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30 Queer Lives reviewed by David Hartnell
30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders appeared in David Hartnell's Gossip Column. He says: ‘I first met Matt several years ago...
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The New Zealand Listener reviews 30 Queer Lives
Andrew Paul Wood has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the New Zealand Listener. You can read the full review...
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RNZ’s nights interviews Matt McEvoy
Matt McEvoy talks with Bryan Crump on RNZ's Nights about his book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders: ‘I wanted to broaden...
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David Herkt reviews 30 Queer Lives
‘Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders offers its readers edited interviews condensed into first-person narrativ...
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30 Queer Lives reviewed in Tui Motu InterIslands magazine
Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been reviewed in the May edition of Tui Motu InterIslands magazine. Re...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Matt McEvoy’s book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘I loved this...
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Morrin Rout speaks with Matt McEvoy for Bookenz
Morrin Rout spoke with Matt McEvoy on Bookenz this week about 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders: ‘When I was a gay kid gro...
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Paul Diamond reviews 30 Queer Lives for Nine to Noon
Paul Diamond has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon. He says, ‘this book 30 Q...
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Ten questions with Matt McEvoy for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura has published Ten Questions with Matt McEvoy to celebrate the release of 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Ze...
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30 Queer Lives contributor Andy Davies interviewed for BusinessDesk
Andy Davies, who features in 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been interviewed for BusinessDesk. ‘I found my attracti...
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10 Questions with Matt McEvoy
Q1: This is your second book, and so you did know before you began that being an author is not the easiest gig in town. Why did you decide to do it...
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Chloe Swarbrick on being queer, depression and starting a family
In a new book, Auckland Central and Green MP Chloe Swarbrick is among 30 New Zealanders who have shared their experiences about being queer in New...
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James Dobson interviewed by Stuff
Stuff has published James Dobson’s interview from 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders: ‘New book 30 Queer Lives by Matt McE...
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30 Queer Lives
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Patrick Shepherd
Patrick Shepherd was an honorary Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2003/04, and in 2016 he visited the continent again as a tutor with a group of postgraduate students from the University of Canterbury, where he is a senior lecturer.
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Tania Mace
Tania Mace is a freelance historian with a Master of Arts with honours in history.
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Lucy O’Hagan
Lucy O’Hagan has been a rata hauora/general practitioner for over 30 years.
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10 Questions with the editors of Otherhood
Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. Her debut essaycollection, Ithaca, was published in 2023. Lil O’Brien (she/her) i...
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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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‘A Leader in the Making’: an extract from Experience of a Lifetime
Lindsay Inglis joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in April 1915 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant, and spent the entire war as an o...
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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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Read an extract from Fire & Ice
CHAPTER 11 The legend of the Haunted Whare A small shack near Tawhai Falls below the Chateau was reputedly haunted by the ghost of a woman searchin...
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10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Rotuman, Tongan and Pākehā heritage and was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021. Vaugha...
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: First things first: the beautiful cover. Tell us the story of this adorable felt goat. Yes, isn’t she beautiful. Her name is Grethe, and she wa...
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Ten Question Q&A with Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
Q1: These stories have their roots in the flash or microfiction movement. Can you explain what that is? Flash and microfiction are the smallest of...
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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Kete Books reviews Making Space
Making Space is an impressive recent release billed by its publisher Massey University Press as ‘a new book that sets the architectural record stra...
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Soundings reviewed by Ingrid Horrocks for New Zealand Geographic
Ingrid Horrocks has reviewed Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea for New Zealand Geographic: ‘THIS IS KENNEDY Warne’s memoir of a li...
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Agency of Hope reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Barbara Brookes has reviewed Agency of Hope: The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920–2020 by Peter Lineham for the New Zealand Journal of Histo...
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Deidre Brown reviews Rewi for Architecture NZ
Rewi, the new book on the architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou; 1953–2016), edited by Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, demonstrates that...
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10 Questions with the editors of Tū Rangaranga
Q1: What is the meaning of Tū Rangaranga and what impact did that have on how the book was written? In 2017 we (Rand Hazou, Margaret Forster and Sh...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for the Sunday Star-Tim...
