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On We Go reviewed in Ako Journal
Ako Journal has reviewed On We Go, the first collaboration between poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall. Sarah Barnett writes: ‘A collabora...
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Paula Green reviews On We Go
Paula Green reviews On We Go for Poetry Shelf. ‘Artist Catherine Bagnall grew up between the bush and Wellington harbour’s eastern shore. She lectu...
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Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews On We Go
‘This collaboration between an artist and a poet, both raised near Wellington, is another beautiful hardcover book from Massey UniversityPress, in...
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A Day in the Life of Catherine Bagnall
’I think of myself as a painter rather than an illustrator. I think this is because my full-time job is as a teacher, and so the painting happens w...
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Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go for Kete. ‘Poetry as a genre sings out for accompanying artwork and the superlative treatment a hardcove...
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Damien Wilkins’ launch speech for On We Go
On We Go was launched at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, on Monday 15 March by Damien Wilkins. I’m very happy to say a few words about this gorgeous,...
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On We Go review on Volume NZ
On We Go is a beautiful book, in design and content. This collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle is a whimsical dreamsc...
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10 Questions with Catherine Bagnall and Jane Sayle
Q1: Your beautiful book is at the printer. How does that feel? CB: Absolutely thrilling — making a book when you love books is a thrill and worki...
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Catherine Bagnall
Catherine Bagnall is an internationally recognised artist who teaches at the College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi, Massey University.
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Ten questions with Jane Sayle and Catherine Bagnall
Q1: Your gorgeous previous collaboration, On We Go, was published in 2021. When did you decide to work together again on another one? On We Go was...
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In the Temple
A unique jewel of a poetry collection
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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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Roger Smith’s speech from the Wellington launch of We Are Here
We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa was launched in Wellington on October 8 by Roger Smith, cartographer at Geographx Map Design Studio. Tēnā koutou...
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We Are Here reviewed by Bob Frame
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We Are Here featured on Nine to Noon
Chris McDowall and Tim Denee, co-authors of We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa, were interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on RNZ's Nine to Noon programme. To...
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Cartography Is Here — review essay of We Are Here
Igor Drecki reviews We Are Here for the International Journal of Cartography. ‘Originality is one of the prevailing strengths of the atlas, which m...
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In the temple reviewed in North & South
The latest collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle, in the temple, has been reviewed in North & South: ‘Like their 2...
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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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A Tentative and Attentive Response
With In the Temple we might begin with ‘we’ rather than ‘I’, as this small, beautifully produced book is a collaboration between artist Catherine B...
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1. Now that the book is finished, are you happy with it? Yes, very pleased. It has turned out better than I expected. 2. What were you looking fo...
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10 Questions with Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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What we can learn from animals, from a vet-turned-author
Marcus Taylor has been a vet since 2013. His memoir, The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories, published by Massey University...
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Ferns and why we need a public art registry
Senior adviser at Massey's College of Creative Arts and Chair of the Wellington Sculpture Trust Sue Elliott talks to Mark Amery from RNZ's Standing...
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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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Robyn Salisbury, editor of Free to Be Children, talks to the Newshub team about the complex issues surrounding harmful sexual behaviour and the nee...
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Announcing the winners of the Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2020
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Ans Westra reviewed on Landfall
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Raiment reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
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Pātaka Kai reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
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Ans Westra: A life in photorgraphy reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
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Massey Press authors appearing at the 2018 Going West Writers Festival
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Short Story Club – 1 November
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
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Hard by the Cloud House: Book of the week on Newsroom
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
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10 Questions with the editors of Otherhood
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#Tumeke! wins Best First Book Award at 2020 CYA Awards
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Michelle Elvy reviews Soundings for Landfall
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Extract from The Unsettled by Richard Shaw
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Ten question Q&A with Michael Belgrave
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10 Questions with Anne Ridler
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NZ Booklovers reviews Bordering on Miraculous
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Adopted reviewed in North & South
Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion, the memoir by Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker about finding their respective birth families, was recently rev...
