Martin Edmond

The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field. Barefoot Years by Martin Edmond is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, full of half-forgotten things: what may be recovered also reveals that which...

The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendants of those colonists return to interrogate the centre. The Expatriates is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient...

This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a 'fine art gallery' for the burgeoning small town of Whanganui. It reveals the Sarjeant Gallery's early years and its development as a collecting and exhibiting institution that is now recognised as one of New Zealand's finest. Generously illustrated with...

Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists, Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira. One is a white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, and the other is Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of water-colour painting, through the...