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.
Jan 24, 2013 | Books, eBook, For sale, novels, Printed
A baby on the doorstep, a skeleton woman biding time before the truth comes out. Rose Anthony’s life has just become much more complicated.
Rose Anthony – an engaging and imperfect heroine with her fiftieth birthday looming − finds an abandoned baby outside her kitchen door. Bogged down in the drama of the impending birthday, a serious row with her lover, and the anxiety of waiting to hear how her wall hanging has fared in the Stacey Competition, there’s no room for this dilemma.
Scrawled on a card in black felt tip, the words ‘For Rose Anthony’ leave no doubt that the baby was left for her. But whose baby is it?
Amazon Kindle edition $9.99 | Purchase paperback from Fishpond | BookDepository
Jan 24, 2013 | Books, eBook, For sale, novels, Printed
When Vivvie Caird is faced by the sight of her beautiful, strong-willed mother lying limp and speechless in a hospital bed, she feels empowered to begin unlocking the mystery that is her father’s legacy.
Vivvie must confront a devasting event that occurred in the midst of the hard times of last century.
This fast-paced, page-turning novel takes the reader into an absorbing and moving world of shadowy relationships and intrigue.
Buy Kissing Shadows, Amazon Kindle edition $9.99. | Purchase paperback from Amazon
| Purchase print copy from Fishpond
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