![]() ![]() Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. ![]() As Kerewin succumbs to Simon’s feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor–a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. ![]()
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Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified she was only its unwilling vehicle.' The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these five tales of casual cruelty by a master of the short story. 'Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. ![]() "Her stories are among the most terrifying ever written". Including her iconic tale The Lottery, The Tooth brings together a short selection of Shirley Jackson's most sinister stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerilla war rages. 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Knepp Castle Estate was once intensively farmed, but since 2001 has been devoted to a pioneering rewilding project. ![]() |