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Rooms wins NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023
Rooms: Portraits of Remarkable New Zealand Interiors by Jane Ussher and John Walsh has won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Lifestyle Book 2023. Ju...
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The Unsettled reviewed in Taranaki Daily News
Helen Harvey reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation for Taranaki Daily News (hosted on Stuff): ‘Richard Shaw’s second book has be...
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Fire & Ice reviewed in NZ Listener
Claire Williamson reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for NZ Listener: ‘Earth, air, fire, water, aether. These may sound like spellcasting el...
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10 Questions with Helen Beaglehole
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? The credit really should go to Wellington historian Gavin McLean. I had finished my book on a history o...
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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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Ten questions with Wil Hoverd and Deidre McDonald
Q1: What is the greatest threat to New Zealand’s security? WH & DM: Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the greatest threats to the security...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie, author of Old Black Cloud
Q1: The first-ever social history of mental depression in New Zealand . . . what drew you to this topic? It comes from my long-term research, tea...
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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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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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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Q1: Why did you choose the playground for your second book? It’s a place that parents and tamariki go to all the time, and I wanted to share new vo...
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Ten 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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Ten Question Q&A with Cynthia Farquhar
Q1: In your introduction you describe how thinking about your mother’s difficult experience at the Otago Medical School in the late 1940s, and in t...
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Read an extract from Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell
24: AIN’T GONNA WORK ON MCINNES’S FARM NO MORE I know that the name Frizzell comes from the Fraser clan, so maybe that had some part in how Dad li...
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Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on Kete Books
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for 20 years. She has just compiled one of the most...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
It might be a whopper, coming in at 650 pages, but Michael Belgrave’s sweeping history of New Zealand is a fluent, authoritative, and often revisio...
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10 Questions with Lyn Wade and Dick Veitch
Q1: You both have a long association with Hauturu Little Barrier Island — do you remember your first visit? LW: I was four years old and my family...
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Aaron Lister launches Theo Schoon biography
Aaron Lister’s speech at the launch of Theo Schoon: A Biography, by Damian Skinner Theo Schoon sets a tough precedent when it comes to giving ope...
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10 Questions with Jo Emeney and Sarah Laing
Q1: Where did the notion of this book come from? JE: The idea for a book about Sylvia came to me in a flash. In 2018, at the age of 85, Sylvia deci...
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10 Questions with Pip Desmond
1. Why did you want to write this book? To help me make sense of looking after Mum through the heartbreak that is dementia, and to find her again....
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10 Questions with Nan Blanchard
Your book has just gone to print and it’s your very first. Pleased with it? It feels very unreal (pinch pinch). It takes so many people to create a...
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10 Questions with 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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10 Questions with the editors of Tū Rangaranga
Q1: What is the meaning of Tū Rangaranga and what impact did that have on how the book was written? In 2017 we (Rand Hazou, Margaret Forster and Sh...
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Ten Question Q&A with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: One hundred and forty-one new poems by 127 poets. This must be one of the biggest editions yet! How on earth do you make the reading and select...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
1. Now the book is back from the printer, are you pleased with it? Yes! The cover looks great and is attracting a lot of interest but, more than th...
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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: Just how much fun was it making this amazing book? Well … it was fun ... and then it wasn’t … and then it was … and then it wasn’t … and then i...
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Read an extract from The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler
In 1985, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. I took him to the hospital for surgery, and was allowed to sit with him before he was wheeled in...
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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed on Kete
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived and edited by Lloyd Jones, Little Doomsdays is a dynamic collaboration between artist Phil Dadson and Kāi...
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10 Questions with Lloyd Jones
Q1: This is the first title in a planned ‘kōrero series’ of books. What’s the idea here? A conversation across craft and discipline between artist...
