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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in North & South
Theo Macdonald reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for North & South: ‘Unpacking required. A photograph can tenderly trace a...
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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in Stuff
Damien Grant reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Stuff: ‘There is a picture taken at Waitangi in 1963. It is of the Queen...
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Read an interview with Floor van Lierop, designer of Ans Westra: A life in photography
Kete Books interviews Floor van Lierop, book designer, about her work on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Floor, hi! Can you tell u...
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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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Ans Westra reviewed on Landfall
Max Oettli reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Everyone seems to have an Ans Westra story to tell. Mine involves Westra swear...
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Ans Westra: A life in photorgraphy reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Athol McCredie reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘THE DUTCH-BORN Ans Westra (1936–2023...
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Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra by Paul Moon
Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits: 'A very attractive book and a fascin...
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Ans Westra reviewed on NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for NZ Arts Review: ‘Ans Westra, who died in 2023 was probably the most...
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10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
Mary Macpherson reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Art New Zealand: ‘For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life...
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Paul Moon interviewed on Different Matters by Damien Grant
Damien Grant in conversation with Paul Moon about his latest book Ans Westra: A life in photography: ‘Evan Paul Moon is a New Zealand historian, a...
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Extract from Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
In Sally Gordon’s inner city villa in Auckland, the central hallway is lined with photographs of four generations of her family. Among them are two...
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10 Questions with Deborah Shepard
1. It must be good to see The Writing Life sent off to print. It’s a strange feeling letting go of a manuscript that has occupied your every waking...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
A gorgeous bilingual board book
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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground?
A gorgeous board book for young readers and their whānau
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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Adam Claasen's Author Q&A in Sunday Star-Times
Adam Claasen, author of Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell, answers the Author Q&A for Sunday Star-Times: ‘...
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Paul Diamond’s book Downfall reviewed in Canvas
David Herkt has reviewed Paul Diamond’s recent book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay for Canvas: ‘New Zealand provincial sexual scandals...
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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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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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10 Questions with Jan Kemp
Q1: Your Waikato childhood must have seemed so far away and so long ago when you sat down to write about it in Germany. How hard was it to tap into...
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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Herald
Joan Rosier-Jones has reviewed this ‘long awaited’ history of Charles Mackay in the Whanganui Chronicle. She calls Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The Des...
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Sylvia’s Birds are a Family Treat
In her review for Magpies, Crissi Blair recommends Sylvia and the Birds: How the Bird Lady Saved Thousands of Birds, and How You Can Too! as a book...
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10 Questions with Barbara Ewing
Q1: When did the idea for this memoir first start brewing? I had vowed always never to write any personal account concerning my life, although I h...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: After the success of A Walking Guide to Auckland Architecture and A Walking Guide to Christchurch Architecture, Wellington must have seemed ine...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie, author of Old Black Cloud
Q1: The first-ever social history of mental depression in New Zealand . . . what drew you to this topic? It comes from my long-term research, tea...
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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 Andrew Brown
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about The Citizen: Past and Present? It’s the range of periods and societies compared and contr...
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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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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on KidsBooksNZ
Maria Gill has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too! by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing on...
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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
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10 Questions with Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging? Perhaps it’s the ‘thingness’ of the book itself – we...
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
Disclaimer: The following comments reflect the personal opinion of the writer, and do not reflect either an official NZDF position, or the opinion...
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10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
Q1: Why go solo? For me a big part of the joy of tramping is attempting things you think might be (too) hard. If you’re lured by the challenge, it...
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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
Q1: In a nutshell, what is Pacific Island Food Revolution all about? Pacific Island Food Revolution uses the power of reality TV, radio and socia...
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Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
It began with a simple realisation. Over the course of a generation, there had been a fundamental shift in the way Pacific people ate. Processed fo...
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Q1: What is the motivation for you to create books for young readers? As a fluent Māori speaker, a mother and an educator, I understand the role qu...
