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6 Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>25</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
NEW RELEASES<br />
GREAT<br />
Summer<br />
READS<br />
INSTORE!<br />
Troy Our Greatest Story retold<br />
by Stephen Fry<br />
Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic<br />
tale of Troy<br />
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for<br />
her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which<br />
they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides<br />
as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies.<br />
In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and<br />
despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore,<br />
that still speak to us today.<br />
Because Of You<br />
by dawn French<br />
The instant Sunday Times bestseller 2020<br />
After five long years of waiting for a new novel, Dawn’s millions of fans will fall in love<br />
with this tantalising story of motherhood. This is a book about mothers and daughters,<br />
love and loss, mistakes and regret. It’s a book about nature and nurture.Ultimately,<br />
it’s a book about what makes us who we are - it is a story for all of us. Following<br />
her wonderful bestsellers A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Oh Dear Silvia and According to Yes,<br />
Because Of You is Dawn French’s stunning new book, told with her signature humour,<br />
warmth and so much love.<br />
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life<br />
by Jane Sherron de Hart<br />
In this bestselling comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and<br />
research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences<br />
that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality,<br />
and her meticulous jurisprudence. As a young girl Ruth grew up during the Holocaust<br />
and World War II and her journey begins with her mother, who died tragically young<br />
but whose intellect inspired her daughter’s feminism. It stretches from Ruth’s days as<br />
a baton twirler at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School to Cornell University, and to<br />
Harvard and Columbia Law Schools; to becoming one of the first female law professors<br />
in the US and having to fight for equal pay and hide her second pregnancy to avoid<br />
losing her job; and to arguing momentous anti-sex discrimination cases before the US<br />
Supreme Court. All this, even before being nominated in 1993 to become the second<br />
woman on the court, where her crucial decisions and dissents are still making history.<br />
An Exquisite Legacy<br />
by George Gibbs<br />
The biography of one of New Zealand’s greatest naturalist-artists, George Hudson,<br />
1867-1946, who was one of New Zealand’s pioneer naturalists, and devoted his life to<br />
collecting and describing the New Zealand insect fauna. He amassed what is probably<br />
the largest collection of New Zealand insects, now housed at Te Papa. Hudson also wrote<br />
seven books on insect fauna between 1898 and 1946, each illustrated in colour with<br />
immaculate paintings of the specimens, a total of over 3100 paintings, mainly focused<br />
on months and butterflies. An Exquisite Legacy is a biography of Hudson, written by<br />
his grandson Dr George Gibbs, himself a prominent entomologist. Hudson remained<br />
an amateur naturalist his whole life, but his contribution to our knowledge about the<br />
New Zealand insect world is of enduring significance, while his artistic legacy, built up<br />
over nearly seven decades, is truly remarkable. This extensive collection of exquisite<br />
illustrations is without parallel in New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this<br />
biography of George Hudson is the first chance for most people to see his exquisite<br />
artwork.<br />
Girl with a Sniper Rifle An eastern Front Memoir<br />
by yulia Zhukova<br />
In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin’s<br />
Central Women’s Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia.<br />
Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth<br />
organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper school<br />
and eventually became a valued member of her battalion during operations against<br />
Prussia. She persevered through eight months of training before leaving for the Front<br />
on 24th November 1944 just days after qualifying. Joining the third Belorussian Front<br />
her battalion endured rounds of German mortar as well as loudspeaker announcements<br />
beckoning them to come over to the German side. Luliia recounts how they would be in<br />
the field for days, regularly facing the enemy in terrifying one-on-one encounters. She<br />
sets down the euphoria of her first hit and starting her “battle count” but her reflection on<br />
how it was also the ending of a life. These feelings fade as she recounts the barbarous<br />
actions of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.<br />
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