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10 Questions with Michael Belgrave
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University? I’ve always believ...
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An extract from From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
Chapter 4 The College Finds its Feet After such a long and troubled pre-history, the agricultural college opened with a burst of enthusiasm and ene...
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Remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen Kós at the launch of From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen Launch remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen KósPresident of the Court of Appeal and former Pro-Chancellor of...
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From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen
The history of New Zealand’s world-facing university
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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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Michael Belgrave interviewed on RNZ's Saturday Morning programme
From early Polynesian navigators to missionaries, colonists and migrants, Massey University historian Professor Michael Belgrave has published the...
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Michael Belgrave chats to Morrin Rout on Plains FM
With a life long passion for books and for New Zealand authors, programme host Morrin Rout utilizes her wealth of radio broadcasting experience to...
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Graduation Bundle — a bundle of books to celebrate graduation
A terrific graduation offer to you from Massey University Press. Three great books that feature our university: From Empire’s Servant to Global Cit...
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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The Citizen
From Ancient Rome to Brexit, how The Citizen finds his way, exercises his rights and fulfils his duties
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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...
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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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Bryan Bruce interviews Michael Belgave
In this interview for Bryan Bruce’s podcast Head to Head, they discuss his new book Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand. Download from...
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10 Questions with Michael Keith and Chris Szekely
Q1: This book is the closing act of a couple of years of celebration of Alexander Turnbull’s life and his great gift to the nation of. Since he gav...
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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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10 Questions with Michael Dale, Kieran O’Donoghue and Hannah Mooney
1. What was the motivation for writing this book? Over the past decade several of our longstanding and former staff members who held the oral histo...
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10 Questions with Michael Petherick
Q1: With #Tumeke! you have created a complete world, peopled with remarkable characters. How did they come to you? Most of the characters came to m...
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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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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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Local Tools for Global Change
Research papers informed by the UNAIDS vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, and based on using local tools to effect global change
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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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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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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition Ebook
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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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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10 questions with Kathryn Hay, Michael Dale and Lareen Cooper
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand? Everything! The vibrancy of colour, the easy-to-read f...
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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Three Kiwi Tales
Three more endearing stories of helping New Zealand wildlife from the case files of Wildbase Hospital
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Tūtira Mai
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Tūtira Mai ebook
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Read an extract from Promises Promises
Extract from Promises Promises: 80 years of wooing New Zealand voters, by Claire Robinson. If the male voter’s duty to the state was as head of his...
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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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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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Extract from Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand
PART ONE: 1970–91 SETTING THE SCENE IN THE 1970S If, on 2 April 1971, you had journeyed out across the unsealed metal roads to the west coast of th...
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Eat Pacific
Delicious, tasty, healthy recipes from across the moana
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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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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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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...
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Read an extract from Will to Win
The New Zealand Herald featured an extract from Will to Win by Dr Farah Rangikoepa Palmer, about her love of netball as a child and what it takes t...
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The South Island of New Zealand
The return of a legendary New Zealand book
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An excerpt from Rock College
‘From late 1962 the "back basement" housed a national celebrity, perhaps the best known and most widely admired criminal figure in this country's h...
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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An excerpt from Tree of Strangers
I pressed my forehead to the cold window. Bruce's reading light reflected a bright spot against the native bush that enclosed us. I put down the ph...
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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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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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The Treaty on the Ground
The coalface reality of honouring the Treaty of Waitangi in today’s law, local government, education, health, social services and more
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NZ Poetry Shelf features readings from PNZ Yearbook poets
Paula Green at NZ Poetry Shelf features readings from poets who contributed to the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, edited by Tracey Slaughter. In...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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Read an excerpt from High Wire
HIGH WIRE LLOYD JONES EUAN MACLEOD I’d written to Euan Macleod proposing a project about bridges. He replied enthusiastically — and, over t...
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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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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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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
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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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What we can learn from animals, from a vet-turned-author
Marcus Taylor has been a vet since 2013. His memoir, The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories, published by Massey University...
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Read an extract from Kiwi Bikers
‘The only times I ever get called by my real name is by the police or someone I went to school with,’ says Miss Purple, a steampunkster from Ōamaru...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on the Spinoff
Read an extract from Lily Duval's essay from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien a...
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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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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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Extract from The Unsettled by Richard Shaw
An extract from Richard Shaw's upcoming book The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation: We also stir up emotions when we begin rummaging aroun...
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Read an extract from Song for Rosaleen
Stuff.co.nz features an extract of Pip Desmond’s memoir Song for Rosaleen: This extract from Pip Desmond’s new book Song for Rosaleen is an unflinc...
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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
PREFACE This book aims to give an overview of how Japanese language education in the tertiary sector in New Zealand is reshaping its delivery and d...
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Read an extract from Fearless published in the NZ Herald
The NZ Herald published a selection of extracts from Fearless about the Great War airman Keith Caldwell. Read them here.
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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Promises Promises
A lively history of political advertising, from the first election of the modern era in 1938 to today
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Read an extract from With Them Through Hell
To commemorate Armistice Day, the New Zealand Listener has featured an extract from Anna Roger’s book With Them Through Hell. You can read it here.
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Johanna Emeney reads from her new book
Johanna Emeney reads ‘Touching’ from Felt. Head to New Zealand Poetry Shelf to listen to the full piece. Follow the link here.
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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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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...
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Read an extract from Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘I was fascinated when, aged seven, I first saw my father weaving a kete. He would throw the kete behind him as soon as he saw me. As I was fair sk...
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Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
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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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Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga
Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga for Kids Books NZ: ‘As a nonfiction writer, I've visited the Alexander Turnbull library a few times. I've locked away...
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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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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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Tessa Duder’s speech from The Writing Life launch
The Writing Life – launch held on 6 November 2018 at Auckland City Library. Speech given by Tessa Duder on behalf of the twelve authors featured in...
