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For King and Other Countries launch details
Join us to celebrate the launch of For King and Other Countries by Glyn Harper. New Zealand’s military contribution to the First World War was a ma...
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For King and Other Countries
The untold story of the New Zealanders who fought the Great War under other flags
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: Four years ago you published the very successful Johnny Enzed, the story of the New Zealand soldiers who signed up with the New Zealand Expedit...
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Observations of a Rural Nurse
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
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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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Danny Keenan receives the 2023 Michael King Writer's Fellowship
It was announced on Friday that Dr Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) is the 2023 recipient of Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Congratula...
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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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Frequently asked questions
Does Massey University Press publish textbooks? Yes, under the MasseyTexts imprint. We are especially interested in textbooks designed to be used i...
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The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on Newsroom
Read an extract from Hinemoana Baker's essay ‘Kingfisher’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Be...
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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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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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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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Robin Morrison
Robin Morrison (1944–1993) was one of New Zealand‘s most significant documentary photographers
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Sara McIntyre
Sara McIntyre moved from Wellington to the King Country in 2010. While working as a district nurse at Taumarunui Hospital she had the opportunity to further explore the area as a photographer.
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Sarah Laing
Sarah Laing is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist.
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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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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10 Questions with Graham Hassall and Negar Partow
Q1: What prompted you to put this book together? The book overlaps three areas of interests for both of us: the operation of the United Nations sys...
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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 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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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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Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
The battle over Māori sovereignty Just when the missionaries were beginning to convince themselves that two decades of arduous and unrewarding labo...
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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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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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Eat Pacific
Delicious, tasty, healthy recipes from across the moana
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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Te Ataakura on creating books for young te reo learners
Dionne Christian spoke with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi about her second board book, offered as both a bilingual and te reo edition, Ko wai kei te papa...
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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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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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Andy Martin
Dr Andy Martin is a professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North.
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Greg Donson
Greg Donson has been Curator and Programmes Manager at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui since 2007, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the exhibition programme, including publications.
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James Watson
James Watson is Associate Professor in History at Massey University. His research focuses largely on the relationship between New Zealand and the UK in the twentieth century.
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Rachel Haydon
Rachel Haydon is the general manager of the National Acquarium of New Zealand, in Napier, and a children’s author.
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Grid reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Crackle! Cra...
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Sara McIntyre interviewed on Magic Talk
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10 Questions with Cliff Simons
Q1: The New Zealand Wars, the Land Wars, the Māori Wars — these nineteenth-century conflicts have had a few name changes, as well as changing ideas...
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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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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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10 Questions with Danny Keenan
Q1: You have written books on armed conflict and passive resistance in the nineteenth century. The Fate of the Land feels like another layer of the...
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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
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10 Questions with Adam Claasen, author of Grid
Q1: Keith Caldwell was one of the stars of your last book, Fearless, about the New Zealand airmen who flew in the First World War. As you were fini...
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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...
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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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Artists in Antarctica reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame reviews Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd for Polar Record: ‘Patrick Shepherd has edited a sumptuous collection of creativity by...
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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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Fire & Ice is ReadingRoom's book of the week
Steve Braunias reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for ReadingRoom: ‘The main image on this page — above, spread out happily across the screen...
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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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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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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Arts Review: ‘The current exhibition “Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohing...
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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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Soundings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea on NZ Booklovers: ‘In Soundings, Kennedy Warne celebrate...
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Guy Somerset reviews Shadow Worlds for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Guy Somerset has reviewed Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of...
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Hastings reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Many geniuses are recognized early on in t...
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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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Sara McIntyre introduces Observations of a Rural Nurse
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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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‘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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10 Questions with Selwyn Katene
1. What contribution does this book make to meaningful implementation of the principles of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?...
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A Moral Truth — Mediawatch interview
A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand opens with an extract from Te Hokioi, which the book's editor, James Hollings,...
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PhotoForum interviews Sara McIntyre
Sally Blundell has interviewed Sara McIntyre about her book Observations of a Rural Nurse for PhotoForum: ‘Places such as Kākahi,’ wrote Peter McIn...
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Chris Szekely interviewed by Kelly Dennett
Chris Szekely, one of the editors of Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull, was interviewed by Kelly Dennett: ‘In the introduction...
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Stuff interviews Downfall author Paul Diamond
‘Paul Diamond has pursued stories his whole life. An accountant-turned-journalist, Diamond is queer and Māori and now works to help tell stories at...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Jane Robertson's most recent book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on N...
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
It might be a whopper, coming in at 650 pages, but Michael Belgrave’s sweeping history of New Zealand is a fluent, authoritative, and often revisio...
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Grid reviewed in the Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation
Gary Connor reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for the Journal of the Air Force Histori...
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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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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2022. How many poems were submitted? The submission screen went on for mil...
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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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Watch the online launch of Raiment: A Memoir
Jan Kemp’s new book Raiment: A Memoir was launched online in April to an international audience from Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and e...
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Akinga o ngā Rangatira reviewed on Landfall
This is a timely book because it adds much to the distressing story of the concerted Māori effort to slow the alienation of their land and reveals...
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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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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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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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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...