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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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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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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed for NBR
Nevil Gibson has reviewed Ian McGibbon’s New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for National Business Review. He writes: ‘Prime Minister Jacinda...
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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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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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Ian McGibbon interviewed on Māori Television
Editor of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history Ian McGibbon was recently interviewed on Māori Television to talk about this new publication. Y...
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Ian McGibbon talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Ian McGibbon, author of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, talked with Kathryn Ryan on Wednesday about the book and the history of the Minis...
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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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Ian McGibbon
Ian McGibbon ONZM worked as an historian in the Ministry of Defence, Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage during his 44-year career as a public historian.
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service
A remarkable organisation and its pivotal role in this nation’s international relations
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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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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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50 Years Young
The colourful history of New Zealand’s best-loved farming contest
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David Littlewood reviews Our First Foreign War
David Littlewood has reviewed Our First Foreign War by Nigel Robson for Kete: ‘For a people whose involvement in conflict is often said to have exe...
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From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen
The history of New Zealand’s world-facing university
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Mike Houlahan reviews Our First Foreign War
Mike Houlahan reviews Our First Foreign War for Otago Daily Times, 19 June 2021. ‘In the introduction to this excellent book, Nigel Robson sets out...
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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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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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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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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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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
PREFACE This book aims to give an overview of how Japanese language education in the tertiary sector in New Zealand is reshaping its delivery and d...
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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Creating New Synergies
An essential guide for teachers of Japanese in New Zealand
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Heartland Strong
A new vision for the future of New Zealand’s rural communities
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The Near West
A comprehensive history of three fascinating Auckland neighbourhoods
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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Grid reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Neill Atkinson reviews Adam Claasen’s Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘...
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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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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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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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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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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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Promises Promises
A lively history of political advertising, from the first election of the modern era in 1938 to today
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Ian Templeton reviews Fridays with Jim
'In exploring the life and times of Bolger through his conversations over the best part of a year, Cohen ranges widely. Besides its political conte...
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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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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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Health Design in New Zealand
One hundred and ninety years of hospital building history
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Encountering China reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Bolin Hu reviews Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Brian Moloughney and Duncan Campbell: ENCOUNTERING CHINA...
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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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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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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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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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The New New Zealand
A bold new book on population trends and the need to confront them
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Shadow Worlds
From Gomorrah on the Avon to witchcraft
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition Ebook
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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‘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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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in New Zealand Journal of Public History
Emma Jean-Kelly reviews Old Black Cloud: A culture history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand for New Zealand Journal of Public History:...
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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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Tooth and Veil
The story of the young women charged with waging war on our nation’s poor teeth
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10 Questions with Rachael Bell
1. You teach the history of New Zealand in the interwar period – what drew you to it? It was such a revolutionary time in our history – the start,...
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Inside New Zealand’s most inspiring rooms
‘About a decade and a half ago, after 30 years photographing people for the New Zealand Listener, Jane Ussher left the magazine and developed a new...
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
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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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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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Against the Odds
The women who battled prejudice and indifference to become doctors
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The Unsettled reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Sam Iti Prendergast reviews Richard Shaw’s The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘FAMILY HISTORY often...
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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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It Takes a Village
Where to go in one of New Zealand’s charming visitor hot-spots
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New Zealand Between the Wars ebook
Examining New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years, when the foundation for a new nation was laid
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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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New book covers artist's rich modernist history
'Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery during the 1990s. Alon...
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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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Woolsheds
Inside the historic buildings of New Zealand’s heartland
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Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
The history of one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries
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The setting for Paul Diamond’s book Downfall becomes New Zealand’s first rainbow listing of a significant building
’The site where Whanganui's former mayor shot a returned soldier who was threatening to expose him as homosexual is New Zealand's first rainbow lis...
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Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Health and History
Neil Pollock reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Health and History: ‘This is a superbly written...
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New Press, New Website
Massey University Press’s swish new website went live on March 16.Designed by OpenLab and built by IT Effect, it showcases the Press’s growing list...
