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Stuff interviews Elizabeth Cox, editor of Making Space
Kelly Dennett has interviewed Elizabeth Cox about her new book, Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, for Stuff. ‘The histo...
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Listen to an interview with Making Space editor Elizabeth Cox on RadioActive
‘The hidden history of women and architecture in New Zealand is one that, until very recently, has been a story full of prejudice and bias. Pioneer...
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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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Elizabeth Cox
Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in New Zealand’s social and architectural history.
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Elizabeth Cox interviewed on Small Rooms podcast
Elizabeth Cox, editor of Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, speaks about how she came to develop the book. Listen to the...
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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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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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews Making Space for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘...
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Making Space editor honoured
We were delighted to see Making Space editor Elizabeth Cox recently honoured by her own industry for the energy and commitment she has put in to do...
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Making Space reviewed in HOME
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, which is edited by Elizabeth Cox, in HOME magazine thi...
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Kete Books reviews Making Space
Making Space is an impressive recent release billed by its publisher Massey University Press as ‘a new book that sets the architectural record stra...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: When did you first come across this remarkable map, with its detailed drawings of verandahs, sheds, street lights, street levels, construction...
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Watch conservation architect Chessa Stevens talk about her chapter in Making Space at Futuna Chapel
This talk occurred at Futuna Chapel, Karori, Wellington on 7 November 2022 for Wellington Heritage Week 2022. Elizabeth Cox, architectural historia...
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Julie Willis reviews Making Space
Julie Willis, writing for Australian architecture advocates Parlour, reviews a comprehensive new history of New Zealand women in architecture:'It i...
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10 Questions with Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Q1: What prompted Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) to do this book now?The idea of a publication about PCANZ had been discussed for a num...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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The Near West reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Paul Moon reviews The Near West: A history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘OF THE DIFFEREN...
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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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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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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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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Will Hansen has reviewed Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond: 'THE ‘WANGANUI SENSATION’ is a major event in New Zealand’s q...
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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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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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Steven Loveridge reviews The Front Line in the New Zealand Journal of History
The Front Line: Images of New Zealanders in the Second World War by Glyn Harper with Susan Lemish has been reviewed by Steven Loveridge in the New...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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Proof reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking on NZ Booklovers: ‘Proof, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PCANZ, the Print...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, was reviewed in North & South’s September book reviews. Paul Little says: ‘Th...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 launched at Devonport Library
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 was launched in style last night at Devonport Library. Associate Professor Bryan Walpert’s opening speech is r...
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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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The Collector
The vivid biography of a colonial scholar, scientist and gentleman
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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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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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Proof: Two decades of printmaking reviewed on Kete
Proof: Two decades of printmaking by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand has been reviewed on Kete. Peter Simpson says: ‘These are times when, on th...
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Ziggle! reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘“Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Acti...
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Sing New Zealand
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today’s award-winning international choirs
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Leonard Bell reviews Gretchen Albrecht for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Leonard Bell has reviewed the revised edition of Luke Smythe’s Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry for the Aotearoa New Zealand Review...
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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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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
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Tūtira Mai
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Tūtira Mai ebook
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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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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An extract from From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
Chapter 4 The College Finds its Feet After such a long and troubled pre-history, the agricultural college opened with a burst of enthusiasm and ene...
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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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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Proof reviewed on The Maker’s Story
The Maker’s Story has reviewed Proof: Two decades of printmaking: ‘The days of being able to give a definitive explanation of what printmaking is h...
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Army Fundamentals
A unique insider view of the New Zealand Army
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10 Question Q&A with Chris Thom
Q1: You are an architect with a busy day job and you probably had some idea of how huge the job of researching a history of health design in New Ze...
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Tutira Mai reviewed in the Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Social Issues
Thomas O’Brien, lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of York, has reviewed Tūtira Mai: Making change in Aotearoa New Zealand for the A...
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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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Don Abbott reviews The Lobster’s Tale in Art New Zealand
Don Abbott, deputy editor of Art New Zealand, has reviewed The Lobster's Tale in the Summer ‘22 issue. ‘The cover of The Lobster’s Tale provides a...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh
Q1: Wellington Architecture: A walking guide was first published in 2022 and has been incredibly successful, and now there’s a revised edition. Wha...
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The power of art to make a difference: Urgent Moments reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples of the New Zealand Arts Review has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by...
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‘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 Adrienne Jansen
Q1: Taking over another writer’s book is not an easy task. Which aspect did you find most challenging? I’d been working with Guy intensively on thi...
