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  • Warblish, Chirpish, Ticktocklish, & Animalopoeia
    Helen Mae Innes
    There is a little-known practice of interpreting the sounds of birds, insects, animals, and inanimate objects as intelligible, yet onomatopoeic words. Common examples include the Yellowhammer’s song being rendered as, ’A little bit of bread and no cheese, please,’ and the Bushcricket saying, ’Katy did, Katy didn’t’. Despite being widespread across languages and cultures ’birdso...
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    22,64 €

  • And the Birds Fled to the Bush
    Helen Mae Innes
    The leaves of the books are birds. The tightly scrunched ponytails of the girls are birds. The dreadlocks of their pothead boyfriends are birds. The doilies on the windowsills are birds. The Dominion Post held by an old man becomes a flock of birds and starts to fly away. The prescriptions for the sickness beneficiaries are birds caught in the down draft. The white paper bags t...
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    19,75 €

  • Into the Woods
    Helen Mae Innes
    I first noticed a grey warbler fledgling outside my window who couldn’t get the tune quite right. He’d start singing, get a note wrong and falter, then try tentatively again. Like a child learning the recorder, I thought.    Like a child...Into the Woods is a surprisingly joyful, hopeful little story about the power of nature, and specifically birds, to heal us when we are hurt...
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    5,03 €

  • Oracles & Miracles & Zombies
    Helen Mae Innes / Stevan Eldred-Grigg
    The best-selling novel about twin girls growing up in New Zealand is back - with zombies!We all know about the zombie virus that ravaged New Zealand between the two world wars, but little has been written about how the biters it created affected the lives of women, especially working-class women. Stevan Eldred-Grigg’s best-selling novel about twin sisters growing up during the ...
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    18,30 €