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Frontline Surgeon
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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A Moral Truth
New Zealand journalism that holds power to account
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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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John Scott Works
A survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s most important architects
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Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) is a member-run, national organisation that has been promoting contemporary fine art printmaking for over 20 years.
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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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New Zealand National Security
New Zealand faces a range of serious security challenges in a globalised world — are we prepared for them?
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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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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2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist announced
We are thrilled to have five books on the longlist for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today. Congratulations to Peter Wells (De...
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A brief history of Michael Laws’ war on the Sarjeant Gallery
‘Whanganui was in a mood for change in 2004. The incumbent mayor, Chas Poynter, a bookseller and the son of a bookseller, had been in office since...
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Ans Westra: A life in photorgraphy reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Athol McCredie reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘THE DUTCH-BORN Ans Westra (1936–2023...
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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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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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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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Will to Win
Insights and revelations from some of the legends of New Zealand netball
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Join us at the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 launch
We are thrilled to be launching the 2019 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, New Zealand's longest-running poetry magazine. Join us at Devonpor...
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry Shelf reviews the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Paula Green at the Poetry Shelf blog has reviewed the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018: ‘More and more I witness clusters of poetry communities in...
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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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Creating New Synergies in the press
Creating New Synergies has been getting coverage all over the country: Penny Shino talks to bFMs The Wire programme: http://95bfm.com/bcasts/interv...
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Hauturu
A richly illustrated account of the island’s diverse plants and animals, and the people behind this globally significant conservation success story
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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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30 Queer Lives
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders
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RNZ reviews Sing New Zealand
Clarissa Dunn reviews Sing New Zealand: The story of choral music in Aotearoa by Guy E. Jansen on Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan. Listen to it on R...
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Manawatu Standard reviews Home: New Writing
A new collection of essays from New Zealand authors contemplates the concept of home. Carly Thomas had a read. Home is a word heavy with substance....
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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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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Wild Honey
A comprehensive guide to poetry by New Zealand women poets written by poetry champion Paula Green
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Katūīvei
A celebration of an exciting new thread in the literature of Aotearoa
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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State of Threat
Timely analysis of our most important security issues
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Rachael Bell talks to RNZ’s Bryan Crump
Social historian Rachael Bell talks about her new book, which examines New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years when many believe the foundation for a...
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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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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Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
Sophie van Waardenberg reviews the latest edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, edited by Tracey Slaughter: ‘Even for a poet, the offering of nea...
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Bronwyn Labrum reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A biography by Martin Edmond for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘AS THE DIRECTOR of the...
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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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Nigel Robson talk to RNZ’s Bryan Crump
Our First Foreign War looks at the social impacts of the often overlooked South African War, particularly on New Zealand’s blossoming national iden...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 in the press
Paula Green writes: ‘[Poetry New Zealand Yearbook] has just recieved a well-deserved makeover by Massey University Press. The new design is eye-cat...
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Otago Daily Times reviews The New Zealand Horse
Jim Sullivan at Otago Daily Times reviews The New Zealand Horse. ‘In a lifetime of photography I doubt if Jane Ussher has published a dud shot yet...
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The New Zealand Horse
A handsome book showing the horse in all its glory
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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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Downfall
An important new history considered through a queer lens
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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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Read the Stuff.co.nz article on New Zealand Between the Wars
Alistair Browne profiles New Zealand Between the Wars, edited by Rachael Bell. Read the full article here.
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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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Launch event for Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Join Massey University Press and Poetry NZ to celebrate the launch of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, the newest issue of this country’s longest-...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 launch
On 14 March we celebrated the launch of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 at the Devonport Library. Poet Laureate Michele Leggott officially lau...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 reviewed on Kete
Erica Stretton has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, edited by Tracey Slaughter, for Kete. ‘The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 is a sub...
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand ebook
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Paul Diamond reviews The South Island of New Zealand from the Road on RNZ
Paul Diamond has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on Nine to Noon. You can listen to the...
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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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NZ Booklovers reviews the South Island of New Zealand From the Road
Lyn Potter has reviewed Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road, which was republished this month in a new edition. She says...
