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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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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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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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Our First Foreign War
The fascinating account of an often overlooked war
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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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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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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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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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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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New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history appears in the Listener
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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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Steve Braunias reviewed the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
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Simon Bridges reviews New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for Newsroom
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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
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Paula Green reviews the 2022 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
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Join us at the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 launch
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Te Kupenga reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
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Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
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Making Space reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
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10 Questions with William Hoverd
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Extract from Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
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Steve Braunias names two Massey University Press books best illustrated of 2023
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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Geographic
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Encountering China reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
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Little Doomsdays reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
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New book covers artist's rich modernist history
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The Unsettled
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Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
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Massey Press August newsletter
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Rangahau Vol. 4
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Read an extract from Fire & Ice
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Elizabeth Cox writes of the many surprises discovered while editing Making Space
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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Landfall
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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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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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‘Stories of historic shearing sheds warmly received’
David Watt reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Heritage New Zealand: ‘...
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Akinga o ngā Rangatira reviewed on Landfall
This is a timely book because it adds much to the distressing story of the concerted Māori effort to slow the alienation of their land and reveals...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with Annette O'Sullivan
1. In a country full of woolsheds, why these particular fifteen? There were many possible woolsheds, but the fifteen woolsheds in the book were sel...
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10 Questions with Paul Diamond
Q1: This book has been a long quest for you. When did you first get become interested in the Charles Mackay story? Downfall began in 2004 when I wa...
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Extract from Herbst: Architecture in context
Ōruawharo Bay Bach, Aotea Great Barrier, 2008 When we came to design this house, we thought we had some answers to the questions of bach living; a...
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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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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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Extract from Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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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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Ans Westra reviewed on Landfall
Max Oettli reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Everyone seems to have an Ans Westra story to tell. Mine involves Westra swear...
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Stuff interviews Downfall author Paul Diamond
‘Paul Diamond has pursued stories his whole life. An accountant-turned-journalist, Diamond is queer and Māori and now works to help tell stories at...
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Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
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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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Phillida Bunkle reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Phillida Bunkle reviews Sue Kedgley‘s memoir Fifty Years a Feminist for Newsroom. ‘Sue Kedgley has earned her uncontested place as one of New Zeal...
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
Q1: Why go solo? For me a big part of the joy of tramping is attempting things you think might be (too) hard. If you’re lured by the challenge, it...
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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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You Are Here
A unique collaboration in words and art
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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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Katūīvei reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Mere Taito and Vaughan Rapatahana fo...
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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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State of Threat reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews State of Threat: The challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's national security edited by Wil Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald in...
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Extract from 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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‘At the Table’ by Pita Sharples
Extract from Conversations About Indigenous Rights, edited by Rawiri Taonui and Selwyn Katene. At the TablePita Sharples, Former Minister of Māor...
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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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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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The Unsettled reviewed on Landfall
Rowan Light reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw: ‘Aotearoa New Zealand, like the Arthurian setting of Kazuo Ishigu...
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Ten question Q&A with Michael Belgrave
Q1: At the start of this book you tell the reader about the urge you felt to write some sort of a history in the immediate wake of the mosque shoot...
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Colin Monteath talks about Erebus with Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine recently asked Colin Monteath, author of Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, seven questions ahead of hi...
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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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The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler: ReadingRoom’s Book of the Week
Sally Blundell reviews Mary Kisler’s book The Dark Dad: War and trauma — A daughter's tale for ReadingRoom: ‘On a tattered Red Cross map, four near...
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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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Ten questions with Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
Q1: The subtitle declares ‘new writing for a changed world’. Changed, how so? WI: Nature keeps sending out these SOS messages, and Cyclone Gabriell...
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10 questions with Kathryn Hay, Michael Dale and Lareen Cooper
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand? Everything! The vibrancy of colour, the easy-to-read f...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 123 new poems by 102 poets. How many poems were submitted? A jaw-dropping amount — we...
