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It’s difficult to describe the
depth and scope of this wonderful story in such a short
paragraph, but I am going to try! From the author of the
immensely popular, The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd tells an
inspiring tale using the historical figure of Sarah Grimke.
Set in the early nineteenth
century in South Carolina; the story alternates between the
wealthy and privilged Sarah and her newly acquired 11th
birthday present – a slave named Handful. Over thirty five
years we follow these women as they search for their own idea of
freedom.
Each character, both real and
invented, develop a rich interior, including Handful’s cunning
mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something
better.
This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.
The New York art world is
what set the scene in the Time Out favourite, What I Loved
(2002) and it is what Siri
Hustvedt returns to in this fantastically fresh novel.
Harriet Burden is fed up with
the continued gender bias within her art community and decides
to challenge this by presenting three of her works under the
guise of three different male artists. However, when she
triumphantly presents herself after three successful solo shows
– the truth is not what it seems.
Disguised as a non fiction
account of an eccentric artist, this tale is presented
as a collection of texts compiled after Harriet's death.
Multiple perspectives are given from critics, fans, family
members, and others to tie conflicting opinions amongst the joy
and fury of her personal journals.
The
Blazing World
explores the deceptive powers of prejudice, money, fame, and
desire. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic,
and playful, Hustvedt's new novel is a bold, rich masterpiece,
one that will be remembered for years to come.
B format paperback $29 1st
March 2014
No
fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and
observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect
merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these
abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home?We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explore
Hardback
$50 7th March 2014
Auckland's
Starship National Children's Hospital is celebrating it's 21st
birthday this year, and has been a huge part of New Zealand's recent
history. Having 120,000 patient visits every year, I'm sure we all
know someone who would not be here if it weren't for their time at
Starship. The passion and dedication of staff at all levels shines
from these pages, which detail how Starship has grown and developed
over the last 21 years.
How
does an important national hospital get started? How does it grow to
meet the needs of its patients and to take in the changes in modern
medicine? How do the different departments work and who do they look
after? Find out in these pages, in a major book published to
celebrate 21 years since the opening of the famous New Zealand
national children's hospital.
This book celebrates the doctors, nurses, children and their parents who have been part of the first 21 years of Starship Children's Hospital.
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