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Used books of New Zealand literature and fiction. Novels, poetry, plays and biographies of literary figures from New Zealand.All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars.
David Ballantyne's first and best novel, the story of a family living in a small New Zealand town in the 1930s, "a masterly study of working-class family life." E H McCormick.
VG softback with sunned spine, lightly foxed edges.
Whitcoulls 1976, 239pp. Same sheets as the hardbound issue. [#2775]
VG- hardback in VG- price clipped dust jacket with small amount of surface insect damage, name to fep, minor age toning.
Vanguard Press special New Zealand reprint issued for the NZ distributor Beckett Sterling in 1950, hb dw 295pp. [#1724]
G hardback in G+ dust jacket with call number to spine and some discolouration to edges. Ex-library with stamps etc.
Whitcombe and Tombs / Robert Hale 1963 first thus edition, 239pp. [#3619]
As a left-wing response to fascism in Europe, New Zealand's "Phoenix group" of writers and poets was instrumental in a burgeoning cultural nationalism.
Includes chapters on The Left Book Club, The Cooperative Book Movement and The Progressive Publishing Society
communism, left, politics, arts, literary movement, socialism, theatre, ARD Fairburn, RAK Mason, WB Sutch
VG softback
Victoria University Press 1991 first edition, 287pp.
[#3947 ]
A novel that recounts the Blackball coal miner's strike of 1908. Includes the representations of young militant unionists, including Pat Hickey, Paddy Webb, and Bob Semple. Well researched.
VG softback
Fontana Collins 1985, 245pp. [#2780 new zealand fiction, historical fiction ]
The Canterbury town of Waiweka and the doings of it's inhabitants.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket.
Reed 1971 first edition hardcover, 254pp. [#2564, 1719 ]
A novel about adult infatuation. Scarce first edition from Caveman Press.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Caveman Press 1980, 144 pp.[#2682 new zealand fiction]
Literary autobiography of New Zealand writer Charles Brasch, covering a period spent in Europe, the Middle East and New Zealand.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some light foxing to closed edges. $25 B/C Oxford University Press 1980, 433 pages. [#2275 nz fiction ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with short tears at tops of spine and corner folds $30 C/B Caxton 1973 first edition hard cover, 206pp. 15 short stories. [#2278 new zealand fiction]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with faint label ghost top corner $40 C/B Caxton 1973 first edition hard cover, 206pp. 15 short stories. [#1151 new zealand fiction]
"Raised by gorillas in the wild jungles of New Zealand, scarred in battles with vicious giant weta, seduced by a beautiful young scientist, discovered by Memphis record producer Sam Phillips and adored by millions, the dirt-to-dreams life story of Tarzan Presley is as legendary as his 30 number one hits."
First and original edition, this was banned from republication after legal action by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, due to trade mark violation. It was later revised and reissued with a different title and character names.
Elvis Presley, Tarzan, ERB, new zealand, science fiction
VG softback
Victoria University Press 2004, 463pp.
[#3597 ]
An unconventional domestic situation is approached through the minds of the four occupants of a Wellington household- four very different characters in age and outlook. First printed in the UK in 1961 this is the first New Zealand edition.
VG- softback
Whitcoulls 1979 , 236pp. [#2777 new zealand fiction]
The story of tough little Jimmy Sullivan, 'a boy that God has his eye on', as he slides into delinquency. First printed in the UK in 1958 this is the first New Zealand edition.
VG softback, name at front
Whitcombe and Tombs 1972, 181pp. [#2778 new zealand fiction]
Crump's debut book which follows him from a youthful deer culler to his growth into 'a good keen man' and experienced hunter. Set in the bush and back-blocks of the central North Island where his job was to hunt red deer and pigs, cut tracks and build back-country huts.
VG hardback with no dust jacket. Gift inscription to free end paper.
Reed 1960 first edition, 192pp.
[#3257 ]
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Sunned spine. Gift inscription to free end paper.
Reed 1961, 192pp.
[#3272 ]
Barry Crump signed, first edition, illustrated by Graham Kirk
VG hardback signed to blank half title in marker by Crump in a VG slightly worn but complete dust jacket with some mild fading to the spine
Crump Productions 1971 first edition, 152 pages. [#2273 nz fiction crump]
Bastards, discovered Barry Crump one afternoon in the Timberlands hotel, out number hero's by at least 15 thousand to one. Yet there has never been a single book or poem,or TV documentary, or song,or even a speech, devoted to the common or garden bastard!
This situation had to be remedied at once. And so, from a great wealth of candidates who have come the way of New Zealand's most popular writer, Barry Crump has now distilled this first ABC of bastardry.
Illustrated by Graham Kirk
Barry Crump, kiwi, humour
VG softback
Hodder Moa Beckett, 186pp.
Barney Carter over-winters Bullock Creek Station in the high-country of the Southern Alps and has to use all his ingenuity and tenacity to get himself, the stock and the widow though the worst winter on record alive.
VG softback
Barry Crump Associates 1993 new edition, 185pp. Illustrated by Kerry Emerson.
[#3345 ]
VG- softback with some writing inside rear cover
'Sally could do most things better than men, but it was difficult to get a job in a recession. On the road and looking for work she involuntarily teams up with an unlikely character and finds herself on the end of a shovel on the West Coast. A unique story unfolds of hard work and dreams, of gold-fever and greenston, of helicopters and high seas, of laughter and tears and culminates in a romantic twistand a happy ending.'
VG softback with some sunfading to outside and toning to inside of covers, pen name to first page.
Barry Crump Associates 1993 first edition, 192 pages.
[#3159 ]
Two jokers from Sydney head to the Gulf of Carpentaria for a spot of crocodile hunting, and become involved with a giant man-eater. Based on Crump's own experiences.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some tears and chpping loss to spine ends. Book spine leans a little. No inscriptions.
Reed 1964 first edition, 172pp.[#2872 Asutralia, fiction, Barry Crump ]
Crump's follow up to his best-selling first book, Hang on a Minute Mate follows Sam Cash and his side-kick Jack Lilburn through a variety of jobs and adventures in rural back-country New Zealand.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with some handling soiling and wear to edges with small holes rubbed to the lower fore edge fold, prize plate to fep, top edge dust soiled.
Reed 1961 first printing of only 15,000 copies, 192pp.
[#3052 ]
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to edges, tidy name to fep, top edge dust soiled.
Reed 1962 second impression completing 20,000 copies, 192pp
[#3273 ]
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket with minor chipping to edges and corners, spine sunned, small tear at head of lower joint, gift inscription to fep.
Reed 1962 second impression completing 20,000 copies, 192pp
[#3274 ]
VG hardback in Poor dust jacket with large chips to bottom fore edge corner and top spine corner, some mottling to jacket, rubbed joints, gift inscription to fep.
Reed 1970 reprint, 192pp
[#3275 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor corner tear at fold, minor insect damage to dust jacket fore edge fold.
Reed 1962 sixth impression, 192pp
Sam Cash, Ponto Manson and Toddy Dunn find employment and hijinks on T Burke's farm in South Westland.
VG+ hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor insect damage
Reed 1962 first edition hardcover, 179pp. [#1957 ]
VG+ hardback in VG dust jacket. Pen inscriptions to endpapers.
Reed 1962 first edition hardcover, 179pp. [#2871 ]
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Top half of free endpaper missing, some soiling, good reading copy.
Reed 1962 first edition hardcover, 179pp. [#3051 ]
VG hardback in VG- unclipped dust jacket rubbed to edges, short tears to joints at spine ends and corners, name to fep.
Reed 1962 first reprint hardcover, 179pp. [ #1845 ]
VG+ hardback in G dust jacket.
Reed third impression, 179pp. [BOX#7 ]
Good Kiwi humour about some refuse workers money making plans.
First edition.
Illustrated by Roger Hart.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with slight handling wear.
Reed 1965 first edition, 158pp
[#2629, 3367 ]
Reissue in softback with the original illustrations by Roger Hart.
VG softback
Hodder Moa Beckett 1997, 158pp.
[#3525 ]
The adventures of Sam Cash continues in Crump's fourth work. Illustrated by Dennis Turner.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket .
Reed 1963 first edition, 187pp.
[#3247 / 3368 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with insect damage top corner of cover and along the lower fore edge fold, head of spine chipped.
Reed 1963 second impression hardcover, 187pp.
[#128 ]
Uncle Hec and the impromptu adopted Maori boy Ricky flee the custody of the Social Welfare people into the wild Urewera country.
Basis of the film 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople'.
G+ softback with rubbed spine and edges
Beckett 1986 first thus paperback
[#2083 ]
G+ softback with sun faded cover
Beckett 1988 reprint
[#2994 ]
Her first anonymously published work.
Limited edition of 200 copies. Hand set and hand printed.
new zealand, literature, caxton press, private press, women's writing
VG- softback with mild soiling.
Caxton Press 1948 first printing, 12 pages (6 leaves).
[#3647 ]
Recollections of seven of Davin's friends, written soon after their deaths. Joyce Cary, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Enid Starkie, Dylan Thomas, Itzik Manger, W R Rogers and Louis MacNeice.
VG softback
Oxford University Press 1985, 189pp. [#2779 new zealand writing ]
Rare first edition of this collection of 26 stories based on Davin's experiences growing up in a poor Irish Catholic family in Southland, and his war service.
VG- hardback in cloth boards, with some minor foxing to closed edges, in a VG unclipped dust jacketwith minor rubbing or edge wear, two small holes worn to spine, and mild handling soiling.