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10 Questions with 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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Ten Question Q&A with Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong
Q1: These stories have their roots in the flash or microfiction movement. Can you explain what that is? Flash and microfiction are the smallest of...
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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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High Wire virtual launch
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made...
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10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
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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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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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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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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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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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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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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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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 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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Extract from The Unsettled by Richard Shaw
An extract from Richard Shaw's upcoming book The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation: We also stir up emotions when we begin rummaging aroun...
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10 Questions with Ella Kahu, Te Rā Moriarty, Helen Dollery and Richard Shaw
Q1: Tūrangawaewae was first published in 2017 and has reprinted a number of times. Why is it so successful? Part of that has to do with the fact t...
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10 Questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What first drew you to the subject of traditional wayfinding and voyaging? I had met several of the Pwo navigators while writing the biography...
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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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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 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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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 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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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
It began with a simple realisation. Over the course of a generation, there had been a fundamental shift in the way Pacific people ate. Processed fo...
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Soundings reviewed in Tui Motu
Diana Atkinson reviews Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea for Tui Motu: ‘Soundings flows from Warne's early family life in the Bay...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed on Kete
Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie is reviewed on Kete: ‘Don’t be put off by th...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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10 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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Audiobook version of One Minute Crying Time now available
Our first-ever audiobook is now available. Narrated by the author, acclaimed actress Barbara Ewing, One Minute Crying Time recalls her tumultuous c...
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Te Manu Huna a Tāne wins the 2021 AAANZ Award for Best Writing by an Aotearoa Māori or Pasifika
Te Manu Huna a Tāne wins the 2021 Art Association of Australia & New Zealand Award for Best Writing by an Aotearoa Māori or Pasifika. Our warm...
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10 Questions with Selwyn Katene
1. What contribution does this book make to meaningful implementation of the principles of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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30 Queer Lives reviewed in Tui Motu InterIslands magazine
Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been reviewed in the May edition of Tui Motu InterIslands magazine. Re...
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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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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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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 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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Short | Poto reviewed by Mary-Anne Stone
Mary-Anne Stone of Bookenz reviews Short | Poto edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong: ‘Short/Poto is a bilingual anthology of 100 flash f...
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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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Deidre Brown reviews Rewi for Architecture NZ
Rewi, the new book on the architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou; 1953–2016), edited by Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, demonstrates that...
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Jessie Neilson reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Jessie Nielson reviews Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley: ‘Sue Kedgley has been involved in activism both in New Zealand and overseas for half...
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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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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 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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Hazel Phillips talks about Fire & Ice — NZ Booklovers
Hazel Phillips, author of Fire & Ice talks to NZ Booklovers about her process: ‘Can you tell us a little about the new book? Fire & Ice i...
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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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Hard by the Cloud House: Book of the week on Newsroom
Ashleigh Young reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Newsroom: ‘“Show us the bird,” I found myself muttering at times while reading H...
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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 Andrea Bennett, Jenny Parry and Carolyn Wirth
1. Now that it’s been published, what pleases you most about the Fundamentals of Finance? That it is much improved and up-to-date. 2. It’s been m...
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10 Questions with the editors of Katūīvei
David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Rotuman, Tongan and Pākehā heritage and was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021. Vaugha...
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Ten Question Q&A with Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith
Q1: You’ve both published in this kai sovereignty/Indigenous food systems space before. What did you specifically want this book to do? JS: The boo...
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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 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 Rachael Bell, co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground
Now that it is published, what pleases you most about The Treaty on the Ground? For me it’s the variety of contributors and their experiences. This...
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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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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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10 Questions with Steve Duffin and Bill Fish
1. What is critical thinking? Critical thinking seems to mean something different to lots of people. I take it to be a careful and detailed analysi...
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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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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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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 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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10 Questions with James Hollings
1. When you first started thinking about this collection of investigative journalism, what was your hope for it?I teach a course on investigative j...
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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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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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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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Mark Adams reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Booklovers: ‘Mark Adams: A Survey /He Kohinga...
