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Ki Mua, Ki Muri
Inside Aotearoa’s Māori art school powerhouse
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri: ‘When the exhibiti...
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri & Artists in Antarctica reviewed for Landfall
David Eggleton reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and Artists in Antarctica e...
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Huhana Smith talks to Mark Amery on RNZ
Huhana Smith, one of the key profiles in new book Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri,...
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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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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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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro?
He pukapuka ātaahua hei pānui mō ngā taitamariki me te papa tākaro
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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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Te Manu Huna a Tāne
A unique insight into weaving with kiwi feathers
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Sue Kedgley: 'It's time to feminise our world'
Sarah Catherall interviews Sue Kedgely for Your Weekend. ‘Sue Kedgley looks out her living room window at the wind battering Oriental Parade and b...
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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 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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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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The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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Read an extract from Short | Poto
Claudia Jardine A gift to their daughters ‘Textile manufacture’ is the sound my mother makes when she tries to speak with a needle held between he...
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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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Observations of a Rural Nurse
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
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Bridgette Masters-Awatere
Bridgette Masters-Awatere (Te Rarawa, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngai te Rangi) is a lecturer at the University of Waikato.
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Danny Keenan
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and became a senior lecturer there in 2004.
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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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75 years since New Zealand handed Nazi Germany its first land defeat of WWII
Glyn Harper recently talked to Newshub’s Tony Wright about the 75th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, and his new book releasing this month:...
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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He karanga tāpaetanga! Call for submissions!
He karanga tāpaetanga! Nau mai e te pukapuka hou e mau rā i ngā pakiwhāiti, i ngā kōrero pono auaha nei, i ngā toikupu kōrero, ka eke atu rā ki te...
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Hannah Mooney
Hannah Mooney is a lecturer at Massey University’s School of Social Work.
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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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Kei te aha ngā kararehe?
He pukapuka ātaahua hei pānui mā ngā taitamariki me ō rātau whānau
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Vaughan Rapatahana reads two poems
Poet Vaughan Rapatahana reads two of his poems featured in this year's fabulous Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020.
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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground?
A gorgeous board book for young readers and their whānau
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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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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
A gorgeous bilingual board book
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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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Mary Kisler
Mary Kisler MNZM worked for 21 years at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, latterly as Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art.
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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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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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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Tania Mace
Tania Mace is a freelance historian with a Master of Arts with honours in history.
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Lil O’Brien
Lil O’Brien (she/her) is the author of Not That I’d Kiss a Girl (2020), a beloved Kiwi memoir about coming out during her years at Otago University, among other things.
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Sara McIntyre
Sara McIntyre moved from Wellington to the King Country in 2010. While working as a district nurse at Taumarunui Hospital she had the opportunity to further explore the area as a photographer.
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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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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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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Precarity included in the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Takarangi
Precarity: Uncertain, Insecure and Unequal Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Shiloh Groot (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Uenukukopako), Clifford van O...
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Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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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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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
Mary Macpherson reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Art New Zealand: ‘For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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Short | Poto reviewed by Mary-Anne Stone
Mary-Anne Stone of Bookenz reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong: ‘Short/Poto is a bilingual anthology of 100 flash f...
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Kiwi Bikers
A celebration of the motorbikes we love and admire
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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The Dark Dad
The damage done to a family by war
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Dr Mark Stocker’s launch speech for Me, According to the History of Art
Me, According to the History of Art was launched in Auckland on 29 October 2020 by Dr Mark Stocker. Tēnā koutou katoa! As the person who claims chi...
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Ten Question Q&A with Hone Waengarangi Morris
Q1: What’s driven you to write this book? After seeing and hearing simple errors being made over the last five years, I thought I could assist in c...
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Ten Question Q&A with Hone Morris
Q1: What’s driven you to write this book? After seeing and hearing simple errors being made over the last five years, I thought I could assist in c...
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Jan Kemp talks to Kim Hill about Raiment: A Memoir
Kim Hill has interviewed Jan Kemp about her new memoir, Raiment on RNZ’s Saturday Morning. ‘Jan Kemp burst onto the New Zealand poetry scene in the...
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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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Kieran O’Donoghue
Associate Professor Kieran O’Donoghue is Head of the School of Social Work at Massey University. He is a registered social worker, and a member of ANZASW.