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Read an extract from Otherhood in Ensemble magazine
Ensemble has featured Lil O’Brien's essay ‘Our American fertility dream’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent ed...
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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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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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Army Fundamentals
A unique insider view of the New Zealand Army
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Three poems from Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Article magazine features three of the poems from the 2018 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Check them out here.
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Katūīvei
A celebration of an exciting new thread in the literature of Aotearoa
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Paul Diamond reviews The South Island of New Zealand from the Road on RNZ
Paul Diamond has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on Nine to Noon. You can listen to the...
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Kennedy Warne gives an interview from French Polynesia on Nine to Noon
Kennedy Warne published his memoir Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea in June this year, and he talked to Kathryn Ryan from Ra‘iate...
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Pātaka Kai
Food for hope and wellbeing
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The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road appears in Kia Ora Magazine
Kia Ora magazine has published a small review of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road by Robin Morrison celebrating the new edition of t...
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Read an extract of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Louise Callan, former journalist and friend of Robin Morrison, writes an introductory essay to the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand —...
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South Island of New Zealand From the Road reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on the Poetry Shelf blog: ‘Road trips ta...
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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 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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Chris Price reads from The Lobster’s Tale on NZ Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews The Lobster's Tale and author Chris Price reads from the book: Lloyd Jones’ Kōrero series invites a collaboration between ‘two...
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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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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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An extract from Bill & Shirley
'Bill’s last year, the end of his journey, was a catastrophe. In the spring of 1974 he was arrested and charged with an offence under the Official...
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NZ Booklovers reviews the South Island of New Zealand From the Road
Lyn Potter has reviewed Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road, which was republished this month in a new edition. She says...
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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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10 Questions with Rachael Bell, co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground
Now that it is published, what pleases you most about The Treaty on the Ground? For me it’s the variety of contributors and their experiences. This...
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Roger Smith’s speech from the Wellington launch of We Are Here
We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa was launched in Wellington on October 8 by Roger Smith, cartographer at Geographx Map Design Studio. Tēnā koutou...
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Read an extract from You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
What is it that stops you now? Is it the possibility of failure? You’ve survived failure many times before, so whywould this be different? Perhaps...
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Read an extract from Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell
24: AIN’T GONNA WORK ON MCINNES’S FARM NO MORE I know that the name Frizzell comes from the Fraser clan, so maybe that had some part in how Dad li...
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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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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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New Zealand Geographic traces the making of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Geoff Chapple has written a story in New Zealand Geographic to celebrate the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road by Robi...
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Will to Win
Insights and revelations from some of the legends of New Zealand netball
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Steve Braunias reviewed the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Steve Braunias has written an excellent and comprehensive review on Newsroom of the newly republished The South Island of New Zealand — From the Ro...
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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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Sharon McLennan
Sharon McLennan is a senior lecturer in citizenship and development studies at Massey University.
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Carol Neill
Carol Neill was a course co-ordinator in Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters at the Albany campus from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology.
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Read an extract from Sylvia and the Birds on Newsroom
‘Newly rescued birds were always a bit skittish, so I kept them in this dark shelter. The ones who’d been with me a while enjoyed their playground...
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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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New Zealand National Security
New Zealand faces a range of serious security challenges in a globalised world — are we prepared for them?
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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Sing New Zealand
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today’s award-winning international choirs
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The Sapling reviews #Tumeke!
‘It is a delight to see a fiction book aimed at the middle reader age with such a unique and visually appealing layout. A quick riffle through the...
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Conversations About Indigenous Rights
A sharp assessment of how New Zealand is meeting its obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, ten years on from its signing
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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...
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Read an extract from Mark Adams: A survey by Sarah Farrar
Read and see the extract here.
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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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Tū Arohae
How to think clearly in a confusing post-truth age
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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Kiwi Bikers
A celebration of the motorbikes we love and admire
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Te Kupenga reviewed by Jessie Neilson for Otago Daily Times
Jessie Neilson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull for the Otago Daily Times. You can read the full review below: 10...
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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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Te Kupenga one of Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books
Eleanor Black has included Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull in Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books: ‘A handwritten account of Hēn...
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Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga
Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga for Kete: ‘The Alexander Turnbull library is the oldest section of the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington....
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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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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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The Sun Is a Star
An enchanting book about our galaxy by a much-loved painter
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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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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition Ebook
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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The Ones That Bit Me!
A young vet’s experiences with cows and camels
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Diseases of Cattle in Australasia
The definitive and authoritative text on cattle diseases in New Zealand and Australia
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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Soundings
A love affair with the underwater world
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand ebook
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Me, According to the History of Art
A fast-paced romp through the history of western painting with one of New Zealand’s best-known painters
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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Sleeping Better in Pregnancy
Get the best sleep in pregnancy to enhance the health and wellbeing of you and your baby
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Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
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Little Doomsdays
A unique collaboration in words and art
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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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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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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Luke Smythe
Dr Luke Smythe is a lecturer in art history, art theory and curatorship in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne.
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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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Fifty Years a Feminist
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism
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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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Te Manu Huna a Tāne
A unique insight into weaving with kiwi feathers
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Felt
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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John Scott Works
A survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s most important architects
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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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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Michaela Selway
Michaela Selway is a PhD student in early medieval history at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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The Fruit Shop by Gilbert Wong: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
The Fruit Shop: A story of growing up as a Chinese New Zealander Wong Gee and Co was open five and a half days a week, and only succeeded when trea...
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Grey Is a Feminist Issue — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Grey Is a Feminist Issue Claire Robinson 2015 was the year grey hair went mainstream. What started in the noughties as the street-fashion trend ‘...