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Ten questions with Joan Skinner
Q1: What drew you to midwifery as a profession? It probably started before I was born. My Dad was a GP obstetrician and he seemed to be always away...
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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 Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: After working your way through the history of Western art for your last book, was it a relief to look up at the sun and the stars? Not so much...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on KidsBooksNZ
Maria Gill has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too! by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing on...
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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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An excerpt from Tree of Strangers
I pressed my forehead to the cold window. Bruce's reading light reflected a bright spot against the native bush that enclosed us. I put down the ph...
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Te Kupenga one of Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books
Eleanor Black has included Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull in Canvas magazine's 100 Best Books: ‘A handwritten account of Hēn...
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Waiheke Weekender reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘Hailed as a ‘part graphic biography, part practical guide to protecting our bird wildlife’, this engrossing book is filled with factoids – includi...
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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 Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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10 Questions with 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 Paula Green
Q1: Now that Wild Honey is off to print, are you feeling proud of it? Yes, a thousand times yes. But also a tad anxious. Q2: It’s a huge book a...
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10 Questions with 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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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 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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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 the editors of Otherhood
Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. Her debut essaycollection, Ithaca, was published in 2023. Lil O’Brien (she/her) i...
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10 Questions with Susette Goldsmith
Q1: Had editing this sort of book, one that argues for trees, been on your mind for quite some time? Yes. My research interest is natural heritage...
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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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Havelock North and Auckland launches for John Scott Works
Join us to celebrate the launch of John Scott Works, by David Straight. This handsome book is a rich and loving tribute to the work and cultural si...
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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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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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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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10 Questions with Peter Wells
1. Why did you want to write this book? Dear Oliver was a book that had been in my mind for years, and the time arrived to write it. 2. It’s the...
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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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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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Ten Question Q&A with Hazel Phillips
Q1: You’ve gone adventuring all over the motu, and we know comparisons are invidious, but what makes the hikes and climbs around Ruapehu so very sp...
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Short Story Club – 1 November
BUTTERFLY SMITH 1987 The first time they lost Butterfly was in the Auckland railway station. One moment he was standing there guarding the shabby...
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Tūrangawaewae wins a CLNZ Education Award
Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand took out Best Tertiary Resource in the 2018 CLNZ Education Awards. Our congratulation...
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Tooth and Veil virtual launch
To watch the virtual launch of Tooth and Veil: The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse by Noel O'Hare, click here. Bringing together...
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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
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John Scott Works at Objectspace
Coinciding with the launch of our new book, John Scott Works, by David Straight, Objectspace is staging an exhibition of the same name. The exhibit...
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Read an extract from Short | Poto
Claudia Jardine A gift to their daughters ‘Textile manufacture’ is the sound my mother makes when she tries to speak with a needle held between he...
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Lisa Cherrington
Lisa Cherrington is a published writer, mataora (Mahi a Atua practitioner) and clinical psychologist.
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Kete reviews Kaewa the Kororā
Dionne Christian and Zoe Gadd round up new New Zealand children’s books for Kete: ‘At the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier, the rehabilit...
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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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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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The Dark Dad reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews The Dark Dad: War and trauma — a daughter's tale for Waiheke Weekender: What happens to a child who is rejected by the onl...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on Newsroom
Read an extract from Hinemoana Baker's essay ‘Kingfisher’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Be...
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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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Read an extract of Mana Whakatipu on E-Tangata
Big day out In the beginning, I was tongue-tied and terrified. I had been a member of the Ngāi Tahu council — what we call “the table” — for three...
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PhotoForum interviews Sara McIntyre
Sally Blundell has interviewed Sara McIntyre about her book Observations of a Rural Nurse for PhotoForum: ‘Places such as Kākahi,’ wrote Peter McIn...
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Anthony Byrt reviews Theo Schoon: A biography for The Spinoff
Read Anthony Byrt’s brilliant and in-depth review of Theo Schoon: A biography by Damian Skinner: ‘Art history is a brutal discipline, which feeds o...