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Read an extract from Otherhood in Ensemble magazine
Ensemble has featured Lil O’Brien's essay ‘Our American fertility dream’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent ed...
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10 Questions with Robyn Salisbury
Q1: One doesn’t have to read too far into this book to see that it has been a passion project for you. What’s driven you? I was compelled to produc...
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An excerpt from To the Summit
Chapter 1 — Rushing to base camp October 2015, Everest region, Nepal The track from Chukhung crossed the ice-laced waters of a cloudy glacial strea...
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
Q1: A much-loved, much-missed and near mythical figure — when did you each decide that Rewi Thompson should be honoured with a book and that you sh...
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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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NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West by Tania Mace
Lyn Potter from NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace: 'The Near West is a fascinatin...
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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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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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High Wire
A unique storybook for grownups
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Read an extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025
avalancheBy Mark Prisco iwhen you name something you demystify it, break taboo.even ‘Tiger’ is emasculate compared to what it is.in this way, too,...
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2023. How many poems were submitted? Once again, well over a thousand. Oft...
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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2024 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
Q1: How long after The Forgotten Coast was published did the idea of this book come to you? Pretty quickly. More or less immediately after The Fo...
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10 Questions with Tim Parkinson, Jakob Malmo, Jos Vermunt and Richard Laven
Q1: This is the revised edition of a book first published in 2010. It was a thumping 872 pages and no doubt a major exercise. What made you all agr...
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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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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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5 Questions with Hazel Phillips for Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine chats with Hazel Phillips about the experiences behind her new book, Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Fo...
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Read an interview with David Cohen, editor of the RNZ Cookbook
David Cohen, editor of The RNZ Cookbook along with Kathy Paterson, was recently interviewed on Stuff: David Cohen is a Wellington-based journalist...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 123 new poems by 102 poets. How many poems were submitted? A jaw-dropping amount — we...
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How to Die by Jo Randerson: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
How to Die: Thoughts on life and death As a child, I was fixated on images of the remains of inhabitants at Pompeii. Their final moments as the hea...
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10 Questions with Lynley Edmeades & Saskia Leek
Q1: These 'kōrero series' projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
Disclaimer: The following comments reflect the personal opinion of the writer, and do not reflect either an official NZDF position, or the opinion...
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Ten Question Q&A with Hone Morris
Q1: What’s driven you to write this book? After seeing and hearing simple errors being made over the last five years, I thought I could assist in c...
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BikesportNZ.com calls Kiwi Bikers a ‘must-have for any collection’
BikesportNZ.com has called Ken Downie’s book Kiwi Bikers: 85 New Zealanders and their motorbikes a ‘must-have for any collection’ in their latest r...
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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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‘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 Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima
Q1: The kaupapa behind the kōrero series is a writer and an artist in collaboration, creating a ‘picture book for grownups’. When series editor Llo...
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10 Questions with Ken Downie
Q1: Where did the idea of this book come from? This is one of the many book ideas I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. It’s sort of an homag...
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James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica for takahē
James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd: 'I couldn’t help but gather adjectives from the first few pages of this h...
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The Dark Dad reviewed on Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Guy Somerset reviews The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘It used to be sometimes said of so...
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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
Q1: How do you define ‘active citizenship’? We purposefully define ‘active citizenship’ broadly so as to accommodate a diversity of approaches a...
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Read an interview with Little Doomsdays authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Wellington City Library has interviewed authors Nic Low and Phil Dadson about their recent publication Little Doomsdays: These ‘kōrero series’ pro...
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Ten Questions with Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker
Q1: What prompted you to share your story? JW: This is the book I wished that I could have read secretly under my duvet when I was only just survi...
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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TURKEY. We stood eye-to-eye, locked in a toddler–bird standoff. I was three years old, so we were of equal intelligence, but th...
