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Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga
Maria Gill reviews Te Kupenga for Kids Books NZ: ‘As a nonfiction writer, I've visited the Alexander Turnbull library a few times. I've locked away...
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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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Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga
Ash Damini reviews Te Kupenga for Kete: ‘The Alexander Turnbull library is the oldest section of the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington....
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Michael Keith
Michael Keith is the principal of Shearwater Associates, a company engaged in numerous publishing, writing, editorial and educational projects in New Zealand and the Pacific.
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Te Kupenga reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Lee Davidson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull ‘Once a year, I take my museum and heritage studies class to the A...
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New Zealand Geographic reviews Te Kupenga
‘Pistons, spark plugs, and small rocks are not objects that you would expect to find in the holdings of a prestigious national library. But the Ale...
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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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Te Kupenga reviewed by Jessie Neilson for Otago Daily Times
Jessie Neilson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull for the Otago Daily Times. You can read the full review below: 10...
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Keith Ovenden
Keith Ovenden ONZM is a former university lecturer in political sociology, and radio and television broadcaster and commentator.
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10 Questions with Michael Belgrave
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University? I’ve always believ...
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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro?
He pukapuka ātaahua hei pānui mō ngā taitamariki me te papa tākaro
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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Chris Szekely interviewed by Kelly Dennett
Chris Szekely, one of the editors of Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull, was interviewed by Kelly Dennett: ‘In the introduction...
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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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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi in conversation with Neil Waka on Te Ao Tapatahi
Watch Te Ataakura Pewhairangi discuss her new book Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?, te reo Māori revitalisation and the import...
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Te Ataakura on creating books for young te reo learners
Dionne Christian spoke with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi about her second board book, offered as both a bilingual and te reo edition, Ko wai kei te papa...
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Michael Petherick talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan
Wellington lawyer and musician Michael Petherick has now added published writer to his CV, and his debut novel is a finalist in the the New Zealand...
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Michael Belgrave interviewed on RNZ's Saturday Morning programme
From early Polynesian navigators to missionaries, colonists and migrants, Massey University historian Professor Michael Belgrave has published the...
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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 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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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi interviewed on Nine to Noon
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi discusses te reo Māori revitalisation and her new pukapuka Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? on Nine to...
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Jesse Mulligan talks with Te Ataakura Pewhairangi about her second board book for te reo learners
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi, author of bilingual board books Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground? and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are...
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Read along to Kei Te Aha Ngā Kararehe
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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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Kei te aha ngā kararehe?
He pukapuka ātaahua hei pānui mā ngā taitamariki me ō rātau whānau
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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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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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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi talks to Dale Husband about her latest children’s book
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi recently spoke with Dale Husband on Waatea about her most recent release, Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playgrou...
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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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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? features on Storytime at Wellington City Libraries
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi’s second book Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? has been featured on Storytime at Wellington City Librar...
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Lyn Potter reviews Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
Lyn Potter Reviews Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? for NZ Booklovers. ‘The beautiful full-page photographs of the Glauser fam...
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? on The Spinoff’s Christmas book-shopping list 2021
Kaewa the Kororā and Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing? were chosen by books editor Catherine Woulfe for The Spinoff’s 2021 Chris...
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Kei te aha ngā kararehe? What are the animals doing?
A gorgeous bilingual board book
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Te Rā Moriarty
Te Rā Moriarty is a descendant of Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Koata, Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu. He is an assistant lecturer in Te Pūtahi a Toi, the School of Māori Knowledge, at Massey University.
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Te Ataakura Pewhairangi
Te Ataakura Pewhairangi, Ngāti Porou, is a Māori Student Recruitment Advisor at Massey University.
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Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Kauwhata) studied fine art at Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and has taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wānanga.
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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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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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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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Read an extract from Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘I was fascinated when, aged seven, I first saw my father weaving a kete. He would throw the kete behind him as soon as he saw me. As I was fair sk...