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Marae food sovereignty: Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Sunday Star-Times: ‘When Dr Jessica Hutchings begin...
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David Herkt reviews A Queer Existence
‘The 27 young gay men in Mark Beehre’s square-format photographs look out upon us from a position of almost preternatural stillness. They might be...
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The Spinoff reviews A Moral Truth
John Campbell on how investigative journalism helped create New Zealand A Moral Truth is an outstanding collection: moving, enraging, illuminating,...
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March newsletter out now
Four new books released this month might be a new record for us! Read all about them and the MUP authors appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival...
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Eat Pacific reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Iain McKenzie reviews Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook edited by Robert Oliver for NZ Booklovers: ‘The book of the TV seri...
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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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NZ Booklovers reviews Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide
Lyn Potter has reviewed Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds for NZ Booklovers: ‘Wellington Architecture: A...
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Kete Books reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘In an eggshell, Sylvia and the Birds pays homage to Sylvia Durrant, who looked after 140,000 New Zealand birds during her 35 years as a bird rescu...
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Authors of Making Space interviewed on Nine to Noon
We see their work, but do we know their names? The Kiwi women architects who have contributed to our built environment since the mid 1800s. Welling...
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10 Questions with Lisa Cherrington and Sarika Rona
Q1: What prompted you to write this story? LC: Well, it was two things for me. One, a friend had just returned from overseas and she posted a pho...
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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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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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Massey Press authors appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to announce that four Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival, taking place from 15–20 M...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews The Architect and the Artist
‘One of the highlights of the 2020 exhibition “A Place to Paint” at the Auckland Art Gallery was Colin McCahon’s restored windows which had origina...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews A Kind of Shelter
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, has been reviewed for...
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An interview with Shadow Worlds’ Fiona Pardington, Andrew Paul Wood and Megan van Staden
‘When one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading photographic artists provides an image for the cover of a book, it’s bound to be striking; when that bo...
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Massey University Press titles shortlisted in 2023 Booklovers Awards
Three Massey University Press titles have been shortlisted in the Booklovers Awards for 2023. HomeGround: The story of a building that changes live...
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10 Questions with Anne Noble
Q1: What prompted you to begin the Conversātiō book project? Following the inclusion of Conversātiō and a suite of my other works about bees in t...
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Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews Life in the Shallows for the Waiheke Weekender
Reviewer Jenny Nicholls has written about Life in the Shallows: The wetlands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Karen Denyer and Monica Peters for Stuff. ‘...
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Rooms reviewed in HOME magazine
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s newest book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors in HOME: ‘People with...
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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 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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Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris
Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry b...
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10 Questions with Susan Paris and Kate De Goldi
Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry being published for younger readers. Original, conte...
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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
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10 Questions with David Cohen and Kathy Paterson
Q1: What part does RNZ play in your daily life? Kathy Paterson: It’s a constant, one that informs me with interviews connected to news headlines fr...
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10 Questions with 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 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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Twelve questions with author Pip Desmond
The New Zealand Herald caught up with Pip Desmond to talk about her book Song for Rosaleen: Author Pip Desmond writes about the difficulties of car...
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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 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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Simon Wilson talks HomeGround with Kete Books
As part of their 12 Books of Christmas series, Kete interviewed Simon Wilson about HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives: What le...
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10 Questions with Lynley Edmeades & Saskia Leek
Q1: These 'kōrero series' projects all begin with an approach from series editor Lloyd Jones and his suggestion of a concept on which each of you c...
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
1. Now the book is back from the printer, are you pleased with it? Yes! The cover looks great and is attracting a lot of interest but, more than th...
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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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Erica Stretton reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023 on Kete
Erica Stretton has reviewed the new Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023, edited by Tracey Slaughter, on Kete Books: ‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: afte...
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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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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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Rachel Buchanan reviews The Forgotten Coast
Rachel Buchanan reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Spinoff: ‘The Forgotten Coast is heartfelt, poetic; a pleasure to read. I really like Richard’...