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Read an extract of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Louise Callan, former journalist and friend of Robin Morrison, writes an introductory essay to the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand —...
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South Island of New Zealand From the Road reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed the new edition of Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road on the Poetry Shelf blog: ‘Road trips ta...
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Theo Schoon
The important biography of a significant figure in New Zealand art and culture
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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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Announcing the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. Year 11 category winners: 1st: ‘275 Love Let...
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Three poems from Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Article magazine features three of the poems from the 2018 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Check them out here.
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Entries now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition
Entries are now open in the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition.*Send us your previously unpublished original poem and be in to...
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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Herald
Joan Rosier-Jones has reviewed this ‘long awaited’ history of Charles Mackay in the Whanganui Chronicle. She calls Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The Des...
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The Writing Life and The New Zealand Horse included in the Unity Summer Newsletter
Unity Books Wellington has included two Massey University Press titles in their Summer 18/19 catalogue: The Writing Life (‘fruitful and fascinating...
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017
The one-stop-shop for the latest smart agribusiness and agrifood thinking
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 reviewed by Harry Ricketts
‘The new Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is, as usual, a poetic smorgasbord. First, a tranche of impressive work by the featured poet, Aimee-Jane Ander...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished o...
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Paula Green reviews the 2022 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Paula Green has reviewed Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 for NZ Poetry Shelf. She writes: ‘Tracey Slaughter’s introduction sidesteps the traditio...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. What’s the focus of this year’s edition of The New Zealand Land & Food Annual? This year we’ve focused on food, and more specifically the ‘...
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MUP authors recognised at Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We were thrilled to have two books shortlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards: With Them Through Hell, by Anna Rogers, and Wanted: The...
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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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Solo
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry
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One Hundred Havens
A rich and complex story shaped by land and sea
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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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Solving an art history mystery
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith talks to Kathryn Ryan from RNZ’s Nine to Noon programme about her work uncovering the murals of E. Mervyn Taylor, including...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Daniel K Brown has reviewed the latest in our walking guide series by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, fo...
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The rich history of Aotearoa art, through one gallery in one city
Author and screenplay writer Martin Edmond’s new work traverses the history of a building and the art history of Whanganui. Te Whare o Rehua Sarje...
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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What does this historian read to relax? More history of course
‘Tania Mace is a heritage historian from Auckland. Her new book The Near West: A history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere is published by Mass...
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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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Bill & Shirley
An exemplary memoir examining the complex, remarkable lives of two very famous New Zealanders
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017 shortlisted for the Gourmand Awards
We are thrilled to announce that The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017 is among the list of finalists for the 2018 Gourmand Awards Cookbooks...
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Bookmarks with Dick Frizzell
Jesse Mulligan talks to painter, writer and art-lover Dick Frizzell on the eve of the launch of Dick's new book Me, According to the History of Art...
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Morrin Rout interviews Dick Frizzell
Morrin Rout of Plains FM’s Bookenz chats to Dick Frizzell about his new book Me, According to the History of Art. Listen to the full interview her...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 featured poet essa may ranapiri reads ‘my dream of a nonbinary prison’
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 featured poet essa may ranapiri reads ‘my dream of a nonbinary prison’. Read twenty-three more fantastic poems by...
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Massey University Press
Massey University Press publishes award-winning books across a range of genres. Our list includes history, design, art, biography and memoir, agric...
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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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Home: New Writing in the news
Home: New Writing edited by Thom Conroy was launched at Unity Books Wellington on Thursday 13 July. This collection features essays from twenty-two...
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New Zealand Geographic reviews Te Kupenga
‘Pistons, spark plugs, and small rocks are not objects that you would expect to find in the holdings of a prestigious national library. But the Ale...
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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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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 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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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. Now that it’s published, what delights you most about the first New Zealand Land & Food Annual? It’s an annual publication, so for as long a...