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Kirsty Johnston
Kirsty Johnston is an award-winning investigative journalist with an interest in inequality, gender and social justice.
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Kiri Piahana-Wong
Kiri Piahana-Wong (Ngāti Ranginui) is a poet and editor, and the publisher at Anahera Press.
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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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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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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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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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Raiment by Jan Kemp reviewed on Newsroom
Steve Braunias from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp. ‘We think of Rosemary McLeod, rightly, as one of New Zealand's great prose...
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Read a review of Raiment on takahē
Elizabeth Heritage has reviewed Raiment: A memoir by Jan Kemp for takahē. She writes: ‘Poet Jan Kemp has released the first volume of her memoir, R...
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Experience of a Lifetime
A fresh look at the World War I experience
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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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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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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Eat Pacific
Delicious, tasty, healthy recipes from across the moana
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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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Invisible
Migration and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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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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Tree of Strangers
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery
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Raiment: A memoir reviewed in Landfall
Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp has been reviewed in Landfall. Reviewer Wendy Parkins writes: ‘In 1971, the Canadian author Alice Munro wrote: ‘Ther...
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Pamela Morrow has reviewed A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle...
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Ten Question Q&A with Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
Q1: These stories have their roots in the flash or microfiction movement. Can you explain what that is? Flash and microfiction are the smallest of...
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10 Questions wth Glyn Harper
1. In a nutshell, what were the battles of El Alamein, and in what way were they the turning point in the war? Three battles were fought on the El...
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Aspiring
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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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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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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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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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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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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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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Sylvia and the Birds
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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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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Pātaka Kai
Food for hope and wellbeing
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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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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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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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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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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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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Kim Hill talks to Paul Diamond
In 1920 Whanganui residents were rocked by the news that their mayor had shot D'Arcy Cresswell, a young gay poet, who had been blackmailing him....
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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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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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Kiran Dass reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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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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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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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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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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Greg Donson
Greg Donson has been Curator and Programmes Manager at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui since 2007, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the exhibition programme, including publications.
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James Watson
James Watson is Associate Professor in History at Massey University. His research focuses largely on the relationship between New Zealand and the UK in the twentieth century.
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Mark Derby
Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian.
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Mere Taito
Mere Taito is a poetry, flash fiction and short story writer and scholar of Rotuman heritage who is based in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.
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Penny Shino
Dr Penny Shino is the co-ordinator of the Japanese Programme at Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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Rand Hazou
Rand Hazou is a Palestinian-Kiwi theatre practitioner and scholar whose research explores theatre engaging with rights and social justice.
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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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Robin Morrison
Robin Morrison (1944–1993) was one of New Zealand‘s most significant documentary photographers
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Sarah Laing
Sarah Laing is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler: ReadingRoom’s Book of the Week
Sally Blundell reviews Mary Kisler’s book The Dark Dad: War and trauma — A daughter's tale for ReadingRoom: ‘On a tattered Red Cross map, four near...
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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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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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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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Massey News interviews Hazel Phillips
Massey News interviews Hazel Phillips about her new book Fire & Ice: After publishing Solo, about adventuring alone in Aotearoa New Zealand’...
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Read an extract of Erebus published in the NZ Herald
Former New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme field operations officer Colin Monteath recalls his recovery work after the devastating Mt Erebus c...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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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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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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews A Kind of Shelter
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, has been reviewed for...
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The Crewe Murders co-author Kirsty Johnston profiled in Taranaki Daily News
‘A former Taranaki Daily News reporter has co-written a book on one of New Zealand’s most fascinating cold case. Kirsty Johnston, who now works for...
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The Crewe Murders authors James Hollings and Kirsty Johnston talk to Kim Hill on RNZ
The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 is perhaps New Zealand's most infamous unsolved crime. Arthur Allan T...
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Mary Kisler interviewed on RNZ’s Saturday Morning
RNZ’s Mihingarangi Forbes speaks to Mary Kisler, author of The Dark Dad — War and trauma: a daughter’s tale. You can listen to the interview here.
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Mary Kisler, author of The Dark Dad, interviewed on Bookenz
Author Mary Kisler talks to Morrin Rout on Bookenz about her latest book The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale. You can listen to the ep...
