undergoing a re-charge.The 'No. 8 wire' thinking we have been so proud of is being expanded and improved.No. 8 Re-charged tells a compelling and accessible story of modern New Zealand and its world-beating products and ideas. From drone technology to electric farm bike s and computer graphics, from space-age umbrellas to fitness trackers and the world's leading DJ software - New Zealand developers, entrepreneurs and companies are winning in areas where no one thought we could even compete.Chapters-1. Up in the Air - Planes, Drones and Rockets2. The Human Body - From Hospital Beds to Cancer Breakthroughs3. Social Innovation - Change, for Good4. It's all Fun and Games - It's about Serious Fun5. Of Water and the Sea - Boats, Anchors and Surfboards6. Machines, Large and Small - Large, loud and Globally Successful7. Film and Pictures - Screen Stars, Large and Small8. The Land of the Clouds - Aoraki and Aotearoa9. Down on the Farm - Robots, Designer Cows and Turtle Tracking10. Global Fingerprints - From New Zealand to the World ...Show more