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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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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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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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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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Newsroom runs an extract from ‘the superb new memoir Raiment by Jan Kemp’
Newsroom has run an extract from Jan Kemp’s ‘superb new memoir’, Raiment. ‘In English I, our lectures included An Introduction to Shakespeare by Ma...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
Q1: You’ve got a really big day job at the Herald and so accepting the invitation to write this book must have given you pause. Why did you decide...
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Martin Edmond reviews the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht on Newsroom
Martin Edmond has reviewed the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe on ReadingRoom: ‘In the European t...
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Read an extract from Sylvia and the Birds on Newsroom
‘Newly rescued birds were always a bit skittish, so I kept them in this dark shelter. The ones who’d been with me a while enjoyed their playground...
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The Ones That Bit Me! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories for NZ Booklovers: ‘In his hilarious heartwa...
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
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Lloyd Jones on the kōrero series of ‘picture books for grownups’
Following the release of Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, Lloyd Jones spoke with Stuff about his process as editor of th...
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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
Stella from Volume Books reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin: ‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept, and beautifully executed...
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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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Read an extract of Skinny Dip on The Spinoff
Term four kicks off today without the kids of Waikato and Te Tai Tokerau. For those in Tāmaki Makaurau it’s even harder: they just started their 10...
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri & Artists in Antarctica reviewed for Landfall
David Eggleton reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri and Artists in Antarctica e...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Martin Edmond
Q1: You grew up in Ohakune and at the start of this book you write about coming to Whanganui when you were a child, in the early 1960s. Clearly the...
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Read an extract from Fire & Ice
CHAPTER 11 The legend of the Haunted Whare A small shack near Tawhai Falls below the Chateau was reputedly haunted by the ghost of a woman searchin...
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10 Questions with Andrew Colarik
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Cyber Security and Policy: A Substantive Dialogue? Two things in particular please me about...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Rebooting the Regions? The fact that we are focusing on a key political and policy issue — the...
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10 Questions with Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging? Perhaps it’s the ‘thingness’ of the book itself – we...
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10 questions with Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney
Q1: Why create a book for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations with China? The decision taken in December 1972 to establish diplomatic re...
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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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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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The Near West
A comprehensive history of three fascinating Auckland neighbourhoods
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Wellington Architecture
Over 120 buildings and five routes around our capital city
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10 Questions with Girol Karacaoglu and Graham Hassall
Q1: Can you briefly describe what social policy is? A traditional answer has been that social policy focused on ‘welfare’ for the needy plus, more...
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10 Questions with 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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10 Questions with Steven Loveridge
Q1: New Zealand emerges from the pages of The Home Front as a far more interesting and complex young nation than many readers might imagine. Could...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for the Sunday Star-Tim...
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Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud
Pinky Agnew’s launch speech for Old Black Cloud, by Jacqueline Leckie, Unity Books Wellington, 12 June 2024 Thank you Nicola, thank you Jacqui....
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. Now that it’s published, what delights you most about the first New Zealand Land & Food Annual? It’s an annual publication, so for as long a...
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10 Questions with Andrew Cameron
1. Now that it is published, what pleases you most about your book? Many times when I have recounted stories to various people, about some of the s...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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Tessa Duder’s speech from The Writing Life launch
The Writing Life – launch held on 6 November 2018 at Auckland City Library. Speech given by Tessa Duder on behalf of the twelve authors featured in...
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10 Questions with Luke Smythe
Q1: This wonderful book has the most lovely subtitle: Between Gesture and Geometry. Could you explain why it’s so fitting? Most abstract painters f...
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Massey University Press partners with Annual Ink to create children’s imprint
Massey University Press is excited to be joining forces with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris. Their company, Annual Ink, is to become the Press’s new...
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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10 Questions with 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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Ten questions with Nic Low and Phil Dadson
Q1: These ‘kōrero series’ projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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10 Questions with Damian Skinner
1. You wrote your MA thesis on Theo Schoon in the 1990s but clearly you weren’t quite done with him. What drew you back? It was actually meeting a...