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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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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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 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 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 Natalia Martín and Nicholas Sneddon
Q1: Who do you see as the target reader? This book is a key text for students in the agricultural and animal sciences areas, as well as those invol...
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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One Hundred Havens
A rich and complex story shaped by land and sea
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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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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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Veterinary Clinical Toxicology
An excellent resource on toxicoses for veterinary students, practitioners, agriculturalists, diagnostic laboratories and libraries
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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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Victoria Wynne-Jones
Victoria Wynne-Jones is an art historian and curator, and an honorary research fellow in art history at the University of Auckland.
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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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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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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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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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...
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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 Nigel Robson
Q1: Has the South African War 1899-1902 been overlooked in our history? While the war itself has not been overlooked, it has long existed in the sh...
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10 Questions with David Straight
Can you remember the moment you knew you wanted to create a book about John Scott? I had been thinking of a book on John Scott for a few months pri...
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10 Questions with Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson
Q1: When the Sarjeant Gallery reopens later this year — the 1919 heritage building will be fully restored, earthquake strengthened and expanded wi...
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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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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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10 Questions with Claire Robinson
Q1: There’s so much amazing visual material in this book. How did you amass it all? It wasn’t easy! Collecting, preserving, cataloguing and digitis...
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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 Joan Skinner
Q1: What drew you to midwifery as a profession? It probably started before I was born. My Dad was a GP obstetrician and he seemed to be always away...
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Ralf Heimrath
Dr Ralf Heimrath’s distinguished scholarly career encompasses teaching and leadership positions at a Bavarian open-air museum, the National University of Mongolia and the University of Malta.
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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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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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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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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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10 Questions with Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
Q1: Where did the notion of this book come from? JE: The idea for a book about Sylvia came to me in a flash. In 2018, at the age of 85, Sylvia deci...
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10 Questions with 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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Richard Wolfe and Andrew McKay
Q1: There are three very telling images in this book: the grand Natural History Museum in London, not long after it opened in South Kensington in 1...
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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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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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Richard Shaw responds to critics of The Unsettled on Newsroom
Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation responds to critics in a piece published by Newsroom: ‘A couple of years ago I...
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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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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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Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra by Paul Moon
Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits: 'A very attractive book and a fascin...
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The best illustrated books of 2024: Woolsheds and Herbst
Steve Braunias’s top illustrated nonfiction books for Reading Room includes two Massey University Press titles: Woolsheds: The historic shearing sh...
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Downfall reviewed in DNA magazine Australia
Graeme Aitken has reviewed Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mckay in DNA magazine Australia: ‘This fascinating book explores a...
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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 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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Fresh perspectives on experiences of WWI
The First World War has been thoroughly documented over the past 100 years. But there is scope for deeper understandings of New Zealanders’ experie...
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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Landfall
Jack Ross reviews Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood: ‘Whose attention would not be caught by t...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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Ten Question Q&A with Annette O'Sullivan
1. In a country full of woolsheds, why these particular fifteen? There were many possible woolsheds, but the fifteen woolsheds in the book were sel...
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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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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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10 Questions with Barbara Sumner
Q1: Now your book has gone off to print, how are you feeling? I am relieved, neurotic, trepidatious. And very pleased. Q2: When did you decide tha...
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Read an extract from Frontline Surgeon in the Otago Daily Times
A new book by Mark Derby tells the remarkable story of Cromwell-raised surgeon Doug Jolly. The following extract describes his work during in the S...
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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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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 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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Fire & Ice reviewed in Otago Daily Times
David Barnes reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for Otago Daily Times: ‘HAZEL Phillips - tramper, climber, skier and sometime journalist - l...
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10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
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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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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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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Felicity Jones and Mark Smith
Q1: When did you first learn about the Wardian Case and its enabling of the transportation of live plants across continents and indeed hemispheres?...
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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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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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Ans Westra reviewed on Landfall
Max Oettli reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Everyone seems to have an Ans Westra story to tell. Mine involves Westra swear...
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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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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 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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Giles Dodson
Giles Dodson is a senior lecturer and course co-ordinator for Tū Tira Mai: Practising Engagement at Massey University.
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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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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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Adam Claasen talks to RNZ’s Jim Mora
First World War airman Keith ‘Grid’ Caldwell played a pivotal role in sustaining military aviation in interwar New Zealand, yet he’s a name most ar...