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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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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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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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Livestock Production in New Zealand Revised Edition
The lifestyle-block owner and farmer’s go-to reference book
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Livestock Production in New Zealand Revised Edition ebook
The lifestyle-block owner and farmer’s go-to reference book
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Kiwi Bikers
A celebration of the motorbikes we love and admire
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The South Island of New Zealand
The return of a legendary New Zealand book
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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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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Mark Southcombe reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for Architecture New Zealand: ‘Whanganui is close...
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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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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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Take a tour of MacKay’s Whanganui, as explored in Paul Diamond’s new book Downfall
The publication of Paul Diamond’s new book Downfall: The Destruction of Charles MacKay is leading many to see Whanganui’s history in a new light. R...
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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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Encountering China
Inside our relationship with a superpower
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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‘History enlivened’ – Deborah Shepard talks to Karen Craig
Karen Craig, from PlanetFM’s Books and Beyond, recently interviewed Deborah Shepard about her new book, The Writing Life, a brilliant and intimate...
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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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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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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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Claire Massey talks to TVNZ’s Q&A programme
With the Earth’s population set to reach more than nine billion by the middle of the century, New Zealand has an opportunity to help meet the need...
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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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After Winter Comes the Summer
A treasury of unique folk songs sung in the Deitsch language
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How Should We Live?
A guide to navigating the twenty-first century’s ethical minefields
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The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
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Massey University
For more than 80 years, Massey University has helped to shape lives and communities in New Zealand and around the world. Its forward-thinking spiri...
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Katūīvei reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature
Erin Mercer reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito fo...
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Free to Be Children
How to combat the tragedy of child sexual abuse
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The Unsettled reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Paul Diamond reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Richard Shaw’s 2021 me...
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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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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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Edith Collier
Rediscovering a remarkable woman painter
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Little Doomsdays reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Little Doomsdays, the fifth in the kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, has been reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review. John Daly-Peoples says of Nic...
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Rebooting the Regions
Expert essays on how to combat the pull of Auckland and get the regions humming
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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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David Littlewood
David Littlewood is a Lecturer in History at Massey University’s Palmerston North campus, and his research focuses on the impacts of the First World War on New Zealand and British society.
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This Is New Zealand exhibition review
Fran Dibble reviews the recently opened exhibition This Is New Zealand at City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition features Bronwyn Holloway-Smith’s...
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Publish with us
Massey University Press welcomes proposals from both Massey researchers and authors outside the university that fit our publishing programme, which...
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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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Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
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Olveston
The opulent interiors of a glorious historic house
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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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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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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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Erebus: The Ice Dragon reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
The name Erebus for most New Zealanders is associated with tragedy after the fatal crash of flight TE901 in 1979. In many ways that is appropriate...
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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews Conversātiō for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Conversātiō for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘The book is a combination of artist’s book and personal journal along with essa...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua for New Zealand Arts Review
Anyone who has attended the ceremonies around the annual Waitangi Day commemorations will have seen the massive waka Ngātokimatawhaorua which is la...
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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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NZ Booklovers reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
This thorough and thought-provoking book will ignite interest in the life and works of New Zealand artist Edith Collier, who is now recognised as...
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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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Sing New Zealand
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today’s award-winning international choirs
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Little Doomsdays reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson has been reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. It’s the fifth in the kōrero series edited b...
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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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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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
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Extract from 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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Extraordinary tales of WWI flying live up to hyperbole in book’s subtitle
Alister Browne reviews Fearless at stuff.co.nz: ‘This handsome volume, the latest in the centenary history programme series, amply lives up to the...
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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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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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New Zealand Arts Review of Soundings
‘It seems that it is only in the last fifty years that we have taken a new approach to the ocean and our fisheries. Only a few years ago the seas...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices
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The RNZ Cookbook wins the special award for New Zealand at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and Kathy Paterson has won t...
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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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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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Diseases of Cattle in Australasia
The definitive and authoritative text on cattle diseases in New Zealand and Australia
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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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Elizabeth Cox
Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in New Zealand’s social and architectural history.
