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Simon Wilson talks with Morrin Rout about HomeGround
Simon Wilson, author of HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives recently talked with Morrin Rout on Bookenz. They discussed the back...
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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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Simon Wilson talks HomeGround with Kete Books
As part of their 12 Books of Christmas series, Kete interviewed Simon Wilson about HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives: What le...
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HomeGround author Simon Wilson talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
‘HomeGround opened earlier this year and it is the new home of the Auckland City Mission in Hobson Street in the central city. It was the dream of...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
Q1: You’ve got a really big day job at the Herald and so accepting the invitation to write this book must have given you pause. Why did you decide...
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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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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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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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Sam Brooks reviews HomeGround on the Spinoff
HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson was reviewed on the Spinoff in January. Sam Brooks writes: ‘I see HomeGround...
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10 Questions with Thom Conroy
1. When you first started thinking about this collection, what was your hope for it? What I wanted from Home was to be surprised — to be shown new...
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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Richard Didsbury talks about the fundraising efforts that went into HomeGround
Earlier this year, the Auckland City Mission opened up their new purpose built complex — HomeGround. This project has been in the works for at leas...
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HomeGround reviewed on The Groove Book Report
Tim Gruar has reviewed HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson on his independent book review site, The Groove Book...
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Read a review and extract of HomeGround on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson. ‘For many years the crowds milling outside...
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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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Making Space reviewed in HOME
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, which is edited by Elizabeth Cox, in HOME magazine thi...
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Rooms reviewed in HOME magazine
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s newest book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors in HOME: ‘People with...
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Olveston
The opulent interiors of a glorious historic house
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Massey University Press titles shortlisted in 2023 Booklovers Awards
Three Massey University Press titles have been shortlisted in the Booklovers Awards for 2023. HomeGround: The story of a building that changes live...
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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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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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10 Questions with Steven Loveridge
Q1: New Zealand emerges from the pages of The Home Front as a far more interesting and complex young nation than many readers might imagine. Could...
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Hauturu
A richly illustrated account of the island’s diverse plants and animals, and the people behind this globally significant conservation success story
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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Herbst reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Herbst: Architecture in context by John Walsh for Waiheke Weekender: ‘If I won Lotto, a house designed by the architects Lan...
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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The best illustrated books of 2024: Woolsheds and Herbst
Steve Braunias’s top illustrated nonfiction books for Reading Room includes two Massey University Press titles: Woolsheds: The historic shearing sh...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2021 Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce that you can now read all the winning entries from the 2021 Poetry New Zealand Student Poetry Competition here. The fir...
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John Walsh
John Walsh is the author of several major books on New Zealand architecture.
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City at the Centre
A richly illustrated history of an ambitious city
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Lauraine Jacobs
Lauraine Jacobs MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known food writers.
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Andrew Cameron
Andrew Cameron grew up in the Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and when not working in a war-zone or post-conflict zone, he is the sole medical practitioner in Birdsville, Australia.
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Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist and playwright.
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James Watson
James Watson is Associate Professor in History at Massey University. His research focuses largely on the relationship between New Zealand and the UK in the twentieth century.
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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi, Ngāti Porou, is a Māori Student Recruitment Advisor at Massey University.
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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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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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Labour of Love
Warm, richly detailed and sometimes shocking
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Keith Ovenden
Keith Ovenden ONZM is a former university lecturer in political sociology, and radio and television broadcaster and commentator.
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Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a writer/ director in film.
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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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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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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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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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Janet Hunt
Janet Hunt is one of New Zealand’s best known natural history writers, for adults and children.
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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You Are Here
A unique collaboration in words and art
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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Matariki Williams reviews Rewi on The Spinoff
Matariki Williams has given an excellent review of Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen on The Spinoff: ‘“Rewi” scrawled in dis...
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Agency of Hope
A century of Aucklanders helping Aucklanders
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Proof reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking on NZ Booklovers: ‘Proof, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PCANZ, the Print...
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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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Maggie Hubert reviews The Architect and the Artists
Read the review at HOME magazine here.
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Jane Ussher
Jane Ussher MNZM is one of New Zealand’s most lauded photographers.
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Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
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Rachel Haydon
Rachel Haydon is the general manager of the National Acquarium of New Zealand, in Napier, and a children’s author.
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Shiloh Groot
Shiloh Groot (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Uenukukopako) is a lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Auckland.
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Lucy O’Hagan
Lucy O’Hagan has been a rata hauora/general practitioner for over 30 years.