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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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Mark Smith
Mark Smith has been making photographs since the late 1970s. His work has appeared in many national and international publications, as well as in galleries.
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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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Hauturu co-editor Lyn Wade interviewed on RNZ’s Afternoons
Listen to co-editor Lyn Wade explain the rich history of this remarkable island and the making of the book in an interview with RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan.
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Nick Nelson
Nick Nelson is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
Q1: A much-loved, much-missed and near mythical figure — when did you each decide that Rewi Thompson should be honoured with a book and that you sh...
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Bruce Munro reviews Our First Foreign War for the Otago Daily Times
Bruce Munro reviews Our First Foreign War for Otago Daily Times The South African War is largely forgotten or remembered simply as a warm-up to two...
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10 Questions with Nan Blanchard
Your book has just gone to print and it’s your very first. Pleased with it? It feels very unreal (pinch pinch). It takes so many people to create a...
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10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
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10 Questions with 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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10 Questions with Bill Kaye-Blake, Margaret Brown and Penny Payne
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? BK-B: I’m passionate about agriculture and rural communities. I think we can learn a lot from how people...
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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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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
Q1: How do you define ‘active citizenship’? We purposefully define ‘active citizenship’ broadly so as to accommodate a diversity of approaches a...
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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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Interview: Lucy O’Hagan on her medical memoir
Lucy O’Hagan entered Otago Medical School in the first class to be half female and graduated in the year of the Cartwright Inquiry. She has studie...
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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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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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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 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 Jeff Evans
Q1: What first drew you to the subject of traditional wayfinding and voyaging? I had met several of the Pwo navigators while writing the biography...
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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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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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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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Paula Green reviews The RNZ Cookbook on NZ Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and...
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10 Questions with Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle
Q1: Your beautiful book is at the printer. How does that feel? CB: Absolutely thrilling — making a book when you love books is a thrill and worki...
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
It began with a simple realisation. Over the course of a generation, there had been a fundamental shift in the way Pacific people ate. Processed fo...
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Extract from 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 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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10 Questions with Rachel Haydon and Pippa Keel
Q1: What were the challenges and opportunities in basing the story around the real penguins at the National Aquarium? Rachel Haydon: The kororā, or...
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Robert Oliver interviewed on RNZ’s Nine to Noon
On RNZ's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan interviews Robert Oliver and Sir Colin Tuikuigona about Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookboo...
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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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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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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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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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10 Questions with Bridget Hackshaw
Q1: When did the idea that you should write this book first seed in your mind? I began reading, photographing and researching this subject at the...
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10 Questions with Mark Revington
Q1: You’ve had the privilege of helping Mark Solomon write a book that reflects on his life and on key issues. Was it your idea, and why? Both Tā...
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Ten Question Q&A with Hazel Phillips
Q1: You’ve gone adventuring all over the motu, and we know comparisons are invidious, but what makes the hikes and climbs around Ruapehu so very sp...
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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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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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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
1. Now the book is back from the printer, are you pleased with it? Yes! The cover looks great and is attracting a lot of interest but, more than th...
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Read an extract from 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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Read an extract from Everything But the Medicine
‘Death at home My mother died at home, surrounded by family. We read her Lauris Edmond and Hone Tuwhare and she seemed soothed. Then she took off h...
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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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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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Aspiring named in Top 10 summer reads for teens
Auckland Libraries have named their Top 10 books for teens to enjoy this summer, with Aspiring making the list. Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in As...
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Pātaka Kai reviewed by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
Chris Reed reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura: ‘Pātaka Kai by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith is an inspiring...
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Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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You Are Here reviewed in NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for NZ Booklovers: ‘In You Are Here, Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin craft a deep...
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Ziggle! reviewed in Magpies Magazine
Hannah Taylor-Rose reviews Ziggle! The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner for Magpies Magazine: ‘Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Activity Book ha...
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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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You Are Here reviewed in Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Kelly Ana Morey reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Aotearoa NZ Review of Books: ‘You Are Here is the sixth book in the kōr...
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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
Stella from Volume Books reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin: ‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept, and beautifully executed...
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NZ Booklovers reviews Tūmahi Māori
Tūmahi Māori is both a practical teaching resource and a philosophical exploration of te reo Māori. Dr Hone Waengarangi Morris, one of Aotearoa’s...
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Otherhood editors interviewed on RNZ's Nine to Noon
On RNZ's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan discusses Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent with editors Alie Benge, Lil O’Bri...
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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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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...