{"title":"Gregory Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregory Day\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts narratives that intertwine the beauty of nature with the intricacies of human experience. His works often explore the landscapes of memory and place, inviting readers into worlds shaped by both environment and emotion. Expect richly detailed storytelling that blurs the boundaries between the natural world and personal history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e with strong threads of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eScience \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, Day's books reveal a thoughtful engagement with how we perceive and belong to the world. 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Grounded in the landscape of southwestern Victoria, and infused with the heightened sense of place and environmental literacy that have long been key to Day's work, these essays traverse landscape, language, and histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDay's attention is tuned both to the beauty of the natural world, returning often to the motifs of ground and sky, ocean and owl, moth and river, and the history of place—whether lost, buried, or personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn part, a reading and celebration of the resurgent global nature writing movement, to which Day was an early contributor, this collection highlights the need for ecological care and the value of Indigenous knowledge and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the kind of nature writing that gets to the heart of our urgent need for a more harmonious and regenerative relationship with the earth that sustains us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46342925517036,"sku":"9780645247954","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19925113482417.jpg?v=1743950977"},{"product_id":"the-bell-of-the-world-by-gregory-day-9781923023246","title":"The Bell of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspired bond, hosting visiting field naturalists and holding soirées in which Sarah performs on a piano whose sound she has altered with items and objects from the bush and shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Sarah's world is nourished by music and poetry, Ferny's life is marked by \u003cem\u003eSuch is Life\u003c\/em\u003e, a book he has read and reread, so much so that the volume is falling apart. Its saviour is Jones the Bookbinder of Moolap, who performs a miraculous act. To shock and surprise, Jones interleaves Ferny's volume with a book he bought from an American sailor, a once obscure tale of whales and the sea. In art as in life, nature seems supreme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNgangahook and its environs are threatened, however, when members of the community ask the Hutchinsons to help 'make a savage landscape sacred' by financing the installation of a town bell. The fearless musician and her idealistic uncle refuse to buckle to local pressures, mounting their own defence of 'the bell of the world'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGregory Day's new novel embodies a cultural reckoning in a breathtakingly beautiful and lyrical way. \u003cem\u003eThe Bell of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is both a song to the natural wonders that are not yet gone and a luminous prehistory of contemporary climate change and its connection to colonialism. It is a book immersed in the early to mid-twentieth century but written very much for the hearts of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bell of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is regionalist and universal, historical and timeless, beautiful and brutal. 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It details a very direct and local world but one made universal by the poet's art. This is a world of reality \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e the imagination, a world of damaged \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e regenerating ecologies, where the poet lives surrounded by family, animals, weather, sport, tourism, and the layers of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith lyrical craft and inventive power, \u003ci\u003eSouthsightedness\u003c\/i\u003e offers deep aesthetic pleasure but in an often-down-to-earth way. In part a survey of the past as well as a navigational guide for the future, it is a vivid poetic catalogue of a 21st-century cultural landscape, where all things are interconnected, including sound and sense, beauty and humour, truth and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082584211692,"sku":"9781923023284","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18643963482872.jpg?v=1765275764"},{"product_id":"a-sand-archive-by-gregory-day-9781760552145","title":"A Sand Archive","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Patrick White Literary Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a volume unremarkable in every way, save for the surprising portrait of its author that can be read between its lines: a vision of a man who writes with uncanny poetry about sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd as he continues to mine the archive of FB Herschell—engineer, historian, philosopher—it is not the subject, but the man who begins to fascinate. A man whose private revolution among the streets of Paris in May 1968 begins to change the way he views life, love, and the coastal landscape into which he was born...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eA Sand Archive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"So beautiful, so subtle...a story told with rare tenderness and restraint. 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