{"title":"Ella Baxter","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our collection dedicated to the \u003cem\u003ethought-provoking\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ecompelling\u003c\/em\u003e works of author Ella Baxter. As a unique voice in the realm of General Fiction, Baxter captures the intricacies of human emotion and experience with a poignant blend of wit, sensitivity, and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElla Baxter's debut novel, \u003cem\u003eNew Animal\u003c\/em\u003e, introduces readers to a world where the boundaries of love, loss, and self-discovery are explored with breathtaking honesty. The story delves into the complexities of grief, highlighting Baxter's ability to portray raw emotion with sincerity and grace. Her writing invites readers to introspect alongside her characters, making each page a truly engaging experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/em\u003e, Baxter continues to enthrall by weaving a narrative that is both rich in character development and narrative intrigue. Exploring themes that range from the familial to the supernatural, Baxter's storytelling is distinguished by its ability to balance the mystical with the mundane, offering a fresh perspective on age-old questions of identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElla Baxter's novels are a must-read for those who appreciate literary fiction that challenges the norm while providing an insightful commentary on the human condition. Dive into her works for a literary journey that promises to be as entertaining as it is enlightening.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"new-animal-by-ella-baxter-9781761067549","title":"New Animal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Profound, profane and darkly hilarious.' - Bri Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Funny, raw, gutsy and stealthily sweet.' - Emily Maguire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmelia is no stranger to sex and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer job in her family's funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but she's good at it. Life and warmth come from the men she meets online - combining with someone else's body at night in order to become something else, at least for a while.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when a sudden, brutal loss severs her ties with someone she loves, Amelia sets off on a seventy-two-hour mission to outrun her grief - skipping out on the funeral, running away to stay with her father in Tasmania and experimenting on the local BDSM scene. There, she learns more about sex, death, grief and the different ways pain works its way through the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt'll take a pair of fathers, a bruising encounter with a stranger and recognition of her own body's limits to bring Amelia back to herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, Ella Baxter's \u003ci\u003eNew Animal\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Animal\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild, moving and original debut - and like the best bits of sex and funerals, it's very, very funny.' - Robert Lukins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Sex, death, humour, and heart - this novel has it all.' - Laura Elizabeth Woollett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'... deeply uncomfortable, laugh-out-loud funny and devastatingly moving...' - Erin Hortle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46532134797548,"sku":"9781761067549","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28062433482814.jpg?v=1749306437"},{"product_id":"woo-woo-by-ella-baxter-9781761470691","title":"Woo Woo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED - Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Confirms Baxter as one of the most exciting Australian novelists to have emerged this decade . . . she's the real deal.'\u003c\/b\u003e — Readings \n\n\u003cb\u003e'A spooky, darkly combustible feast for anyone who's ever wanted to run naked into a forest, screaming.'\u003c\/b\u003e — \u003ci\u003eBooks+Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Thrillingly weird, squirming with life and throbbing with rage, \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e often had me breathless and vibrating with delight. An incandescent howl of a book.'\u003c\/b\u003e — Emily Maguire, author of \u003ci\u003eRapture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e - what a delight. Richly dark and funny, this exploration of art and meaning, of the feminine experience, of modern madness had me stopping to catch my breath. Brilliant, original and loaded with the unexpected.'\u003c\/b\u003e — Sofie Laguna, author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Splendours\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'Visceral, hyperreal and hilarious—there is no book like \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e and no writer like Ella Baxter. I loved every single stunning sentence.'\u003c\/b\u003e — Paige Clark, author of \u003ci\u003eShe Is Haunted\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003ci\u003eSabine returned from the shops carrying a bag containing an effortless pair of Christian Wijnants fringed trousers and Ann Demeulemeester Crinkle Nero boots. The sales assistant had agreed that the combination made Sabine look exactly like an artist. 