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The Citizen
From Ancient Rome to Brexit, how The Citizen finds his way, exercises his rights and fulfils his duties
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10 Questions with 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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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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Rock College wins the non-fiction category of the 2021 New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards
Congratulations to Mark Derby, whose book Rock College: A unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison, has won the non-fiction category of the 2021 New...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Q1: You’ve written many books and are well acquainted with the highs and lows of the authorial life. But was this one just a bit different? It is d...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Erebus The Ice Dragon for New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviewed Colin Monteath’s latest book Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘The...
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Helen Beaglehole
Helen Beaglehole is a writer, editor and historian who has spent many years sailing and exploring in the Marlborough Sounds.
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2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist
Adam Claasen’s riveting account of New Zealand airmen’s involvement in the Great War has been longlisted for the General Non-fiction Award in the 2...
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A review of Rooms on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors for New Zealand Arts Revi...
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Fifty Years a Feminist
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism
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Johanna Emeney reads from her new book
Johanna Emeney reads ‘Touching’ from Felt. Head to New Zealand Poetry Shelf to listen to the full piece. Follow the link here.
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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Carol Neill
Carol Neill was a course co-ordinator in Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters at the Albany campus from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology.
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2016
Why waste a good crisis?
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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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Downfall shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the...
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Adam Claasen
Adam Claasen is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University’s Albany campus. He is a Smithsonian Institution Fellowship grantee, a Fulbright Scholarship (Georgetown University) awardee and a Massey University research team medallist.
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Edith Collier: New Zealand modernist reviewed in Kete
Linda Herrick reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for Kete Books: ‘This is...
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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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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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Alzheimers New Zealand reviews Song for Rosaleen
Alzheimers New Zealand has reviewed Pip Desmond’s memoir Song for Rosaleen: ‘So much of life is about letting go. This book traces the labyrinthine...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Jeff Evans’ immersive and compelling Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka is rubbing shoulders with three other fantast...
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In the temple reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall’s most recent collaboration, in the temple, has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on New Zealand Arts...
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You Are Here reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larking for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Most stories have a beginning, a middle an...
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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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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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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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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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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in New Zealand International Review
Roderic Alley reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for New Zealand International Review: ‘Born in Cro...
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Frances Walsh
Frances Walsh is an award-winning writer, editor and researcher who has had a long career in journalism.
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A lively Q&A between Dick Frizzell and ArtZone
Dick Frizzell and ArtZone square off for a lively Q&A: What does a typical day look like? A typical day…? Answering questionnaires. Out to the...
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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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The Forgotten Coast
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers
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Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
The ‘Almost Legendary Wanganui Artist’. That description, by the then-director of the National Art Gallery Stewart MacLennan, was made in a 1956 re...
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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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10 Questions with Louise Callan and Jake Morrison
Q1: So many people have Robin Morrison stories to tell. What’s your connection to Robin? LC: Robin was a colleague I worked with for a wide range o...
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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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Janet Hunt
Janet Hunt is one of New Zealand’s best known natural history writers, for adults and children.
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Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading writers on matters art-historical and aesthetic.
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Robin Morrison
Robin Morrison (1944–1993) was one of New Zealand‘s most significant documentary photographers
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Paul Spoonley
Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is one of New Zealand’s leading academics and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Ngātokimatawhaorua
The power of mana waka to inspire a people
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‘Thank God for this book’ — listen to Adam Claasen’s interview with RNZ’s Jim Mora
Jim Mora, from RNZ’s Sunday Morning programme, interviews Adam Claasen about some of the amazing stories in the book here.
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David Hill reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
David Hill reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist, edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson, for RNZ’s Nine to Noon pr...
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November launches
It’s a full November for MUP authors, who will be busy across the country with book launches and talks.The New Zealand Horse by Deborah Coddington...
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The Architect and the Artist Shortlisted in the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble has been announced as a finalist in the Bookseller...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished o...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition now open
Calling all young poets! Entries are now open for the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition. Send us your previously unpublished o...
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Paul Diamond’s Downfall longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Paul Diamond’s latest book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been longlisted for an Ockham New Zealand Book Award in the general non-...