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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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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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10 Questions with William Hoverd
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about National Security: Challenges, Trends and Issues? We really like the cover. We tried to use...
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The Taranaki Daily News interviews Janet Hunt
Read the Taranaki Daily News interview with Janet Hunt here.
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The Unsettled reviewed on Landfall
Rowan Light reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw: ‘Aotearoa New Zealand, like the Arthurian setting of Kazuo Ishigu...
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Lynley Edmeades
Lynley Edmeades is the author of two poetry collections and is the editor of Landfall.
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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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Phil Dadson
Phil Dadson ONZM is a transdisciplinary artist, musician/composer and improviser, whose practice spans some 50 years.
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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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Livestock Production in New Zealand Revised Edition
The lifestyle-block owner and farmer’s go-to reference book
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Livestock Production in New Zealand Revised Edition ebook
The lifestyle-block owner and farmer’s go-to reference book
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Brian Moloughney
Brian Moloughney taught Chinese history at the University of Otago from 1993 to 2022.
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Meaghan Fisher
Meaghan Fisher has spent many years studying and working with marginalised and under-served communities, particularly in relation to mental and sexual health services, and public policy.
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Peata Larkin
Peata Larkin (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Tuhourangi) graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2009 and has a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
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Steven Loveridge
Steven Loveridge holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and works from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history appears in the Listener
Chris Moore has reviewed New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History, edited by Ian McGibbon, in the New Zealand Listener this month. ‘While no book s...
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Carolyn Wirth
Carolyn Wirth holds a PhD in Finance from Massey University and her current research investigates the corporate financial implications of country-level environmental regulatory stringency.
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Jennifer Gillam
Jennifer Gillam is a photographer, writer and exhibiting multimedia artist.
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Pippa Keel
Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer.
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Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best known and most versatile painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury.
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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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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Bronwyn Labrum reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A biography by Martin Edmond for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘AS THE DIRECTOR of the...
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City at the Centre
A richly illustrated history of an ambitious city
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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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Cassandra Barnett
Cassandra Barnett is an author and artist of Raukawa, Ngāti Huri and Pākehā descent who writes poetry, essays and short fiction about cultural and ecological futures.
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Solo
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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The Near West
A comprehensive history of three fascinating Auckland neighbourhoods
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How Should We Live?
A guide to navigating the twenty-first century’s ethical minefields
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Wild Honey
A comprehensive guide to poetry by New Zealand women poets written by poetry champion Paula Green
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Woolsheds
Inside the historic buildings of New Zealand’s heartland
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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Lyn Wade
Lyn Wade has been a member of the Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters’ Trust since its inception in 1997.
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Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond was born in Ohakune and grew up in small North Island towns. He has an MA in English language and literature from Victoria University of Wellington (1977) and a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2013).
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Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading writers on matters art-historical and aesthetic.
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Cynthia Farquhar
Professor Cynthia (Cindy) Farquhar is Postgraduate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland.
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David Eggleton
David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Rotuman, Tongan and Pākehā heritage.
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Deidre McDonald
Deidre Ann McDonald is a teaching fellow with Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University.
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Jade Kake
Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi — Ngāti Hau me Te Parawhau, Te Whakatōhea, Te Arawa) is an architectural designer, writer and housing advocate.
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Kerry Taylor
Professor Kerry Taylor is the head of the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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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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Mark Solomon
Tā Mark Wiremu Solomon KNZM, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurī, served as kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the tribal council of Ngāi Tahu, for 18 years.
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Natalia Martín
Dr Natalia Martín is a lecturer in animal science at Massey University.
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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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Stephen Duffin
Stephen Duffin is a lecturer at Massey University, where he has taught critical thinking for the past 20 years.
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Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. Her fourth novel, Kurangaituku, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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William Hoverd
Associate Professor William Hoverd is the director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at Massey University.
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Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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30 Queer Lives
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders
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Adopted
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Heartland Strong
A new vision for the future of New Zealand’s rural communities
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It Takes a Village
Where to go in one of New Zealand’s charming visitor hot-spots
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Living Between Land and Sea
Rich and detailed stories of lives dominated by the sea
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One Hundred Havens
A rich and complex story shaped by land and sea
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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The Forgotten Coast
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers
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To the Summit
An inspirational story of determination and grit
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The Dark Dad
The damage done to a family by war
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Conversātiō
Renowned photographer focuses on the importance of bees
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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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Ken Downie
Ken Downie is freelance photographer and has worked as a photojournalist for Metro, North & South and the New Zealand Listener.
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Mark Henrickson
Mark Henrickson is Associate Professor in Social Work at Massey University in Auckland, and for many years he worked in HIV-related health and mental healthcare.
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Ralf Heimrath
Dr Ralf Heimrath’s distinguished scholarly career encompasses teaching and leadership positions at a Bavarian open-air museum, the National University of Mongolia and the University of Malta.
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Bordering on Miraculous
A vivid, compelling collaboration between a poet and a painter
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Free to Be Children
How to combat the tragedy of child sexual abuse
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Hazel and the Snails
A debut novel destined to become a classic
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Life in the Shallows
How wetlands work, what lives there, and what we can do to protect them
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New Zealand Between the Wars ebook
Examining New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years, when the foundation for a new nation was laid
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Ngātokimatawhaorua
The power of mana waka to inspire a people
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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
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The New Zealand Horse
A handsome book showing the horse in all its glory
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
The history of one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries
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Anna Dickson
Dr Anna Dickson is a New Zealand freelance writer and editor.
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Bridget Hackshaw
Bridget Hackshaw researched and photographed the buildings and artworks in this book and is the daughter of architect James Hackshaw
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Carl Bradley
Carl Bradley is a lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Clare Ladyman
Clare Ladyman completed her research studies at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia.
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Cliff Simons
Cliff Simons is Director of the New Zealand Wars Study Centre at the New Zealand Defence College.