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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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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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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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The Fruit Shop by Gilbert Wong: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
The Fruit Shop: A story of growing up as a Chinese New Zealander Wong Gee and Co was open five and a half days a week, and only succeeded when trea...
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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 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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Conversātiō: a photo essay for Shepherdess
A beautiful photo essay has appeared in Shepherdess featuring images and an extract from Conversātiō: In the Company of Bees: ‘Upon starting her ow...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw
Q1: Readers of The Conversation will know your pieces of commentary and observation but a book such as The Forgotten Coast, with its elements of me...
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Agency of Hope named best cover at the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Agency of Hope has won the award for Best Cover at the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards. Judges’ comments: A difficult...
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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 Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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10 Questions with 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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‘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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Simon Wilson joins The Panel on Newstalk ZB
Simon Wilson, editor of the recently published Journal of Urgent Writing 2017, and Nicola Willis join Andrew Dickens at Newstalk ZB to discuss clim...
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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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Eat Pacific: These Books Explore How Deeply Food Matters To People And The World
Danielle Nierenberg writes for Forbes magazine: ‘The food system is about so much more than the food on our plates and in our bowls. Yes, I’m a ner...
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Rebooting the Regions in the press
Rebooting the Regions has been getting fantastic coverage across the media. Russel Blackstock writes in the Herald on Sunday about how our smaller...
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What we find when we dig up the past
‘As I read through my great-grandfather’s military service record and learned that he had been present not only for the invasion of Parihaka but al...
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Poetry Shelf review: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
Poetry Shelf’s Paula Green reviews this year’s Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, reflecting on discovering new voices and old connections. ‘Reading poetry...
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You Are Here reviewed in Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Kelly Ana Morey reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Aotearoa NZ Review of Books: ‘You Are Here is the sixth book in the kōr...
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Tree Sense reviewed on RNZ
Tree Sense is a collection of essays, art and poetry by artists, activists, ecologists and advocates — including Philip Simpson, Anne Noble, Elizab...
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Barbara Sumner in conversation with her daughter Bonnie Sumner
Bonnie Sumner: You’ve been writing since you were young – you were once an award-winning columnist – and now you’re completing your masters at Vict...
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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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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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Hazel and the Snails launch details
Join Massey University Press and Annual Ink to celebrate the launch of Hazel and the Snails, by Nan Blanchard.Six-year-old Hazel tends her colony o...
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Massey University Press welcomes associate publisher
Massey University Press is thrilled to announce the appointment of Tracey Borgfeldt to the new position of associate publisher. Tracey has most rec...
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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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10 Questions with Dick Frizzell
Q1: Just how much fun was it making this amazing book? Well … it was fun ... and then it wasn’t … and then it was … and then it wasn’t … and then i...
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10 Questions with Clare Ladyman
Q1: Getting enough sleep is a huge issue for many people today, what drew you to sleep during pregnancy in particular? I was a brilliant slee...
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NZ Booklovers reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Chris Reed has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous, the fourth and latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, for NZ Booklovers. She says of t...
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Mark Adams clocks up 50 years of undoing ‘othering’ in Aotearoa
Sapeer Mayron interviews Mark Adams about his work and new book Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua for Sunday Star-Times: ‘The acclaimed p...
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Bookmarks with David Cohen
David Cohen stumbled into journalism in the days when it was possible to do so. Since then he’s written for a number of publications across the glo...
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Sarah Ell reviews Reawakened
Sarah Ell reviews Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans for Kete: ‘Making a significant contribution to celebrat...
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The Architect and the Artists appears in UoA’s Special Collections Twenty at 20
Author Bridget Hackshaw discovered two stained-glass window designs by artist Colin McCahon during her research for her prize-winning book, The Arc...
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Read an excerpt from High Wire
HIGH WIRE LLOYD JONES EUAN MACLEOD I’d written to Euan Macleod proposing a project about bridges. He replied enthusiastically — and, over t...