Nicholson and Watson, 1947 first edition, 216 pages. [#2555 new zealand fiction literature ]
In The World's Classics series. 33 stories by 27 New Zealand authors. From Lady Barker to the authors of the 1950s.
VG hardback in VG- slightly worn dust jacket.
Oxford University Press, 1953 first edition, 426pp.. [#2915 nz fiction, literature ]
VG hardback in VG- slightly worn dust jacket.
Oxford University Press, 1976 reprint, 426pp.. [#2916 nz fiction, literature ]
Includes early uncollected stories, ones from Immanuel's Land and Summer in the gravel pit, and posthumously published works.
new zealand, fiction, literature, the new zealand fiction series
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Auckland University Press 1981 first edition, 379pp.
[#3687 ]
Three stories; O'Leary's Orchard, An Appetite for Flowers, Riley's Handbook. Part of New Zealand Short Stories series (number 1). Rubricated title page.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket, name to free end paper.
Caxton Press 1970 first edition, 185pp.
[#3264 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear to head of spine.
Hodder 1980 first edition hardcover 12mo, 91pp. ISBN0340256915 [#2562 new zealand fiction ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light wear and short tears at ends of spine.
Hodder 1980 first edition hardcover 12mo, 91pp. ISBN0340256915 [#2646 new zealand fiction ]
237 letters by Rex Fairburn to various New Zealand literary firends and colleagues, from 1924 to 1957.
FINE hardback in FINE dust jacket
Oxford University Press 1981 first edition hardcover, xxv 272pp. [#2425 nz literature, letters, biography ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Oxford University Press 1981 first edition hardcover, xxv 272pp. [#2721 nz literature, letters, biography ]
Three long stories linked by their views of love and marriage. 'Frankie & Lena', 'Tom & Sue', 'Jim & Miri'
G+ softback with rubbed spine and edges, light stain to spine margin of final pages. $10 C/A John McIndoe 1976 first edition sewn in softcovers, 136pp. [#2409 nz literature ]
Three long stories linked by their views of love and marriage. 'Frankie & Lena', 'Tom & Sue', 'Jim & Miri'
VG- softback with sunned spine light edge rubbing, light crease top of rear cover. $15 C/A John McIndoe 1976 first edition sewn in softcovers, 136pp. [#2410 nz literature ]
Edited and introduced by Dennis McEldowney for this new edition of the 1948 work.
Jake has two long visits to Tidal Creek, when he is thirteen, and again when he is twenty, and we follow his interactions with his Uncle Ted, an early conservationist of sorts.
new zealand, novel, fiction
VG softback
Auckland University Press 1979 new edition, 157pp
[#3542 ]
First edition in the New Zealand issue of the fifth novel by Janet Frame.
VG hardback with slight age toning to closed edges with faint watermark to top edge in G+ unclipped dust jacket that has a large chip out of top corner by the spine, and slight chipping or rubbing to the corners, short tear from top of front flap fold on the inside flap, top edge slightly soiled, a little faint stain to front cover, not very noticeable, better than it sounds!
Pegasus Press 1965 first edition, 270pp.
[#2397 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with label-lift scar at top corner of front pnel. There is a pen inscription to front free end paper. Faint foxing to closed top page edges.
Pegasus 1965 first edition, 270pp. [#3521 ]
Pegasus 1961 First edition, first printing which precedes the W H Allen edition.
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with number on fold in flap and tape residue to edges on the reverse of the jacket, name to free endpaper, faint foxing
Pegasus 1961 First edition, first printing, hardcover. 219pp. [#2209 new zealand fiction]
Janet Frame's second work in the UK issue.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with small chips to corners, light foxing or soiling. Book has name to fep in pen, light foxing to closed edges
W H Allen August 1962 second printing of First edition, 219pp. [#2396 nz fiction, literature ]
Fortieth anniversary publication, with pencil illustrations.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket. A gift inscription has been blacked out to free end paper. Dust jacket sun faded to rear panel.
Random Century 1990, 98pp.
[#3378 ]
First edition in New Zealand issue of the fourth novel by Janet Frame.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket lightly rubbed and handling soiled, book some foxing to closed edges etc.
Pegasus 1963 first edition, 192pp. [#2398 nz literature, fiction, first edition ]
Biographical account of Janet Frame from a personal viewpoint, her childhood and life rather than her writing. Includes over 100 private photographs. ISBN0143018388
VG+ softback
Penguin 2002, 160pp. [#2716 new zealand literature, biography]
A humorous tale of 50 pages followed by 41 pages of humorous verse.
Good only copy, lacks front cover wrapper, disbound as staples perished, otherwise OK.
James Horsburgh, Dunedin, 1893. 91pp + period advertising.
[#3182 ]
Gee's first published novel, based on a rugby player whose focus on the game is skewed by a fascination for a burglar and his girl.
VG hardback with no dust jacket, lacks fep otherwise tidy light bump to corner.
Hutchinson 1962 First Edition, 199pp.
[#3299 ]
Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrists draws them together in a frightening adventure. They are summoned to the land of O in a desperate attempt to save the planet from cruel Otis Claw and the evil Halfmen.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with repaired tear at head of spine and some wear to spine ends. Name to end paper.
Oxford University Press 1983 reprint, 204pp.
[#3049 ]
Rare first edition of Maurice Gee's thriller about a teacher who is suspected of the murder of his student. Filmed in 2004, from a screenplay written and directed by Brad McGann. ISBN0571098509
VG hardback with very mild spotting to closed edges in VG price clipped dust jacket with minor handling soiling.
Faber 1972 first edition, 175 pages. [#2554 new zealand fiction literature ]
This copy has a Presentation inscription to fep reads [For Robert Pinney | from ? ? of Pegasus Press | 9 Sept '64].VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light rubbing to edges.
Illustrated by Russell Clarke.
Children's stories in rhyme, by Denis Glover's wife, and illustrated by Sheila Natusch
VG stapled card wrappers with dust jacket with some minor wear
$10 B/ letter rate
The Catspaw Press 1982 first edition. 64pp.[#2576 new zealand poetry ]
Pacific Paperbacks stated first edition, there was also a hard covered printing. ISBN 0582717434
VG softback, sewn sheets, with small name head of first page
Longman Paul 1975 soft cover 91pp.[#2017 new zealand fiction]
Pacific Paperbacks, 12 short stories. Reprin. ISBN0582717795
VG softback, sewn sheets.
Longman Paul 1982 soft cover 108pp.[#2724 new zealand fiction]
A children's book for New Zealanders, Maori subjects, illustrated by Kerry Gemmill. ISBN 0670851353
VG+ hardcover in illustrated boards with no dust jacket
Viking / Penguin 1993 first edition, landscape format with full colour illustrations throughout. [#2142 new zealand, childrens fiction]
Tyler Smith has found the wreck of the General Grant and he must get the bullion safely from the waters of Auckland Islands before his nemesis Rhys Baron intervenes. Thriller novel. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with "All the best, Andrew Grant" across the title page.
VG used paperback with light reading crease to spine and light corner crease to rear wrapper.
Shoal Bay Press 1999, 320pp. [PB1439 new zealand fiction]
Hawks is a tale of New Zealand's wild South-Westland, set during the early years of the venison recovery industry. This was a time when the cowboys rode choppers instead of horses and used semi-automatic weapons, not six guns. They lived, worked and sometimes dies in the most rugged and spectacular corner of this country - the vast Fiordland wilderness.
Hawks is a fictional tale but the fast action depicted here might very well have happened. It is the story of Gray, an enigmatic young man running from his past and the horrors of the Vietnam war. He returns to New Zealand's southern lands to find himself in a war of a very different kind - a dangerous war for the highest profits, set against some of the most inhospitable country in the world.
With the deadly skills he learned in the SAS, Gray becomes the top gun, the man every chopper pilot wants in the shooter's seat on his machine as the competition gets fiercer and men begin to take increasingly desperate risks. Some make mistakes and some die. Others are killed apparently having made no mistakes at all.
Gray's story encompasses life and death as well as love. Unashamedly robust, Hawks tells it like it really was, or could have been, as greed and jealousy and a woman named Mary combine in an explosive finale.
VG- softback, reading crease to spine
Shoal Bay Press 1998 first edition, 280pp [PB1503 nz fiction]
G+ softback, covers rubbed, spine leans.
Shoal Bay Press 1998 reprint, 280pp [Item# 34 NZFCT]
A 19th Century Saga of Colonial Life. A novel set in Takaka Valley in the late 19th century. ISBN0863327818
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 1992 331pp. [#2745 new zealand, ficrion, historical novel, marlborough]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket $10 C/B John McIndoe1981 first edition, 208 pages. ISBN0868680427 [#2545 new zealand fiction literature ]
An extraordinary novel blending reality with dreams, melding Maori and Pakeha, weaving strange and hurtful pasts into strangely bright futures. A Booker Prize winner.
G+ softback but has sun faded spine, pen name at front
Spiral in association with Hodder 1985, 450pp.
[#3173 ]
VG paperback
Picador1986, 450pp.
[PB1546 + Box#11 ]
Collection of twenty stories include the award-winning Hooks and Feelers, about a mother who has inadvertently maimed her child, and A drift in Dream, which gives a pre-Bone People glimpse of Simon and his parents. Throughout Hulme experiments with language and the components of style, and reveals herself a writer of virtuosity and emotional power.
