<p><div>How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a 'ravishing, immersing read', <i>A Strange Beautiful Excitement</i> is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital, as experienced by the budding writer.</div></p>

A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington

Biographies & Memoirs

Yska, Redmer

Arts & Literature

Otago University Press

<p>Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield' s Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield' s journals and letters, author Redmer Yska pursues the traces of her restless journeying in Europe, seeking out the places where she lived, worked and - a century ago this year - died.</p>

Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station

Community & Culture

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Books by Yska, Redmer

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A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington

Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station