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Read an interview with Floor van Lierop, designer of Ans Westra: A life in photography
Kete Books interviews Floor van Lierop, book designer, about her work on Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Floor, hi! Can you tell u...
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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed in the Otago Daily Times
Laura Borrowdale has reviewed Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson in the Otago Daily Times: ‘Reading Little Doomsdays is a meditative act....
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Little Doomsday reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Laura Borrowdale reviews Little Doomsdays by Nic Low & Phil Dadson: 'Reading Little Doomsdays is a meditative act. The looping series of stori...
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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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Paula Green reviews Sylvia and the Birds for Poetry Box
Paula Green has reviewed Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing’s new book Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can...
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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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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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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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Pātaka Kai reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty by Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith for Waiheke Weekender: ‘As global supply chains becom...
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Ten Question Q&A with Hone Waengarangi Morris
Q1: What’s driven you to write this book? After seeing and hearing simple errors being made over the last five years, I thought I could assist in c...
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Ten Question Q&A with Hone Morris
Q1: What’s driven you to write this book? After seeing and hearing simple errors being made over the last five years, I thought I could assist in c...
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The Monday Extract on The Spinoff
An excerpt from Pip Desmond’s best-selling memoir about her mother’s descent into dementia. I read about a hairdresser who had three customers pas...
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10 Questions with 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 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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Promotional video for Tooth and Veil
In this lively history, Noel O’Hare details the nurses’ experiences on the front line of dental health, and explores what that reveals about our so...
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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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Standing Room Only talks with authors about Bordering on Miraculous
Author Lynley Edmeades and artist Saskia Leek recently talked with Lynn Freeman on Standing Room Only about their book Bordering on Miraculous, the...
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MUP authors appearing at the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to have a number of our authors appearing at the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival: Barbara Ewing will be appearing at the Gala event,...
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One Minute Crying Time reviewed — twice — on The Spinoff
‘Ewing writes that “we can only know the real plot of the story of a life, how one event led to another, in retrospect – and even then only perhaps...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? reviewed by Swings + Roundabouts
Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? review in Swings + Roundabouts: ‘This beautifully photographed board book follows a question/a...
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Graduation Bundle — a bundle of books to celebrate graduation
A terrific graduation offer to you from Massey University Press. Three great books that feature our university: From Empire’s Servant to Global Cit...
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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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Christmas hours at the Press
The Press will be on holiday from midday 21 December 2018 to 14 January 2019. We will be checking emails occasionally, so let us know if your inqui...
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Maeve Hughes reviews Shining Land
‘The most beautiful photos in the book are the ones which show the discontinuity between our time and hers. The layers of paint and crayon scribble...
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Corpus reviews Song for Rosaleen
Sue Wootton at Corpus reviews Pip Desmond's memoir Song for Rosaleen. 'A memoir, by definition, is composed of memories. It is almost unbearably po...
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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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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on Ako
Jody Anderson has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing....
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Kids Books NZ reviews Skinny Dip
‘One of the (many) joys of reviewing, is never knowing just what treasure lies waiting inside the courier package. These treasures are sometimes on...
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Kete reivews The Architect and the Artists
‘Bridget Hackshaw’s The Architect and The Artists is both a personal tribute to her father and a valuable record of an important moment in our cult...
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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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Sylvia’s Birds are a Family Treat
In her review for Magpies, Crissi Blair recommends Sylvia and the Birds: How the Bird Lady Saved Thousands of Birds, and How You Can Too! as a book...
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Poetry Shelf review: Little Doomsdays by Nic Lowe and Phil Dadson
Paula Green has reviewed Nic Lowe and Phil Dadson's Little Doomsdays for Poetry Shelf: 'Little Doomsdays is a collaboration between Ngāi Tahu write...
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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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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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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in Stuff
Damien Grant reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Stuff: ‘There is a picture taken at Waitangi in 1963. It is of the Queen...
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10 Questions with Mark Revington
Q1: You’ve had the privilege of helping Mark Solomon write a book that reflects on his life and on key issues. Was it your idea, and why? Both Tā...