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10 Questions with Danny Keenan
Q1: You have written books on armed conflict and passive resistance in the nineteenth century. The Fate of the Land feels like another layer of the...
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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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Bordering on Miraculous reviewed in VOLUME
Thomas Koed gives an excellent review of the latest in the kōrero series, Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, in VOLUME new...
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Vaughan Rapatahana analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Read a Poem
Vaughan Rapatahana, editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Re...
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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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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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10 Questions with Bill Kaye-Blake, Margaret Brown and Penny Payne
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? BK-B: I’m passionate about agriculture and rural communities. I think we can learn a lot from how people...
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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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 Jane Ussher
Q1: This is a major project. How long did it take? About two years actually taking the photographs but the idea behind the book has been developing...
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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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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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Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom
Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom: ‘Anyone with an Indian passport resident in New Zealand would be familiar with one absurdity t...
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10 Questions with Jan Kemp
Q1: Your Waikato childhood must have seemed so far away and so long ago when you sat down to write about it in Germany. How hard was it to tap into...
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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? by Te Ataakura Pewhairangi on NZ Booklovers. ‘Ko wai kei te papa tāka...
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Read a review of Raiment on takahē
Elizabeth Heritage has reviewed Raiment: A memoir by Jan Kemp for takahē. She writes: ‘Poet Jan Kemp has released the first volume of her memoir, R...
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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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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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Eat Pacific reviewed in Viva
Viva magazine, subset of NZ Herald, reviews and presents recipes from Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Ol...
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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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Against the Odds reviewed on Dusty Shelves
Terry Toner reviews Against the Odds by Cynthia Farquhar and Michaela Selway for Dusty Shelves: ‘This book is being published to coincide with the...
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10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
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10 Question Q&A with Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
Q1: What was your reaction when series editor Lloyd Jones approached you to see whether you were keen to create the sixth book in the kōrero series...
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Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: After the success of A Walking Guide to Auckland Architecture and A Walking Guide to Christchurch Architecture, Wellington must have seemed ine...
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I heard that the old prison was being vacated, and its remaining inm...
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Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense
Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense: Ways of thinking about trees, edited by Susette Goldsmith, for Kete. ‘In her introduction to this book of essays on...
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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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10 Questions with Sue Kedgley
Q1: You’ve had books published before, of course, and so this one is not a new experience but is there something that sets it apart from the others...
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David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast
David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast for Kete: ‘Years back, Elizabeth Smither and I wrote a book about our home province of Taranaki. Around that...
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Kaewa the Kororā reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts
Kaewa the Kororā has been reviewed in Swings + Roundabouts this month: ‘This is a gorgeous book with appealing and informative text alongside warm...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on the Spinoff
Read an extract from Lily Duval's essay from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien a...
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10 Questions with Deborah Shepard
1. It must be good to see The Writing Life sent off to print. It’s a strange feeling letting go of a manuscript that has occupied your every waking...
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10 Questions with David Straight
Can you remember the moment you knew you wanted to create a book about John Scott? I had been thinking of a book on John Scott for a few months pri...
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10 Questions with Karen Denyer and Monica Peters
Q1: Why wetlands? KD I’ve always had a soft spot for the underdog, the tatty stray cat, the three-legged dog, those most in need of love. For me we...
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10 Questions with Barbara Ewing
Q1: When did the idea for this memoir first start brewing? I had vowed always never to write any personal account concerning my life, although I h...
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10 Questions with Keith Ovenden
Q1: Your book has gone off to print. A good moment? More than a moment surely. Some simple things — a chance to tidy a very untidy desk, put away r...
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
Cathie Dunsford from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp, an account of her growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s...
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Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
Andrew Paul Wood reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophi...
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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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Fire & Ice reviewed in Ruapehu Bulletin
Local secrets and mysteries are revealed in a new book by Ruapehu-based writer Hazel Phillips, who spent two years combing archives and tramping in...
