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31 resultsSarah Ell reviews Endless Sea
‘Endless Sea has been assembled by an all-star pairing: former Metro feature writer and now in-house scribe for the museum, Frances Walsh, and one...
Frances Walsh in conversation with Jim Mora
Frances Walsh's new book, Endless Sea focuses on the sea which encircles Aotearoa, and 100 objects from the collection of the New Zealand Maritime...
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...
Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
Rooms reviewed on The Spinoff
Charlotte Fielding has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand Interiors for The Spinoff: ‘As som...
Jane Ussher
Jane Ussher MNZM is one of New Zealand’s most lauded photographers.
The Sun Is a Star
An enchanting book about our galaxy by a much-loved painter
Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
New Zealand Arts Review of Soundings
‘It seems that it is only in the last fifty years that we have taken a new approach to the ocean and our fisheries. Only a few years ago the seas...
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...
10 Questions with Damien Wilkins
Q1: A YA novel! What’s the story here? I have no idea! At no point did I think ‘I must write a YA novel’. I’d always wanted to write about the Gate...
Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
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...
10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Livestock Production in New Zealand? At present the New Zealand economy depends greatly on...
10 Questions with David Straight
Can you remember the moment you knew you wanted to create a book about John Scott? I had been thinking of a book on John Scott for a few months pri...
10 Questions with Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
Q1: The kaupapa behind the kōrero series is a writer and an artist in collaboration, creating a ‘picture book for grownups’. When series editor Llo...
You Are Here reviewed in Kete
Jade Kake reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Kete: ‘'You are Here feels like a homecoming. Home: both the beginning and th...
What we find when we dig up the past
‘As I read through my great-grandfather’s military service record and learned that he had been present not only for the invasion of Parihaka but al...
Conversātiō: a photo essay for Shepherdess
A beautiful photo essay has appeared in Shepherdess featuring images and an extract from Conversātiō: In the Company of Bees: ‘Upon starting her ow...
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud on Newsroom
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Newsroom: ‘Many of N...
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...
10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
10 Questions with Andrew Cameron
1. Now that it is published, what pleases you most about your book? Many times when I have recounted stories to various people, about some of the s...
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...
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...
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...
10 Questions with Janet Hunt
1. Now the book is back from the printer, are you pleased with it? Yes! The cover looks great and is attracting a lot of interest but, more than th...
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...
10 Questions with Nan Blanchard
Your book has just gone to print and it’s your very first. Pleased with it? It feels very unreal (pinch pinch). It takes so many people to create a...
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...
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...