VG- softback, name at front, foxed closed edges.
Victoria University Press 1986 first softcover edition, 240pp.
[#3172 ]
A selection of Robin Hyde's (Iris Wilkinson) journalistic writings. With 141 pages of biographical introduction. ISBN086473204X
VG softback
Victoria University Press 1991, 412 pp.[#2686 new zealand literature ]
First thus reissue of 1939 work with introduction by Challis and critical note by Hardy. Hyde travels in China during the late 1930s as a journalist and comments on Sino-Japanese War etc.
VG- softback
New Women's Press 1984, xviii 318pp.
[#3340 ]
A strongly autobiographical novel about family life and the intensely felt world of a young woman in Wellington in the 1930s. Eliza Hannay is an aspiring poet, and her strong will and passions don't suit the prim world she resides in.
new zealand, women's writing, 20th century
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Spine and boards faded, with a lean to the binding. Some mild foxing to closed egdes and prelims. One small library stamp to front paste down ONLY.
Hurst and Blackett 1938 First edition, First Impression stated, 296+16pp adverts.
[#3553 ]
Strongly autobiographical, vividly evokes the complexities of family life and the intensely felt world of a single-minded young woman in Wellington in the 1930s.
No. 2 in the New Zealand Fiction Series by Auckland University Press.
G+ softback with folded, sewn sheets. Minor wear to spine, pen name to first page.
Auckland University Press 1974, xxi 236pp.
[#3150 ]
A novel about Maori life, and those who still live the traditional way, and those dealing with Pakeha influences.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
Heinemann 1974 first edition, 173pp. [#2726 new zealand fiction]
First edition of the novel about Maori legends and family dynamics made into a film. With illustrations by John Hovell. Scarce title. ISBN0868636843
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. On the free end paper there is some paper residue where a greeting card was attached, this has been removed but has left some paper behind. Otherwise book in excellent shape.
reduced to $50 C/B
Heinemann 1987 first edition, 122pp.[#2687 new zealand fiction ]
An allegory on life through the trials of an angler, illustrated by Con Dimopoulos.
angling, politics, bob jones, fishing, philosophy
VG+ hardback with VG+ dust jacket.
Collins 1984 first edition, 151pp + etchings.
[#64, 826 ]
True Stars is a vivid portrayal of contemporary New Zealand life. It shows the tensions and divisions that are echoed both on a national level and in family relationships, which are crystallised by the Springbok tour, and which gnaw at differences in race, gender, class - and politics. It is a savage and often humorous novel set during the last months of the Lange Goverment.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Random Century 1990 first edition, 226pp.
[#3175 ]
Humorous christmas tales with a New Zealand setting and feel. Includes one with a live Moa!
VG- card bound with G+ dust jacket
Simpson and Williams 1936, 116pp.
[#3179 ]
Some confessions, some beer ballads, a dash of history, froth of personalities and an encyclopaedia. A literary celebration of beer in New Zealand.
G+ softback, with name at top of endpaper and mild handling soiling.
Whitcombe and Tombs First Edition 1965, xii + 131pp
[#3007 ]
A ghostly canoe is seen on Lake Rotomahana prior to the Tarawera eruption. ISBN0224022563
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly faded spine
Jonathan Cape 1984 First edition, 202 pages. Line illustrations by John Shelley. [#2291 nz fiction ]
Tempted by Pillycock's Shop, Teddy pawn's his sister Penny for a tin-monkey. He soon regrets his choice and must hurry to redeem his baby Penny before the sun sets and the store disappears. Full page illustrations by Carol Barker. This is one of Mahy's first three works published in 1969. A magical and eerie tale.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with repaired tear and corner wear.
Dennis Dobson 1969 first edition, 24pp.
[#3243 ]
The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn't the first time she'd been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly evil Carmody Braque touched and branded her little brother – and now Jacko was very ill, getting steadily worse. There was only one way to save him. Laura had to change over: had to release her supernatural powers. And that meant joining forces with the extraordinary and enigmatic Sorenson Carlisle…Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy. Young adult fiction. ISBN041652270X
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. Bookseller label at foot of front paste down.
Dent 1984 first edition, 214pp. [#2813 childrens fiction, new zealand, margaret mahy ]
A scarce autobiographical essay by Mahy printed for the Montana estates essay series. ISBN0958237522
VG softback with VG dust jacket
$20 A/ letter rate internationally
Four Winds Press 2003, 51pp. [#2723 new zealand biography, fiction, literature]
A novel in which an English woman marries a colonial man in an isolated timber settlement in the Kaipara.
VG softback with sewn binding.
Whitcombe and Tombs 1974, 318 pages.
[#2288, 2685, 3609 ]
A biography of the first early New Zealand woman writer who came to international prominence.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
Jonathan Cape 1954 (second impression in same month as first), 376pp + plates and index. Included with this copy are some newspaper cuttings, a card 'Katherine Mansfield's Birthplace Wellington' and a three page typescript by Frank Cotterell 'The Birthplace', about a pilgrimage by a French ambassador to Mansfield's birthplace. [#2707 new zealand literature, biography]
VG- hardback with no dust jacket. Stamp and inscription to fep, lightly faded spine, faint foxing to endpapers.
Jonathan Cape 1954 first edition, xvi 376 xvipp + plates. [#461]
An in depth biography of Katherine Mansfield, regarded by some as the first 'modern' writer of the 20th century. Alpers drew on newly available material for this work.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with sun faded spine. Minor foxing to closed edges.
Viking Press, February 1980 second printing, 466pp. [#2950 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
G+softback with worn wrappers with some creases
OUP 1982 softcover, xxvi 467pp + plates [#2135 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Memories of Mansfield by Ida Constance Baker, Mansfield's life-long friend who was also known as Lesley Moore. Prints extracts from letters and other writings by Mansfield. Introduction by Georgina Joysmith, foreword by Sylvia Baker. Mansfield bibliography by Kirkpatrick notes this is an edition of 3000 copies only. (B15a )
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and short splits at ends of joints. Free endpaper with pencil inscription and clipped top corner.
Michael Joseph 1971 First edition, 240pp + plates
[#3005 ]
A study of Mansfield as a writer with critique of her themes and styles, and comparing her to Anton Chekhov.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with handling wear and short edge tears. Owner details to end paper.
Whitcombe and Tombs 1951 first edition, 246pp. [#2967 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield]
The Chinese view of Katherine Mansfield
VG softback
University of Otago Press 2001, 174 pages ISBN 9781877276040 [#2279 nz fiction ]
14 short stories by New Zealands best known author.
VG- hardback in red cloth, wear to spine ends, name to endpaper. Top edge gilt.
Constable 1923 (seventh printing), 280pp.[#2969 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield ]
15 short stories by New Zealands best known author.
VG- hardback in red cloth, wear to spine ends, names to endpaper. Top edge gilt.
Constable 1923 (fifth printing), 276pp.[#2968 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield ]
15 short stories by New Zealands best known author.
VG hardback with no dust jacket, black cloth spine titled gilt, covers show signs of use
Constable 1942 reprint, 276pp. [#2925 new zealand literature ]
Collects 91 stories from Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension.
VG- softback with sunfaded spine, name inside cover
Hutchinson 1984, 793 pp.
[#3177 ]
Chronologically selected from 1907 to 1923
G+ paperback
Penguin 1977, 285pp. [PB1516 new zealand, literature, mansfield ]
Katherine Mansfield filled the first half of her 'Urewera Notebook' during a 1907 camping tour of the central North Island, shortly before she left New Zealand forever. This writing is an insight into her attitude to her life and country at the time.
VG softback
Oxford University Press 1978, 107pp. [#2964 new zealand, fiction, writing, katherine mansfield ]
This biography of Mansfield examines her rebellious reaction to her colonial background, her self-destructive revolt against respectability and her emotional life. Includes accounts of her lesbian friendships, love affairs, miscarriage and abortion; her period of drugs and squalor; her one-day marriage, and her extraordinary relationship with John Middleton Murray. Her last years were dominated by her quest for health in France, Italy and Switzerland. Giving up hope of a cure from conventional medecine she resorted to the mysticism of Gurdjieff in whose hands she died at the age of thirty-four. Links the events of her life with her development as a writer and discusses the influence of her friendships with her contemporaries; D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ottoline Morrell and others, including a hitherto unknown meeting with James Joyce.
VG- hardback in VG dust jacket. Book has gift inscription to paste down. Minor foxing to edges.
Hodder and Stoughton 1978 first edition, 306pp + plates. [#2952 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Gathers Murry's letters to his wife, Katherine Mansfield, in which he talks about their relationship, their friends, and her work.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with sun faded spine. Minor foxing to closed edges.
Hutchinson 1983 first edition, 394pp.[#2953 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
A collection of images of New Zealand at the turn of the century to illustrate the country she grew up in and places she knew. With quotes from her works.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly sun faded spine.
Golden Press 1974, 80pp. [#2949 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Margaret Scott's world changed for ever at the age of 32 when her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her with two children and another on the way. It was Katherine Mansfield (a writer she had always loved) who helped to give shape and purpose to the difficult, lonely years that followed. For on becoming manuscripts librarian for the Alexander Turnbull Library, Margaret discovered a rich resource of Mansfield material. She spent most of the next 30 years deciphering her illegible handwriting, travelling to Europe and America in search of further Mansfield manuscripts and working towards the publication of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield and The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Recollecting Mansfield chronicles the delights and disasters that Margaret experienced as her life and Mansfield's intersected. She gives fascinating insights into the extraordinary people she encountered, from Mansfield's faithful companion Ida Baker to her own close friend Charles Brasch. This is a book of true charm and spirit, a moving, wise and witty account of a life spent in the company of one of this country's greatest writers.
