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4 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Reviewed by Adele Broadbent, Wardini Books
Eloise loves her life on their farm in Cornwall England, surrounded by her three brothers, younger sister and their parents.
When they are all summoned together by their father, they wonder what the reason. Their father, stern and solemn, announces that they are to leave Cornwall. The owner of the farm (their uncle) has sold it to start afresh in New Zealand. They are to join him.
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In shock they pack their lives into boxes and in September 1871, sail away from England on a ship called the Balmoral, to the bottom of the world. Their family is splintered and broken when they finally arrive in Napier, New Zealand, months later in August 1872.
Gareth Ward: Book shop owner goes from commando to magician to author
26 Apr, 2021 02:45 AM
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Gareth Ward is a steampunk author who talked an audience at The Treasury through the art of building your steampunk character. Photo / Alison Smith
Gareth Ward is a steampunk author who talked an audience at The Treasury through the art of building your steampunk character. Photo / Alison Smith
Gareth has been a commando, a hypnotist and a magician.
A book shop owner from Hawke s Bay, he s now a steampunk author.
Gareth was at The Treasury in Thames on Friday delivering a workshop to about a dozen people on how to build your steampunk character.
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Gareth and Louise Ward own and run the country’s top indie bookshops, Wardini Books, in Havelock North and Napier.
Gareth Ward own and run Wardini Books
, in Havelock North and Napier. Gareth, 52, is also a magician, hypnotist and author. They met in the police force in the UK and moved to NZ in 2007, where Louise, 48, retrained as a teacher. They have two children, Alex, 24, and Max, 21.
LOUISE: Gareth began performing magic when we had children. He’d do a little bit of magic with the kids at home. The kids asked him to do a proper magic show for their birthdays and they learned a few tricks together and they called themselves The Great Wardinis. He got into it and became The Great Wardini.
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