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Ten Questions with Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker
Q1: What prompted you to share your story? JW: This is the book I wished that I could have read secretly under my duvet when I was only just survi...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2023. How many poems were submitted? Once again, well over a thousand. Oft...
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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TURKEY. We stood eye-to-eye, locked in a toddler–bird standoff. I was three years old, so we were of equal intelligence, but th...
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‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
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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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10 Questions with Beth Greener
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Army Fundamentals? What pleases me most about the book is the fact that many of the contr...
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand. Fifty years ago, the conversations I overheard in my parents’ kitchen were about droughts, the difficulty...
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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10 Questions with Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle
Q1: Your beautiful book is at the printer. How does that feel? CB: Absolutely thrilling — making a book when you love books is a thrill and worki...
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Bordering on Miraculous reviewed in VOLUME
Thomas Koed gives an excellent review of the latest in the kōrero series, Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, in VOLUME new...
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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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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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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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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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10 Question Q&A with Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
Q1: What was your reaction when series editor Lloyd Jones approached you to see whether you were keen to create the sixth book in the kōrero series...
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An excerpt from To the Summit
Chapter 1 — Rushing to base camp October 2015, Everest region, Nepal The track from Chukhung crossed the ice-laced waters of a cloudy glacial strea...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. What’s the focus of this year’s edition of The New Zealand Land & Food Annual? This year we’ve focused on food, and more specifically the ‘...
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10 Questions with Anne Ridler
1. How long have you had an association with this somewhat venerable book? Dave and Neil wrote the first edition together and I helped revise the s...
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10 Questions with Luke Smythe
Q1: This wonderful book has the most lovely subtitle: Between Gesture and Geometry. Could you explain why it’s so fitting? Most abstract painters f...
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10 Questions with Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: Jack Ross invited you to be the guest editor of the 2020 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Terrifying? Or a great opportunity? Dame Chri...
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A lively Q&A between Dick Frizzell and ArtZone
Dick Frizzell and ArtZone square off for a lively Q&A: What does a typical day look like? A typical day…? Answering questionnaires. Out to the...
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10 Questions with Girol Karacaoglu and Graham Hassall
Q1: Can you briefly describe what social policy is? A traditional answer has been that social policy focused on ‘welfare’ for the needy plus, more...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? reviewed by Swings + Roundabouts
Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? review in Swings + Roundabouts: ‘This beautifully photographed board book follows a question/a...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Daniel K Brown has reviewed the latest in our walking guide series by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, fo...
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Newsroom runs an extract from ‘the superb new memoir Raiment by Jan Kemp’
Newsroom has run an extract from Jan Kemp’s ‘superb new memoir’, Raiment. ‘In English I, our lectures included An Introduction to Shakespeare by Ma...
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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? by Te Ataakura Pewhairangi on NZ Booklovers. ‘Ko wai kei te papa tāka...
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Adopted reviewed in North & South
Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion, the memoir by Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker about finding their respective birth families, was recently rev...
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The Crewe Murders reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Dan Eady reviews The Crewe Murders by Kirsty Johnston & James Hollings: 'The 1970 killing of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmho...
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Katūīvei reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Mere Taito and Vaughan Rapatahana fo...
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Eat Pacific reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Iain McKenzie reviews Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Oliver for NZ Booklovers: ‘The book of the TV seri...
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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
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Extract from Herbst: Architecture in context
Ōruawharo Bay Bach, Aotea Great Barrier, 2008 When we came to design this house, we thought we had some answers to the questions of bach living; a...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Geographic
Rachel Morris reviews Michael Belgrave's new book Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand for New Zealand Geographic: ‘Any attempt to expla...
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Becoming Aotearoa: Newsroom’s book of the week
Philip Matthews reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Newsroom’s book of the week: ‘Was the Christchurch...
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NZ Booklovers reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
The Sarjeant Gallery, a beautiful century old heritage building and one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries, finally re-opened this Nove...
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Ten Question Q&A with Roger Buckton
Q1: You lived in Pūhoi for a time. Is this where your interest in the community’s unique music and dances began? I knew of the music and dance prio...
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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....