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Damian Skinner
Damian Skinner is an art historian, writer and former museum curator.
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David Straight
David Straight is an Auckland-based photographer who specialises in architecture.
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Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell has taught Chinese language, literature and history at the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Kate Taylor
Kate Taylor is a freelance journalist, administrator and event manager.
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Lisa Cherrington
Lisa Cherrington is a published writer, mataora (Mahi a Atua practitioner) and clinical psychologist.
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Margaret Brown
Dr Margaret Brown is a senior social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Palmerston North.
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Nick Allen
Nick Allen is a passionate tramper and climber who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when he was just 25. He has set up a scholarship fund to help others with MS get outdoors.
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Nick Nelson
Nick Nelson is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Noelle Donnelly
Dr Noelle Donnelly is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
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Peter Meihana
Dr Peter Meihana, Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō and Ngāi Tahu, is a lecturer in Māori History in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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Finding Frances Hodgkins
A fresh new look at where, when and why Frances Hodgkins painted some of her best-known works
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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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‘A Prince of Riflemen’: An extract from Experience of a Lifetime
At about 8 p.m. on 25 April, Brigadier General Harold ‘Hooky’ Walker ordered Jesse Wallingford to guide two newly arrived companies of the Canterbu...
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Encountering China reviewed in Capital Magazine’s book club
Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Brian Moloughney and Duncan Campbell has been reviewed for Capital’s book cl...
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Anna Rogers
Anna Rogers is an author, editor and book reviewer.
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Deborah Coddington
Deborah Coddington is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament. She lives in the Wairarapa and is a keen rider.
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Dick Veitch
Dick Veitch spent his working career with the New Zealand Wildlife Service, now part of the Department of Conservation.
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Jakob Malmo
Jakob Malmo AO, BVSc, FACVSc, DVSc (honoris causa) is a Registered Veterinary Specialist in Cattle Medicine and Honorary Senior Fellow, Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne’s Maffra Veterinary Centre.
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Jane Parker
Professor Jane Parker specialises in employment relations and human resource management.
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Johnson Witehira
Dr Johnson Witehira (Tamahaki, Ngāti Hinekura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Tūteauru, Ngāti Hāmoa) is a leading Māori innovator working across art, design, technology and game development.
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Kathryn Hay
Dr Kathryn Hay is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Field Education in the School of Social Work at Massey University. She is a registered social worker and a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
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Margaret Kawharu
Margaret Kawharu, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara/Mahurehure, is the Senior Advisor Māori at Massey University’s Albany campus.
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Nigel Robson
Nigel Robson is a senior historian at the Office of Māori Crown Relations — Te Arawhiti.
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Simon Wilson
Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald.
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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Brigitta Baker
Brigitta Baker was adopted during the closed adoption era. Her professional experience ranges from advisory roles to positions in human resource management, leadership development and coaching.
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Pātaka Kai reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Waiheke Weekender: ‘As global supply chains becom...
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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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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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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Janet Hunt
Janet Hunt is one of New Zealand’s best known natural history writers, for adults and children.
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Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
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Mark Beehre
Mark Beehre initially trained as a specialist physician and worked for several years in medical practice before studying photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland and Massey University
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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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Judith Williams
Judith Williams was a descendant of early Pūhoi settlers and helped establish the Puhoi Historical Society.
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Roger Buckton
Roger Buckton was an adjunct associate-professor at the University of Canterbury and lectured in ethno-music, musicianship and music education. He has lived in Pūhoi since 1990.
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Richard Shaw responds to critics of The Unsettled on Newsroom
Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation responds to critics in a piece published by Newsroom: ‘A couple of years ago I...
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Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Kauwhata) studied fine art at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and has taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wānanga.
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Hone Morris
Associate Professor Dr Hone Waengarangi Morris (Ngāi Te Rangitotohu, Ngāti Mārau, Ngāti Maru, Ngāi Te Ao Kāpiti) is a member of the leadership team in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori at Massey University.
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Life in the Shallows for the Waiheke Weekender
Reviewer Jenny Nicholls has written about Life in the Shallows: The wetlands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Karen Denyer and Monica Peters for Stuff. ‘...
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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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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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How to Die by Jo Randerson: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
How to Die: Thoughts on life and death As a child, I was fixated on images of the remains of inhabitants at Pompeii. Their final moments as the hea...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in SOUTH magazine
Gavin Bertram reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for SOUTH magazine: ‘Doug Jolly’s ideas largely...
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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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The power of art to make a difference: Urgent Moments reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples of the New Zealand Arts Review has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by...
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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Little Doomsdays, the fifth in the kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, has been reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review. John Daly-Peoples says of Nic...
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Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
Andrew Paul Wood reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophi...
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10 Questions with David Cohen and Kathy Paterson
Q1: What part does RNZ play in your daily life? Kathy Paterson: It’s a constant, one that informs me with interviews connected to news headlines fr...
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Simon Bridges reviews New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for Newsroom
Simon Bridges recently reviewed Ian McGibbon’s ‘compendious, 564-page, multi-authored volume’ New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history on Newsroom:...
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Little Doomsdays reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson has been reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. It’s the fifth in the kōrero series edited b...
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10 Questions with Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
Q1: Where did the notion of this book come from? JE: The idea for a book about Sylvia came to me in a flash. In 2018, at the age of 85, Sylvia deci...
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Steve Braunias names two Massey University Press books best illustrated of 2023
Steve Braunias writes for Newsroom: 'The golden age of illustrated New Zealand books is right now. In a land as beautiful and good to look at as A...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
Peter Bale has reviewed New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, in North & South: Breakfast: Our Most Diplomatic Meal...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed for NBR
Nevil Gibson has reviewed Ian McGibbon’s New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for National Business Review. He writes: ‘Prime Minister Jacinda...