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Mary Kisler on RNZ’s Bookmarks
Mary Kisler joins Jesse Mulligan on RNZ’s Bookmarks. You can listen to their conversation here.
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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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Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris talk to Kim Hill
Rainy day lunch times, kapa haka practice, first crushes and classroom pets are all captured in Skinny Dip, a new poetry anthology curated by Kate...
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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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The Dark Dad reviewed on Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Guy Somerset reviews The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘It used to be sometimes said of so...
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
Q1: Your previous book featuring stories from Wildbase was How to Mend a Kea. Are you just as pleased with this one? Absolutely! In some respects...
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The Crewe Murders profiled in the Readingroom newsletter
Steve Braunias has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings in the Readingroo...
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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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10 Questions with Ken Downie
Q1: Where did the idea of this book come from? This is one of the many book ideas I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. It’s sort of an homag...
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The Crewe Murders reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Dan Eady reviews The Crewe Murders by Kirsty Johnston & James Hollings: 'The 1970 killing of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmho...
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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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Sara McIntyre introduces Observations of a Rural Nurse
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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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Annette O’Sullivan interviewed in Wairarapa Times-Age
Klah Radcliffe interviews Annette O’Sullivan about her new book Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand for the Wairarapa Ti...
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Gretchen Albrecht interviewed at Auckland Art Gallery
Catharina van Bohemen speaks with Gretchen Albrecht about Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition: Between Gesture and Geometry by Luke Smythe: ‘In 2019...
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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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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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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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Adam Claasen uncovers airmen’s stories
Adam Claasen has been getting well-deserved coverage surrounding his new book Fearless. — 'Uncovering the stories of New Zealand’s World War I pilo...
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Morrin Rout speaks with Matt McEvoy for Bookenz
Morrin Rout spoke with Matt McEvoy on Bookenz this week about 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders: ‘When I was a gay kid gro...
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Rewi reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen’s Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘This beautiful book, four years in t...
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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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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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Downfall reviewed in The National Oral History Association of New Zealand newsletter
Roger M. Smith, a Wellington PhD student in German Poetry and Rights Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has reviewed Paul Diam...
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A Moral Truth — Mediawatch interview
A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand opens with an extract from Te Hokioi, which the book's editor, James Hollings,...
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10 Questions with Luke Smythe
Q1: This wonderful book has the most lovely subtitle: Between Gesture and Geometry. Could you explain why it’s so fitting? Most abstract painters f...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
Q1: What prompted you to write the book? I was asked to take on the commission a while ago now, back in 2013. It appealed to me because I have long...
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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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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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Kete Books reviews Life in the Shallows
‘Life in the Shallows is one of those immensely rewarding books where almost every page turns up a fascinating fact. For me that can all too often...
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Andrew Paul Wood interviewed on Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood spoke to Rachael Comer for Stuff ahead of the launch of his book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealan...
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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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Shock and awe: The ‘harsh, dangerous’ reality of wartime surgery
A new book, Frontline Surgeon, tells the story of Kiwi Doug Jolly, one of the most influential and highly-regarded war surgeons of the 20th century...
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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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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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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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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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10 Questions with Cliff Simons
Q1: The New Zealand Wars, the Land Wars, the Māori Wars — these nineteenth-century conflicts have had a few name changes, as well as changing ideas...
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1 Two years on from the first publication date and already a major update. How so? Auckland has already yielded more buildings and, just as impor...
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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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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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Soundings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea on NZ Booklovers: ‘In Soundings, Kennedy Warne celebrate...
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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 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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Hastings reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Many geniuses are recognized early on in t...
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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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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Giselle Byrnes reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Australian Historical Studies: ‘All histories refle...
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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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Three brilliant reviews of The Writing Life
Lesley Vlietstra has reviewed The Writing Life, by Deborah Shepard, for the Booksellers NZ blog: ‘There are so many things to like about this book,...
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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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10 Questions with Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
Tooth and Veil NOEL O'HARE Introduction Shop assistants working along the ‘golden mile’ in Wellington had witnessed many marches down Lambton...
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10 Questions with 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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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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David Hill reviews The Front Line
‘What are the great war photos? Alexander Gardner’s rag bundles of Confederate dead after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. Capra’s Republican infantrym...
