{"product_id":"a-better-place","title":"A Better Place","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlist Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/Images\/Assets\/47088\/1\/Ockhams%20Fiction%20Sampler%202024.pdf\" title=\"2024 Ockhams Sampler (PDF)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit the 2024 Ockhams Sampler with an extract \u0026amp; Judge's comment\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/new-zealand-book-awards\/2024-awards\/shortlist\/\" title=\"Link to NZ Book Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ewww.nzbookawards.nz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople in the district would often say Roy Mitchell was not quite the same after he come back from the war. There was a twin brother, Tony. Killed on Crete in 1941. The hut he built when he returned was on a bit of flat ground above the Mangawhero Creek. He called it his whare. Corrugated-iron chimney on the south wall. Black maire firewood cut and stacked on the veranda. The kennels were north-facing with dry folded sacks for the dogs to sleep on. In 1942, Roy had driven seventy-five miles through the North African desert to see a litter of ten pups. Just to see them. Someone from the 5th Field Artillery had told him about them. Drove back to the New Zealand lines after that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Stephen Daisley, winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australia) for Traitor and New Zealand's Ockham Prize for Coming Rain, a new novel of brothers at war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written, brutal, tender and visceral, A Better Place is about art and violence, and love in its many forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction: general and literary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Daisley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 1mm W: 1mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43233584251030,"sku":"9781922458681","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket--92_37f6808e-0859-475a-b17a-8527d1479816.jpg?v=1710813927","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/a-better-place","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}