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A brief history of Michael Laws’ war on the Sarjeant Gallery
‘Whanganui was in a mood for change in 2004. The incumbent mayor, Chas Poynter, a bookseller and the son of a bookseller, had been in office since...
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The Spinoff reviews Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘It is incredible to have this occasion rendered in this form, a beautiful book to hold and look at. Beautiful, and painful.’ — essa may ranapiri’s...
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Leilani Tamu reviews Te Manu Huna a Tāne
‘It’s books like this that will help us to rethink how we as a society need to change.’ — Leilani Tamu reviews Te Manu Huna a Tāne: The Hidden Bird...
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Bronwyn Labrum reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A biography by Martin Edmond for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘AS THE DIRECTOR of the...
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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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Ko wai kei te papa tākaro? Who is at the playground?
A gorgeous board book for young readers and their whānau
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Danny Keenan receives the 2023 Michael King Writer's Fellowship
It was announced on Friday that Dr Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) is the 2023 recipient of Michael King Writer’s Fellowship. Congratula...
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Tūmahi Māori
Essential grammatical advice for users of te reo Māori
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery reviewed on NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography by Martin Edmond for NZ Arts Review: ‘Whanganui’s Serjeant Galle...
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Extract from Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
In Sally Gordon’s inner city villa in Auckland, the central hallway is lined with photographs of four generations of her family. Among them are two...
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From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen
The history of New Zealand’s world-facing university
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Kate de Goldi reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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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 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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Kiran Dass reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
This lively and compelling story of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery begins before Henry Sarjeant had even dreamed of a ‘fine art gallery’ for the...
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NZ Booklovers reviews Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery: A Whanganui biography
The Sarjeant Gallery, a beautiful century old heritage building and one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries, finally re-opened this Nove...
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed by Te Whakairinga Mutu
Louisa Hormann from Te Whakairinga Mutu Air Force Museum of New Zealand reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldw...
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Hauturu
A richly illustrated account of the island’s diverse plants and animals, and the people behind this globally significant conservation success story
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Precarity included in the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Takarangi
Precarity: Uncertain, Insecure and Unequal Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Shiloh Groot (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Uenukukopako), Clifford van O...
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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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Becoming Aotearoa: Newsroom’s book of the week
Philip Matthews reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Newsroom’s book of the week: ‘Was the Christchurch...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
The history of one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries
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Urgent Moments' Mark Avery interviewed on Te Pae
Andrew Armitage talks to Mark Amery and fellow Paekakarki artists Vanessa Crowe and Tim Barlow on community radio show Te Pae, about Urgent Moments...
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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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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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Reawakened
The stories of ten master navigators intertwined with the rebirth of Pacific voyaging
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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Tony Ballantyne reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘RESPONDING TO WHA...
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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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Ten questions with Matt McEvoy for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura has published Ten Questions with Matt McEvoy to celebrate the release of 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Ze...
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Ki Mua, Ki Muri
Inside Aotearoa’s Māori art school powerhouse
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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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Frequently asked questions
Does Massey University Press publish textbooks? Yes, under the MasseyTexts imprint. We are especially interested in textbooks designed to be used i...
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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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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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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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Te Manu Huna a Tāne
A unique insight into weaving with kiwi feathers
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The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
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City at the Centre
A richly illustrated history of an ambitious city
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This Is New Zealand exhibition review
Fran Dibble reviews the recently opened exhibition This Is New Zealand at City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition features Bronwyn Holloway-Smith’s...
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Huhana Smith talks to Mark Amery on RNZ
Huhana Smith, one of the key profiles in new book Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri,...
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Publish with us
Massey University Press welcomes proposals from both Massey researchers and authors outside the university that fit our publishing programme, which...
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Massey University
For more than 80 years, Massey University has helped to shape lives and communities in New Zealand and around the world. Its forward-thinking spiri...