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Little Doomsdays: 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century
Finlay Macdonald et al. for The Conversation: ‘Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappoi...
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Newsletter
Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to receive Massey University Press’s monthly newsletter. Read our latest issue here.
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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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The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
The paintings that Whanganui painter Edith Collier created in England 100 years ago remain to this day, utterly fresh. At that time, there was no o...
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Hard by the Cloud House reviewed for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Sally Blundell reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Islington, London. On a bright autumn da...
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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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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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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Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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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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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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Patrick Reynolds
Patrick Reynolds is one of New Zealand’s best architectural photographers.
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best known and most versatile painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury.
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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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Wellington Architecture
Over 120 buildings and five routes around our capital city
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10 Questions with Shiloh Groot
1. Why did you all want to write this book? Because knowledge shouldn’t be hoarded by elite individuals. Because we want to share the stories of...
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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Army Fundamentals
A unique insider view of the New Zealand Army
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Adopted
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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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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Aspiring wins Young Adult Fiction Award at the 2020 CYA awards
Last night’s online New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were a ray of sunshine. And for us, that ray shone even brighter when we...
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#Tumeke! wins Best First Book Award at 2020 CYA Awards
Last night’s online New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were a ray of sunshine. And for us, that ray shone even brighter when we...
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Margaret Tennant
Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant was formerly Professor of History at Massey University, and is now an Honorary Research Professor within the School of Humanities.
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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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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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The Treaty on the Ground
The coalface reality of honouring the Treaty of Waitangi in today’s law, local government, education, health, social services and more
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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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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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Modernist mural gets new lease of life
From the Wairarapa Times: A ceramic mural of considerable historical and monetary value could soon come out of the dark to be celebrated on permane...
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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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Geoff Watson
Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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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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Jane Ussher
Jane Ussher MNZM is one of New Zealand’s most lauded photographers.
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Rachael Bell
Dr Rachael Bell is a lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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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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Peter Lineham
Professor Peter Lineham has for many years written and lectured extensively on the religious history of New Zealand.
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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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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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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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‘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 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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The Poetic Landscape of Aotearoa 2017
Listen to Jack Ross talking with RNZ’s Lynn Freeman about putting together the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017 here.
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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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John Crawford
John Crawford is the New Zealand Defence Force Historian and a member of the Governance Group of the First World War Centennial History Programme.
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Kerry Taylor
Professor Kerry Taylor is the head of the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Peter Clague reads three poems
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 author Peter Clague reads three of his pieces from the book.
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Devon Webb performs her poem ‘Note to Self’
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Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand’s most eminent writers.
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Haru Sameshima
Haru Sameshima completed an MFA (1995) at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and has exhibited and published widely in New Zealand.
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Lauraine Jacobs
Lauraine Jacobs MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known food writers.
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Steven Loveridge
Steven Loveridge holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and works from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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PNZ Yearbook editor Jo Emeney talks to Jesse Mulligan
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook editor Johanna Emeney talked to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about the new edition of the Yearbook which has just been release...
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Chris Szekely
Chris Szekely has held the statutory position of Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library since 2007.
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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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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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Poetry alive and in progress
Laine Moger at Stuff.co.nz reports back from the launch of the 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: ‘A collection of new poetry has been metaphoricall...
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Massey News reviews Grid by Adam Claasen
Massey News reviews Adam Claasen’s new book Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell: ‘The highly-decorated Air Commo...
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Jack Ross talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan
The 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook includes 130 new poems from 87 poets. It has a skew for 2018 towards younger writers including those who are s...
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Helen Dollery
Helen Dollery is an historian and lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, teaching citizenship as part of the Bachelor of Arts core courses.
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Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown has taught medieval history at Massey University since 2010.
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David Belgrave
David Belgrave is a lecturer in citizenship and politics in the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University.
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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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Michaela Selway
Michaela Selway is a PhD student in early medieval history at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Anne Noble
Anne Noble is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most widely respected contemporary photographers.
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Paul Diamond
Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is Curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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William Hoverd
Associate Professor William Hoverd is the director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at Massey University.