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Raiment reviewed in ANZL
Stephanie Johnson has produced a balanced reviewed of Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment: A Memoir for Academy of New Zealand Literature. ‘Prominent New Zea...
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Stuff interviews Downfall author Paul Diamond
‘Paul Diamond has pursued stories his whole life. An accountant-turned-journalist, Diamond is queer and Māori and now works to help tell stories at...
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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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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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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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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 Arts Review
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere is a major book exploring the work of the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) who was a groundbrea...
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On We Go review on Volume NZ
On We Go is a beautiful book, in design and content. This collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle is a whimsical dreamsc...
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for Waiheke Weekender:...
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Life at the bach is ‘about experiences, not stuff’
REVIEW: Herbst: Architecture in Context by John Walsh is a beautiful new book on Auckland architects Lance and Nicola Herbst’s award-winning work...
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10 Questions with Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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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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10 Questions with Damien Wilkins
Q1: A YA novel! What’s the story here? I have no idea! At no point did I think ‘I must write a YA novel’. I’d always wanted to write about the Gate...
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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: Just how much fun was it making this amazing book? Well … it was fun ... and then it wasn’t … and then it was … and then it wasn’t … and then i...
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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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David Herkt reviews Downfall for Kete
An excellent review of Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has appeared on Kete. David Herkt writes: ‘The death of a New Zea...
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10 Questions with Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me!
Q1: Being a vet — one of the best jobs in the world? Sorry to go all Charles Dickens on you: it’s the best and the worst. It depends entirely on th...
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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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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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August to April: The gestation of Massey University Press
In late August 2015, Massey University Press began with a single employee: respected former Random House New Zealand publishing director Nicola Leg...
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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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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 Danny Keenan
Q1: You have written books on armed conflict and passive resistance in the nineteenth century. The Fate of the Land feels like another layer of the...
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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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10 Questions with the editors of Otherhood
Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. Her debut essaycollection, Ithaca, was published in 2023. Lil O’Brien (she/her) i...
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Read an interview with Floor van Lierop, designer of Ans Westra: A life in photography
Kete Books interviews Floor van Lierop, book designer, about her work on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Floor, hi! Can you tell u...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A brilliant war surgeon,...
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Freedom and tragedy in exile: The story of Charles Mackay
As an exiled newspaper correspondent living in Berlin almost a century ago, Charles Mackay found freedom — and a tragic death — on the streets of N...
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Mark Adams reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Booklovers: ‘Mark Adams: A Survey /He Kohinga...
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Downfall reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Catie Gilchrist reviews Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond for Australian Historical Studies: ‘In 1920, New Zealanders we...
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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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‘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 Jack Ross
Another Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is off to print. What are the strengths of the 2019 edition? I think this may well be the issue I’m proudest o...
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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 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 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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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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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 Martin Edmond
Q1: You grew up in Ohakune and at the start of this book you write about coming to Whanganui when you were a child, in the early 1960s. Clearly the...
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Ten Question Q&A with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: One hundred and forty-one new poems by 127 poets. This must be one of the biggest editions yet! How on earth do you make the reading and select...
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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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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Lucy O'Hagan
Q1: You’ve been writing a column for many years in NZDoctor magazine, but extending out into a book was of quite another order. Which is harder — w...
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10 Questions with Peter Wells
1. Why did you want to write this book? Dear Oliver was a book that had been in my mind for years, and the time arrived to write it. 2. It’s the...
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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 Lloyd Jones
Q1: This is the first title in a planned ‘kōrero series’ of books. What’s the idea here? A conversation across craft and discipline between artist...
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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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Elizabeth Cox writes of the many surprises discovered while editing Making Space
Historian Elizabeth Cox writes on the Spinoff about the surprises she uncovered during the process of writing Making Space: A history of New Zealan...
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Paul Diamond’s book Downfall reviewed in Canvas
David Herkt has reviewed Paul Diamond’s recent book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay for Canvas: ‘New Zealand provincial sexual scandals...
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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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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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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Livestock Production in New Zealand? At present the New Zealand economy depends greatly on...