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Read an extract from The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler
In 1985, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. I took him to the hospital for surgery, and was allowed to sit with him before he was wheeled in...
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Don Abbott reviews The Lobster’s Tale in Art New Zealand
Don Abbott, deputy editor of Art New Zealand, has reviewed The Lobster's Tale in the Summer ‘22 issue. ‘The cover of The Lobster’s Tale provides a...
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
Q1: A much-loved, much-missed and near mythical figure — when did you each decide that Rewi Thompson should be honoured with a book and that you sh...
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Ten Questions with Ian McGibbon
Q1: Why did it take so long for New Zealand to set up a diplomatic service? For a long time New Zealand was content to follow the United Kingdom’s...
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The Front Line one of David Hill’s favourite books of 2021
David Hill has reviewed The Front Line by Glyn Harper, ‘one of New Zealand’s most significant military historians’. Listen to the review on RNZ’s N...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Giselle Byrnes reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Australian Historical Studies: ‘All histories refle...
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10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
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Ten Question Q&A with Cynthia Farquhar
Q1: In your introduction you describe how thinking about your mother’s difficult experience at the Otago Medical School in the late 1940s, and in t...
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Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
Launch speech, Bill & Shirley by Keith Ovenden We meet in the shadow not just of the pandemic but of the election. So, I want to put it on reco...
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Read an extract from Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
6. The professional era Gordon Harold Brown was born in Wellington in 1931 and trainedas an artist under Ted Lewis at Wellington Technical College....
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10 Questions with Rachael Bell
1. You teach the history of New Zealand in the interwar period – what drew you to it? It was such a revolutionary time in our history – the start,...
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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Extract from The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere
This book is about three adjoining Auckland suburbs — Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere — and the people who have lived here. As in all suburbs, th...
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Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Rebooting the Regions? The fact that we are focusing on a key political and policy issue — the...
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Jane Ussher talks to NZ House & Garden about Rooms
NZ House & Garden has interviewed Jane Ussher about her new book with John Walsh. Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors features...
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Rebooting the Regions in the press
Rebooting the Regions has been getting fantastic coverage across the media. Russel Blackstock writes in the Herald on Sunday about how our smaller...
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Melody Thomas interviews Sue Kedgley and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine
Melody Thomas sits down to interview Sue Kedgely and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine. ‘When Sue Kedgley was sworn in to parliament in 1999 arou...
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Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris talk to Kim Hill
Rainy day lunch times, kapa haka practice, first crushes and classroom pets are all captured in Skinny Dip, a new poetry anthology curated by Kate...
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HomeGround author Simon Wilson talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
‘HomeGround opened earlier this year and it is the new home of the Auckland City Mission in Hobson Street in the central city. It was the dream of...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023 reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Hamesh Wyatt reviews recent work for the Otago Daily Times' poetry roundup: 'New Zealand’s longest-running poetry journal is into its 57th edition....
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Dick Frizzell talks to Metropol editor Lynda Papesch
Dick Frizzell talks to Metropol editor Lynda Papesch: Space may not be the final frontier it once was, yet the sun, the stars and the universe stil...
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Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star
Peter Simpson reviews The Sun Is a Star for Kete: ‘Dick Frizzell is a popular and accomplished painter, print-maker and something of an art histor...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Making Space for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘...
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Inside New Zealand’s most inspiring rooms
‘About a decade and a half ago, after 30 years photographing people for the New Zealand Listener, Jane Ussher left the magazine and developed a new...
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Listen to Jesse Mulligan read his foreword to The RNZ Cookbook
‘Some of the country's top chefs and food writers have contributed to RNZ's culinary heritage, which is now the inspiration for a new cookbook. It...
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An unwelcome history — Otago Daily Times features Invisible
It is difficult to believe that this was, that this is, New Zealand. In December, 1925, the White New Zealand League held its first meeting in the...
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Geographic
In the seaside suburb of Kohimarama, Auckland, there’s a house that rises from the trees around it like an ancient Mayan temple: a giant stone-step...
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Hastings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for NZ Booklovers: ‘Dick Frizzell’s Hastings is a warm, nostalgic, and often h...