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Massey University Press
Massey University Press publishes award-winning books across a range of genres. Our list includes history, design, art, biography and memoir, agric...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ki Mua, Ki Muri
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toiohi ki Āpiti edited by Cassandra Barnett and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri: ‘When the exhibiti...
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Tūrangawaewae Second Edition Ebook
A new edition of an important book for participants in New Zealand and global society
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Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
The battle over Māori sovereignty Just when the missionaries were beginning to convince themselves that two decades of arduous and unrewarding labo...
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An extract from From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
Chapter 4 The College Finds its Feet After such a long and troubled pre-history, the agricultural college opened with a burst of enthusiasm and ene...
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The Sapling reviews #Tumeke!
‘It is a delight to see a fiction book aimed at the middle reader age with such a unique and visually appealing layout. A quick riffle through the...
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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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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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Martin Edmond talks to RNZ’s Mark Amery
Acclaimed writer Martin Edmond did his Christmas shopping in Whanganui as a child, travelling down the river from Ohakune where he was raised. They...
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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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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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Endless Sea
A book for all New Zealanders who feel connected to the sea
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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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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The South Island of New Zealand
The return of a legendary New Zealand book
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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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Margaret Tennant
Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant was formerly Professor of History at Massey University, and is now an Honorary Research Professor within the School of Humanities.
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Vaughan Rapatahana
Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Te Whiti) is a poet, novelist, writer and anthologist.
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Peter Meihana
Dr Peter Meihana, Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō and Ngāi Tahu, is a lecturer in Māori History in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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Bridgette Masters-Awatere
Bridgette Masters-Awatere (Te Rarawa, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngai te Rangi) is a lecturer at the University of Waikato.
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Conversations About Indigenous Rights
A sharp assessment of how New Zealand is meeting its obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples, ten years on from its signing
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Hannah Mooney
Hannah Mooney is a lecturer at Massey University’s School of Social Work.
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Jade Kake
Jade Kake (Ngāpuhi — Ngāti Hau me Te Parawhau, Te Whakatōhea, Te Arawa) is an architectural designer, writer and housing advocate.
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Yvonne Taura
Yvonne Taura (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Uenuku, Ngāti Hauā) is a kairangahau Māori for Manaaki Whenua — Landcare Research, Hamilton, and is completing her PhD with the University of Waikato.
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Ngātokimatawhaorua
The power of mana waka to inspire a people
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Living Between Land and Sea
Rich and detailed stories of lives dominated by the sea
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Hazel and the Snails
A debut novel destined to become a classic
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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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Danny Keenan
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and became a senior lecturer there in 2004.
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Rawiri Taonui
Dr Rawiri Taonui (Te Hikutū and Ngāti Korokoro, Te Kapotai and Ngāti Paeahi, Ngāti Rora, Ngāti Whēru, Ngāti Te Taonui) is an independent writer, researcher and advisor.
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Chris Szekely
Chris Szekely has held the statutory position of Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library since 2007.
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Kerry Taylor
Professor Kerry Taylor is the head of the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. Her fourth novel, Kurangaituku, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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Hone Morris
Associate Professor Dr Hone Waengarangi Morris (Ngāi Te Rangitotohu, Ngāti Mārau, Ngāti Maru, Ngāi Te Ao Kāpiti) is a member of the leadership team in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori at Massey University.
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Claire Massey
Professor Claire Massey is Massey University’s Director of Agrifood and heads Te Puna Whakatipu, which leads and supports university-level projects in agriculture and food.
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Euan Macleod
Euan Macleod is an artist who has won a number of major prizes, including the Archibald Prize.
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Jessica Hutchings
Dr Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati) is a senior kaupapa Māori research leader, author, activist and Hua Parakore grower.
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Mark Revington
Mark Revington is a freelance journalist who has worked for many leading publications.
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Pippa Keel
Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer.