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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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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 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 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 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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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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Ten questions with Kennedy Warne
Q1: You are known for writing about a range of outdoors and environmental subjects. Why did you choose the sea for this book? In 2000, after writin...
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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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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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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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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 Peter Lineham
1. How did you arrive at the idea of this book? I thought about writing a textbook on New Zealand religious history, and it seemed to me a very du...
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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 Pip Desmond
1. Why did you want to write this book? To help me make sense of looking after Mum through the heartbreak that is dementia, and to find her again....
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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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10 Questions with Lyn Wade and Dick Veitch
Q1: You both have a long association with Hauturu Little Barrier Island — do you remember your first visit? LW: I was four years old and my family...
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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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10 Questions with Robyn Salisbury
Q1: One doesn’t have to read too far into this book to see that it has been a passion project for you. What’s driven you? I was compelled to produc...
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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 Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2022. How many poems were submitted? The submission screen went on for mil...
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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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Our First Foreign War reviewed by Peter Wood for the New Zealand Journal of History
Peter Wood has reviewed Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899–1902 on New Zealand for the New Zealand Journal of History....
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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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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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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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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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10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
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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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‘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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Making Space reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Kathy Waghorn has revewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, for Architecture New Zealand: As...
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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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Ten Questions with Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker
Q1: What prompted you to share your story? JW: This is the book I wished that I could have read secretly under my duvet when I was only just survi...
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 Questions with Andrew Cameron
1. Now that it is published, what pleases you most about your book? Many times when I have recounted stories to various people, about some of the s...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018? I’m happy with the feature: the poems, interview and essa...
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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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Carl Shuker’s launch speech for Aspiring
Launching Aspiring by Damien Wilkinsby Carl Shuker I remember interviewing Damien for his book Chemistry nearly twenty years ago. Our half-hour tal...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie
Q1: How did the book come about? The book follows from my historical research and friendships with Indian people in Aotearoa dating back to the mi...
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10 Questions with 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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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti o Te Ātiawa) reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans: 'Jeff Evans’s Ngātokimatawhaorua is a...
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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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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 Adam Claasen, author of Grid
Q1: Keith Caldwell was one of the stars of your last book, Fearless, about the New Zealand airmen who flew in the First World War. As you were fini...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Recorder
Sylvia Martin reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Recorder: ‘Mark Derby’s biography of Dr Doug J...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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10 Questions with Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
Q1: The kaupapa behind the kōrero series is a writer and an artist in collaboration, creating a ‘picture book for grownups’. When series editor Llo...
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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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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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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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Peter Wells talks to RNZ’s Kim Hill
Peter Wells, author of Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history, was recently interviewed by RNZ’s Kim Hill on her Saturday Morning programme. To l...
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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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'A run of bad luck' – How Kiwi soldiers described their wounds
Read an extract from With Them Through Hell on the New Zealand WW100 website: The more sophisticated and powerful weapons used during the First Wor...
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Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go for Kete. ‘Poetry as a genre sings out for accompanying artwork and the superlative treatment a hardcove...
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Johanna Emeney in conversation with Kim Hill
Johanna Emeney talks all things poetry, life, loss and goats with Kim Hill for RNZ’s Saturday Morning. Johanna’s new book of poems Felt is launched...
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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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Skinny Dip named one of the best kids’ books of 2021
Newsroom have named Skinny Dip one of the best kids’ books of 2021. Of the book, they write: ‘For kids who like poetry, and for those who just ha...
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Kaewa the Kororā reviewed on the 95bFM Kids’ Show
Kaewa the Kororā was reviewed on the 95bFM Kids’ Show. Scroll through to 1.18 minutes in here to listen to the piece.
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on KidsBooksNZ
Maria Gill has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too! by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing on...
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Kiran Dass reviews Downfall on RNZ’s Nine to Noon
Kiran Dass reviews Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond. Listen here.
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Sylvia and the Birds is one of The Spinoff’s great, late Christmas books for kids
The Spinoff has released its great, late Christmas book guide for kids and Sylvia and the Birds by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing has made the list...
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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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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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Colin Monteath talks to Kim Hill
Dealing with the trauma of taking part in the recovery operation of the Erebus disaster was difficult, as there was no darkness to soothe the eyes...
