Nov 3, 2017 | Books, For sale, non-fiction, Printed
‘I was born in 1929 and the world went into a deep depression. Then Napier fell down. Two years later my father shot himself. He was from Gore. Drama didn’t just follow me it came out to meet me with a big tah-dah.’
So Ōtaki writer Renée begins her memoir, These Two Hands, published in October 2017 by Mākaro Press.
Renée has written eight novels, over twenty plays, and non-fiction. Her memoir is written in patches like a quilt, with 88 patches, one for every year of her life.
These Two Hands is available from all good bookshops for $38.
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Mar 11, 2014 | Books, For sale, non-fiction, Printed
You want to write your life story? Been put off by not knowing how to start?
Renée, award-winning writer and teacher of many workshops on this topic, tells you how.
Your Life Your Story is full of ideas and triggers to jog your memory banks.
Your Life Your Story is inspiring, practical, easy to read — the perfect guide.
$20 +pp.
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Dec 3, 2013 | Books, eBook, For sale, novels
Someone burned Hester’s house down. She’s going to find them them and when she does, she’s going to burn their house down. An eye for an eye. That’s what life’s about, decides Hester.
She’s made three New Year resolutions – give up swearing, give up asking rhetorical questions, give up sex. She’s discovered how to set fire to a house without being caught, organised a get out of town plan, everything’s set on go.
Then her mother dies, her best friend begs Hester to do the one thing she’s sworn never to do again – direct a play with teenagers – and her sister, off on a holiday on some Pacific Island, says she can’t change her plans so Hester will have to clean their mother’s house and get it ready for sale.
To make matters worse ex-Senior Sergeant, ex-friend, Auden Porohiwi is very interested in Hester’s plans – does he know who the arsonist was? Is he protecting someone? Does he know what Hester’s planning?
Who cares, thinks Hester, it’s now or never. So its now.
In Too Many Cooks, Renée’s trademark humour, acute sense of the absurd, her insight into the many and various impulses that make people tick, produces a funny, touching and enthralling story of love, desire and revenge that goes very wrong before it comes right.
Feb 20, 2013 | Plays
The plays in this collection ask us to view our own foolishness, desires, frustration, hurt, anger, and longing. They are emotional mirrors, offered by the playwrights, which reflect our commonality. Lesbian theater is written by women. We are members of multiple communities. We are mothers, sisters, lovers, friends. We come from every culture. We are political beings, we are spiritual beings. We inhabit the globe.
Two Fools by Terry Baum; Gloria’s Visit by Nancy Dean; Fuchsia by Janis Astor del Valle; Tiggy Tiggy Touch Wood by Renee; Yardlights Ahead by Beverly Thompson; Minus One by Harriet Malinowitz; Horsefeathers by Rosemary McLaughlin; Promenade by Sarah Schulman; edited by Nancy Dean and MG Soares.
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Feb 3, 2013 | Books, non-fiction
The plays in this volume are by established New Zealand writers and were written for lunchtime theatre. They a e informal one-act plays, requiring little in the way of stage equipment and props, and are suitable for a wide range of audiences. (more…)
Feb 3, 2013 | Books, novels
About a young adolescent girl and her widowed mother.
