BWB Texts: Writers' Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook BWB Texts: Writers' Lives write by Martin Edmond. This book was released on 2014-12-12. BWB Texts: Writers' Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Award-winning New Zealand writers Martin Edmond, Maurice Gee, Kirsty Gunn and Owen Marshall explore life and memory in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. Martin Edmond’s Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined in a mini-memoir, Creeks and Kitchens. In this exquisitely written ‘notebook’ – ‘My Katherine Mansfield Project’ – Kirsty Gunn explores the meaning of ‘home’ in Thorndon. Owen Marshall reflects at length on his writing career and the forces that have shaped him as a writer, in Tunes for Bears to Dance To. BWB Texts are short books on big subjects by great New Zealand writers. Commissioned as short digital-first works, BWB Texts unlock diverse stories, insights and analysis from the best of our past, present and future New Zealand writing.
Playing for Both Sides
Playing for Both Sides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing for Both Sides write by Stephanie Johnson. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Playing for Both Sides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something she says she agreed to ‘for reasons that are complex and some of them hardly honourable’. For Johnson the longing to return has waxed and waned. ‘Why don’t I live there?’ she often asks herself. Yet she is a sixth-generation New Zealander. In this BWB Text Johnson explores her elusive and ambivalent feelings about the sunburnt country – which includes a musician’s road trip there with her singer-songwriter son Skyscraper Stan – and in so doing casts fascinating light on some of the formative influences that have shaped the work of this award-winning New Zealand writer.
Living with the Climate Crisis
Living with the Climate Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living with the Climate Crisis write by Patrick Crewdson. This book was released on 2020-09-12. Living with the Climate Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘It is there, in the background. Always. Increasingly urgent. Its ominous hum is the soundtrack to every other story we tell.’ The devastating summer of Australian bushfires underlined a terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it another dramatic lurch away from business as usual. Some observers are worried that the all-consuming effort to control the pandemic will distract us from the long-term challenge of limiting catastrophic climate change. At the same time, many people are hoping for a ‘green Covid-19 recovery’: a cleaner, fairer and safer world. This BWB Text brings together mātauranga Māori and Pasifika perspectives, voices from academia, activism, journalism and economics to bear witness to these troubled times.
Better Lives
Better Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Better Lives write by Julie Fry. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Better Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Better Lives provides a comprehensive overview of immigration in New Zealand, showing how immigration is not just an economic imperative that needs to be managed, but an opportunity to enhance people's lives. This book shifts immigration debate in Aotearoa in exactly the right direction.
The Whole Intimate Mess
The Whole Intimate Mess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Whole Intimate Mess write by Holly Walker. This book was released on 2017-06-12. The Whole Intimate Mess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.’ A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the story of how she became one of New Zealand’s youngest parliamentarians, how motherhood intervened, and how she found solace and solidarity in the writings of women. This short book makes a passionate case for the role of literature in political change and personal resilience, and for the importance of women’s voices in the public sphere.
