SUMMER READING LIST
GORGEOUS GIFTS FOR BOOK LOVERS Selected by Carole Beu from The Women’s Bookshop, located opposite Ponsonby Central. FOR LITERATURE LOVERS Hamnet – This illuminating novel by Maggie O’Farrell won the 2020 Women’s Fiction Prize. Based on the death from the plague of Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son, it creates a vivid picture of life in Stratford-on-Avon in 1596 and the bard’s brilliant, eccentric wife. Wonderful! $38. Remote Sympathy – The new novel from award-winning New Zealander Catherine Chidgey explores wilful obliviousness. In her luxurious new home in Buchenwald, can Frau Hahn remain naïve about what is going on around her. Do we all ‘look the other way’? Intense and deeply moving. $35. FOR COMMITTED COOKS Hiakai: Modern Maori Cuisine – Time Magazine named Hiakai Restaurant in Wellington as one of the 100 places in the world to visit. The book is as gorgeous as the restaurant. History, tikanga, Monique’s personal journey, foraging, breath-taking recipes. $65. FOR FEISTY FEMALES Goddess Muscle – This brilliant poetry collection, both personal and political, from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila, explores issues of racism, poverty, climate, as well as relationships, identity and community, in a bold and compelling voice. $35.
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Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World – The third in this wonderful series reveals through women who have left their birth countries that no matter your origins or ethnicity you can become chef, surgeon, musician, politician, judo champion – and break down barriers. $50. FOR CURIOUS KIDS I Am the Universe – Local artist and author Vasanti Unka takes small children on a glorious, colourful, starlit journey through glittering galaxies and back to precious planet earth, brimming with all kinds of life. Beautiful! $25. Counting Creatures – This delightful interactive counting book, from Julia Donaldson and Sharon King-Chai is full of gorgeous baby animals with cut-outs and lots of lift-up flaps. A work of art! $30. FOR THE SOCIALLY AWARE Cohousing for Life: A practical & personal Story of Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood – Architect Robin Allison inspires us with her story of a group of ordinary people coming together to create an eco-village here in Ranui, Auckland, with the complexities and the community decision-making that has resulted in this stunning cooperative endeavour. $50. This P-akeh-a Life: An Unsettled Memoir – In this timely and perceptive memoir, award-winning author and academic Alison Jones wrestles honestly with questions of identity in Aotearoa. She - a- worlds and offers has spent a lifetime exploring Maori and Pakeh important insights. $40. Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World – Layla F Saad challenges us to begin with ourselves; understanding our own privilege and the ways we are complicit, often unconsciously, in upholding white supremacy. $38. PN THE WOMEN’S BOOKSHOP, 105 Ponsonby Road, T: 09 376 4399, E: books@womensbokshop.co.nz www.womensbookshop.co.nz
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100 PONSONBY NEWS+ December 2020
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