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10 Questions with Andrew Colarik
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Cyber Security and Policy: A Substantive Dialogue? Two things in particular please me about...
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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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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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HomeGround reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Bill McKay has reviewed Simon Wilson’s HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives in Architecture New Zealand: ‘Auckland City Mission’s...
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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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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Mark Southcombe reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for Architecture New Zealand: ‘Whanganui is close...
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Ten questions with Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Q1: The subtitle declares ‘new writing for a changed world’. Changed, how so? WI: Nature keeps sending out these SOS messages, and Cyclone Gabriell...
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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...
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10 Questions with Steve Duffin and Bill Fish
1. What is critical thinking? Critical thinking seems to mean something different to lots of people. I take it to be a careful and detailed analysi...
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Damien Wilkins’ launch speech for On We Go
On We Go was launched at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, on Monday 15 March by Damien Wilkins. I’m very happy to say a few words about this gorgeous,...
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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 Damian Skinner
1. You wrote your MA thesis on Theo Schoon in the 1990s but clearly you weren’t quite done with him. What drew you back? It was actually meeting a...
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Steven Loveridge reviews The Front Line in the New Zealand Journal of History
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper with Susan Lemish has been reviewed by Steven Loveridge in the New...
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The Soundtrack of my Childhood by Maria Majsa: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Maria Majsa’s yearning for a happy childhood and later a personal rebellion are reflected in her music choices. 1. Penny Lane This is my first memo...
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Ten questions with Joan Skinner
Q1: What drew you to midwifery as a profession? It probably started before I was born. My Dad was a GP obstetrician and he seemed to be always away...
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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
Q1: You’ve both published in this kai sovereignty/Indigenous food systems space before. What did you specifically want this book to do? JS: The boo...
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Fifty Years a Feminist reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Sue Kedgley’s Fifty Years a Feminist has been reviewed by Charlotte MacDonald of Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. In the latest...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Q1: You’ve written many books and are well acquainted with the highs and lows of the authorial life. But was this one just a bit different? It is d...
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Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
Aaron Lister’s speech at the launch of Theo Schoon: A Biography, by Damian Skinner Theo Schoon sets a tough precedent when it comes to giving ope...
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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 Jenny Gillam
Q1: Your images document a unique wānanga in the north, in which women came together to learn how to pelt kiwi for their feathers for weaving. The...
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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 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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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, was reviewed in North & South’s September book reviews. Paul Little says: ‘Th...
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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 Steve Chadwick
1. Now that the book is finished, are you happy with it? Yes, very pleased. It has turned out better than I expected. 2. What were you looking fo...
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10 Questions with Paul Diamond
Q1: This book has been a long quest for you. When did you first get become interested in the Charles Mackay story? Downfall began in 2004 when I wa...
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10 Questions with Jane Parker, Marian Baird, Noelle Donnelly, and Rae Cooper
Q1: This is a big topic. How did the project begin? The book traverses a range of themes with particular regard to globalisation, technological d...
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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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10 Questions with Shiloh Groot
1. Why did you all want to write this book? Because knowledge shouldn’t be hoarded by elite individuals. Because we want to share the stories of...
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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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10 Questions with Barbara Sumner
Q1: Now your book has gone off to print, how are you feeling? I am relieved, neurotic, trepidatious. And very pleased. Q2: When did you decide tha...
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I heard that the old prison was being vacated, and its remaining inm...
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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 Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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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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10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
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10 Questions with Paula Green
Q1: Now that Wild Honey is off to print, are you feeling proud of it? Yes, a thousand times yes. But also a tad anxious. Q2: It’s a huge book a...
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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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Massey University Press partners with Annual Ink to create children’s imprint
Massey University Press is excited to be joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink, is to become the Press’s new...
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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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The RNZ Cookbook wins the special award for New Zealand at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
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 won t...
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Jan Kemp reads at the Australian Mobilities GASt conference in Essen
Jan Kemp recently read from her memoir Raiment at the Australian Mobilities GASt conference in Essen. She also reads from To see a world, the seque...
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‘Thank God for this book’ — listen to Adam Claasen’s interview with RNZ’s Jim Mora
Jim Mora, from RNZ’s Sunday Morning programme, interviews Adam Claasen about some of the amazing stories in the book here.
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Peter Clague reads three poems
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 author Peter Clague reads three of his pieces from the book.
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Moana Ellis reports on the story behind Paul Diamond’s book Downfall
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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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Damien Wilkins: The books that formed me
Damien Wilkins talks to The Sapling about the books that influenced his writing, from Biggles to The Silver Sword and even football magazines. Read...
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Chris Reed reviews The Sun Is a Star
Chris Reed reviews The Sun Is a Star for NZ Booklovers: ‘One may be surprised at what can be learned from this book. The level of research and the...
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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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Book extract: What it feels like to be 50 years old, David Slack
What it feels like to be 50 years old, by David Slack, extracted from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016, edited by Nicola Legat. http://www.nzhera...
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RNZ’s Jim Mora interviews Peter Lineham
Jim Mora from RNZ’s Sunday Morning programme interviewed Peter Lineham about his book Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealan...
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Joan Mackenzie reviews Fearless by Adam Claasen
Joan Mackenzie from Whitcoulls gave a stunning review of Fearless: The extraordinary untold story of New Zealand’s Great War airmen on Radio LIVE....
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Dear Oliver reviewed on Newstalk ZB
Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books gave a glowing review of Peter Wells’ recently released memoir Dear Oliver. Listen here for the full interview with He...
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Kim Hill talks to Damian Skinner
Kim Hill from RNZ’s Saturday Morning programme recently interviewed Damian Skinner about this biography of Theo Schoon. You can listen to the fasci...