VG hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Name at front.
Godwit 2001 first edition, 172pp. [#2966 new zealand, literature, katherine mansfield ]
Spanning three years in the life of writer Katherine Mansfield during the First World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to break through as a writer. As her brother and lovers are drawn into the conflict, Mansfield becomes ever more determined to write the "new kind of fiction" that she feels the times demand. While sticking scrupulously to what is known of Mansfield's life and friends, this extraordinary novel takes the reader beyond biography into the mind and heart of its subject.
VG softback, owner details in pen to inside of cover
Vintage 2004, 246pp. [#2965 new zealand fiction, katherine mansfield ]
Pursuing art across Europe, Mansfield lived and wrote with gusto, and when she died aged thirty-four, she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. A courageous, greatly gifted, haunted and haunting writer.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Viking Press 1988 reprint, 292pp + plates. [#2951 new zealand literature, mansfield ]
Autobiography by world famous crime novel writer and theatre director Ngaio Marsh. Although equally at home amongst the theatre crowd in London, and able to write the quintessential British Country House murder tale, Marsh was equally adept at portraying the New Zealand landscape and character, and continued to live and work in Christchurch (New Zealand).
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing loss to corners
Collins 1966, 287pp + plates [#2824 new zealand, biography, literature ]
VG Poor DW front panel severely damaged. $15 B/B [Item# 417 NZFCT] Pegasus Press 1979 first edition hardcover,116pp. ISBN 0908568061
G+ worn wrappers, name to inside cover, wrapper detached at lower staple.
Price Milburn 1981 first edition stapled wrappers, 97pp. ISBN 0705507807. [#2577 new zealand literature playscript theatre ]
Mason's solo protagonist begins; 'Let me take you on a voyage into that territory of the heart that we call childhood.' A boy's experiences with local eccentrics on a beach in the Auckland area during a summer holiday marks the end of his childhood and the beginning of adult awareness and compassion.
play, theatre, new zealand identity, Takapuna Beach
VG softback with name to first page and slight foxing to inside of card wrappers and first and last pages.
New Zealand University Press / Price Milburn 1970, 95pp.
[#3484 ]
VG softback $10 C/A Price Milburn 1979 sewn sheets in card wrappers, 99pp. ISBN 0705500209 [#2426 nz literature, theatre, playscript ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket rubbed to edges and joints, light foxing to endpapers, name at foot of fep $30 C/B Price Milburn 1963 second edition, 98pp. [#1131 new zealand fiction]
In 1850, scandal, desperation and ambition create an upheaval in the lives of many English people. Some are encouraged to leave England and seek a new life in New Zealand. On arrival in the new colony, old habits die hard. In the mad scramble for fame and fortune, huge risks are taken, morals are compromised and those in authority hoodwinked. The Maori are ostracised and the religious ideals of the colony's founders ignored. Men spare no quarter to outwit their rivals in a race for fame and fortune. The struggle for survival of Patrick and Josephine Mahoney and their feud with Humphrey and Emma Robinson who are obsessed with wealth and power, is an inspiring human drama set amid the birth of a great nation. Wool becomes king and the new rich build their opulent mansions. The foundations of a nation are laid and the resilient and triumphant character of its people evolves. Today, their descendants live on, embracing their ancestral philosophies while facing trials and tribulations their forebears could never have envisaged.
VG softback
McDonnell Publishing Company 2011, 398pp.
[#3351 ]
Fictional (?) tales of New Zealand High Country people and places.
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with short edge tears to spine folds, pen name to fep
Whitcombe and Tombs 1959 first edition, 123pp. Illustrated in line. [#2806 new zealand, fiction, high country ]
VG softback $25 C/A Square and Circle 1972 first edition 112pp. [#2418 nz literature, fiction ]
VG name blacked out to fep, light edge wear, small split head of spine.
$25 C/B [Item# 61 NZFCT]
Glenco 1951 gilt decorated boards, 162pp, illustrations in line.
"Fourteen-year-old Neddy and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chicken-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into town. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is in fear for his sister's safety." First edition of the New Zealand printing after the scarce 1963 Angus & Robertson edition.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. There is a crossed pen name to fep, tiny area silverfish damage to first two pages
Heinemann first edition thus 1976, 181pp. [#2427 ]
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket with lightly sunned spine.
Heinemann first edition thus 1976, 181pp. [#3256 ]
A restless High Country farmer's wife takes up painting as an escape from monotony and embarks on an affair.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
Whitcombe and Tombs 1971 FIRST EDITION, 239pp
[#3392 ]
Run at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire on Monday 10 March 1890, with an appendix voicing Ecclesiastical disapprobation of the event. Reprinted by the Nag's Head Press from an old scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. A hand printed and bound, numbered limited editon of 135 copies. THIS COPY #95. The fiftieth title by the Nag's Head Press.
VG small format hardback with no dust jacket. Paper title label to cover, gift inscription to paste down.
Nag's Head Press 1982, 30pp.[#2722 new zealand fiction, private press]
How do you escape from being the loblolly boy? The answer is simple: find the boy who stole your life and Exchange. But when the loblolly boy seeks help from the mysterious Captain Bass, he discovers it's not going to be simple. Standing in his way will be the Jugglers, the unpredictable Gadget Man and the sinister Sorcerer. Lost in a strange town with only one friend - the feisty Mel - the loblolly boy has to deal with the biggest obstacle of all: Benjy, the treacherous boy who stole his life.
Sequel to The Loblolly Boy.
young adult, fiction, new zealand author
VG+ paperback
Longacre 2011, 297pp.
Works by the first generation of Maori writers to make use of literary forms that are European in origin. Includes selections from Rora Paki, Riki Erihi, Hone Tuwhare, Witi ihimaera, Nick Karaitiana, Rowley Habib, Rose Denness, Arapera Blank, Hirone Wikiriwhi, S.M.Mead, Harry Dansey, Patricia Grace, Mason Durie, and Katarina Mataira.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, name to first page.
Reed 1974, 153pp.
[#3180 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Reed 1974 reprint, 153pp.
Novel set in the bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston on the West Coast during the 1880s.
VG softback
Black Swan 2004, 367pp. [#2701 new zealand fiction ]
VG softback
Sequel to The Denniston Rose, a novel set in the bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston on the West Coast. Rose has now grown up and faces new challenges.
Scarce early piece at times of paper rationing etc, New Zealand literature and fiction, an anthology edited by Sargeson. Authors included are; Audrey King, Roderick Findlayson, Lyndahl Chapple Gee, A. Gaskell, E. Lyders, G. Gilbert, D. Ballantyne, Helen Shaw, John Reece Cole, Max Harris, Greville Texidor, E. Dawson, Maurice Duggan, D. Anderson & Frank Sargeson
VG- softback with small ink name top corner of cover and top corner of half title( John Allison) some mild age browning, backstrip split at ends of joints, soiled closed edges
Caxton Press ( Pelorus) 1945, cover art by Eric Lee-Johnson, 121+2pp [#2156 new zealand fiction ]
Collection of 46 short stories. Includes a biboliography of the stories collected here. ISBN0582717221
G+ some soiling and wear to tail of spine
Longman Paul 1975, 351pp [#2781 new zealand fiction ]
Collection of 46 short stories. Includes a biboliography of the stories collected here. ISBN0582717221
G softback with reading wear and some minor insect damage to edge of first few pages.
Longman Paul 1980, 351pp [#3355 ]
A Tale Of The New Zealand Gum Country in the far North at the turn of the 20th century.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some minor chipping loss and archival repaired edge tears. With the book label of Sadie Balkind.
Whitcombe and Tombs 1939 Third edition, 310pp.[#3386 ]
A Tale Of The New Zealand Gum Country in the far North at the turn of the 20th century. This edition edited and with an introduction by Kendrick Smithyman.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Auckland University Press 1971, 222pp.[#2808 new zealand, fiction]
Novel of early colonial New Zealand, set in 1830-60. A Maori-Pakeha friendship at the times of the Land Wars, melodrama with historical background.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket and sunned spine, gift inscription, soiled closed edges.
Whitcombe and Tombs 1936, 400pp.
[#1093 ]
G- hardback with no dust jacket and sunned and soiled cloth, lower joint split, inscription and some stamps, reading copy
Whitcombe and Tombs 1936, 400pp.
[#1094 ]
From one of the most vivid and heroic protests of the 1970s, where New Zealanders sailed into the Mururoa nuclear fallout danger zone, thereby helping to end French atmospheric tests in the Pacific, Maurice Shadbolt has distilled a strange and memorable story.
Mururoa, Moana nui, nuclear testing, novel, pacific
VG softback, sewn binding.
Hodder 1985, 206pp.
[#3643 ]
selected stories, first edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine, top of fep clipped, title glued along spine edge wider than usual $20 C/C Hodder 1978 first edition hardcover, 242pp. ISBN 0340234563 [#2422 nz literature, fiction ]
Fine, remainder stripe top edge.
$10 B/B [Item# 129 NZFCT]
Hodder 1993 softcover, 106pp + photographs by Brian Brake. Playscript of the ANZACs at Gallipoli. ISBN 0340327448
The third instalment of Shadbolt's New Zealand Wars trilogy.