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira
The battle for Māori land and livelihoods
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Jo Smith
Associate Professor Jo Smith (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu) is a senior kairangahau Māori for Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust who also researches and teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
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Little Doomsdays
A unique collaboration in words and art
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Mana Whakatipu
The compelling memoir of a Māori leader
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Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
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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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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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Deborah Coddington
Deborah Coddington is a writer, journalist, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament. She lives in the Wairarapa and is a keen rider.
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Sarah Farrar
Dr Sarah Farrar is head of curatorial and learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She is a curator and art historian whose research focuses on contemporary art, curatorial activism and the complexities of cross-cultural exchange.
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Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau-a-Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) has had careers in literature, diplomacy and academia.
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Amber Clausner
Amber Clausner is a British arts producer based in Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington.
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Bruce Foster
Bruce Foster’s current photographs consider the impacts on nature of political decisions and corporate actions.
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Frances Walsh
Frances Walsh is an award-winning writer, editor and researcher who has had a long career in journalism.
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Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui during the 1990s.
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Mark Solomon
Tā Mark Wiremu Solomon KNZM, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurī, served as kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the tribal council of Ngāi Tahu, for 18 years.
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Paul Diamond
Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) is Curator, Māori at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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Peata Larkin
Peata Larkin (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Tuhourangi) graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2009 and has a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
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Sarika Rona
Sarika Rona is of Taranaki Tūturu, Te Atiawa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Tainui descent and is an educational psychologist.
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Susette Goldsmith
Dr Susette Goldsmith is a writer and editor of non-fiction, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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Kiri Piahana-Wong
Kiri Piahana-Wong (Ngāti Ranginui) is a poet and editor, and the publisher at Anahera Press.
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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Pātaka Kai
Food for hope and wellbeing
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You Are Here
A unique collaboration in words and art
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Joan Skinner
Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife, researcher and advocate of home birth.
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Ken Downie
Ken Downie is freelance photographer and has worked as a photojournalist for Metro, North & South and the New Zealand Listener.
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Mark Adams
Mark Adams is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished photographers whose work is held in major institutions in New Zealand and abroad.
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Helen Beaglehole
Helen Beaglehole is a writer, editor and historian who has spent many years sailing and exploring in the Marlborough Sounds.
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Ioana Gordon-Smith
Ioana Gordon-Smith (New Zealand/Sāmoa) is an arts writer and curator.
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Jennifer Taylor
Jennifer Taylor works closely with the Edith Collier Trust Collection on a daily basis as Curator of Collections at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.
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Layne Waerea
Layne Waerea (Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist and educator.
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Lisa Cherrington
Lisa Cherrington is a published writer, mataora (Mahi a Atua practitioner) and clinical psychologist.
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Noelle Donnelly
Dr Noelle Donnelly is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
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Rachel Haydon
Rachel Haydon is the general manager of the National Acquarium of New Zealand, in Napier, and a children’s author.
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Creating New Synergies
An essential guide for teachers of Japanese in New Zealand
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Diseases of Cattle in Australasia
The definitive and authoritative text on cattle diseases in New Zealand and Australia
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Greg Donson
Greg Donson has been Curator and Programmes Manager at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui since 2007, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the exhibition programme, including publications.
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Johnson Witehira
Dr Johnson Witehira (Tamahaki, Ngāti Hinekura, Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Tūteauru, Ngāti Hāmoa) is a leading Māori innovator working across art, design, technology and game development.
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Lyn Wade
Lyn Wade has been a member of the Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) Supporters’ Trust since its inception in 1997.
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Nigel Robson
Nigel Robson is a senior historian at the Office of Māori Crown Relations — Te Arawhiti.
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Paul Spoonley
Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is one of New Zealand’s leading academics and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a writer/ director in film.
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Simon Wilson
Simon Wilson is a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald.
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A Moral Truth wins award for best typography at the PANZ Book Design Awards
Designers Gideon Keith and Carla Sy took out the PANZ Book Design Award for Best Typography for their work on A Moral Truth. The judges noted: ‘A g...
