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Award-winning New Zealand writers Martin Edmond, Maurice Gee, Kirsty Gunn and Owen Marshall explore life and memory in this bundle of BWB Texts. <br><br>These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. <br><br> Martin Edmond’s <i>Barefoot Years </i>is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. <br><br>Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined in a mini-memoir, <i>Creeks and Kitchens</i>. <br><br>In this exquisitely written ‘notebook’ – ‘My Katherine Mansfield Project’ – Kirsty Gunn explores the meaning of ‘home’ in <i>Thorndon</i>. <br><br>Owen Marshall reflects at length on his writing career and the forces that have shaped him as a writer, in <i>Tunes for Bears to Dance To</i>. <br><br> BWB Texts are short books on big subjects by great New Zealand writers. Commissioned as short digital-first works, BWB Texts unlock diverse stories, insights and analysis from the best of our past, present and future New Zealand writing.