Set in 1845 and the conflict between Maori factions, and the newly constituted authority of Queen Victoria in the land.
Preceeded by Season of the Jew and Monday's Warriors
fiction, history, maori wars, novel
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Hodder and Stoughton 1993 first edition, 294pp.
[#3695 ]
This is a collection of short stories which portray a selection of women who will not be defined by the music they listen to, the men they love (and leave), or the money they have (or don't have).
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
Godwit 1997 first edition, 223pp
[#3163 ]
Stories, Articles, Poems by South Canterbury Writers
VG softback, gift inscription to inside cover
$10 B/ letter rate
Beynon Print Timaru 1973 first edition wrappers, 54pp [#2568 new zealand literature south canterbury]
Essays from In the Glass Case and Answering to the Language, plus nine new ones. Authors covered are Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, A R D Fairburn, R A K Mason, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Allen Curnow, John Mulgan, Hubert Witheford, Maurice Duggan, Kendrick Smithyman, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, David Ballantyne, Janet Frame, Lauris Edmond, James K Baxter, Maurice Gee, Witi ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Ian Wedde.
VG softback
Auckland University Press 2002, 386pp.
[#3174 ]
In The World's Classics series. 26 stories by 21 New Zealand authors. New works from the authors of the 1950s, and those who were influenced by them.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Name and address at front.
Oxford University Press, 1966 first edition, 363pp. [#2917 nz fiction, literature ]
First edition
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, small pen tick to fep, faint damp mark to reverse of rear dust jacket panel, remainder stripe bottom of closed page edges
Collins 1989, 220pp. [#2414 nz literature, fiction, first edition ]
A continuation of John Summers' autobigraphy and literary memoir. Summers was well known in Christchurch for among other things his long-running bookshop in the city.
FINE new uncirculated copy in fine dust jacket
Pisces Print 1993, 302pp + plates.
[#3234 ]
VG single sheet of heavy paper ( 200 x 250mm) folded once into 4 pp. with text on three pages. Tiny amount surface insect damage at head, $30 A/ Letter rate, [#2355 new zealand fiction]
Two short fiction pieces.
pivate press, hand printed, Bob Gormack, Nag's Head Press
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Pisces Print / Nag's Head Print 1980 first edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, this being #143.
Signed by the author to the half title page. 111pp.
[#3640 ]
Fernie Brae is a novella Summers was working on, which he has previewed in this book.
pivate press, hand printed, Bob Gormack, Nag's Head Press
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Pisces Print / Nag's Head Print 1977 first edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, this being #133.
Signed by the author to the limitation page. 31pp.
[#3641 ]
Both copies VG softbacks $45 for both together B/A Pigeon Publishing 1992 first editions, stapled folded sheets in stiff illustrated wrappers, landscape, 32pp each, illustrated in colour. ISBN 0473016583 / 047301503X [#2388 nz fiction, Young adult, picture children's book ]
VG hardback with light foxing to closed edges in a VG dust jacket $10 C/B Bodley Head 1963 second impression, 207 pages. Author's first novel. [#2270 nz fiction ]
A discouraged young woman joins a group of strange people, the Balloon Watchers. The first title in the Kea New Fiction Series, and the author's second work.
VG softback but glue has perished and pages may soon start detaching unless read with care.
Dunmore Press 1975 first edition, 97pp.
[#3261 ]
A semi-autobiographical work reflective of Watson's time as partner to Barry Crump. The author's first work.
VG hardback in G but worn and soiled dust jacket, with short tear at head of spine.
Pegasus Press 1965 first edition, 150pp.
[#3262 ]
VG VG lightly worn edges and corners of DW.
$25 C/B [Item# 299 NZFCT]
Dunmore Press 1978 first edition hardcover, 12mo 185pp. ISBN 0908564139


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This will be a slight diversion from my usually concise posts as it will be an overview of the entire Bio Enterprise Module with a statement encompassing my thoughts on the content and how it's helped me focus my career plans. What is Bio-enterprise? "Bio-Enterprise" is really as simple as the name suggests. Bio- meaning … Continue reading Bio-Enterprise and Employability
Latest in the Field
Understanding and exploiting the ruminant gut microbiome.
Last month, a talk was given by Aberystwyth's senior lecturer in Animal Science Dr Sharon Huws on the importance of vertebrate digestive systems and the multitude of microorganisms that reside within the ruminant gut in particular. Understanding the microbiome. She began by providing a brief background to the rumen microbiota, a complicated ecosystem housing archaea, … Continue reading Understanding and exploiting the ruminant gut microbiome.
Temperate Bacteriophages are for life, not just for Christmas.
On the 16th December, last year I attended a seminar by Dr Darren Smith from Northumbria University discussing the importance of bacteriophages. As a starting point, phages are a form of viruses that specifically infect bacteria. They do this by attacking the lysogenic pathway; phages integrate into the bacterial DNA, which allows the virus to … Continue reading Temperate Bacteriophages are for life, not just for Christmas.
Careers Café
The final part of this module, with the exception of the very blog you are currently reading, was the attendance of something known as a "Careers Café". This was essentially a seminar given by four guest speakers, all graduates from Bangor University, who have gone on to gain successful careers. The for speakers came from … Continue reading Careers Café
My chosen subject is…why I'm right for this job.
No, this isn't a post about Mastermind, this is about the assessment centre, albeit the mock one, we went to as practice for the real ones we will most likely experience at some point. An assessment centre is a method used by employers to interview and, as the name suggests, assess multiple candidates in as … Continue reading My chosen subject is…why I'm right for this job.
Entering the Dragon's Den.
The premise for this part of the module was fairly simple. We would spend the day coming up with an idea for a business (ideally themed around some aspect of biological science, as that is the field in which we are all studying), plan it with all the necessary details, and then pitch it to … Continue reading Entering the Dragon's Den.
Business Plans: "Growing Up" in the world.
As a follow up to the previous assessment, the Dragon's Den business presentation, we were asked to write up a formal business plan. I opted to use the business my group had come up with during the Dragon's pitch of a vertical landscape gardening company. I found my lack of knowledge of the business world a … Continue reading Business Plans: "Growing Up" in the world.
Writing a CV…
Point to anyone in the real world, not this fantasy land of University many of us have become far too accustomed to, and they will have written a CV at some point in their lives. The CV, or curriculum vitae, is the golden ticket to a job. It is the accumulation of one's professional life, all typed … Continue reading Writing a CV…
Predators, Primates and Humans in a landscape of fear.
A field project undertaken by Russell Hill in Soutsponsberg known as the "Predator and Primate Project" which looked into the effects (both lethal and non-lethal) of near-by predators on social animals. There were 3 main areas of study for the project- Predator-prey interations (Behavioural ecology) Assess the role of mountainous regions in biodiversity concentration Evaluate … Continue reading Predators, Primates and Humans in a landscape of fear.
Growing ones way out of poverty.
Immediately, before attempting to consider any solutions to poverty, one must attempt to understand what exactly poverty is. Simply, it is described as an income of below $1.90 per person per day. A project known as Drylands Development Programme (Dry Dev) worked on by Dave Harris from the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) aims to improve … Continue reading Growing ones way out of poverty.

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A creative writing competition for Edinburgh school children is being launched in the city today.
The theme of this year's 'Green Pencil Award', which is run by The City of Edinburgh Council, encourages pupils to "Think Global, Act Local".
The topic aims to promote a Scottish or local environmental issue or a subject that is close to your heart to help celebrate the Homecoming and the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birthday.
Nearly 900 entries were submitted last year and the overall winner, Aoife Forbes from Bonaly Primary School, won the prestigious Green Pencil Award Trophy for her entry 'Antarctic Waste' on the devastating effects of global warning.
In addition to the trophy there will be various prizes up for grabs and a special award ceremony will take place on Friday 27 November 2009 at the Central Library on George IV Bridge.
Councillor Deidre Brock, Culture Convener, said:
"Scotland's literary history boasts a celebrated cast of illustrious writers and poets. We can lay claim to having produced some of the world's most renowned authors, and it is schemes such as 'The Green Pencil Award' that may help to unearth the next Robert Burns, or Muriel Spark
"The importance of writing to children's education cannot be underestimated and any competition that encourages this, and which gets them thinking about environmental issues at the same time, is something that we must continue to support and promote."
Source: The City of Edinburgh Council
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The centre was founded in 1971, with a small group of volunteers providing information services and advice from a small office, Falcon Court, behind Woolworths in the market place. At that time we were known as the Community Information Centre, our name changing in 2001. There was a move to Mill Street in the Eighties and to our present location in 1995. Over the years the organisation has developed into the Advice Centre we have today, with over 110 volunteers including nearly 60 volunteer drivers and 30 volunteer good neighbours. In 2011 we expanded our premises to provide more space and a more appropriate environment, including meeting room facilities. We became a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) in January 2016 which resulted in a further name change – Wantage Independent Advice Centre, in the Vale for the Vale.
The WIAC is proud to announce that is has been selected to be the Local Charity Partner for TSB Wantage & Grove until September 2018.
We are also presently Richmond Village's local charity of the year as well.
The WIAC was shortlisted in June this year for an OCVA award for the Vale of White Horse district.