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Grid by Adam Claasen reviewed in Manawatū Standard
George Heagney reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for Manawatū Standard: ‘The story of...
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Cassandra Barnett
Cassandra Barnett is an author and artist of Raukawa, Ngāti Huri and Pākehā descent who writes poetry, essays and short fiction about cultural and ecological futures.
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Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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Tooth and Veil
The story of the young women charged with waging war on our nation’s poor teeth
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Will to Win
Insights and revelations from some of the legends of New Zealand netball
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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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Auckland Architecture
Look at Auckland buildings through the eyes of an architect expert
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Encountering China
Inside our relationship with a superpower
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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A Seat at the Table
A fascinating insight into the world of global politics
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50 Years Young
The colourful history of New Zealand’s best-loved farming contest
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Artists in Antarctica
A celebration of Antarctica’s power to inspire
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Heartland Strong
A new vision for the future of New Zealand’s rural communities
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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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In the Temple
A unique jewel of a poetry collection
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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New Zealand National Security
New Zealand faces a range of serious security challenges in a globalised world — are we prepared for them?
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service
A remarkable organisation and its pivotal role in this nation’s international relations
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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State of Threat
Timely analysis of our most important security issues
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The Citizen
From Ancient Rome to Brexit, how The Citizen finds his way, exercises his rights and fulfils his duties
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2016
Why waste a good crisis?
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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Wellington Architecture
Over 120 buildings and five routes around our capital city
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Ziggle!
Sixty-five ways to be an artist through the world of Len Lye
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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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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Aspiring
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all
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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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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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Finding Frances Hodgkins
A fresh new look at where, when and why Frances Hodgkins painted some of her best-known works
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Erebus The Ice Dragon
A volcano like no other
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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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Cyber Security and Policy
Welcome to cyberspace — where all your computing and connection needs are on demand, and where security threats have never been more massive
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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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Fridays with Jim
A former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Fundamentals of Finance Fifth Edition Ebook
An introduction to finance and financial systems
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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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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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Observations of a Rural Nurse
A unique photographic portrait of the King Country
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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023
An essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Raiment
The engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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Skinny Dip
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals
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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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Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
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Sylvia and the Birds
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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The Forgotten Coast
A powerful memoir about racism, the Catholic church, and fathers
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
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The New New Zealand
A bold new book on population trends and the need to confront them
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The Sheep
A technical and specialist guide to diseases in sheep
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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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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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Vonney Ball
Elegant ceramics by a leading practitioner
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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With Them Through Hell
New Zealand’s Great War medical battlefield, abroad and at home
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Women and Work in Asia and the Pacific
Gender equity at work and beyond
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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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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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The Unsettled
What it means to own your past
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Woolsheds
Inside the historic buildings of New Zealand’s heartland
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NZ Poetry Shelf features readings from PNZ Yearbook poets
Paula Green at NZ Poetry Shelf features readings from poets who contributed to the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, edited by Tracey Slaughter. In...
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Back on the Road with Robin Morrison
Connie Brown reviews The South Island of New Zealand: From the Road by Robin Morrison for Art News Aotearoa, delighting in the return of this class...
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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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Ta Mark Solomon on Maori Television
Ta Mark Solomon’s memoir Mana Whakatipu was featured on Te Ao, Maori Television's news bulletin: ‘Everyone has an opinion about Covid-19 and Tā Mar...
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Grid reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Neill Atkinson reviews Adam Claasen’s Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘...
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Massey News reviews Grid by Adam Claasen
Massey News reviews Adam Claasen’s new book Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell: ‘The highly-decorated Air Commo...
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Grid reviewed in the Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation
Gary Connor reviews Grid: The life and times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen for the Journal of the Air Force Histori...
