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Author : Martin Edmond
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2014-12-12
Bwb Texts Writers Lives written by Martin Edmond and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Literary Collections categories.
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
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Author : Stephanie Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2016-08-12
Playing For Both Sides written by Stephanie Johnson and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Late Love
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Author : Glenn Colquhoun
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2016-10-25
Late Love written by Glenn Colquhoun and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘I have fought a running battle with medicine for much of my career. I have wanted to leave it for poetry. This is the story of how that has come to change for me. And how both those worlds have at last arrived at some sort of reconciliation.’ As a youth worker, doctor and award-winning poet and children’s writer, Glenn Colquhoun has led a ‘life lived in two parts’. Writing and reading has always transported him to a world ‘flickered’ by colour, warmth and connection. Meanwhile his work as a GP in the Horowhenua has confronted him daily with scenes of doubt, dislocation and disadvantage. Late Love is a meeting of these worlds, a moving attempt to show what it is, as a doctor and writer, to be alongside people.
Bwb Texts Set One
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Author : Paul Callaghan
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2014-12-12
Bwb Texts Set One written by Paul Callaghan and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Literary Collections categories.
A bundle of the first four BWB Texts by Paul Callaghan, Maurice Gee, Kathleen Jones and Rebecca Macfie. A moving selection of Sir Paul Callaghan’s writing, offering eloquent narratives that will endure in this country’s literature. Published on the first anniversary of Sir Paul’s death, with a foreword by Catherine Callaghan, Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments celebrates the life of a remarkable New Zealander. 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 here into a memoir in Creeks and Kitchens. ‘I think … I am going to die’, the stunning chapter from Kathleen Jones’s biography Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller (2010), describes Mansfield’s last days and death at chateau near Paris, the centre of a spiritual movement led by the mysterious Russian philosopher-mystic Georges Gurdjieff. Written over a period of two years, Rebecca Macfie’s searing account of the Christchurch earthquakes, Report from Christchurch, traces the city's struggle to recover from the disaster and plan for the future. Published in association with the New Zealand Listener. 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.
Better Lives
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Author : Julie Fry
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2018-04-09
Better Lives written by Julie Fry and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with Social Science categories.
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.
On Coming Home
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Author : Paula Morris
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2015-05-04
On Coming Home written by Paula Morris and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The declamatory return; a homeland as a ‘wearying enigma’. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that’s home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it’s also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander? Award-winning writer Paula Morris confronts long-standing fears of what it means to return home. Is ambition and adventure being traded for a ‘forever home’ of commitments and compromises? Will she still belong? And will the belonging impose its own restrictions? Seeking answers in the words of writer exiles, Morris’s returning takes us back to her childhood streets and ancestral voyages and on, beyond, to the lost New Zealand worlds of her writing.
Living With The Climate Crisis
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Author : Patrick Crewdson
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2020-09-12
Living With The Climate Crisis written by Patrick Crewdson and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-12 with Political Science categories.
‘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.
The Edge Of Life
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Author : Mike Berridge
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2015-09-11
The Edge Of Life written by Mike Berridge and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-11 with Medical categories.
‘The world beyond the thought horizon is as vast as the universe, and probing it is the stuff of dreams, imaginative thinking and new technologies.’ The gap between rapid scientific progress and public understanding faces unprecedented challenges. Leading research scientist Mike Berridge explores this troubled ground from a rare vantage point. His descriptions of stunning new advances in human health are offset by hard questions about society’s ability to keep pace. This exploration brings us into contact with hotly contested public health issues, such as cancer treatment, sugar consumption, and water fluoridation. It is also a heartfelt plea to place robust and impartial science at the centre of our thinking for the future.
The Whole Intimate Mess
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Author : Holly Walker
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2017-06-12
The Whole Intimate Mess written by Holly Walker and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘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.
M Ui Street
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Author : Morgan Godfery
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2018-11-19
M Ui Street written by Morgan Godfery and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-19 with Maori (New Zealand people) categories.
Morgan Godfery is one of New Zealand’s most energising young thinkers. In just a few years he has become a leading voice in the country’s social and political life. Starting out under his own banner, ‘Māui Street’, his writing now appears across national and international publications. This curated selection brings together the best of Godfery’s writing. Read together, the collection charts the emergence of a significant New Zealand voice.