Our transport scheme provides travel to hospitals, doctors, Day Centres, shops etc for people who are unable to use public transport. This is becoming more and more essential in a rural area and our drivers cover in the region of 6,500 miles a month. Our Good Neighbour scheme was started in April 2009 and provides volunteers for befriending perhaps over a cup of tea or to help with small tasks, such as simple DIY eg putting up shelves, paperwork, de-cluttering, collecting prescriptions etc for clients who are unable to manage the task themselves or lack the confidence to tackle the matter alone. Some of our drivers had already been assisting clients with small tasks, over and above their driving work, where they found a transport client in need and through their feedback we decided to make this a formal scheme.
On 6th September, we launched our pilot Wantage Transport Service (provided in partnership with Comet and Wantage Town Council). A Wednesday service with three routes around the town, taking in both the Market Square and Mably Way Health Centre. This is a membership scheme, come along to the WIAC to find out all the details and join-up.
Advice services cover a wide range of topics, including debt management, benefit entitlements, employment rights, consumer rights and many more. Our volunteers have a wealth of experience and in addition we are able to provide clients with free legal advice, time and expertise generously donated by local professionals. Furthermore, other agencies and organisations hold sessions or group meetings at our premises throughout the month. In 2008 we received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.
The WIAC has 13 trustees who form the Management Committee, four of whom are nominated representatives from various Councils. The Chairman is presently Peter Harbour.
Photograph: Our, then, Chairman Ann Rowe with Lord Lieutenant of Oxford, Hugo Brunner and our volunteers at the presentation of the Queen's Award in 2008.
Annual Report 2017-2018
Annual Report 2016-2017
Annual Report 2015
Annual Report 2014
Annual Report 2013
Annual Report 2012
Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2010
Ann Rowe has been compiling a history of our charity, an exercise started some time ago by ex-Committee Members and volunteers. In time this will be available through this website and hopefully also published on local history social media pages. For now though, there is a brief summary available from our offices at 16 Market Place to whet the appetite!
Our 2018 Annual General Meeting was held on 28th June at The Beacon in Wantage. The evening was a great success and we were delighted to welcome over 50 people to the AGM event which, alongside requirements in accordance with our Constitution and Charity Commission guidelines, provided individuals with the opportunity to learn more about our organisation and ask questions. Come along next year….


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Cornell University Institute of Biotechnology
There are several types of workstations available in the BioHPC
Cloud: interactive, remote (general, medium memory, large
memory) and restricted.
Interactive workstations can be used directly in Rhodes 625 the
same way as any desktop computer (with a valid reservation, see
below). They can be also accessed remotely via ssh or Remote
Desktop. Remote workstations and restricted workstations can be only accessed remotely
using ssh (graphical software can be used with remote X Windows or
VNC, see
access documentation). Remote
workstations are more powerful than interactive with most of them having
at least 2 quad core CPUs and are especially well suited for
long and computationally intensive tasks. Restricted
workstations include staff machines, hosted workstations and some regular workstations reserved for special
collaboration or task. Detailed information about hardware
configuration is available here.
Only registered users may access workstations. To request an account
please fill out and submit this Web form, you can also come
BioHPC Cloud office hours and set up the account at this time.
Workstations must be reserved in advance, reservations should be
made via reservations web page.
If you are already logged in, you may continue working even after your
reservation has expired,
but your session will be forcefully terminated and all processes killed
when a different user with valid reservation attempts to log in.
Thus, in such a case, it is advisable to re-visit the reservation page and
extend your reservation if time slots are available.
Please remember to remove any reservations you do
not need to avoid blocking access for others and loosing your Lab
Credit Account hours.
Only actually used hours are charged, if you cancel your reservation
before it starts nothing is charged, if you cancel before it ends
only the actual hours between start and cancel are charged. NOTE:
"time used" is defined as the wall clock time elapsed when your
reservation is active - it has nothing to do with how much you
actually used the CPU/RAM etc during this time. "Time used" reflects
the span for which you had the workstation reserved.
You can manage all your reservations from "My
Reservations" web page. This page lists all your active
reservations and provides tools for modifying them or cancelling.
You can also add another Lab user to your reservation, in which case
(s)he will be able to connect to your reserved workstation and work
there, but won't be able to modify the reservation itself. You can
also launch a VNC connection (see "Access") from this page.
You can also end the reservation programmatically by calling
script /programs/bin/labutils/endres.pl with the reservation
number as the parameter. This script must be executed on the
reserved workstation.
Support and Training
Bioinformatics Facility staff will provide assistance with use of workstations and
software. You can always ask for quick help from CBSU staff (our
offices are Rhodes 616, 618-624), but training and other time
consuming issues should be done during our
Lab office hours. CBSU will run periodic
workshops, and we welcome suggestions
for workshop topics.
Genomic/Sequence Data Transfers
It is possible to use your BioHPC Cloud account to receive sequencing
data (or other type of data) from external facilities. For inbound
data transfers you can
request a temporary account for your external collaborator, you
can grant access to your directory for this temporary account or we
can move the data to appropriate user home directory, please
contact us for more details.
We have a standing agreement with Weill Cornell Genomics Resources
Core Facility, you can ask them to transfer data to BioHPC Cloud
storage and they will know how to proceed. Data from Cornell
Genomics Facility can be transferred directly as it is an internal
Cornell unit.
Aspera SRA toolkit is installed on all computing servers. You can
use it to download SRA data directly into the workstations. Please
follow Apera
SRA guidelines. The toolkit is installed in
an example of use is
/opt/aspera/connect/bin/ascp -i
/opt/aspera/connect/etc/asperaweb_id_dsa.openssh -k 1 -T -l200m
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I was chatting to one of our resident artists at work the other day and she said that she really looked forward to Mondays as she spent Sunday in anticipation of getting back to her studio. Well I like Mondays too.
Today I'm off to Harlow Carr to drop off glass for a forthcoming exhibition. It's a lovely drive over to Harrogate via Beamsley Beacon (a very big hill) and I have a car boot full of new glass. Harlow Carr is a fantastic place to visit, made up of extensive gardens and owned by The Royal Horticutural Society. The exhibition, which opens on 17th March, will be in the Old Bath House and I am really looking forward to it.
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First things first, you need a journal, always have a journal open with something to write with.
The Lovely Snooze Button: (this little trick will help you remember your dreams right away, tonight!)
Set your clock two or three hours from the time you would normally wake up. When you wake up, immediately write down everything you can remember from the dream, hit the snooze button, and go back to sleep. Then do it again when the alarm goes off.
Rearrange yourself to different sleeping positions you may have changed to during your sleep. If you've slept on your stomach, roll over on to you stomach and think back to your dreams, if you did not remember any, then don't think of anything, meaning, don't think of what you are going to do later in the day, do NOT try to remember your dreams, stop all voices and music that may be going on in your head, and just stare into the emptiness under your eyelids. REMEMBER NOT TO THINK OF ANYTHING! This is a type of meditation.
The Two Alarm Techniques:
Set another alarm clock to play binaural beats three hours before you wake up. Set it on low volume so it doesn't wake you up.
If you're not going to use binaural beats, then use a recording of yourself (or someone else) saying, "Am I dreaming?" and repeat it continuously.
Lucid Dreaming:
Get a sticky note, or fold a piece of paper next to your alarm clock (make sure it stands out enough for you to notice if when you wake up in the morning), and write, "Am I Dreaming?". When you wake up in the morning to hit your snooze button and see this before you fall back asleep, it will most likely be remembered by your subconscious and enter your dream.
Use scents to stimulates memory, moods, emotions. Roses and wood smells are relaxing. Peppermint and rosemary improve memory and circulation. Vanilla and cinnamon is for arousal (give me five stars for telling you that). Patchouli and sandal wood gave me interesting dreams that I did not want to wake up from.
There are also stones that you can use: scolecite, diotase, malachite, and danburite are known for lucid and vivid dreaming. They vibrate certain energy that will influence you to have a lucid dream.


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A popular parade is set to return to Llandudno towards the end of this summer. The Goldwing light Parade, which was last hosted in Llandudno in 2011, will take place this year across 2 days – the 30th and 31st August 2013.
The parade features 150 motorcycle riders of Honda Goldwing touring bikes, decorated in bright colours and illuminations. The event is organised by the Goldwing Riders and Co group, with money raised from the parade being used towards the RNLI and other charities, with donations distributed by Llandudno Lions.
The event will be officially opened by Coronation Street star Ian Puleston Davies – who plays builder Owen Armstrong. He will also take part in the event, alongside Llandudno Mayor Cllr Garry Burchett, as a part of the Mayor's Pick of the Day contest. A committee for the event has been set up by the chairman of the Goldwing Riders and Co Dave Crowley and Peter Hibbard, of the Evans Hotel, to see if the parade could return to Llandudno this year.
Dave Crowley said "Everyone enjoyed the parade last time it was in Llandudno, which raised £3,350". One of the main supporters of the parade has been North Wales Honda, along with a group of business people that have the parade and what it stands for at heart.
The schedule for the parade is jam packed with plenty of entertainment and chances to meet other riders who have come to support this great cause. Crowds will enjoy beautiful and colourful displays that will mean you have a great time.
Friday 30th August
On Friday 30th August, there will be a static light show and photo shoot at the Evans hotel for those that want to show off their lights, while enjoying an informal and social meeting.