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
Q1: The subject is a wide-ranging one and the book covers a lot of ground. Who do you see as the target reader? The target readers are high schoo...
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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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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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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Health and History
Neil Pollock reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Health and History: ‘This is a superbly written...
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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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10 Questions with Adam Claasen
1. Is this a book you’ve long been wanting to write? I actually had plans for something completely different until I was made aware that the peopl...
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10 Questions with Jan Kemp
Q1: Your Waikato childhood must have seemed so far away and so long ago when you sat down to write about it in Germany. How hard was it to tap into...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in The Aero Historian
Errol W. Martyn reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for The Aero Historian: ‘Grid was a...
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10 Questions with Lisa Cherrington and Sarika Rona
Q1: What prompted you to write this story? LC: Well, it was two things for me. One, a friend had just returned from overseas and she posted a pho...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Mary Kisler
Q1: Your book starts with a lengthy dedication to other children of prisoners of war. Why did you want to do this? Very few returned prisoners of w...
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You Are Here reviewed in Kete
Jade Kake reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Kete: ‘'You are Here feels like a homecoming. Home: both the beginning and th...
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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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Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts & Spies, by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā hau e whā Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou...
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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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10 Questions with Lynley Edmeades & Saskia Leek
Q1: These 'kōrero series' projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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Conversātiō: a photo essay for Shepherdess
A beautiful photo essay has appeared in Shepherdess featuring images and an extract from Conversātiō: In the Company of Bees: ‘Upon starting her ow...
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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 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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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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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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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Arts Review: ‘The current exhibition “Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohing...
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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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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 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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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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Read an interview with David Cohen, editor of the RNZ Cookbook
David Cohen, editor of The RNZ Cookbook along with Kathy Paterson, was recently interviewed on Stuff: David Cohen is a Wellington-based journalist...
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Ten questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What drew you to write the story of this particular waka? Ngātokimatawhaorua is an iconic waka taua, and not just for its size. It is intrinsic...
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Martin Edmond reviews the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht on Newsroom
Martin Edmond has reviewed the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe on ReadingRoom: ‘In the European t...
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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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Grid reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Neill Atkinson reviews Adam Claasen’s Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘...
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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 Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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10 Questions with Anne Noble
Q1: What prompted you to begin the Conversātiō book project? Following the inclusion of Conversātiō and a suite of my other works about bees in t...
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Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
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Ten questions with 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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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
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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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Frederico Monslave interviews Anne Noble
Frederico Monslave interviews Anne Noble for HOME magazine. Read the full interview here.
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Ziggle! author Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on RNZ
Rebecca Fawkner worked at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, home of the Len Lye Centre, for 20 years. Her passion for sparking curiosity...
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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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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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Tania Mace talks to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ
Grey Lynn historian Tania Mace has taken a deep dive into a well known older part of Auckland she calls home. Her book, The Near West covers the hi...
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Rooms reviewed on The Spinoff
Charlotte Fielding has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand Interiors for The Spinoff: ‘As som...
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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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Kim Hill talks to Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing
The life and work of Sylvia Durrant, otherwise known as Auckland’s Bird Lady, is celebrated in a new book which is part graphic biography part envi...
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Shaun Barnett reviews Sylvia and the Birds on Nine to Noon
‘The life and work of Sylvia Durrant, otherwise known as Auckland’s Bird Lady, is celebrated in a new book which is part graphic biography part env...
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NZ Listener reviews Dear Oliver
Linda Herrick at NZ Listener reviews Peter Wells’ memoir Dear Oliver: ‘Peter Wells’ haunting new book, Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History, wi...
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The revolutionary live interview with Peter Wells
The Spinoff has interviewed Peter Wells about his memoir Dear Oliver: ‘The return of the patented Spinoff revolutionary live email interview, this...
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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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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
Stella from Volume Books reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin: ‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept, and beautifully executed...
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Paula Green reviews The Sun Is a Star
Paula Green reviews The Sun Is a Star for NZ Poetry Box: ‘Dick Frizzell’s The Sun Is a Star is a dazzling book, which is just what you want in a bo...
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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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30 Queer Lives contributor Andy Davies interviewed for BusinessDesk
Andy Davies, who features in 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been interviewed for BusinessDesk. ‘I found my attracti...
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John Walsh reveals his favourite Oriental Parade buildings
The Herald has run an article by Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide author John Walsh; in it, he shares some of what makes Wellington a uniqu...
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A review of Rooms on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors for New Zealand Arts Revi...