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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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30 Queer Lives reviewed by David Hartnell
30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders appeared in David Hartnell's Gossip Column. He says: ‘I first met Matt several years ago...
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Otago Daily Times talks to the authors of Bordering on Miraculous
Rebecca Fox at the Otago Daily Times recently talked with Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the artist–writer duo behind Bordering on Miraculous: ‘H...
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Raiment by Jan Kemp reviewed on Newsroom
Steve Braunias from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp. ‘We think of Rosemary McLeod, rightly, as one of New Zealand's great prose...
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The RNZ Cookbook reviewed on NZ Booklovers
The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and Kathy Paterson has been...
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10 Questions with Jane Parker, Marian Baird, Noelle Donnelly, and Rae Cooper
Q1: This is a big topic. How did the project begin? The book traverses a range of themes with particular regard to globalisation, technological d...
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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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10 Questions with Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson
Q1: When the Sarjeant Gallery reopens later this year — the 1919 heritage building will be fully restored, earthquake strengthened and expanded wi...
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10 Questions with Michael Dale, Kieran O’Donoghue and Hannah Mooney
1. What was the motivation for writing this book? Over the past decade several of our longstanding and former staff members who held the oral histo...
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10 Questions with Barbara Sumner
Q1: Now your book has gone off to print, how are you feeling? I am relieved, neurotic, trepidatious. And very pleased. Q2: When did you decide tha...
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10 Questions with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Q1: What is the motivation for you to create books for young readers? As a fluent Māori speaker, a mother and an educator, I understand the role qu...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition in celebration of Phantom Billstickers Nat...
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Read an extract from Against the Odds
MARGARET BARNETT CRUICKSHANK 1897 graduate — second woman medical graduate in New Zealand, first registered woman medical practitioner in New Zeala...
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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand. Fifty years ago, the conversations I overheard in my parents’ kitchen were about droughts, the difficulty...
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10 Questions with Margaret Tennant and Geoff Watson
Q1: Why Palmerston North? What prompted you to see this book in print? GW: It has been nearly 50 years since Petersen’s centennial history of Palme...
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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
Q1: In a nutshell, what is Pacific Island Food Revolution all about? Pacific Island Food Revolution uses the power of reality TV, radio and socia...
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: First things first: the beautiful cover. Tell us the story of this adorable felt goat. Yes, isn’t she beautiful. Her name is Grethe, and she wa...
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Ten Question Q&A with Mark Derby
Q1: You would have come across Doug Jolly while working on your 2009 book Kiwi Campaneros, about the New Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil...
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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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Lama Tone reviews Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere for Kete
‘Waiho rā kia tū takitahi ana ngā whetū o te rangi / Let it be one alone that stands among the other stars in the sky (Alsop & Kupenga) In Poly...
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Otherhood editors interviewed on RNZ's Nine to Noon
On RNZ's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan discusses Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent with editors Alie Benge, Lil O’Bri...
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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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MUP authors shortlisted for CYA book awards
We are thrilled to announce that three of our books have been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. In the you...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
Q1: What prompted you to write the book? I was asked to take on the commission a while ago now, back in 2013. It appealed to me because I have long...
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10 Questions with Matt McEvoy
Q1: This is your second book, and so you did know before you began that being an author is not the easiest gig in town. Why did you decide to do it...
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Eat Pacific author Robert Oliver interviewed in E-Tangata
Teuila Fuatai interviews Robert Oliver, the author of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook for E-Tangata: ‘Chef Robert Oliver h...
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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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Adopted
The experience of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
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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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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand ebook
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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Bill & Shirley
An exemplary memoir examining the complex, remarkable lives of two very famous New Zealanders
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Case Studies
A beautiful book for all who love plants and their stories
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
A dose of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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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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The Collector
The vivid biography of a colonial scholar, scientist and gentleman
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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To the Summit
An inspirational story of determination and grit
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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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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Otherhood reviewed on Capsule
Capsule talks to the editors behind the new essay book, Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree & Child Adjacent about expanding the co...