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Will to Win featured in Manawatu Standard
The Manawatu Standard published an article about the recently released Will to Win and how it developed from Lana McCarthy’s studies at Massey Univ...
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David Eggleton, editor of Katūīvei, interviewed on Bookenz
Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout talk to David Eggleton, editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Bookenz, a weekly p...
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The Christmas Bundle — four great books at a super-sharp price
A bundle of books for Christmas giving A terrific Christmas offer to you from Massey University Press. Four of our best books from our first year o...
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Booksellers NZ reviews How to Mend a Kea
Sarah Forster at Booksellers NZ has reviewed How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital: ‘I’d recommend this wonderful...
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How to Mend a Kea announced as a Storylines Notable Book
We are thrilled that How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital has made it onto the Storylines Notable Books list. The...
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Christmas hours at the Press
The Press will be on holiday from midday 21 December 2018 to 14 January 2019. We will be checking emails occasionally, so let us know if your inqui...
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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...
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Jenny Nicolls on cancel culture, resistance and Sue Kedgley's Fifty Years a Feminist
Stuff opinion: To those accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression, by Jenny Nicolls. ‘Sue Kedgley’s Fifty Years a Feminist, which...
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Skinny Dip one of the Listener’s Top Children's Books of 2021
The New Zealand Listener has named Skinny Dip one of their Top Children’s Books of 2021: ‘“The Hypochondriac Packs”, by Freya Daly Sadgrove, is my...
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The Mixtape with Dick Frizzell
Picking the music is one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated and recognisable artists. From reimagining the Four Square man to exploring Māori iconograp...
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ArtZone reviews Vonney Ball Ceramics
Sam Trubridge has reviewed Vonney Ball Ceramics for ArtZone magazine: ‘Helen Schamroth’s monograph on ceramicist Vonney Ball is quintessential coff...
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Landfall
Skip back three years or so to when the world was beginning to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic would be. It’s here that writers and editors W...
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Back on the Road with Robin Morrison
Connie Brown reviews The South Island of New Zealand: From the Road by Robin Morrison for Art News Aotearoa, delighting in the return of this class...
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David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast
David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast for Kete: ‘Years back, Elizabeth Smither and I wrote a book about our home province of Taranaki. Around that...
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Kaewa the Kororā reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts
Kaewa the Kororā has been reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts this month: ‘This is a gorgeous book with appealing and informative text alongside warm...
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Kete Books reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘In an eggshell, Sylvia and the Birds pays homage to Sylvia Durrant, who looked after 140,000 New Zealand birds during her 35 years as a bird rescu...
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Little Doomsdays is Volume’s book of the week
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived by Lloyd Jones is Volume’s book of the week: ‘Little Doomsdays, a collaboration between writer Nic Low and...
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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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A genius in pink jandals: Rewi Thompson, the Māori architect who shocked his neighbours
He was one of the boldest and most influential Māori architects, whose outfits were as eye-catching as his buildings. A new book captures his cre...
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Experience of a Lifetime: David Littlewood on Radio NZ
Experience of a Lifetime examines the experiences of individuals, from high command leaders to ordinary soldiers, in WWI. Dr David Littlewood is...
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The Sapling reviews How to Mend a Kea
The Sapling's biscuit & bird illustrator Giselle Clarkson has taken on her first *current* book review! Click here to get a brilliant perspecti...
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‘If you know a child who is interested in wildlife, then you know a child who will love this book’ — Corpus reviews How to Mend a Kea
Sue Wootton, co-editor of Corpus, reviews How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt: ‘If you know a chil...
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National Poetry Day event on Albany campus
Celebrate National Poetry Day on Massey University’s Albany campus — hear new and emerging poets read their work, from 12pm, Atrium Building AT2, F...
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‘History enlivened’ – Deborah Shepard talks to Karen Craig
Karen Craig, from PlanetFM’s Books and Beyond, recently interviewed Deborah Shepard about her new book, The Writing Life, a brilliant and intimate...
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Call made for action to stop creating child sex abusers
Robyn Salisbury, author of Free to Be Children, talked to Janine Rankin at Stuff about why it’s time for specialists, parents, educators and all Ne...
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Hazel Phillips talks to Kim Hill
In 2016, disillusioned with city life, journalist Hazel Phillips left Auckland with a pack, tramping boots, ski gear and her laptop. In the new boo...
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David Cohen talks with Jesse on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
10 November was the official launch day of The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers, and au...
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Claire Mabey reviews The RNZ Cookbook on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
Claire Mabey has given a glowing review of The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers on Afte...
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RNZ Cookbook editor Kathy Paterson talks with Morrin Rout on Bookenz
Kathy Paterson, one of the editors of The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers, recently ch...
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Katūīvei reviewed for NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand for NZ Booklovers: ‘Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from...
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John Scott Works at Objectspace
Coinciding with the launch of our new book, John Scott Works, by David Straight, Objectspace is staging an exhibition of the same name. The exhibit...
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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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Jan Kemp interviewed on Bookenz about her memoir Raiment
Morrin Rout from Bookenz interviewed Jan Kemp on her memoir Raiment. She noted that ‘it brings the reader right next door to you.’ Jan says of writ...
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Mark Derby talks to RNZ’s Emile Donovan
There are countless remarkable people who have shaped the world around us whose names would be totally unfamiliar to us. Wellington-based writer Ma...
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Pātaka Kai: a launch in photos
Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith with Johnson Witehira and Yvonne Taura was blessed and launched at Papatūānuk...
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Michelle Elvy reviews Soundings for Landfall
Michelle Elvy has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s memoir, Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea, in Landfall: ‘In this book, Kennedy Warne e...
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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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Victor Rodger reviews Downfall on The Spinoff
Paul Diamond’s latest book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been reviewed on The Spinoff. Victor Rodger writes: ‘A closeted mayor wi...
