Karori Historical Society

Our next Meeting will be held on Tuesday 5 September 2023 at St Ninian’s, Newcombe Crescent, Karori at 7.30 pm. Members and friends welcome.

Katherine Mansfield’s Europe

Please join us to hear Redmer Yska talk about his more recent book, Katherine Mansfield’s Europe, Station to Station. 

Part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story, Redmer pursues the traces of Mansfield’s restless journeying in Europe, seeking out the places where she lived, worked and – a century ago this year died. Along the way, he meets a cast of present-day Mansfield devotees who help shape his understanding of the impressions Mansfield left on their territories and how she is formally (and informally) commemorated in Europe. 

Redmer Yska is an award-winning writer and historian based in Wellington. He has published books on a range of subjects, including New Zealand youth culture, Dutch New Zealanders (like himself) a biography of Wellington City and a history of the tabloid newspaper, NZ Truth. This is Yska’s second book about Katherine Mansfield. His first, A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington was long listed for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Supper will be served after the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 5 September.