Saturday 31st August
Events will take place from 10am to 4pm. Here you can park your bike on the promenade for the daytime static display. There will be marshals will be in place to direct you. The registration fee of £3.50 is payable, which will cover your bike for the evening. Please bear in mind that any bike that does not display their registration sticker will not be able to take part. The Lord Mayor will also be choosing their Best Bike of the day. There will be the parade at 8pm, but you should assemble no later than 7.30pm as there are expected to be large crowds.
There is no need to remove your bike from the promenade as long as the prom is vacated by 10pm.
Sunday 1st September
Sunday will see the end of the parade weekend, with a run out leaving the Evans hotel at 11am, disappearing into the local mountain landscape.
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Hello! Welcome to yet another adventure in "Extreme Gardening." This week in the Bird Back 40? It's Garden Girls Gone Wild and guess who the lucky man behind the camera was? If you're guessing a one Bill Bird, you just might be correct. And, despite hands that trembled with excitement, I'm here to tell you a satisfying tale in both pictures and words.
Those two young ladies pictured above right played a starring role in Garden Girls Gone Wild. You may have noticed that one on the left is none other than the lovely gardening wife that is Venus. But that girl to the right may not be as familiar. Her name is Sara. And she is a charter member of GWG -- "Gardeners Without Gardens."
|Heirloom Tomato Starter Plants
I would meet Sara some years back when she magically appeared from nowhere with an offer of free heirloom tomato starter plants for an annual tomato plant handout that I once hosted at the State Capitol. It was Sara who gave us the brilliant idea for our seed starting rack. And it's Sara who gave us the inspiration for what took place in the Bird Back 40 last weekend.
Yes -- we jumped the gun a tad. Tomato plant out in the Sacramento area normally takes place with the start of May. But the weather isn't cooperating. It's been downright gorgeous for most of the month of April, other than a few blustery days. But there's been no rain to speak of -- certainly no frost -- and we've been blessed with mostly warm temperatures and abundant California sunshine.
Can you blame us for getting a head start?
|Return of the Mantis Rototiller
After giving the Mantis rototiller a good workout in three different raised gardening beds, I put Venus and Sara to work. And, make no doubt about it: This was WORK. It was hot, sweaty, grungy, get down in the dirt and DIG DEEP type of work. Quite simply? This is unlike any summer garden planting process we've gone through before.
It's not like we've never planted heirloom tomato starter plants before. We have. If you've read this blog a time or two, you've probably figured out that Venus and I have planted our fair share. But when it comes to the world of extreme vegetable gardening, there's always something new to try. A new approach beckoned. "Be one with the Earth, William," both Sara and Venus whispered.
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As it turns out -- I let the two gorgeous gardeners be "one with the Earth." I just snapped the photos and earned a rather brutal sunburn in the process. That's the luck of the Irish for you. Irish people don't tan. They turn a bright shade of redneck red. They peel. And then they burn themselves silly again. Insane Irish.
Last week's post related a special story of a Homer five gallon bucket that was packed with fish parts. It had fish heads. It contained fish tails. One could find fish skins, fish entrails, fish poop and all parts of a fish that people just won't pay money for. We'd let our tightly covered can of smelly fish parts sit and cook in warm sunshine for a full day before we finally popped that lid off.
|Smelly Fish Parts!
What an aroma! We drove neighborhood dogs and cats wild with envy. My neighbors thought -- and still think -- we'd gone half mad. And they just might be right.
Although I always amend our raised gardening beds with proper and equal amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium every spring, Venus and I had never taken that extra step of adding additional amendments to each hole that we dug when it came to plant our heirloom tomato garden. The standing order of business had been the following: till up the garden with the Mantis, add amendments, then proceed to use the Mantis again to till everything together. The beds were then raked smooth and planting would then commence.
|Venus Prepares to Plant: Bird Back 40
Venus and I would each dig a hole anywhere from eight to 12 inches deep -- place our treasured Brandywine or Lemon Boy at the bottom of the hole -- cover with dirt and move onto the next hole. It's the same step we repeated day after day, year after year. We didn't vary much. It always worked, so why mess with a good thing?
Why mess with a good thing? Because better things can be had. Sara came armed with some pretty good ideas. She's not the first person to employ this technique. She certainly won't be the last. But this was a departure from what we've done in the past.
I knew this was going to be a different gardening experience when Sara approached me with a request for a shovel. I handed her our standard gardening trowel. She proceeded to launch said trowel into orbit with a retort of something along the lines of: "Not this wimpy thing, I mean a SHOVEL!"
|One Cup Liquid Fish Parts
She wasn't kidding.
Sara wasn't content or happy with digging a hole of eight to 12-inches. Sara demanded a hole two feet deep and two feet wide. Since most of my raised beds don't stand taller than 14-inches, I informed her she was going to hit some nasty hard clay at the bottom of her quest. No matter. She cut right through it. Sara and shovels are no mystery to one another.
When I indicated earlier this was real grunt, sweaty type of work, I wasn't kidding. Digging a two foot deep and two foot wide hole isn't hard. But try digging 26 of them. In hot sunshine. One after the other. See what I'm getting at? This was no vacation. By the time Sara and Venus were finished cutting through the clay soil line, my once nice and level gardening beds had been transformed into a series of sharp, mountainous peaks.
|Fish Parts Added
Why dig a hole two feet wide and two feet deep? Recall that story about a Homer 5 gallon bucket full of fish parts? Those parts, plus other amendments were destined for the bottom of these holes. These had to be placed deep, lest neighborhood critters steal in during the dead of night to dig them up for a "snack."
If you once believed that those 18-ounce Red Solo Cups were reserved for one purpose and one purpose only (PAR-TAY!), guess again. The gardening girls needed something to transfer smelly and by now quite liquidish fish parts from bucket to gardening hole -- and the red solo cups were it. And so it went. The girls, who wore plastic gloves for some protection, dove into that bucket again and again and again. Ever tried swimming in liquidish fish parts? Oh, the fun we have here in the Bird Back 40!
|Aspirin Amendments
Each hole demanded a cup of fish heads and fish parts. Each hole received a cup of fish heads and fish guts. Venus and Sara then topped off each hole with two aspirin, a quarter-cup of fine bone meal and a bit of amended dirt to make everything nice and level. What's the aspirin for you ask? That's a good question. You may ask. I make no promises of answering.
However, if you take a gander at this article from Science Daily -- the aspirin supposedly adds to a plant's immunity, thereby reducing the need for pesticides to control bad bugs and bad fungal diseases. Heirloom plants are unlike their cousins, the hybrids, in that they are highly susceptible to many bugs and fungal diseases. I still think it's a bit odd to place two aspirin next to the root ball of an heirloom tomato starter plant, but I'm willing to try anything once I suppose. As for the bone meal? It's high in phosphorus, which tomato plants need to survive and thrive.
If you're asking why we didn't throw the kitchen sink into the bottom of those cavernous holes, you may ask.
|The final step: Planting
With holes dug, fish parts, aspirin and bone meal distributed, it was now time to get down to the task of why we gathered in the Bird Back 40 on this particular day: It was time to plant our leggy heirloom tomato plant starters. Those leaf sets that I had lovingly cared for during the seed-starting growth process last winter were clipped and tossed aside. Into each hole went a very long and skinny starter plant, with a few leaves remaining at the top.
Tomatoes are one of the few vegetable plants that will develop additional root systems. The stem will actually take root, provided you plant it deep enough. And two or three sets of root systems are better than one as the old saying goes.
|Sara in Her Element
Why go through this process for a simple tomato plant? Because Sara and others have promised this particular method of planting will result in end-of-season stems that are as thick as small trees. Why do the stems get this thick? They are needed to support the plant because it's busy producing a whopper of a heavy tomato harvest.
That's all the argument Bill Bird needs. Please bury me in various colors of heirloom tomatoes people and leave me in heavenly peace. One part of the summer garden -- the most important part some would say -- is now in. Bring on the peppers and basil and other summertime bounty. The job of planting our summer garden continues.


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The book is very comprehensive and so far easy to read. I really like my instructor too. I have tons of reading to do, open-book (easy!) quizzes almost every week, a midterm, a final, and a notebook project where I have to type out my lecture notes and find images in current fashion magazines that are influenced by various costumes throughout history. Overall, I think it will be a very useful and informative class.
My next class was Color and Design Theory. This class is very similar to the art class I had in High School. Very hands-on with lots of painting projects. It will be good to be reintroduced to color and design theory. I think it will come pretty easily for me because my HS classes (7 and 8 years ago!) really focused on these two subjects. My first assignment deals with creating shades and tints. We are to take the 4 gouache paint colors and add white and black to them to create shades and tints. I did a very similar project to this in HS using acrylic paint. It will be fun to get back into painting. Oh, and if you are curious, here is the text book for this class.
Overall, it was a good day. Not nearly as stressful as Orientation. I met some really cool people too.
I have my Business and Sketching classes on Monday. I fear Sketching! I can draw clothes pretty well on croquis, but can't draw the figures themselves. Everyone says I will be amazed at how good I get by the end of the quarter. I can't wait until my Industry Sewing class on Tuesday!
On another note, Follower thank yous!
My newest followers on Blogger are Valerie and Susan. Also, Ashley of NellieK. Like me, she loves Cynthia Rowley!
Thanks for following and thanks to everyone who continues to comment on both Blogger and Pattern Review.
What the heck... Here's a new picture of Pearl:
|Pearl half-way into her striped onesie.