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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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10 Questions with Rachel Haydon and Pippa Keel
Q1: What were the challenges and opportunities in basing the story around the real penguins at the National Aquarium? Rachel Haydon: The kororā, or...
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10 Questions with 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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Ten Question Q&A with Roger Buckton
Q1: You lived in Pūhoi for a time. Is this where your interest in the community’s unique music and dances began? I knew of the music and dance prio...
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Soundings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea on NZ Booklovers: ‘In Soundings, Kennedy Warne celebrate...
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Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
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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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Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Matt McEvoy’s book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘I loved this...
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Downfall reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond has been reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Sergeant, I shot a young man through the...
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The Fate of the Land reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Danny Keenan’s latest, The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira: Māori political struggle in the Liberal era...
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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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Ziggle! reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviewed Ziggle! The Len Lye art activity book for the 14 September Waiheke Weekender. ‘An art activity book with ideas inspired by...
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Rewi reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen’s Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘This beautiful book, four years in t...
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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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The Unsettled: Book of the Week on Newsroom
Sally Blundell reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Newsroom: ‘In Louise Erdrich’s latest book The Sentence, Fl...
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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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Herbst reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Herbst: Architecture in context by John Walsh for Waiheke Weekender: ‘If I won Lotto, a house designed by the architects Lan...
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Fire & Ice is ReadingRoom's book of the week
Steve Braunias reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for ReadingRoom: ‘The main image on this page — above, spread out happily across the screen...
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10 Questions with Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
1. Why did you want to create this book? This adventure began when I stumbled across one of Taylor’s ceramic tile murals stacked in three cardboar...
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10 Questions with Mary Kisler
Q1: You’ve spent the last four years in the footsteps of Frances Hodgkins. In Europe you’ve eaten at some of the restaurants and cafes she ate at,...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
Another Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is off to print. What are the strengths of the 2019 edition? I think this may well be the issue I’m proudest o...
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10 Questions with Jenny Gillam
Q1: Your images document a unique wānanga in the north, in which women came together to learn how to pelt kiwi for their feathers for weaving. The...
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Carl Shuker’s launch speech for Aspiring
Launching Aspiring by Damien Wilkinsby Carl Shuker I remember interviewing Damien for his book Chemistry nearly twenty years ago. Our half-hour tal...
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10 Questions with Graham Hassall and Negar Partow
Q1: What prompted you to put this book together? The book overlaps three areas of interests for both of us: the operation of the United Nations sys...
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10 Questions with Jane Robertson
Q1: Why did you want to write this book?Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour is my home, the place I love, my tūrangawaewae. I wanted to understand this pl...
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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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10 Questions with Michael Petherick
Q1: With #Tumeke! you have created a complete world, peopled with remarkable characters. How did they come to you? Most of the characters came to m...
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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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Hazel Phillips’ Solo a ‘riveting read’
Carolyn Enting has reviewed Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand, the new book by Hazel Phillips on her three years’ adventuring i...
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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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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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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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Gretchen Albrecht interviewed at Auckland Art Gallery
Catharina van Bohemen speaks with Gretchen Albrecht about Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition: Between Gesture and Geometry by Luke Smythe: ‘In 2019...
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Making Space reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Kathy Waghorn has revewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand Women in Architecture, edited by Elizabeth Cox, for Architecture New Zealand: As...
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10 Questions with Andrew Brown
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about The Citizen: Past and Present? It’s the range of periods and societies compared and contr...
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10 Questions with Beth Greener
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Army Fundamentals? What pleases me most about the book is the fact that many of the contr...
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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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10 Questions with John Walsh
Your book has just gone to print. Pleased with it? Well, you can never be really certain about a book until it is printed — but, yes, I think the b...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1 Two years on from the first publication date and already a major update. How so? Auckland has already yielded more buildings and, just as impor...
