Download or read book Yet Another Ghastly Christmas written by Shonagh Koea and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty and poignant, wicked and touching, another entertaining novel from popular writer Shonagh Koea. As Christmas approaches, Evelyn's 'friends' the Clarks become more and more anxious about where she is going to spend Christmas, or more precisely with whom. They push forward a worrying assortment of candidates in an effort to ensure it's not with them. Evelyn would rather they just left her alone to let her get on with tending her sparse garden and reading her novel about the soldier who killed himself. His fate starts to be a tempting option to the ceaseless phone calls from Jennifer Clark badgering her to find someone. As yet another Christmas draws near, showing all the signs of being ghastly, what can Evelyn do?
Download or read book The Kindness of Strangers written by Shonagh Koea and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir - with recipes - from a well-loved writer with a unique and quirky take on life. Looking back over her varied life in a range of roles, including daughter, wife, mother, journalist and novelist, Shonagh Koea has collected a store of vivid memories that often centre on food. In these moving vignettes, she recalls her past, giving us a privileged insight into her life and into a New Zealand that no longer exists, along with delicious recipes and a strong sense of the gentle yet significant encounters we have with strangers and acquaintances. Much more than a straightforward memoir, this book is an astute and sometimes wry observation of social interaction, of New Zealand's recent history and of the place that food has in our everyday lives. It is also the intriguing story of a unique writer, of her life, her thoughts and her work.
Download or read book Sing to Me Dreamer written by Shonagh Koea and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, much-loved novel about a return home, a past love affair and an elephant. "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." Back home as she sorts out her deceased Mother's estate, Margaret Harris reflects on her time in India as mistress to a Maharajah. But there are many things that she has to confront in the present - her bullying lawyer, the aggressive neighbour, and the spectre of her failed relationship with her mother.
Download or read book Fright Xmas written by Alan-Bertaneisson Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Golden Weather written by Jack Ross and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more writers and poets to the hectare on the North Shore - and always have been - than in any other part of New Zealand.' Michael King This collection celebrates the past and the present. Famous names, and others not so well-known, make 'The Shore', that fabled Auckland region, a living, integral character in stories and poems. For dipping into and for savouring Golden Weather presents a roll call of writers from the Shore including many of New Zealand's best-known writers. Including James K Baxter, Allen Curnow, Maurice Duggan, ARD Fairburn, Janet Frame, Mauurice Gee, Sam Hunt, Robin Hyde, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Bruce Mason, RAK Mason, Frank Sargeson, Keith Sinclair, CK Stead, Hone Tuwhare ... and many more.
Download or read book The Best of Shonagh Koea s Short Stories written by Shonagh Koea and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackly humorous yet poignant and multi-levelled, finely crafted and thoroughly entertaining, this short-story collection is from a unique writer with a rare and distinctive talent. 'Reading Shonagh Koea's stories . . . is like sampling a box of good, rich chocolates. Read (or eat) too many at once and there's a risk of sensual overload; restrict yourself to one or two, and you miss the pleasure of indulgence, and the subtle distinction of each offering.' So a reviewer in New Zealand Books summed up what another called Shonagh Koea's 'always stylish and scrupulously crafted' writing. Her short stories have been widely admired for their dexterity with language, startingly original imagery, a fine sense of irony that slices through any pretence and a wicked, black humour. Shonagh Koea's first short stories were published in such magazines as the Listener and Metro, and in 1981 she won the Air New Zealand Short Story Competition. Two collections followed: The Woman Who Never Went Home and Other Stories and Fifteen Rubies by Candlelight. While she is best known as a novelist, her short stories have a wide following, as the Nelson Evening Mail commented: 'Shonagh Koea is as addictive as nicotine or coffee - with, perhaps, major withdrawal symptoms.'
Download or read book Chronicles of Ginger Farm written by Gwendoline P. Clarke and published by BPS Books. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history-making book gives readers a rare look at a mostly forgotten but dramatically important reality: rural life in the 20th century as relived by Clarke's colorful, richly detailed, and heartwarming newspaper columns.
Download or read book A Wife Is Just Another Woman written by Rebecca Hamilton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To be understood by another human being is the greatest gift ' The words strike a chord with Justine, an ambitious international television correspondent who is proud of her independence and success and poised for global media stardom as war looms in Iraq. But the haunting insecurities which lurk beneath her glamorous public image have damaged her relationships and threaten her chances of happiness. And when she falls in love with a man who seems to understand what drives her, she starts to question her values. Then a professional catastrophe blows her world apart. As she is plunged into a battle for survival in the tough world of 24 hour news, her lover's wife discovers the affair and sets out to annihilate her-until Justine reaches for a weapon which will shatter all of them. A Wife Is Just Another Womanis the story of a high-flying celebrity journalist's struggle to overcome her hidden, painful past and understand her own true feelings-and the needs of others.
Download or read book NIV written by Graham Lord and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only authorized biography of Academy Award-winning actor David Niven.
Download or read book An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction written by Dean R. Baldwin and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on short stories from both the former British colonies and Great Britain itself, An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction presents a fascinating cross-section of writing in English, a literature politicized by the experience of colonization. Great short stories from Ireland, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Pakistan, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand demonstrate the diversity of the postcolonial experience around the world from the late nineteenth century to the present. Also including rich background materials and thorough explanatory footnotes to help students read these stories with an informed eye, this anthology is a must for any student interested in world literature in general and postcolonial literature in particular. Book jacket.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Landfall written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maxwell s History of the World in 366 Lessons written by M. J. Trow and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Maxwell is the History teacher you wish you’d had. If you meet anyone (and you will) who says ‘I hate History. It’s boring,’ they weren’t taught by Mad Max. Many of you will know him as the crime-solving sleuth (along with his police-person wife, Jacquie) in the Maxwell series by M.J. Trow (along with his non-policeperson wife, Carol, aka Maryanne Coleman – uncredited!) but what he is paid to do is teach History. And to that end has brought – and continues to bring – culture to thousands. In his ‘blog’ (Dinosaur Maxwell doesn’t really know what that is) written in 2012, the year in which the world was supposed to end, but mysteriously didn’t, you will find all sorts of fascinating factoids about the only important subject on the school curriculum. So, if you weren’t lucky enough to be taught by Max, or you’ve forgotten all the History you ever knew, here is your chance to play catch-up. The ‘blog’ has been edited by Maxwell’s friend, the crime writer M.J. Trow, who writes almost as though he knows what the Great Man was thinking. As Maxwell himself has been known to say – Spooky!
Download or read book To Find My Own Peace written by Grace Elizabeth King and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume comprises King's journals of 1886-1901, 1904, and 1907-1910. Heidari's introduction discusses what the journals reveal about such topics as the lives of unmarried women in the nineteenth-century South, the ways Victorian families dealt with diseases like alcoholism and depression, and the challenges facing women writers of the period."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The President s Daughters written by Fredrika Bremer and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
