VUP FESTIVAL BOOKS

BIRDS OF EUROPE
ANDREW JOHNSTON
A major new book from a major
New Zealand poet. Birds of Europe
records a sustained encounter with
a new country. France, in very
personal poems of love and loss.

GOLDEN DEEDS
CATHERINE CHIDGEY
The second novel from the author
of In a fishbone church: ‘brilliant
both on the subject of sibling
jealousy and on the wild ways of
an earlier hunting-and-fishing
generation of men’
—Rose Tremain

A DISSOLVING GHOST
MARGARET MAHY
Most of us began our
acquaintance with Margaret
Mahy with A Lion in the Meadow.
The talks and essays gathered in
this book contain an equal but
different kind of magic.

THESE DAYS
JENNY BORNHOLDT
‘Wake up to your mermaid life’
—Uncle Vanya
Immersing themselves in the
marvellous details of everyday life
the poems of Jenny Bornholdt's
sparkling new collection are rich in
anecdote and incident.

STRAY THOUGHTS & NOSE BLEEDS
DUNCAN SARKIES
By the author of the box-office
smash Scarfies.
‘It's energetic, vernacular as all getout,
and the sex is very funny.…
Buy this book. Duncan Sarkies
deserves to be rich
—Listener

DOUBTFUL SOUNDS
BILL MANHIRE
Full of the quirky variety and deep,
hidden surprises which characterise
Manhire's poems, these essay
won't tell you what to think but
they will make you want to go on
reading.

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