'A conceptual artist?' Sabine asked, and the sales assistant said, 'Or an actual artist.'\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nSabine is having a moment. Her new exhibition, \u003ci\u003eFuck You, Help Me\u003c\/i\u003e, is opening soon and, as her gallerist says, 'Hell is an artist three days before their exhibition opens.' But it's not only this coming milestone that is causing Sabine to melt down.\n\nShe is being stalked. As exhibition day draws closer, so too does the man who has been watching her. As his approaches become more overt and threatening, Sabine's fear amplifies and transforms into something feral and primal. And then things start to get really strange.\n\nDarkly funny, intense and unsettling, \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing and unflinching dissection of creativity and obsession, love and passion, vengeance and rage. Nothing will prepare you for this literary firestorm from the author of the internationally acclaimed debut \u003ci\u003eNew Animal\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Baxter has somehow managed to create a work that is both lavishly excessive and tightly restrained. \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e is a surreal fever dream but also an astute domestic portrait. It's genuinely terrifying and laugh-out-loud funny. I've never read anything quite like it.' — \u003cb\u003eAnna Snoekstra, author of \u003ci\u003eOut of Breath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Ella Baxter has created a frightening, brilliant and utterly invigorating novel, something that radiates, darkly, on your bedside table. Her sentences gleam like a knife held at night. \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e captures the psychology of making art in the present, to be cut up and devoured online, flayed between discourse and obscene acts live-streamed.' — \u003cb\u003ePaul Dalla Rosa, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Exciting and Vivid Inner Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Ella Baxter's second novel is brilliant and profane, pretty much guaranteed to provoke the provokable and delight people who like weird feelings and private thoughts. It's a wildly entertaining book, surprising on every page, and it dares you to wonder what the difference is, in life, between the dark bits and the fun bits.' — \u003cb\u003eRonnie Scott, author of \u003ci\u003eShirley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'\u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e is sharp and heady, the kind of writing that makes you feel slightly drunk and bewitched. Its exploration of creativity as a gothic haunting, as an indignity to be endured, is delicious, delightfully revolting and unlike anything you've read before.' — \u003cb\u003eSinéad Stubbins, author of \u003ci\u003eIn My Defence, I Have No Defence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'A primal scream of selfhood into the toilet bowl of the art world. Feral, guttural.' — \u003cb\u003eWill Cox, author of \u003ci\u003eHyacinth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Sharp, clever, and wickedly funny, Baxter's \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e is an unsettling delight.' — \u003cb\u003eMonica Dux, author of \u003ci\u003eLapsed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Equal parts freakshow and feast, artistic haunting and portrait of the artist as huntress - not to mention, funny as fuck. Ella Baxter's prose is a force of nature.' — \u003cb\u003eLaura Elizabeth Woollett, author of \u003ci\u003eWest Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'I wish I could have written this book. I don't know how to do it justice. \u003ci\u003eWoo Woo\u003c\/i\u003e and its glorious, propulsive, feral protagonist mark a new frontier in fiction, where everything beautiful is laid out like a picnic, and we stomp on it. This book is hungry and hilarious, with prose so exquisite it makes me scream. I am in awe of Ella Baxter and her spectacular brain.' — \u003cb\u003eLaura McPhee-Browne, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Plum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eNew Animal\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Baxter's prose is a living thing, wild and snarling, its jagged claws and honed teeth unforgiving and relentless.' — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Profound, profane and darkly hilarious.' — \u003cb\u003eBri Lee, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEggshell Skull\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'\u003ci\u003eNew Animal\u003c\/i\u003e makes for compelling reading... an intense, viscerally affecting book.' — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Funny, raw, gutsy and stealthily sweet.' — \u003cb\u003eEmily Maguire, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLove Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n'Has all the hallmarks of a literary sensation ... this is a fearless and remarkable debut.' — \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Weekend Australian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46557207757036,"sku":"9781761470691","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4008063482815.jpg?v=1750184504"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ella-baxter.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}