A 12-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends, the two children are left alone to play and dream and let the future come down upon them.

Rain

Literature & Fiction

Kirsty Gunn

Contemporary

Faber Faber Inc

'The hills only come back the same: I don't mind . . .' begins Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of death and birth, change and stasis, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge and connect with those around him. In this work of fiction, Kirsty Gunn has created something as real as music or as a dream. Not so much a novel as a place the reader comes to inhabit and to know, The Big Music is a literary work of undeniable originality and power.

The Big Music

Literary

Faber&Faber

Infidelities

Faber & Faber Fiction

Caroline's Bikini

'Provocative and absorbing.' Sarah Bower, National Association of Writers in Education 
Exciting and provocative essays in a collection that is fun, entertaining, and deeply serious. 
In words and images that explore our environment, culture and architecture, that reflect on literary and artistic creation, mortality, mental health, depression, the North (as a place both real and imagined) and education, Imagined Spaces returns the essay to its original activity of having a go, trying and weighing something out, taking a risk.

Imagined Spaces

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

The Voyage Out Press

Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn

Arts & Photography

Rough Trade Books

The Boy and the Seais the astounding new novella from internationally acclaimed New Zealand-born author Kirsty Gunn. Gunn has established herself as a uniquely powerful and significant voice, and has been described as 'a young master' by the Los Angeles Times. She has been compared with Raymond Carver for the exquisite sensitivity with which she sketches ordinary lives and makes them extraordinary. Her first novel Rain was made into a feature film. The Boy and the Seais a story of a sun-drenched, sea-soaked day, which changes a young boy's life forever. At the start of a summer's day, Ward is waiting on the beach. His friend, Alex, wants him to come to a party at Alison's where there'll be girls and drinks and the possibilities of fun. But Ward is shy and self conscious and struggling to move from under the weight of his powerful father. He'd rather wait on the beach for the surf to come up.

The Boy and the Sea

Text Pub. Co.

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