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A Garden is a Long Time by Jenny Bornholdt; Annemarie Hope-Cross
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The photographs in A garden is a long time take us beyond the perimeter of the Central Otago garden where they were created. Incorporating processes and materials from the darker, more mysterious corners of early photographic history, the images offer an account of the life and sensibility of a remarkab ...Show more
Black Barn: portrait of a place by Gregory O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt (authors); Brian Culy (photographer)
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Cookbooks | Reading Level: very good
Meandering across the foothills of Te Mata Peak and through the Tuki Tuki Valley, Black Barn Vineyards has become one of Hawke's Bay's most popular attractions. Its evolution over the past 20 years is a story of enterprise and creativity - from a single cottage into a wine, food and luxury accommodation ...Show more
Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more
Mrs Winter's Jump by Jenny Bornholdt
$37.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The fifth in the outstanding series of poetry from New Zealand's Te Mata Estate Poet Laureates (to date, Hone Tuwhare, Elizabeth Smither, Bill Manhire and Brian Turner) Mrs Winter's Jump is a collection of stunning poems from current Laureate Jenny Bornholdt. One of New Zealand's most deft poets, her wo ...Show more
My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems by Jenny Bornholdt (ed.); Gregory O'Brien (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. ...Show more
Selected Poems by Jenny Bornholdt
$40.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Jenny Bornholdt is the major New Zealand poet of her generation. Her new Selected Poems provides a full representation of her work through nine collections and nearly thirty years. Favourite short poems like 'How to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines' and 'Being a poet' are here alongsid ...Show more
Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." —Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Since Katherine Mansfield wrote some of her greatest stories on the Riviera, France has occupied a place in the imagination of New Zealand writers and readers. This anthology includes memoirs, stories and poems written in France by some of New ZealandÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs gre ...Show more
The Hill of Wool by Jenny Bornholdt
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
The Hill of Wool is a book about memories. Some memories live in families. Some are inspired by rediscovered children's songs and stories. Others are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends. Sometimes personal and lyrical, sometimes jagged and strange like untamed children's rhymes, these poe ...Show more
The Longest Breakfast by Jenny Bornholdt & Sarah Wilkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
A rambunctious story about the best meal of the day.
The Longest Breakfast (PB) by Jenny Bornholdt & Sarah Wilkins
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
The baby wants breakfast so Malcolm gets out of bed to get started. Then in comes Toby. And Una and Toto, then Alicetheyre hungry too. And Conrad from next door and his sister Ruby! Everyone has a request for breakfast. But who is taking notice of the baby? The Longest Breakfast is a fun family story fu ...Show more
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