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Lama Tone reviews Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere for Kete
‘Waiho rā kia tū takitahi ana ngā whetū o te rangi / Let it be one alone that stands among the other stars in the sky (Alsop & Kupenga) In Poly...
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Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere in the bestsellers this week
Reading room’s bestselling book list in October featured Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen’s handsome tome Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere, and Steve Braunias...
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Kiran Dass reviews Living Between Land and Sea on RNZ
Kiran Dass reviews Living Between Land & Sea: The Bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson published by Massey University Press —...
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Kim Hill talks to Barbara Sumner
Filmmaker and journalist Barbara Sumner was adopted in 1960 and at the age of 23 embarked on a search to find her birth mother. The system made thi...
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The Crewe Murders reviewed on Nine to Noon
Sally Wenley has reviewed The Crewe Murders:Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case by James Hollings & Kirsty Johnston on Nine to Noon....
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The Crewe Murders co-author James Hollings talks to Maggie Tweedie on Radio Active
Associate Professor at Massey University’s School of Journalism James Hollings joined Maggie Tweedie to kōrero his new book, The Crewe Murders: Ins...
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Long Read: The Crewe Murders
Alexia Russel recently talked to Kirsty Johnston about her new book, co-authored with James Hollings: The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s most...
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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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Short | Poto reviewed in Kete Books
Savannah Patterson reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for Kete Books: ‘Some books change how we read. Others change...
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Short | Poto reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for NZ Booklovers: ‘Short | Poto: The Big Book of Small Stories – It...
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Short | Poto reviewed in Otago Daily Times
Tom McKinlay reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong for Otago Daily Times: A well known whakataukī (proverb) could ver...
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Short | Poto reviewed on RNZ’s Nights
Emile Donovan talks to editors Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong about their book Short | Poto on RNZ’s Nights. You can listen here.
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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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‘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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10 questions with Andrea Bennett, Jenny Parry and Carolyn Wirth
1. Now that it’s been published, what pleases you most about the Fundamentals of Finance? That it is much improved and up-to-date. 2. It’s been m...
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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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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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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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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 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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The art of extreme nursing
On a morning in early March this year Andrew Cameron heard a ‘dull thump’ and then the ‘unmistakable rattle of automatic gunfire’. He was in Kabul...
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Five Questions for James Hollings
Compiling A Moral Truth would have required its own kind of investigation, tracking down the articles you include. How did you choose them? There w...
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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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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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Two launch events for The Journal of Urgent Writing
Join us to celebrate the launch of The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017. Editor Simon Wilson will be joined by Auckland-based contributors Gilbert Wo...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Unsung heroes: The medics of World War I
The New Zealand Herald features Anna Rogers’ book on the New Zealand medical personal who served in the Great War: Thousands of New Zealand men wen...
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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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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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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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Announcing the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2019
To celebrate National Poetry Day 2019 we are thrilled to announce the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Student Poetry Competition 2019, judged by...
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ArtZone reviews Finding Frances Hodgkins
Dr Joanne Drayton reviews Finding Frances Hodgkins for ArtZone: ‘The format of Finding Frances Hodgkins is intimate, so it can be easily carried. T...
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Robyn Salisbury talks to RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan
Clinical psychologist Robyn Salisbury, author of Free to be Children: Preventing child sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand, talks to Kathryn Ryan...
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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews High Wire
Ian Wedde has reviewed High Wire at the Academy of Zealand Literature Te Whare Matatuhi o Aotearoa: ‘High Wire is the first picture book in the kōr...
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MUP authors shortlisted for CYA book awards
We are thrilled to announce that three of our books have been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. In the you...
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PhotoForum interviews Sara McIntyre
Sally Blundell has interviewed Sara McIntyre about her book Observations of a Rural Nurse for PhotoForum: ‘Places such as Kākahi,’ wrote Peter McIn...
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Sara McIntyre interviewed on Magic Talk
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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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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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Breton Dukes reviews Aspiring for Landfall Review Online
‘Aspiring is not realism. It’s more playful than that, more exaggerated. Large characters, major events, huge emotions. No, I needn’t have worried....
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Britt Mann interviews Barbara Sumner
Britt Mann interviews Barbara Sumner, author of moving new memoir Tree of Strangers. Britt Mann: In your book, you challenge narratives around adop...