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National Poetry Day event on Albany campus
Celebrate National Poetry Day on Massey University’s Albany campus — hear new and emerging poets read their work, from 12pm, Atrium Building AT2, F...
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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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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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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
A gorgeous bilingual board book
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David Straight
David Straight is an Auckland-based photographer who specialises in architecture.
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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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 Johanna Emeney
Q1: Jack Ross invited you to be the guest editor of the 2020 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Terrifying? Or a great opportunity? Dame Chri...
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Soundings
A love affair with the underwater world
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Announcing the winners of the Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2020
The winners are: Year 13 First prize: Pippi Jean, ‘Class of 2020’ and ‘11.11pm’ Second prize: Georgia Wearing, ‘Bury the Lamb’ Third prize: Cathe...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, the latest in our series of architectural guides by John Walsh and Patrick...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Shadow Worlds in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘A wond...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Jack Ross has passed on the torch and you are now the editor of the venerable Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Exciting? An exhilarating honour (an...
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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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Eat Pacific
Delicious, tasty, healthy recipes from across the moana
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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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Noel O'Hare
Noel O’Hare is a freelance journalist, columnist, blogger and author.
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Deborah Shepard
Deborah Shepard is an author, teacher of memoir, oral historian and film and art historian.
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Life in the Shallows
How wetlands work, what lives there, and what we can do to protect them
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Local Tools for Global Change
Research papers informed by the UNAIDS vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, and based on using local tools to effect global change
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Nigel Robson
Nigel Robson is a senior historian at the Office of Māori Crown Relations — Te Arawhiti.
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Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau-a-Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) has had careers in literature, diplomacy and academia.
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Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
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Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne is the founding editor of New Zealand Geographic and has written extensively for that magazine and for its American counterpart, National Geographic.
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Nic Low
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former programme director of WORD Christchurch.
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Deborah Coddington
Deborah Coddington is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament. She lives in the Wairarapa and is a keen rider.
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Jane Sayle
Jane Sayle grew up on the south coast of Wellington. She has been a dealer in curios and ephemera, an art writer and reviewer, a lecturer in the history of New Zealand visual culture and a traveller.
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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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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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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Rawiri Taonui
Dr Rawiri Taonui (Te Hikutū and Ngāti Korokoro, Te Kapotai and Ngāti Paeahi, Ngāti Rora, Ngāti Whēru, Ngāti Te Taonui) is an independent writer, researcher and advisor.
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Felt
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition Ebook
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Everything But the Medicine
Candid insight into the life and work of a general practitioner
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Bethan Greener
Dr Bethan Greener is Associate Professor in the Politics programme at Massey, and her research has focused on international security issues and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
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‘A Prince of Riflemen’: An extract from Experience of a Lifetime
At about 8 p.m. on 25 April, Brigadier General Harold ‘Hooky’ Walker ordered Jesse Wallingford to guide two newly arrived companies of the Canterbu...
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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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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Michael Belgrave
Professor Michael Belgrave is a foundation member of Massey University’s Albany campus, and a highly regarded historian.
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Kathryn Ryan interviews Keith Ovenden for Nine to Noon
The sensational trial of a high-flying civil servant on spying charges reflects the ongoing misalignment of New Zealand’s security agenda with the...
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Matt McEvoy
Matt McEvoy spreads his time between teaching piano, accepting the occasional local technology contract and writing, with a particular interest in social history.
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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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Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips is a Ruapehu-based writer and outdoors enthusiast.
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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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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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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Luke Smythe
Dr Luke Smythe is a lecturer in art history, art theory and curatorship in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne.
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A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert
The inspirational and engaging story of a nurse who works in war zones and the Australian outback
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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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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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Carl Bradley
Carl Bradley is a lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira
The battle for Māori land and livelihoods
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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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The Battle for North Africa
The desperate weeks of desert warfare that gave the Allies hope that they could put Nazi Germany on the run
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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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Sleeping Better in Pregnancy
Get the best sleep in pregnancy to enhance the health and wellbeing of you and your baby
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Tū Rangaranga Ebook
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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Tū Rangaranga
How individual and collective action can tackle urgent global issues
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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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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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Guy Jansen
In 2011 the late Dr Guy Jansen (1935–2019) was awarded a MNZM for services to music. He was a renowned music educator and choral musician, and in 1979 founded the New Zealand Youth Choir — reputed to be the first national youth choir in the world.
