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Someone's Wife
A brilliant collection of personal essays from a quietly subversive writer. 'A work written with brio, Someone's Wife is hilarious and devastating, a sliver of New Zealand culture and history told through a single vibrant life and its entanglements with others. Slouching towards Aotearoa, perhaps Burgess is our Didion, albeit less aloof, more gregarious and with better jokes.' Emma Gattey, Landfall
Tree of Strangers
'"I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.' I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I'd never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing?" Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a ripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.
One Minute Crying Time
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence, and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s—a very different time—and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It draws heavily on the diaries she kept from the age of twelve, which lead her to some surprising conclusions about memory and truth. Ewing struggled with what would now be diagnosed as anxiety; she had a difficult relationship with her brilliant but frustrated and angry mother, and her decision to somehow learn Maori drew her into a world to which few Pakeha had access. A love affair with a young Maori man destined for greatness was complicated by society's unease about such relationships, and changed them both. Evocative, candid, brave, bright, and darting, this entrancing book takes us to a long-ago New Zealand and to enduring truths about love.
Allons Enfants
Linda and Robert Burgess had their first taste of France during the 1970s, when Robert, a former All Black, was playing Rugby for Lyon. Twelve years later, they wanted to share something of that experience with their growing children. Allons Enfants is an engaging and entertaining portrait of a family living in Montpellier. Novelist Linda Burgess's clear eye details in the civilised charms and colourful flavours of France, the quirky idiosyncracies of Madame Libidineuse and Monsieur Benevolent.She also reveals the often comic, sometimes touching, reality of being a foreigner far from home. This is a story about daily life; visits to the boulangerie, the scheming landlady, the chauvanistic butcher, the absurdities of the French banks and the intensity of the school system. It is also a celebration of family and friends, and an endearing love story - the love that parents have for their children.
Country Harvest
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Wednesday's Child
For Gemma Alcott, daughter of business tycoon Burgess T. Alcott, III, the summer of 1929 is a season for picnics, sailing parties, and romance. But life becomes difficult when the Alcott wealth is lost in the Wall Street crash known as Black Tuesday. Gemma and her younger sister, Melody, are suddenly destitute. In their time of need, Kace Morgan, a distant relative appears and Gemma realizes she still has choices. But can she handle the loss of all she has known and a new life that is far from the sheltering wealth she has grown up with? Wednesday's child might have woe, but life is never so dark that God cannot deliver His own into paths of light. Book 3 in the series.
The Truth About My Unbelievable School . . .
Henry takes his new classmate on an imaginative tour of his somewhat weird school.
Candace Bahouth's Romantic Needlepoint
This new collection of needlepoint designs from the best-selling author of Medieval Needlepoint includes 20 projects, all in tent stitch, ranging from a heart-shaped pincushion to an elaborate flower-sprigged waistcoat.
Someone's Wife
'Wise, compassionate collection of personal essays that forms a nationally important chronicle of our social and political history.' NZ Listener 'Linda Burgess can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same sentence. Clear-eyed and wise, these elegant essays are the stories we share to survive.' Diana Wichtel 'You'll want to read this in one sitting but it's worth savouring every line.' Madeleine Chapman 'Somehow it makes perfect sense that a great New Zealand memoir would be written by a dreamy, left-handed wife of an ex-All Black.' Steve Braunias These pieces read like the freshest of recent novels: clever, restrained and wittily observant. They range across the personal and th...