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Vaughan Rapatahana reviews Wild Honey, in conversation with Paula Green
‘Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry, by Paula Green, is an important book. Indeed, it is a key book in that there has not been such a c...
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Lloyd Jones‘s launch speech for Shining Land
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde was launched in Auckland on 11 November 2020. Lloyd Jones had the following to say: Writing is an act of dis...
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Howard Davis on Me, According to the History of Art
‘Me, According to the History of Art provides the kind of art history education you never had, but wished you did.’ Read the full review here.
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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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Our First Foreign War review
‘If you like your history richly-layered then this is just the title for you, with the added bonus that it covers a part of the New Zealand story n...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: What stands out most for you about this book? The range and quality of the photographs we were able to find: from a Nazi victory parade in Wars...
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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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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: After working your way through the history of Western art for your last book, was it a relief to look up at the sun and the stars? Not so much...
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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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Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris
Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry b...
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Dick Frizzell talks to Metropol editor Lynda Papesch
Dick Frizzell talks to Metropol editor Lynda Papesch: Space may not be the final frontier it once was, yet the sun, the stars and the universe stil...
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Ian Wedde reviews The Lobster’s Tale
‘This book, combining texts by Chris Price and images by Bruce Foster, is the third in the kōrero series from Massey University Press edited by Llo...
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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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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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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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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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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 Sun is a Star is one of the Listener’s Top Children’s Books of 2021
The Sun is a Star has appeared in New Zealand Listener’s Top Children’s Books of 2021: ‘The veteran Kiwi artist, who became hooked on the universe...
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Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? on The Spinoff’s Christmas book-shopping list 2021
Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? were chosen by books editor Catherine Woulfe for The Spinoff’s 2021 Chris...
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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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Invisible reviewed for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has reviewed Invisible: New Zealand’s history of exclu...
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Chloe Swarbrick on being queer, depression and starting a family
In a new book, Auckland Central and Green MP Chloe Swarbrick is among 30 New Zealanders who have shared their experiences about being queer in New...
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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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The New Zealand Listener reviews 30 Queer Lives
Andrew Paul Wood has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the New Zealand Listener. You can read the full review...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Matt McEvoy’s book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘I loved this...
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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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Invisible features on New Books Network podcast
Jacqueline Leckie has featured on the New Books Network podcast in conversation with Amir Sayadabdi, a lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria Univers...
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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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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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Poetry Shelf review: Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek’s Bordering on the Miraculous
Paula Green has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous on NZ Poetry Shelf. ‘Great title, inviting cover! Bordering on Miraculous is the fourth contributi...
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Linda Herrick reviews Bordering on Miraculous for Kete
A review of Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek’s collaboration Bordering on Miraculous has appeared in Kete. It’s the fourth in the kōrero series, edi...
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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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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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Lloyd Jones on the kōrero series of ‘picture books for grownups’
Following the release of Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, Lloyd Jones spoke with Stuff about his process as editor of th...
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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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Bordering on Miraculous reviewed in VOLUME
Thomas Koed gives an excellent review of the latest in the kōrero series, Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, in VOLUME new...
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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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Announcing the winning poems of the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winning entries from the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. The first prize winners will...
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How authors Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker found their biological parents
Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker recently published the memoir Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion, detailing their experience of growing up and th...
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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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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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Authors of Making Space interviewed on Nine to Noon
We see their work, but do we know their names? The Kiwi women architects who have contributed to our built environment since the mid 1800s. Welling...
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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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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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Agency of Hope reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Barbara Brookes has reviewed Agency of Hope: The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920–2020 by Peter Lineham for the New Zealand Journal of Histo...
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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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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed (and recommended!) in the Read NZ newsletter
Chris Reed has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too in the latest Read NZ Te Pou Muramura...
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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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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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Rooms wins NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023
Rooms: Portraits of Remarkable New Zealand Interiors by Jane Ussher and John Walsh has won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023. Ju...
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Soundings reviewed by Ingrid Horrocks for New Zealand Geographic
Ingrid Horrocks has reviewed Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea for New Zealand Geographic: ‘THIS IS KENNEDY Warne’s memoir of a li...