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Toi Motu magazine reviews The RNZ Cookbook
Reviewer Ann Gilroy writes: ‘The RNZ Cookbook is a carefully chosen selection of recipes from those drooled over in Radio New Zealand programmes du...
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Joan Skinner talks to Susie Ferguson on Nine to Noon
Joan Skinner has been a midwife for 50 years, and during that time it’s fair to say, she’s seen it all. Since starting in the profession in 1976, m...
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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
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You Are Here reviewed in Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Kelly Ana Morey reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Aotearoa NZ Review of Books: ‘You Are Here is the sixth book in the kōr...
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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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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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Kids Books NZ reviews Skinny Dip
‘One of the (many) joys of reviewing, is never knowing just what treasure lies waiting inside the courier package. These treasures are sometimes on...
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Sarah Catherall interviews Anne Noble for Woman magazine
Sarah Catherall interviews Anne Noble for Woman magazine: ‘Renowned Kiwi photographer Anne Noble is generating plenty of buzz with her recent work....
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30 Queer Lives reviewed in Tui Motu InterIslands magazine
Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been reviewed in the May edition of Tui Motu InterIslands magazine. Re...
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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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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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Rewi authors Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake speak to Mark Amery on Culture 101
Authors of the major publication Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, along with Rewi Thompson's daughter Lucy, recently spoke to...
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The Spinoff's summer reading list of local crime books
'Crime fiction dominated the most-borrowed or circulated books in 2023, according to information provided by a sample of Aotearoa libraries (thanks...
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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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The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
The paintings that Whanganui painter Edith Collier created in England 100 years ago remain to this day, utterly fresh. At that time, there was no o...
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Hastings reviewed in 03 Magazine
Neville Templeton reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for 03 Magazine: ‘Acclaimed NZ painter Dick Frizzell has written his mem...
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Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on Kete Books
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for 20 years. She has just compiled one of the most...
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Greg Fleming reviews The Crewe Murders on Kete
Greg Fleming has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings on Kete: ‘The 1970...
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Fresh perspectives on experiences of WWI
The First World War has been thoroughly documented over the past 100 years. But there is scope for deeper understandings of New Zealanders’ experie...
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10 Questions with Jane Ussher
Q1: This is a major project. How long did it take? About two years actually taking the photographs but the idea behind the book has been developing...
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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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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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The Monday Extract on The Spinoff
An excerpt from Pip Desmond’s best-selling memoir about her mother’s descent into dementia. I read about a hairdresser who had three customers pas...
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Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense
Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense: Ways of thinking about trees, edited by Susette Goldsmith, for Kete. ‘In her introduction to this book of essays on...
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Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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The Architect and the Artists appears in UoA’s Special Collections Twenty at 20
Author Bridget Hackshaw discovered two stained-glass window designs by artist Colin McCahon during her research for her prize-winning book, The Arc...
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Kete Books reviews Making Space
Making Space is an impressive recent release billed by its publisher Massey University Press as ‘a new book that sets the architectural record stra...
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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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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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Book launch brings hero’s tale to light
Medals and mayoral chains were on show to honour the "coming home" of one of Cromwell’s own last week. The official launch of Wellington author Mar...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in Manawatū Standard
George Heagney reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Manawatū Standard: ‘The story of...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed by Te Whakairinga Mutu
Louisa Hormann from Te Whakairinga Mutu Air Force Museum of New Zealand reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldw...
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‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
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10 Questions with Anna Rogers
1. How does it feel now that With Them Through Hell has gone to print? A mixture of relief and slight anxiety that I’ve done a good job, but more o...
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Q1: Why did you choose the playground for your second book? It’s a place that parents and tamariki go to all the time, and I wanted to share new vo...
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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
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Te Ataakura on creating books for young te reo learners
Dionne Christian spoke with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi about her second board book, offered as both a bilingual and te reo edition, Ko wai kei te papa...
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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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Ziggle! reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘“Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Acti...
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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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New book covers artist's rich modernist history
'Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery during the 1990s. Alon...
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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in Stuff
Damien Grant reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Stuff: ‘There is a picture taken at Waitangi in 1963. It is of the Queen...
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Ans Westra: A life in photorgraphy reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Athol McCredie reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘THE DUTCH-BORN Ans Westra (1936–2023...
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The Dark Dad reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale for Waiheke Weekender: What happens to a child who is rejected by the onl...
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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10 Question Q&A with Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
Q1: What was your reaction when series editor Lloyd Jones approached you to see whether you were keen to create the sixth book in the kōrero series...
