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Newsroom reviews Christchurch Architecture
‘It’s a very ordinary scene in New Zealand’s second or third largest city, and most of us barely notice the architectural wonder around us. The Hin...
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — revised edition reviewed by John Daly-Peoples
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds’ latest city walking guide, Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — revised edition on...
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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John Walsh talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture
Author John Walsh talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about the revised edition of Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — A walking guide. He talks about...
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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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Wellington Architecture
Over 120 buildings and five routes around our capital city
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide appears in the Listener
Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds received a mention in the Listener this month: ‘Given walking guides to...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, the latest in our series of architectural guides by John Walsh and Patrick...
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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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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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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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John Walsh talks to Nine to Noon’s Kathryn Ryan
John Walsh, author of Christchurch Architecture: A Walking Guide, talked to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ’s Nine to Noon programme. Listen to the interview o...
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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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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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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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John Walsh
John Walsh is the author of several major books on New Zealand architecture.
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Nic Low
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former programme director of WORD Christchurch.
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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Mark Adams
Mark Adams is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished photographers whose work is held in major institutions in New Zealand and abroad.
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John Crawford
John Crawford is the New Zealand Defence Force Historian and a member of the Governance Group of the First World War Centennial History Programme.
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Peter Walker
Peter Walker began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Fox Boy.
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Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers is an author, editor and book reviewer.
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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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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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Elizabeth Cox writes of the many surprises discovered while editing Making Space
Historian Elizabeth Cox writes on the Spinoff about the surprises she uncovered during the process of writing Making Space: A history of New Zealan...
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Marcus Taylor
Marcus Taylor graduated with a degree in veterinary science from Massey University in 2013 and went straight into mixed practice. He later worked in Newfoundland and southern England, and then he worked for a year on an animal-health research project with the Bedouin in the Middle East.
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Saskia Leek
Saskia Leek has an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.
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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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10 Questions with Ella Kahu, Te Rā Moriarty, Helen Dollery and Richard Shaw
Q1: Tūrangawaewae was first published in 2017 and has reprinted a number of times. Why is it so successful? Part of that has to do with the fact t...
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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 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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Shadow Worlds: Author's exploration of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand
‘In a cafe in the Royal Arcade in downtown Timaru a group of enthusiastic residents settle in for a night of theosophical conversation. ‘It is Octo...
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Andrew Paul Wood interviewed on Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood spoke to Rachael Comer for Stuff ahead of the launch of his book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealan...
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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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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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Author Jane Robertson interviewed by The Press
Jane Robertson, author of the ‘spectacularly illustrated’ Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, has been interview...
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Urgent Moments reviewed in EyeContact
John Hurrell reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Je...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on Kete
Bob Frame reviews Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson: ‘This sumptuous social and environmental...
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Invisible reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
A review of Jacqueline Leckie’s Invisible: New Zealand’s history of excluding Kiwi-Indians has appeared in the New Zealand Journal of History’s Apr...
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Read an interview with Little Doomsdays authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Wellington City Library has interviewed authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson about their recent publication Little Doomsdays: These ‘kōrero series’ pro...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie
Q1: How did the book come about? The book follows from my historical research and friendships with Indian people in Aotearoa dating back to the mi...
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10 Questions with Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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10 Questions with Mark Revington
Q1: You’ve had the privilege of helping Mark Solomon write a book that reflects on his life and on key issues. Was it your idea, and why? Both Tā...
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Colin Monteath talks about Erebus with Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine recently asked Colin Monteath, author of Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, seven questions ahead of hi...
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Read an extract from Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand
Kuriheka A winding country road from Maheno, southwest of Ōamaru in north Otago, leads to the magnificent Kuriheka woolshed. Kuriheka was originall...
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Ten questions with Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Q1: These ‘kōrero series’ projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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Ten questions with Wil Hoverd and Deidre McDonald
Q1: What is the greatest threat to New Zealand’s security? WH & DM: Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the greatest threats to the security...
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Te Kupenga reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Lee Davidson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull ‘Once a year, I take my museum and heritage studies class to the A...
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10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
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Katie Pickles’ speech from the launch of With Them Through Hell
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War – launch held on 15 November at Scorpio Books, Christchurch. Speech gi...
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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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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in New Zealand Journal of Public History
Emma Jean-Kelly reviews Old Black Cloud: A culture history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand for New Zealand Journal of Public History:...
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Havelock North and Auckland launches for John Scott Works
Join us to celebrate the launch of John Scott Works, by David Straight. This handsome book is a rich and loving tribute to the work and cultural si...
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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood’s fascinating new book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand has been reviewed on Stuff by Philip Mat...
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Marcus Taylor talks to Paddy Gower on RNZ
Marcus Taylor graduated from Massey University 11 years ago - his life as a vet has been pretty action packed since then. He's about to move from...
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‘Stories of historic shearing sheds warmly received’
David Watt reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Heritage New Zealand: ‘...
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November launches
It’s a full November for MUP authors, who will be busy across the country with book launches and talks.The New Zealand Horse by Deborah Coddington...
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Ta Mark Solomon on Maori Television
Ta Mark Solomon’s memoir Mana Whakatipu was featured on Te Ao, Maori Television's news bulletin: ‘Everyone has an opinion about Covid-19 and Tā Mar...
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The Spinoff's summer reading list of local crime books
'Crime fiction dominated the most-borrowed or circulated books in 2023, according to information provided by a sample of Aotearoa libraries (thanks...
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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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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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Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast
‘ Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Academy of New Zealand Literature: Family histories are having a moment in the sun. Charlot...
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Raiment reviewed in ANZL
Stephanie Johnson has produced a balanced reviewed of Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment: A Memoir for Academy of New Zealand Literature. ‘Prominent New Zea...
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Kete Books reviews Shadow Worlds
‘In the 1970s, I went on a very specific book-buying bender and was soon adrift in a confusing confluence of esoteric knowledge and practices: Gurd...
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Graham Reid reviews Shadow Worlds on Kete
Andrew Paul Wood’s new book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand has been reviewed by Graham Reid on Kete: ‘In the 19...
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NZ Booklovers interviews Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch. He has spent 32 seasons in Antarctica, from...
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Read an extract of Erebus published in the NZ Herald
Former New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme field operations officer Colin Monteath recalls his recovery work after the devastating Mt Erebus c...
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10 Questions with Jane Ussher
Q1: This is a major project. How long did it take? About two years actually taking the photographs but the idea behind the book has been developing...
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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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Hastings reviewed in Kete
Peter Simpson reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for Kete: ‘'An element which runs through all of Frizzell’s multiple activi...
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10 Questions with Jane Robertson
Q1: Why did you want to write this book?Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour is my home, the place I love, my tūrangawaewae. I wanted to understand this pl...
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10 Questions with Peter Walker, author of Hard by the Cloud House
Q1: This your fourth book and it ranges far and wide. Where did the idea for it first take seed? I was reading a newspaper one day and saw a story...
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Ten question Q&A with Michael Belgrave
Q1: At the start of this book you tell the reader about the urge you felt to write some sort of a history in the immediate wake of the mosque shoot...
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Invisible reviewed for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has reviewed Invisible: New Zealand’s history of exclu...
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Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Tony Ballantyne reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘RESPONDING TO WHA...
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Extract from Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
Q1: How do you define ‘active citizenship’? We purposefully define ‘active citizenship’ broadly so as to accommodate a diversity of approaches a...