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Watch Andrew Paul Wood on The Project NZ
Seances, spells and mystical visions – an author says early settlers in Aotearoa were getting up to all kinds of weird stuff behind closed doors....
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Shadow Worlds: Author's exploration of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand
‘In a cafe in the Royal Arcade in downtown Timaru a group of enthusiastic residents settle in for a night of theosophical conversation. ‘It is Octo...
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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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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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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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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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Andrew Paul Wood talks about Shadow Worlds on The Project
Andrew Paul Wood, author of Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand, talks on The Project NZ about seances, spells and...
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Colin Monteath talks about Erebus with Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine recently asked Colin Monteath, author of Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, seven questions ahead of hi...
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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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NZ Booklovers interviews Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch. He has spent 32 seasons in Antarctica, from...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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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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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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Ziggle! reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviewed Ziggle! The Len Lye art activity book for the 14 September Waiheke Weekender. ‘An art activity book with ideas inspired by...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Jane Robertson's most recent book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on N...
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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed on Kete
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived and edited by Lloyd Jones, Little Doomsdays is a dynamic collaboration between artist Phil Dadson and Kāi...
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Ziggle! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Ziggle! The Len Lye activity book by Rebecca Fawkner has been reviewed on NZ Booklovers: ‘There are hours of creative fun to be had, for children...
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Rewi co-author Jade Kake talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Jade Kake co-authored Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere with Jeremy Hansen. She talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon about the book, as well as about Chec...
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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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James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica for takahē
James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd: 'I couldn’t help but gather adjectives from the first few pages of this h...
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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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Reawakened reviewed in Journal of Pacific History
Axel Defngin reviews Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans: Sirow. (A Yapese ceremonial apology given before spea...
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Artists in Antarctica reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame reviews Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd for Polar Record: ‘Patrick Shepherd has edited a sumptuous collection of creativity by...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in Heritage New Zealand
Anna Knox reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans for New Zealand Heritage magazine: ‘Ngātokimatawhaorua, the waka champi...
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State of Threat reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews State of Threat: The challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's national security edited by Wil Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald in...
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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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The Unsettled author Richard Shaw interviewed for Stuff
George Heagney interviews Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for Stuff: ‘Author and Massey University profes...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter for Poetry Shelf: ‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 24 is again edited by Tra...
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Otherhood reviewed on Capsule
Capsule talks to the editors behind the new essay book, Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree & Child Adjacent about expanding the co...
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Katūīvei reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Mere Taito and Vaughan Rapatahana fo...
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Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
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Eat Pacific reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Iain McKenzie reviews Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Oliver for NZ Booklovers: ‘The book of the TV seri...
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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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Old Black Cloud author Jacqueline Leckie talks to Emile Donovan on RNZ
Author Jacqueline Leckie speaks to Emile Donovan on RNZ’s Nights about her new book Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aot...
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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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Grid reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Crackle! Cra...
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Adam Claasen's Author Q&A in Sunday Star-Times
Adam Claasen, author of Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell, answers the Author Q&A for Sunday Star-Times: ‘...
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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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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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Herbst: Architecture in context reviewed in Architecture Now
Sean Flanagan reviews Herbst: Architecture in context by John Walsh for Architecture Now: ‘Recently published by Massey University Press, the book...
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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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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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Dick Frizzell: 'I had my own private world all to myself that no one could enter'
Iconic New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell grew up as one of six kids, in a small town, where there was only room for one arty one, as he puts it. His...
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Marae food sovereignty: Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Sunday Star-Times: ‘When Dr Jessica Hutchings begin...
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Grid reviewed in the Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation
Gary Connor reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for the Journal of the Air Force Histori...
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Dick Frizzell interviewed in Hawkes Bay Today
Jack Riddell interviews Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings: A boy’s own adventure for Hawkes Bay Today: ‘One of Hastings' favourite sons has created...
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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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Fire & Ice is ReadingRoom's book of the week
Steve Braunias reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for ReadingRoom: ‘The main image on this page — above, spread out happily across the screen...
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You Are Here reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Poetry Shelf: ‘Massey University Press’s kōrero project invites collaboratio...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Landfall Online
Nicholas Reid reviews Becoming Aotearoa by Michael Belgrave for Landfall Online: ‘When historians attempt to chronicle the whole history of a coun...