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Bree Haze – Girl For Two
Released: May 26, 2016
It always pays to be a good samaritan. We met a very sexy and open-minded tourist. Her name was Bree and she was having trouble finding her way around the city. We were polite and tried to show her the right directions but there were so many destinations she wanted to get to so we offered her a cup of coffee back at our flat where she could use our internet calmly and map everything out. Bree was very personable and sociable. We mentioned a strip club and she said she loved to watch and also perform strip teases. We put her to the test and she was more than willing to show us a good time. She took on two of us just so she could have a great story to tell all of her gal pals when she got back home. Double penetration vacation with an anal creampie to boot!


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Musings on why glamrock does not travel well...
Theory No 1...
When I was hanging out with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin et al in early Vegas..You know..when we were just starting out... Frank made a ham, cress and mustard sandwich that blew everyones mind, a feat which he could never repeat..Years later I tried to recreate Frank's sandwich only to discover at the supermarket they don't keep the mustard with the other condiments, they keep it next to the spice rack ... ( even the mustard mayo is in the condiment isle )...years later on his death bed Frank admitted that this drove him out of his mind and led to his love of Campbells tomato soup..' They keep all the soups together Jonny ' ..He said...' Yeah Frank' I said ' all is well '
See...you cant take something illiteral to a literal country ..A man dressed as a woman is no threat to your wife does not apply in the sceptred isle.... When an Englishman dresses as a woman no one is safe...Right boys ?.....They don't keep all the soups together Frank ..I lied to you bruv...Hope you can forgive me....Jonny Orphan x
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Dear Lord the Surgeon General please excuse Thee Orphans from guilt or consequence ( they seem to have forgotten their kit )... and also while you're there anyone that knows them, loves em....hates em.. whatever......There you go kids READY...AIM....GO!!! its ya get outa jail free card....Wanna pay the piper though?? Always best to cross the palm that gives with the queens shilling ...If rock n roll be the sweat of the damnedest of the damnedest ( Are you drawnest ?? ) let 's get naked.. maybe we can build a sweatlodge together... and bond like mothers...who loves ya??? ... ...Thee Orphans..xx
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First I drove down to Yakima, WA to pick up the Dude's step-grandmother. It was a real treat to do a long drive by myself. I haven't done one of those in ages! Driving for six hours was actually relaxing for me because I was forced to do nothing but drive. It was a welcome break from my usual multitasking hectic daily life. Driving down Highway 82 was my favourite part because of the breathtaking views of the sheer barren desert. Living in lush, green Vancouver, I really miss seeing stark desert landscapes. Yakima reminds me very much of Southern California.
Then we drove back to B.C. to connect with the rest of the clan, and we all drove up to Sechelt in the Sunshine Coast. The Dude's uncle hosted a two-day 60th birthday party extravaganza in his fabulous vacation home. It was a lot of fun to have the whole family together in one place. And the weather was perfect to say the least.
View from the ferry, on our way from Horseshoe Bay to Gibsons. Riding the ferry is always a visual feast.
Birthday party. At this point a piñata was getting smashed.


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Simply wow..
This morning there was a chill to the air. I was in jeans and a t-shirt, I could see my breath as I locked the door and walked out to my Indian.
With a soft rumble, something that you could feel in your chest, the Indian came to life with a touch to the starter button.
The ride is is always incredible. The traffic is usually light and one can usually make all the lights during the trip into town. My commute is a brief 30 minutes.
During the ride to work I always go thru town, avoiding the rat race on the State Route. In the darkness of early morning it is a safety concern to avoid the Highway.
My ride home is always on the Highway, rolling on the throttle, coming up to speed, hitting the cruise control and just enjoying the ride.
I love riding, love it more now than before. This Indian is such a sweet comfortable bike.
Other happy news, my new drivers license arrived today and it proudly displays my motorcycle endorsement.
Now I am waiting on my Carry Concealed Permit.
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While I will be enjoying my fair share of Guinness, that's simply a coincidence. More of a nod to the holiday (and the fact that Guinness is the best of all beers), really.
We won't be spending the day at an over-crowded pub, fighting for elbow room, and dodging the vomit in the Gents with the 'amateurs' that hijack the day. We'll be enjoying it in the comfort of my friend's house playing a video game.
Lame, you suggest? On the contrary.
The game is God of War II. The sequel to the best video game ever created, God of War.
I don't play a ton of video games. When I do play them, it's mostly sport games, notably hockey and golf. I've tried other adventure and war style games but I'm never really good (or patient) enough to get more than half way through them. They eventually become too difficult or I get distracted and don't play them for months... then have no burning desire to continue them.
God of War is the first game that hooked me so strongly that I was determined to finish the entire thing. Not only was it tremendously fun to play - the accompanying story line that goes along with it is so well developed, you're forced to finish the game to see how the story ends. It's that compelling.
I can't get into the whole thing in detail but it is based in Greek Mythology, with all its requisite creatures - Cyclops, Minotaurs, Hydras, and the like - and a heaping helping of Greek Gods - Zeus, Athena, and, of course Aries... the God of War, himself. He's the bastard you have to kill at the end to claim victory. And when you do that, you - Kratos - become the God of War, yourself.
This is where God of War II picks up. Kratos is the new God of War and I'm dying to find out what's in store for him. Can't wait to see what new creatures we'll have to destroy. Can't wait to find out what puzzles we'll need to solve. Can't wait to get sucked into the story. It's like playing a movie, is what it is. That's the best way to describe it. It's a movie that only continues when you progress through the game.
Yes, I know I'm thirty-six years old and that may seem a bit old to be playing video games. But I grew up playing them and it's still a great source of entertainment for me. Some may think thirty-six is a bit old to be playing video games... but, I suppose, it's probably too old to be out at a pub, surrounded by a bunch of drunk, annoying amateurs, too.
I'd rather be soaked in video game blood than some punk's vomit.
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Vegetarian Lasagna
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"This recipe says to make lasagna with dry noodles but I ALWAYS cook mine first in water until they are at least half way done. I have made a lasagna one time and did not cook the noodles first and the noodles were not done at the end. Just thought that I would warn you if you were not aware of what could happen."
READY IN:1hr 25mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (1 lb) box lasagna noodle
- 6 cups marinara sauce (store bought or see recipe below)
- 24 ounces low fat cottage cheese (for a richer texture, use ricotta cheese)
- 32 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1⁄2 cup chopped herbs (basil, oregano, or thyme)
- 2 eggplants, cut into circular slices, 1/8 inch thick
- 6 -8 zucchini, cut lengthwise into slices, 1/8 inch thick
- 5 -6 portabella mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 2 red onions, thinly sliced
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves
- 3⁄4 cup chopped onion
- 2 (28 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
- 1⁄3 cup chopped basil
- Sauté or oven-roast the vegetables until they are cooked through.
- Set aside.
- To make the marinara sauce, begin by heating the olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
- Add the chopped onions and stir until golden brown.
- Add the garlic and tomatoes and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Stir in the basil and add salt and pepper to taste, then simmer for 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- In the bottom of a 16" x 12" pan (a disposable pan is best), place a layer of dry noodles.
- On top of that, add about 1/3 of the marinara sauce, about 1/2 of the cottage cheese, and about 1/3 of the mozzarella cheese.
- Sprinkle herbs over the top, and add a layer of vegetables.
- Repeat the process.
- Finish with a layer of noodles, then top with tomato sauce and a thick layer of mozzarella cheese.
- Cover the pan with plastic wrap, then wrap tightly with aluminum foil.
- Bake for 35 minutes, or until a knife pokes easily through the lasagna.
- Remove the plastic and foil and bake at 450° for 10 minutes, or until the top is browned.
- Remove lasagna from the oven and let sit for 20 minutes.
- Garnish with fresh basil leaves or other fresh herbs.
- (You can double the recipe to make 2 lasagnas and freeze an uncooked one. Bake the frozen lasagna for 50 minutes instead of 35).


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The extra resource burden of in-hospital falls: A cost of falls study
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Objective: To quantify the additional hospital length of stay (LOS) and costs associated with in-hospital falls and fall injuries in acute hospitals in Australia. Design, setting and participants: A multisite prospective cohort study conducted during 2011–2013 in the control wards of a falls prevention trial (6-PACK). The trial included all admissions to 12 acute medical and surgical wards of six Australian hospitals. In-hospital falls data were collected from medical record reviews, daily verbal reports by ward nurse unit managers, and hospital incident reporting and administrative databases. Clinical costing data were linked for three of the six participating hospitals to calculate patient-level costs. Outcome measures: Hospital LOS and costs associated with in-hospital falls and fall injuries for each patient admission. Results: We found that 966 of a total of 27 026 hospital admissions (3.6%) involved at least one fall, and 313 (1.2%) at least one fall injury, a total of 1330 falls and 418 fall injuries. After adjustment for age, sex, cognitive impairment, admission type, comorbidity and clustering by hospital, patients who had an in-hospital fall had a mean increase in LOS of 8 days (95% CI, 5.8–10.4; P < 0.001) compared with non-fallers, and incurred mean additional hospital costs of $6669 (95% CI, $3888–$9450; P < 0.001). Patients with a fall-related injury had a mean increase in LOS of 4 days (95% CI, 1.8–6.6; P = 0.001) compared with those who fell without injury, and there was also a tendency to additional hospital costs (mean, $4727; 95% CI, −$568 to $10 022; P = 0.080). Conclusion: Patients who experience an in-hospital fall have significantly longer hospital stays and higher costs. Programs need to target the prevention of all falls, not just the reduction of fall-related injuries.
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