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Rooms appears on homestyle’s reading list
Philippa Prentice has reviewed Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors by Jane Ussher and John Walsh for homestyle’s reading list. You...
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Read an extract from Against the Odds
MARGARET BARNETT CRUICKSHANK 1897 graduate — second woman medical graduate in New Zealand, first registered woman medical practitioner in New Zeala...
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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 David Littlewood
Now that it’s almost published, what delights you most about your book, Experience of a Lifetime? At the risk of using a cliche, I really can’t pic...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. Now that it’s published, what delights you most about the first New Zealand Land & Food Annual? It’s an annual publication, so for as long 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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Guy Somerset reviews Shadow Worlds for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Guy Somerset has reviewed Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of...
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Akinga o ngā Rangatira reviewed on Landfall
This is a timely book because it adds much to the distressing story of the concerted Māori effort to slow the alienation of their land and reveals...
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Author Jane Robertson interviewed by The Press
Jane Robertson, author of the ‘spectacularly illustrated’ Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, has been interview...
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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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Edith Collier reviewed in takahē
Jenny Partington reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for takahē: ‘Edith Collier:...
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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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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand. Fifty years ago, the conversations I overheard in my parents’ kitchen were about droughts, the difficulty...
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10 Questions with Rachel Haydon and Pippa Keel
Q1: What were the challenges and opportunities in basing the story around the real penguins at the National Aquarium? Rachel Haydon: The kororā, or...
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
Q1: Why go solo? For me a big part of the joy of tramping is attempting things you think might be (too) hard. If you’re lured by the challenge, it...
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Hard by the Cloud House reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Peter Walker's latest novel Hard by the Cloud House for Waiheke Weekender: ‘There is much to love about this book, which is...
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Short Story Club – 1 November
BUTTERFLY SMITH 1987 The first time they lost Butterfly was in the Auckland railway station. One moment he was standing there guarding the shabby...
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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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Read an extract from After Winter Comes the Summer
The origins of the music Although the settlers at Pūhoi came from the historic country of Bohemia (a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subseque...
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10 Questions with 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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10 Questions with Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher
1. You’ve travelled from north to south to create this book. Was that a pleasure? DC: A privilege, a pleasure, and hard work. JU: The spectacular l...
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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 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 David Cohen
Q1: How would you describe this book? It’s not a biography and nor is it a ghost-written memoir. So what is it? A conversational memoir. In the obv...
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10 Questions with Lauraine Jabobs
Q1: It’s been 13 years since your last book on the Matakana region was published. What made you want to write a new version of it? The development...
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5 Questions with Hazel Phillips for Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine chats with Hazel Phillips about the experiences behind her new book, Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Fo...
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Ten questions with Jane Sayle and Catherine Bagnall
Q1: Your gorgeous previous collaboration, On We Go, was published in 2021. When did you decide to work together again on another one? On We Go was...
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Deidre Brown reviews Rewi for Architecture NZ
Rewi, the new book on the architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou; 1953–2016), edited by Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, demonstrates that...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 123 new poems by 102 poets. How many poems were submitted? A jaw-dropping amount — we...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in North & South
Solomon Lewis reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for North & South:...
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Eat Pacific author Robert Oliver interviewed in E-Tangata
Teuila Fuatai interviews Robert Oliver, the author of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook for E-Tangata: ‘Chef Robert Oliver h...
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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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The Unsettled reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Sam Iti Prendergast reviews Richard Shaw’s The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘FAMILY HISTORY often...
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10 Questions with Karen Denyer and Monica Peters
Q1: Why wetlands? KD I’ve always had a soft spot for the underdog, the tatty stray cat, the three-legged dog, those most in need of love. For me we...
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10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
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Ten Question Q&A with Mark Derby
Q1: You would have come across Doug Jolly while working on your 2009 book Kiwi Campaneros, about the New Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil...
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 launched at Devonport Library
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 was launched in style last night at Devonport Library. Associate Professor Bryan Walpert’s opening speech is r...
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10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
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10 Questions with Mary Kisler
Q1: You’ve spent the last four years in the footsteps of Frances Hodgkins. In Europe you’ve eaten at some of the restaurants and cafes she ate at,...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: Four years ago you published the very successful Johnny Enzed, the story of the New Zealand soldiers who signed up with the New Zealand Expedit...
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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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10 Questions with Clare Ladyman
Q1: Getting enough sleep is a huge issue for many people today, what drew you to sleep during pregnancy in particular? I was a brilliant slee...