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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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Adam Claasen
Adam Claasen is a senior lecturer in history at Massey University’s Albany campus. He is a Smithsonian Institution Fellowship grantee, a Fulbright Scholarship (Georgetown University) awardee and a Massey University research team medallist.
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Andrew Colarik
Dr Andrew Colarik is a senior lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University.
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Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading writers on matters art-historical and aesthetic.
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Andy Martin
Dr Andy Martin is a professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North.
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Anuradha Mathrani
Dr Anuradha Mathrani is a senior lecturer in Information Technology in the Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University.
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Barbara Ewing
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist and playwright.
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Bill Kaye-Blake
Dr William (Bill) Kaye-Blake is a chief economist at PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand (PwC NZ), Wellington.
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Bridget Hackshaw
Bridget Hackshaw researched and photographed the buildings and artworks in this book and is the daughter of architect James Hackshaw
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Brigitta Baker
Brigitta Baker was adopted during the closed adoption era. Her professional experience ranges from advisory roles to positions in human resource management, leadership development and coaching.
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Carl Bradley
Carl Bradley is a lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Carol Neill
Carol Neill was a course co-ordinator in Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters at the Albany campus from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology.
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Christopher Braddock
Christopher Braddock, artist and writer, is professor of visual arts in the School of Art & Design, Auckland University of Technology.
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Claire Robinson
Claire Robinson is Professor of Communication Design and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Massey University’s College of Creative Arts.
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Clare Ladyman
Clare Ladyman completed her research studies at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington, and now lives in Perth, Western Australia.
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Cliff Simons
Cliff Simons is Director of the New Zealand Wars Study Centre at the New Zealand Defence College.
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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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Dallas Nesbitt
Dallas Nesbitt is a senior lecturer in Japanese at AUT University. Her research focuses on Kanji teaching and learning Japanese katakana script.
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Damien Wilkins
Damien Wilkins has published novels, collections of short stories and a book of poems.
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David Cohen
David Cohen is an author and journalist.
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Deborah Shepard
Deborah Shepard is an author, teacher of memoir, oral historian and film and art historian.
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Deidre McDonald
Deidre Ann McDonald is a teaching fellow with Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University.
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Dick Veitch
Dick Veitch spent his working career with the New Zealand Wildlife Service, now part of the Department of Conservation.
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Eugene Hansen
Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Wellington.
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Geoff Watson
Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities, Massey University.
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Giles Dodson
Giles Dodson is a senior lecturer and course co-ordinator for Tū Tira Mai: Practising Engagement at Massey University.
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Glyn Harper
Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University.
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Helen Dollery
Helen Dollery is an historian and lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, teaching citizenship as part of the Bachelor of Arts core courses.
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Helen Schamroth
Helen Schamroth ONZM has been writing about craft, design and art for more than four decades
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James Watson
James Watson is Associate Professor in History at Massey University. His research focuses largely on the relationship between New Zealand and the UK in the twentieth century.
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Jan Kemp
Jan Kemp MNZM is a poet and short fiction writer.
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Jane Robertson
Jane Robertson is a local historian who has lived in Ōtoromiro Governors Bay, at the head of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour, for 20 years.
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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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Janet Hunt
Janet Hunt is one of New Zealand’s best known natural history writers, for adults and children.
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Johanna Emeney
Johanna Emeney works at Massey University as a teacher of creative writing.
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Julian Jang-Jaccard
Dr Julian Jang-Jaccard is an associate professor with the Information Technology cluster of the College of Science at Massey University.
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Karen Denyer
Karen Denyer, MSc, Dip Envt Mgt, is the Executive Officer of the National Wetland Trust (NWT) and a freelance ecologist.
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Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi works with children in schools throughout New Zealand, promoting reading and teaching creative writing.
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Kathryn Hay
Dr Kathryn Hay is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Field Education in the School of Social Work at Massey University. She is a registered social worker and a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
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Lana McCarthy
Dr Lana McCarthy is a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
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Leigh Signal
Leigh Signal is associate professor and portfolio director, Fatigue Management and Sleep Health, at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington.
