We love Shelley! (Please read her massively impressive bio, below). Join us to celebrate the launch of this fabulous book. All welcome.
An exciting and action-packed animal story featuring two kāhu sisters who must save their injured baby brother - before a coming flood destroys their home.
Poto is the perfect fledgling – the apple of her father's eye and a natural at hunting and flying. Anything a kāhu is supposed to be good at, Poto can do best of all. She can't understand why her sister Whetū gets cross with her – it's not her fault she's good at everything! As for her baby brother Ari, he's so weird and annoying.After their mother is killed by a flock of magpies, Poto and Whetū have to get an injured Ari to safety before a deadly foretold earthquake arrives, unleashing a flood and destroying their home. With the help of the birds and new friends they meet on the way, the hawk siblings journey through the Valley, keeping an eye out for a menacing flock of magpies who are on a mission to take back the Valley for their own.Can they stop Tū the makipai and her flock from ruining the harmony of the Valley? Will aroha win out over hate? And will Poto realise that everyone has something special to offer, even if they can't do everything quite like she does?
Shelley Burne-Field (Sāmoa, Ngati Mutunga, Ngati Rārua, Pākehā) is a kaituhituhi from Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke's Bay. She writes articles and creative non-fiction as well as fiction of all sorts, including short stories. This is her first children's story. She is an alumni of the Master of Creative Writing from Auckland University 2020 and also Te Papa Tupu mentoring programme. Her story 'Speaking in Tongues' was the only New Zealand Finalist in the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her work is now in print in anthologies around the world, and has appeared in Newsroom and on RNZ. Her story 'Pinching out Dahlias' is the most read short story published in Reading Room. Shelley is a proud member of the NZSA
Join us right here (https://www.facebook.com/events/1338201403481105/), live on Facebook, for a chat with Ineke Meredith.
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care.
As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: loving but loyal to a violent husband, trapped in a country that limited her. Achieving a scholarship to study medicine, she became a general surgeon at age 33 and worked extreme hours by the motto that what didn't kill her made her stronger. But nothing could have prepared her for when her own parents fell ill - not even a career in medicine.
In this sharp-witted and heart-rending memoir, Ineke tells her story of burnout and finding compassion where she least expected. Racing between hospital patients and torn between her roles as a surgeon, a single working mother and a daughter to two sick parents, this is a book about the cost of care, when empathy comes easier with a patient than with family.
When every day presents a life-or-death decision, how do you know when you need to stop? 'Do you take your work home with you?' my son's psychologist asked me once. 'Yes,' I answered honestly. 'Everything is compared to what I see every day. Sometimes I go home just grateful to be alive.'
Ineke Meredith was born in New Zealand to parents of mixed-Samoan heritage. She spent part of her childhood in Samoa but moved to New Zealand to study medicine.
She is a general surgeon with a subspecialty interest in breast cancer and breast reconstruction who has published research articles in international peer-reviewed medical journals on breast cancer and reconstruction, cancer rates among Pacific peoples in New Zealand, and has participated in international collaboratives on cancer rates in diaspora.
She is the founder and director of Fur Love, a canine skincare company, and lives and works between New Zealand and Paris.
She is a general surgeon with a subspecialty interest in breast cancer and breast reconstruction who has published research articles in international peer-reviewed medical journals on breast cancer and reconstruction, cancer rates among Pacific peoples in New Zealand, and has participated in international collaboratives on cancer rates in diaspora.
She is the founder and director of Fur Love, a canine skincare company, and lives and works between New Zealand and Paris.
Just in case you missed it...We've written a book! You can pre-order it here:
https://www.wardini.co.nz/p/pre-order-the-bookshop-detectives-dead-girl-gone?barcode=P97817
https://www.wardini.co.nz/p/pre-order-the-bookshop-detectives-dead-girl-gone?barcode=P97817
That's quite enough for now! Hope to see you very soon.
Mā te wā,
Lou, Wardini and the team xxx
Mā te wā,
Lou, Wardini and the team xxx
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