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Dick Frizzell interviewed in Hawkes Bay Today
Jack Riddell interviews Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings: A boy’s own adventure for Hawkes Bay Today: ‘One of Hastings' favourite sons has created...
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Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
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Otherhood reviewed on Capsule
Capsule talks to the editors behind the new essay book, Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree & Child Adjacent about expanding the co...
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NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West by Tania Mace
Lyn Potter from NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace: 'The Near West is a fascinatin...
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Habitat by Resene chat to Rooms author Jane Ussher
Photographer Jane Ussher is well known for her ability to make even the most hesitant or nervous characters come to life in front of the camera. Fo...
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10 Questions with Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher
1. You’ve travelled from north to south to create this book. Was that a pleasure? DC: A privilege, a pleasure, and hard work. JU: The spectacular l...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: This is a revised edition of a book first published in 2020. Why another edition so soon, and what’s new about it? When the first edition of t...
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Eat Pacific author Robert Oliver interviewed in E-Tangata
Teuila Fuatai interviews Robert Oliver, the author of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook for E-Tangata: ‘Chef Robert Oliver h...
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10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
Tooth and Veil NOEL O'HARE Introduction Shop assistants working along the ‘golden mile’ in Wellington had witnessed many marches down Lambton...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti o Te Ātiawa) reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans: 'Jeff Evans’s Ngātokimatawhaorua is a...
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Making Space reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Kathy Waghorn has revewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, for Architecture New Zealand: As...
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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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Read an extract from After Winter Comes the Summer
The origins of the music Although the settlers at Pūhoi came from the historic country of Bohemia (a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subseque...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 launched at Devonport Library
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 was launched in style last night at Devonport Library. Associate Professor Bryan Walpert’s opening speech is r...
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The revolutionary live interview with Peter Wells
The Spinoff has interviewed Peter Wells about his memoir Dear Oliver: ‘The return of the patented Spinoff revolutionary live email interview, this...
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10 Questions with David Cohen
Q1: How would you describe this book? It’s not a biography and nor is it a ghost-written memoir. So what is it? A conversational memoir. In the obv...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: What stands out most for you about this book? The range and quality of the photographs we were able to find: from a Nazi victory parade in Wars...
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New Zealand Geographic reviews Te Kupenga
‘Pistons, spark plugs, and small rocks are not objects that you would expect to find in the holdings of a prestigious national library. But the Ale...
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The Architect and the Artists appears in UoA’s Special Collections Twenty at 20
Author Bridget Hackshaw discovered two stained-glass window designs by artist Colin McCahon during her research for her prize-winning book, The Arc...
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Proof: Two decades of printmaking reviewed on Kete
Proof: Two decades of printmaking by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand has been reviewed on Kete. Peter Simpson says: ‘These are times when, on th...
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The RNZ Cookbook reviewed on NZ Booklovers
The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and Kathy Paterson has been...
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Read two excerpts from Helen Beaglehole’s One Hundred Havens
Stuff has published two excerpts from author and historian Helen Beaglehole’s One Hundred Havens: The settlement of the Marlborough Sounds: ‘In 186...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on the Christchurch library blog
One of the Christchurch librarians, Bronwen Knowles, has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can,...
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Entries are open to the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2023
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook student poetry competition, the award that has sent so many young po...
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Greg Fleming reviews The Crewe Murders on Kete
Greg Fleming has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings on Kete: ‘The 1970...
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Entries are open to the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2024
CALLING ALL YOUNG POETS! Entries are now open for the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook student poetry competition, the award that has sent so many young po...
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Read an extract from Frontline Surgeon in the Otago Daily Times
A new book by Mark Derby tells the remarkable story of Cromwell-raised surgeon Doug Jolly. The following extract describes his work during in the S...
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Ans Westra reviewed in ArtBeat
Jenny Partington reviews Paul Moon’s book Ans Westra: A life in photography for ArtBeat: ‘In Ans Westra: A Life In Photography, author Paul Moon ta...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed on NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for NZ Arts Review: ‘Whanganui’s Serjeant Galle...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Ashburton Guardian
Claire Inkson reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Ashburton Guardian:...
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Entries are open to the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2025
Entries are now open for the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook student poetry competition, the award that has sent so many young poets on their way. Entries...