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10 Questions with Margaret Tennant and Geoff Watson
Q1: Why Palmerston North? What prompted you to see this book in print? GW: It has been nearly 50 years since Petersen’s centennial history of Palme...
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10 Questions with Sue Kedgley
Q1: You’ve had books published before, of course, and so this one is not a new experience but is there something that sets it apart from the others...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw
Q1: Readers of The Conversation will know your pieces of commentary and observation but a book such as The Forgotten Coast, with its elements of me...
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Ten Questions with Ian McGibbon
Q1: Why did it take so long for New Zealand to set up a diplomatic service? For a long time New Zealand was content to follow the United Kingdom’s...
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10 Questions with Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Q1: What prompted Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) to do this book now?The idea of a publication about PCANZ had been discussed for a num...
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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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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 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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Ten questions with Colin Monteath
Q1: You’ve visited Antarctica many times as a mountaineer and a photographer, as well as working at Scott Base. What was your role there? As the Fi...
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10 Questions with Jane Robertson
Q1: Why did you want to write this book?Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour is my home, the place I love, my tūrangawaewae. I wanted to understand this pl...
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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 Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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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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Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud
Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud, by Jacqueline Leckie, Unity Books Wellington, 12 June 2024 Thank you Nicola, thank you Jacqui....
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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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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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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017? I think the thing I like best about it is the number of y...
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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
Q1: How long after The Forgotten Coast was published did the idea of this book come to you? Pretty quickly. More or less immediately after The 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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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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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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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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Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
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Rebooting the Regions in the press
Rebooting the Regions has been getting fantastic coverage across the media. Russel Blackstock writes in the Herald on Sunday about how our smaller...
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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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Gregor Thompson gives a shining review of Tree of Strangers
Gregor Thompson reviews Barbara Sumner’s evocative memoir, Tree of Strangers: ‘Tree of Strangers is Barbara Sumner’s first literary work. Her newl...
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10 Questions with Susan Paris and Kate De Goldi
Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry being published for younger readers. Original, conte...
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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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An unwelcome history — Otago Daily Times features Invisible
It is difficult to believe that this was, that this is, New Zealand. In December, 1925, the White New Zealand League held its first meeting in the...
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Kete reivews The Architect and the Artists
‘Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and The Artists is both a personal tribute to her father and a valuable record of an important moment in our cult...
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Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast
‘ Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Academy of New Zealand Literature: Family histories are having a moment in the sun. Charlot...
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Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021
Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021, and four Massey Press titles make the list: ‘The Architect and the Artists by Bridget...
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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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10 Questions with Matt McEvoy
Q1: This is your second book, and so you did know before you began that being an author is not the easiest gig in town. Why did you decide to do it...
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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 on Kete
Alex Eagles has reviewed Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Hazel Phillips, on Kete. She says: ‘In 2017, after packing her l...
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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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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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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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Habitat by Resene chat to Rooms author Jane Ussher
Photographer Jane Ussher is well known for her ability to make even the most hesitant or nervous characters come to life in front of the camera. Fo...
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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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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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The Fate of the Land reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Danny Keenan’s latest, The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira: Māori political struggle in the Liberal era...
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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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Kim Hill interviews Andrew Paul Wood
Historians paint colonial New Zealanders as ‘smug bucolic hobbits’, but alternative spirituality was part of life for many in the nineteenth and ea...
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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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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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One Hundred Havens reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Peter Meihana reviews One Hundred Havens: The Settlement of the Marlborough Sounds by Helen Beaglehole: 'AS A CHILD, I often visited aunties and un...
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The Unsettled reviewed for NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for NZ Booklovers: ‘Richard Shaw’s new book The Unsettled: Small S...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Annette O'Sullivan
1. In a country full of woolsheds, why these particular fifteen? There were many possible woolsheds, but the fifteen woolsheds in the book were sel...
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Massey News reviews The Ones That Bit Me! by Marcus Taylor
Massey News reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories: ‘From the very first page, it’s evident Ma...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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Ten Question Q&A with Roger Buckton
Q1: You lived in Pūhoi for a time. Is this where your interest in the community’s unique music and dances began? I knew of the music and dance prio...
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Hastings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for NZ Booklovers: ‘Dick Frizzell’s Hastings is a warm, nostalgic, and often h...
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Mark Adams reviewed in NZ Geographic
Catherine Woulfe reviews Mark Adams: A survey — He kohinga whakaahua for NZ Geographic: ‘Mark Adams was always, in his words, “the white boy in th...