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ANZL reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Ian Wedde has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones. ‘At firs...
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Author Jane Robertson interviewed by The Press
Jane Robertson, author of the ‘spectacularly illustrated’ Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, has been interview...
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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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The Whereabouts of Sinbad’s Isle
Jack Ross reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Landfall Review Online: ‘Travel writing is the least demanding of genres. You can wri...
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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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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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‘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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10 Questions with Noel O’Hare
Q1: What drew you to write about this subject? I was researching material for the Public Service Association’s centenary celebrations and I became...
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10 Questions with Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me!
Q1: Being a vet — one of the best jobs in the world? Sorry to go all Charles Dickens on you: it’s the best and the worst. It depends entirely on th...
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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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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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The Monday Extract on The Spinoff
An excerpt from Pip Desmond’s best-selling memoir about her mother’s descent into dementia. I read about a hairdresser who had three customers pas...
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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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Life at the bach is ‘about experiences, not stuff’
REVIEW: Herbst: Architecture in Context by John Walsh is a beautiful new book on Auckland architects Lance and Nicola Herbst’s award-winning work...
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Dick Frizzell interviewed in Hawkes Bay Today
Jack Riddell interviews Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings: A boy’s own adventure for Hawkes Bay Today: ‘One of Hastings' favourite sons has created...
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Fresh perspectives on experiences of WWI
The First World War has been thoroughly documented over the past 100 years. But there is scope for deeper understandings of New Zealanders’ experie...
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10 Questions with Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher
1. You’ve travelled from north to south to create this book. Was that a pleasure? DC: A privilege, a pleasure, and hard work. JU: The spectacular l...
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
Q1: Your previous book featuring stories from Wildbase was How to Mend a Kea. Are you just as pleased with this one? Absolutely! In some respects...
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10 Questions with Damien Wilkins
Q1: A YA novel! What’s the story here? I have no idea! At no point did I think ‘I must write a YA novel’. I’d always wanted to write about the Gate...
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10 Questions with David Cohen
Q1: How would you describe this book? It’s not a biography and nor is it a ghost-written memoir. So what is it? A conversational memoir. In the obv...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Reid’s Reader
Nicholas Reid reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Reid’s Reader: ‘Jac...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Landfall Online
Nicholas Reid reviews Becoming Aotearoa by Michael Belgrave for Landfall Online: ‘When historians attempt to chronicle the whole history of a coun...
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Five Questions for James Hollings
Compiling A Moral Truth would have required its own kind of investigation, tracking down the articles you include. How did you choose them? There w...
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10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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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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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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Richard Shaw responds to critics of The Unsettled on Newsroom
Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation responds to critics in a piece published by Newsroom: ‘A couple of years ago I...
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Adam Claasen's Author Q&A in Sunday Star-Times
Adam Claasen, author of Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell, answers the Author Q&A for Sunday Star-Times: ‘...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018? I’m happy with the feature: the poems, interview and essa...
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10 Questions with Cliff Simons
Q1: The New Zealand Wars, the Land Wars, the Māori Wars — these nineteenth-century conflicts have had a few name changes, as well as changing ideas...
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Read an extract from Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
6. The professional era Gordon Harold Brown was born in Wellington in 1931 and trainedas an artist under Ted Lewis at Wellington Technical College....
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Agency of Hope
A century of Aucklanders helping Aucklanders
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Experience of a Lifetime
A fresh look at the World War I experience
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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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Frontline Surgeon
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer
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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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Katūīvei
A celebration of an exciting new thread in the literature of Aotearoa
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Labour of Love
Warm, richly detailed and sometimes shocking
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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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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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Shining Land
A unique story book for grown-ups
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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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Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns of the New Zealand Wars
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The Dark Dad
The damage done to a family by war
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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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Veterinary Clinical Toxicology
An excellent resource on toxicoses for veterinary students, practitioners, agriculturalists, diagnostic laboratories and libraries