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Eat Pacific reviewed in Viva
Viva magazine, subset of NZ Herald, reviews and presents recipes from Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Ol...
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Home: New Writing in the news
Home: New Writing edited by Thom Conroy was launched at Unity Books Wellington on Thursday 13 July. This collection features essays from twenty-two...
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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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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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Venkat Raman reviews Invisible for Indian Newslink
Venkat Raman reviews Invisible for Indian Newslink: ‘There could soon be representations from the members of the Indian community appealing to the...
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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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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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Ziggle! reviewed on The Sapling
Ziggle! is an accessible and fun book of art activities put together by Rebecca Fawkner. Rebecca was able to take the knowledge and skills of the t...
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Katūīvei reviewed on Kete
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Kete: ‘Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed on Kete
Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie is reviewed on Kete: ‘Don’t be put off by th...
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Manawatu Standard reviews Home: New Writing
A new collection of essays from New Zealand authors contemplates the concept of home. Carly Thomas had a read. Home is a word heavy with substance....
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Poetry alive and in progress
Laine Moger at Stuff.co.nz reports back from the launch of the 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: ‘A collection of new poetry has been metaphoricall...
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Gretchen Albrecht launch at Auckland Art Gallery
Join us at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki on Tuesday, 9 April to launch Gretchen Albrecht: between gesture and geometry. Gretchen Albrecht C...
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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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Siobhan Harvey reviews Raiment for Kete Books
‘There’s a poetic delicacy about New Zealand author Jan Kemp’s new memoir, Raiment. From its narrative voice to its revivification of Aotearoa in t...
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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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Rachael Bell talks to RNZ’s Bryan Crump
Social historian Rachael Bell talks about her new book, which examines New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years when many believe the foundation for a...
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Launch event for Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Join Massey University Press and Poetry NZ to celebrate the launch of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, the newest issue of this country’s longest-...
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Solving an art history mystery
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith talks to Kathryn Ryan from RNZ’s Nine to Noon programme about her work uncovering the murals of E. Mervyn Taylor, including...
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Ladies’ Litera-Tea event with Pip Desmond
Pip Desmond will be talking about her memoir Song for Rosaleen at the first Ladies’ Litera-Tea event on 2 September. Organised by the the Women’s B...
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Afterglow: Unity reports on the lunchtime event with Writing Life authors
On Thursday 8 November, Unity Wellington hosted a lunchtime discussion between author Deborah Shepard, Massey University Press publisher Nicola Leg...
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Jack Ross talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan
The 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook includes 130 new poems from 87 poets. It has a skew for 2018 towards younger writers including those who are s...
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Tooth and Veil virtual launch
To watch the virtual launch of Tooth and Veil: The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse by Noel O'Hare, click here. Bringing together...
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Clare Ladyman introduces Sleeping Better in Pregnancy
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Ian Templeton reviews Fridays with Jim
'In exploring the life and times of Bolger through his conversations over the best part of a year, Cohen ranges widely. Besides its political conte...
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Jesse Mulligan talks to Graham Hassall and Negar Partow
Four times, New Zealand has moved from the kid’s table to sit among the world’s most powerful nations as a non-permanent member of the United Natio...
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Sue Kedgley talks to Jim Mora
Pioneering New Zealand feminist, activist and former Green MP Sue Kedgley first came to public attention in the 1970s as an early, outspoken women'...
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Sarah Ell reviews Reawakened
Sarah Ell reviews Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans for Kete: ‘Making a significant contribution to celebrat...
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Chris Reed reviews Skinny Dip
Chris Reed reviews Skinny Dip for NZ Booklovers: ‘An absolutely novel and tremendous read is this collection of poems from New Zealand poets set in...
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Read an extract of Skinny Dip on The Spinoff
Term four kicks off today without the kids of Waikato and Te Tai Tokerau. For those in Tāmaki Makaurau it’s even harder: they just started their 10...
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Philippa Prentice reviews Conversātiō
Philippa Prentice reviews Conversātiō for Home Style: ‘Could this book be any more magical? Its author, Anne Noble, is one of Aotearoa’s preeminent...
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The Good Books Q&A with Richard Shaw
In The Forgotten Coast, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki whic...
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Read an extract of The Forgotten Coast on The Guardian
Richard's Shaw's memoir The Forgotten Coast unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Tarana...
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Jane Ussher on Nine to Noon
Jane Ussher knows a great room when she sees one. Over the years she has shot interiors ranging from Shackleton’s Antarctic huts to highly specifie...
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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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The RNZ Cookbook appears on The Spinoff’s great, late Christmas books guide
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 appeared...
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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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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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Kate Barraclough wins a 2023 PANZ Book Design Award for The RNZ Cookbook
Congratulations to the wonderful Kate Barraclough, and illustrator Pippa Keel, who won the 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2023 at the recent...
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The Unsettled reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Paul Diamond reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Richard Shaw’s 2021 me...
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Annette O’Sullivan talks to RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan
Exquisitely photographed by Jane Ussher, Woolsheds takes readers to historic sheep stations in the North and South islands, and explores the rich h...
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A Meeting of Cultures
World War I is widely perceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors and elites pushed naive young...
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
Cathie Dunsford from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp, an account of her growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s...
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Solo reviewed in the Otago Daily Times
Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips has been reviewed in the Otago Daily Times. Reviewer David Barnes says: ‘P...
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Paul Diamond interviewed by the Whanganui Chronicle about Downfall's Ockham shortlisting
The Whanganui Chronicle recently interviewed author Paul Diamond about his book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay, which is shortlisted i...
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Edith Collier: New Zealand modernist reviewed in Kete
Linda Herrick reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for Kete Books: ‘This is...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Jack Ross has passed on the torch and you are now the editor of the venerable Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Exciting? An exhilarating honour (an...
