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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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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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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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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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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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10 Questions with 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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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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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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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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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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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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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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Tania Mace
Tania Mace is a freelance historian with a Master of Arts with honours in history.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Massey University Press partners with Annual Ink to create children’s imprint
Massey University Press is excited to be joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink, is to become the Press’s new...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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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Hastings reviewed in Kete
Peter Simpson reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for Kete: ‘'An element which runs through all of Frizzell’s multiple activi...
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The 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 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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Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
Aaron Lister’s speech at the launch of Theo Schoon: A Biography, by Damian Skinner Theo Schoon sets a tough precedent when it comes to giving ope...
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10 Questions with 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 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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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 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 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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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Rotuman, Tongan and Pākehā heritage and was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021. Vaugha...
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10 Questions with 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 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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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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10 Questions with 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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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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Short Story Club – 1 November
BUTTERFLY SMITH 1987 The first time they lost Butterfly was in the Auckland railway station. One moment he was standing there guarding the shabby...
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10 Questions with 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 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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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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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 Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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Extract from 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...