{"product_id":"better-place","title":"A Better Place","description":"People in the district would often say Roy Mitchell was not quite the same after he come back from the war. There was a twin brother, Tony. Killed on Crete in 1941.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The hut he built when he returned was on a bit of flat ground above the Mangawhero Creek. He called it his whare. Corrugated-iron chimney on the south wall. Black maire firewood cut and stacked on the veranda. The kennels were north-facing with dry folded sacks for the dogs to sleep on.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1942, Roy had driven seventy-five miles through the North African desert to see a litter of ten pups. Just to see them. Someone from the 5th Field Artillery had told him about them. Drove back to the New Zealand lines after that.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From Stephen Daisley, winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australia) for \u003ci\u003eTraitor\u003c\/i\u003e and New Zealand's Ockham Prize for \u003ci\u003eComing Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, a new novel of brothers at war. Beautifully written, brutal, tender and visceral, \u003ci\u003eA Better Place\u003c\/i\u003e is about art and violence, and love in its many forms.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Better Place","offer_id":50626950856901,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-922458-68-1.jpg?v=1791238178","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/better-place","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}