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The Forgotten Coast reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Georgina White has reviewed Richard Shaw’s memoir, The Forgotten Coast for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘This is an elegant, thought-provok...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Reid’s Reader
Nicholas Reid reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Reid’s Reader: ‘Jac...
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10 Questions with Claire Robinson
Q1: There’s so much amazing visual material in this book. How did you amass it all? It wasn’t easy! Collecting, preserving, cataloguing and digitis...
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Massey Press authors appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to announce that four Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival, taking place from 15–20 M...
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Shining Land named in Best Antipodean Photobooks 2020
‘The photographer and the writer have a shared purpose to track down the elusive Robyn Hyde. Elusive not because she was in hiding, to the contrary...
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10 Questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What first drew you to the subject of traditional wayfinding and voyaging? I had met several of the Pwo navigators while writing the biography...
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How I write — Jacqueline Leckie
Which book had such an impact on you that you bought it for your friends? Epeli Hau’ofa’s Tales of the Tikongs. It was witty, political, set on a...
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48 Hours in Matakana
Less than an hour’s drive from Auckland, Matakana is the ideal region to escape to for a weekend where the focus is on well-being to recharge body...
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The Architect and the Artists and Conversātiō named among Art Beat’s Best Art Books of 2021
The Architect and the Artists and Conversātiō appear on Art Beat’s list of Best Art Books of 2021. Of The Architect and the Artists, judge Andrew...
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Waiheke Weekender reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘Hailed as a ‘part graphic biography, part practical guide to protecting our bird wildlife’, this engrossing book is filled with factoids – includi...
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BikesportNZ.com calls Kiwi Bikers a ‘must-have for any collection’
BikesportNZ.com has called Ken Downie’s book Kiwi Bikers: 85 New Zealanders and their motorbikes a ‘must-have for any collection’ in their latest r...
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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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Lyn Potter reviews Sylvia and the Birds on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds, and how you can, too! on NZ Booklovers. She says of the b...
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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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Raiment by Jan Kemp one of Steve Braunias’ best non-fiction books of 2022
Steve Braunias has named Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment among his best non-fiction titles from 2022. He says: ‘Another memoir, small but perfectly forme...
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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews Erebus The Ice Dragon for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviewed Colin Monteath’s latest book Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘The...
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Joan Skinner’s memoir Labour of Love reviewed on The Spinoff
Shanti Mathias has reviewed Joan Skinner’s first book, Labour of Love, for The Spinoff: ‘The beginning of Labour of Love works perfectly. Joan Skin...
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Alison Ballance reviews Erebus for Kete Books
In Greek mythology, Erebus was son of Chaos, and god of darkness and shadows. Erebus was also the former warship, captained by James Clark Ross, wh...
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Erebus: The Ice Dragon reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
The name Erebus for most New Zealanders is associated with tragedy after the fatal crash of flight TE901 in 1979. In many ways that is appropriate...
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Ziggle! reviewed on the Poetry Box
Len Lye (1901 – 1980) was an artist who loved making paintings, movies, sculptures, photographs without a camera, poems. He loved EXPERIMENTING and...
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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Will Hansen has reviewed Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond: 'THE ‘WANGANUI SENSATION’ is a major event in New Zealand’s q...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 reviewed for NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter for NZ Booklovers: ‘For over half a century, the Poetry Aotearoa Year...
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What does this historian read to relax? More history of course
‘Tania Mace is a heritage historian from Auckland. Her new book The Near West: A history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere is published by Mass...
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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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Eat Pacific reviewed in The New York Times
Ligaya Mishan reviews Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Oliver for The New York Times: ‘In Fiji, when bread...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 launch
On 14 March we celebrated the launch of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 at the Devonport Library. Poet Laureate Michele Leggott officially lau...
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Extraordinary tales of WWI flying live up to hyperbole in book’s subtitle
Alister Browne reviews Fearless at stuff.co.nz: ‘This handsome volume, the latest in the centenary history programme series, amply lives up to the...
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Launch event and exhibition
Please join us at Orexart, Thursday 8 March, 6–8pm to celebrate the launch of Vonney Ball: Ceramics. Written by Helen Schamroth, this book surveys...
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Sunday Star-Times reviews Wanted
The Sunday Star-Times’ Rosa Shiels makes a salient point in her review of Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor: ‘In high...
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Landfall reviews The Writing Life
Read Tasha Haines’ insightful review of The Writing Life by Deborah Shepard: ‘In her introduction to The Writing Life, Deborah Shepard highlights t...
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Shining Land reviewed as book of the week for Newsroom
Redmer Yska names Shining Land book of the week in a moving review and discussion of Iris Wilkinson/ Robin Hyde’s life: ‘This sumptuous book, part...
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Kiran Dass reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Kiran Dass reviews Fifty Years a Feminist for Kete. ‘The book is action-packed as she sweeps through her career highs and tireless battles on beha...
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Sudeepta Vyas reviews Invisible for Kete
Sudeepta Vyas reviews Invisible for Kete: ‘Leckie’s writing style is expository and in spite of the challenging subject, an easy read. Her fluid na...
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Kim Hill in conversation with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Kim Hill talks with Chris Price and Bruce Foster about their new book The Lobster's Tale. The lobster is a creature that likes darkness, preferrin...
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Paula Green reviews Conversātiō
‘Anne Noble’s Conversātiō – in the company of bees is a precious object with its luxurious velveteen cover, generous serving of images, handbound l...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 reviewed on Kete
Erica Stretton has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, edited by Tracey Slaughter, for Kete. ‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 is a sub...
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The RNZ Cookbook editor David Cohen shares his best dinner party mixtape on RNZ
The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers editor David Cohen shares his best dinner party mi...