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Paula Green
Paula Green has published twelve poetry collections, including several for children.
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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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Mark Beehre
Mark Beehre initially trained as a specialist physician and worked for several years in medical practice before studying photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland and Massey University
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh and Jane Ussher
Q1: This book was sparked by your beautiful 2022 book, also in partnership with John Walsh, Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors. T...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in The Aero Historian
Errol W. Martyn reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for The Aero Historian: ‘Grid was a...
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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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Paul Diamond features on The Project
Paul Diamond, author of Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay appeared on The Project to talk about the history of this Whanganui ‘visionary’...
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Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a writer/ director in film.
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Hazel and the Snails
A debut novel destined to become a classic
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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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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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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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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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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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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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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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John Walsh talks Wellington architecture on Nine to Noon
John Walsh talks to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ’s Nine to Noon about Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, the latest and largest of his architectural...
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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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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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Meaghan Fisher
Meaghan Fisher has spent many years studying and working with marginalised and under-served communities, particularly in relation to mental and sexual health services, and public policy.
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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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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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Andrew Cameron
Andrew Cameron grew up in the Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and when not working in a war-zone or post-conflict zone, he is the sole medical practitioner in Birdsville, Australia.
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Lareen Cooper
Lareen Cooper is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School in the Social Work and Social Policy programme at Massey University’s School of Social Work. She has worked at Massey for nine years, and has an extensive background in health services management.
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Brigitta Baker
Brigitta Baker was adopted during the closed adoption era. Her professional experience ranges from advisory roles to positions in human resource management, leadership development and coaching.
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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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Margaret Kawharu
Margaret Kawharu, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara/Mahurehure, is the Senior Advisor Māori at Massey University’s Albany campus.
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Chris Thom
Chris Thom is an Auckland architect who specialises in health design. He is a Principal at Chow:Hill Architects, where he has worked on hospitals and mental health units across New Zealand.
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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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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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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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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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Lucy O’Hagan
Lucy O’Hagan has been a rata hauora/general practitioner for over 30 years.
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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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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed by Te Whakairinga Mutu
Louisa Hormann from Te Whakairinga Mutu Air Force Museum of New Zealand reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldw...
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Landfall reviews Theo Schoon: A biography
Read Laurence Simmons’ review of Theo Schoon: A Biography. ‘Émigré artist Theo Schoon, whose life intersected with important cultural moments in Ne...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Ashburton Guardian
Claire Inkson reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Ashburton Guardian:...
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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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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Landfall Review Online
Eric Trump reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Landfall Review Online: ‘‘It is well that war is...
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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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Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga
Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga for Kete: ‘The Alexander Turnbull library is the oldest section of the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington....
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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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The Christmas Bundle — four great books at a super-sharp price
A bundle of books for Christmas giving A terrific Christmas offer to you from Massey University Press. Four of our best books from our first year o...
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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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Booksellers NZ reviews Fearless
The Booksellers NZ blog has published a glowing review of Fearless: The extraordinary untold story of New Zealand’s Great War airmen by Adam Claase...
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Mark Derby introduces Rock College
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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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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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Read an extract from Old Black Cloud on Newsroom
Read an extract from Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Newsroom: ‘Many of N...
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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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Nicholas Reid reviews Shadow Worlds
Reviewer Nicholas Reid has written a detailed piece on Andrew Paul Wood’s Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand: ‘I’ll...
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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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Melody Thomas interviews Sue Kedgley and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine
Melody Thomas sits down to interview Sue Kedgely and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine. ‘When Sue Kedgley was sworn in to parliament in 1999 arou...
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Gretchen Albrecht reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe for Waiheke Weekender: ‘An absolutely sumptuo...
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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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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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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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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...