{"title":"Jacqueline Kent","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the intriguing world of Jacqueline Kent, a masterful author who delves into the realms of biography and memoir with an unparalleled elegance and depth. Her works offer an insightful exploration into the lives of remarkable individuals, capturing their stories with warmth and intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong her celebrated books is \u003cem\u003eA Certain Style\u003c\/em\u003e, a fascinating biography of the influential Australian fashion figure, offering readers a glimpse into the world of style and sophistication. \u003cem\u003eBeyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook\u003c\/em\u003e presents an intimate memoir chronicling her experiences and life lessons learned while living with the famed author, providing a unique perspective on both personal and literary levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBonjour, Mademoiselle!\u003c\/em\u003e, Kent takes readers on a journey through the cultural nuances and vibrant experiences that shaped her life. Meanwhile, \u003cem\u003eInconvenient Women\u003c\/em\u003e shines a light on the courageous and unyielding women who defy societal norms, celebrating their resilience and contributions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Kent's collection invites readers to not only understand the complexities of her subjects’ lives but also reflect on the human condition. Her thoughtful prose and engaging narratives make her books a must-read for anyone interested in biography and memoir genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beyond-words-a-year-with-kenneth-cook-by-jacqueline-kent-9780702260391","title":"Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA moving and powerful memoir of love, loss and a shared passion for words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1985 Jacqueline Kent was content with her life. She had a satisfying career as a freelance book editor and was emerging as a writer. Living and working alone, she relished her independence. But then she met Kenneth Cook, author of the Australian classic \u003cem\u003eWake in Fright\u003c\/em\u003e, and they fell in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith bewildering speed, Jacqueline found herself in alien territory — with a man almost twenty years older, whose life experience could not have been more different from her own. She had to come to terms with complicated finances and expectations, and to negotiate relationships with Ken's children, four people almost her own age. But with this man of contradictions — funny and sad, headstrong and tender — she found real and sustaining companionship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir life together was often joyful, sometimes enraging, always exciting — until one devastating evening. But, as Jacqueline discovered, even when a story is over, that doesn't mean it has come to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46370025046252,"sku":"9780702260391","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/247893482438.jpg?v=1744802744"},{"product_id":"bonjour-mademoiselle-by-jacqueline-kent-9781761380310","title":"Bonjour, Mademoiselle!","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glittering story of April Ashley, model and trans pioneer, and the divorce case which gripped 1960s Britain and defined transgender rights for a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Britain emerged from post-war austerity in the 1960s, no one embodied its newfound spirit of hedonism and glamour like April Ashley. A fashion model and socialite who rose from poverty in Liverpool to the heights of London society via Le Carrousel nightclub in Paris, she was also one of the first Britons to undergo gender-affirming surgery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAshley was appointed MBE for services to transgender equality in 2012, but her journey towards acceptance was hard-won and bitterly contested. In 1961, a friend sold her story to a tabloid and she was told that she would never work in the UK again. Her brief marriage to Arthur Corbett, the son of a baron, set off a high-profile divorce battle, resulting in a landmark 1970 decision denying transgender women legal status as women - and denying Ashley her husband's inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide variety of sources, award-winning biographers Jacqueline Kent and Tom Roberts tell the full story of April Ashley's extraordinary life at the vanguard of the sexual revolution and the movement for trans equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book has a pleasant tone. Its authors, Jacqueline Kent and Tom Roberts, give a lesson in amiable tolerance and handle other thorny subjects without a touch of militancy. Their lesson seems to be that only fools rush in to judge what they cannot understand.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Richard Davenport-Hines, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eApril's extraordinarily courageous and pioneering personal journey is the story of a trans life well lived. At times heartbreaking, this book documents her setbacks - and also her ultimate triumph as a much loved trans hero!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Peter Tatchell, LGBT+ and human rights defender\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA dazzling account of a unique life woven into the wider story of dramatic social change across the best part of a century. It is also a story which resonates to the present day.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n- Paul Baker, author of \u003cem\u003eFabulosa! the story of Polari, Britain's secret gay language\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46626926231788,"sku":"9781761380310","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761380310.jpg?v=1751874609"},{"product_id":"a-certain-style-by-jacqueline-kent-9781742236025","title":"A Certain Style","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeatrice Davis, 1909–1992, was the general editor at Angus and Robertson, the main Australian publishing company, from 1937 to 1973. There, she discovered and published writers such as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert, and Hal Porter, becoming a literary tastemaker in the process. A central figure in Australian literature, she was 'respected, feared, courted and berated.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published to great acclaim in 2001, \u003ci\u003eA Certain Style\u003c\/i\u003e introduced this stylish and formidable woman to thousands of readers and told a history of books and publishing in twentieth-century Australia. This reissue includes a new introduction and updates throughout as the author presents a compelling account of a contradictory woman and her times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A sharp-eyed and warm-hearted biography ... the pleasure of Davis' company is further enlivened by Kent's own quietly witty take on her material.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003e- Kerryn Goldsworthy, \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A witty and enthralling read ... The beauty of Kent's book is not just the skill with which she unravels a life but the milieu she evokes en route.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003e- Matt Condon, \u003ci\u003eSun-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A simply splendid biography of the formidable, maddening, generous, always enchanting Beatrice Davis.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003e- Ruth Park\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A terrific history of the Australian book industry, with the narrative pull of a plot-driven novel. Given current trends in publishing, this is a timely and welcome book.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - Andrea Goldsmith, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e - Books of the Year 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46797502218476,"sku":"9781742236025","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8261933482808.jpg?v=1757152106"},{"product_id":"inconvenient-women-by-jacqueline-kent-9781742237503","title":"Inconvenient Women","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAustralia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives across the country and around the globe. But what about the generation in between?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the twentieth century, a group of trailblazing women writers challenged the nation's status quo. Miles Franklin's forceful voice invigorated the emerging women's movement, Mary Gilmore was a groundbreaking feminist journalist, and novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark explored the colonial displacement of Australia's Indigenous people. Kylie Tennant spoke up for battlers during the Depression. Dymphna Cusack, Katharine Susannah Prichard, and Dorothy Hewett, all members of Australia's Communist Party, advocated for social reform. Ruth Park's \u003ci\u003eThe Harp in the South\u003c\/i\u003e jolted the NSW government into developing slum clearance programs. And the work of First Nations poet and activist Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) was crucial in achieving constitutional reform for Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces these women's stories, shaped by the seismic social and political events of their time, and illuminates their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKent brings her cast of writers effortlessly to life. – Jason Steger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEach of these seven women writers set out, in her own way, to change the world, and this well-researched and engagingly written book makes clear their individual and collective bravery, curiosity, and fearlessness. – Heidi Maier, \u003ci\u003eInDaily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHighly informed, engaging, often wittily observed, this is also an impressively orchestrated study of groundbreaking writers and the tumultuous times they mirrored and interpreted. – \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald \/ The Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eInconvenient Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a fluent stream of fascinating detail. It brings to the fore names half-remembered now, their collaborations with activist men such as Guido Baracchi and Egon Kisch as well as other women, and the political environment they all operated in. Once begun, it is difficult to put down: you'll finish with dozens of notes to follow up. – Miriam Cosic, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844093464812,"sku":"9781742237503","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8276713482808.jpg?v=1758826600"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/jacqueline-kent.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}