Meet filmmaker Barney Kettle, who liked to invent stories but found a real
one under his nose. Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day, he just didn't know when that day would arrive. He was already an actual director – he'd made four fifteen-minute films – but so far only his schoolmates and the residents of the High Street had viewed them. Global fame was a little way off. It would come, though. Barney was certain about that ...
So begins the manuscript written from the hospital bed of an unnamed man.
He has written it over many months as he recovers from serious injuries sustained in a city-wide catastrophe.
He has written so he can remember the street where he lived, home to a cavalcade of interesting people, singular shops, and curious stories.
He has written so he can remember the summer before he was injured, the last days of a vanished world.
Above all, he has written so he can remember the inimitable Barney Kettle, filmmaker, part-time dictator, questing brain, theatrical friend; a boy who loved to invent stories but found a real one under his nose; a boy who explored his neighbourhood with camera in hand and stumbled on a mystery that changed everything ...
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About the author:
Kate De Goldi is one of
New Zealand's most loved authors, whose short fiction, novels and picture books
engage children, teenagers and adults alike. The author of the phenomenal The
10 PM Question, which has been published extensively overseas, she is a
two-time winner of the New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year Award.
The 10 PM Question won Book of the Year and Best Young Adult Fiction in
the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards, was a
runner-up in the 2009 Montana NZ Book Awards, and won the Readers' Choice Award.
It was a finalist in the LIANZA Children's Book Awards for the Esther Glen
Award, was shortlisted for the Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers' Choice Award,
and was selected for the 2009 edition of the prestigious international catalogue
The White Ravens. In 2010 De Goldi was awarded the Creative New Zealand
Michael King Writers' Fellowship to research and write a book on children's book
collector, Susan Price. She has a regular spot reviewing children's books on
Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill on National Radio.
De Goldi has won numerous awards, including the Katherine Mansfield and American Express awards for short stories. She has held several major fellowships, including the 2010 Michael King Fellowship, and in 2001 was made an Arts Foundation Laureate. In 2011 she was winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award, which is awarded for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. That same year she won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award, which is awarded to German and international authors 'for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public'.
De Goldi has won numerous awards, including the Katherine Mansfield and American Express awards for short stories. She has held several major fellowships, including the 2010 Michael King Fellowship, and in 2001 was made an Arts Foundation Laureate. In 2011 she was winner of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award, which is awarded for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. That same year she won the 2011 Corine International Book Prize Young Readers Award, which is awarded to German and international authors 'for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public'.
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