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Lynley Edmeades
Lynley Edmeades is the author of two poetry collections and is the editor of Landfall.
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Margaret Brown
Dr Margaret Brown is a senior social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Palmerston North.
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Mark Henrickson
Mark Henrickson is Associate Professor in Social Work at Massey University in Auckland, and for many years he worked in HIV-related health and mental healthcare.
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Masayoshi Ogino
Dr Masayoshi Ogino has extensive experience in language teaching in both New Zealand and overseas at secondary and tertiary levels. He has an M.Phil in Japanese Language Education and PhD in Applied Linguistics.
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Matt McEvoy
Matt McEvoy spreads his time between teaching piano, accepting the occasional local technology contract and writing, with a particular interest in social history.
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Michelle Elvy
Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and teacher of creative writing.
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Nan Blanchard
Nan Blanchard is a counsellor who also teaches in the Counselling and Guidance Programmes at the Institute of Education, Massey University.
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Natalia Martín
Dr Natalia Martín is a lecturer in animal science at Massey University.
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Natasha Tassell-Matamua
Natasha Tassell-Matamua is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University.
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Nic Low
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former programme director of WORD Christchurch.
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Nick Nelson
Nick Nelson is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Paul Moon
Dr Paul Moon ONZM is a professor of history at Auckland University of Technology, where he has taught since 1993.
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Penny Payne
Penny Payne is a social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Hamilton.
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Rachael Bell
Dr Rachael Bell is a lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Rand Hazou
Rand Hazou is a Palestinian-Kiwi theatre practitioner and scholar whose research explores theatre engaging with rights and social justice.
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Rebecca Fawkner
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery for twenty years.
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Richard Laven
Richard Laven BVSc is Professor in Production Animal Health and Welfare and Group Leader of Farm Services, School of Veterinary Science, at Massey University.
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Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University whose research is published in leading international journals. He is a regular commentator on political issues.
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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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Sharon McLennan
Sharon McLennan is a senior lecturer in citizenship and development studies at Massey University.
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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Stephen Duffin
Stephen Duffin is a lecturer at Massey University, where he has taught critical thinking for the past 20 years.
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Thom Conroy
Dr Thom Conroy teaches creative writing in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University.
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Tracey Slaughter
Tracey Slaughter teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato, where she edits the journals Mayhem and Poetry New Zealand Yearbook.
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William Fish
William Fish is a professor of philosophy at Massey University.
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William Hoverd
Associate Professor William Hoverd is the director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at Massey University.
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Judith Williams
Judith Williams was a descendant of early Pūhoi settlers and helped establish the Puhoi Historical Society.
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Roger Buckton
Roger Buckton was an adjunct associate-professor at the University of Canterbury and lectured in ethno-music, musicianship and music education. He has lived in Pūhoi since 1990.
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Ralf Heimrath
Dr Ralf Heimrath’s distinguished scholarly career encompasses teaching and leadership positions at a Bavarian open-air museum, the National University of Mongolia and the University of Malta.
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in SOUTH magazine
Gavin Bertram reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for SOUTH magazine: ‘Doug Jolly’s ideas largely...
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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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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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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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Steve Braunias reviewed the new edition of The South Island of New Zealand — From the Road
Steve Braunias has written an excellent and comprehensive review on Newsroom of the newly republished The South Island of New Zealand — From the Ro...
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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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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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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 Adam Claasen, author of Grid
Q1: Keith Caldwell was one of the stars of your last book, Fearless, about the New Zealand airmen who flew in the First World War. As you were fini...
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
Disclaimer: The following comments reflect the personal opinion of the writer, and do not reflect either an official NZDF position, or the opinion...
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10 Questions with 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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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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10 Questions with 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 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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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 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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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 Jeff Evans
Q1: What drew you to write the story of this particular waka? Ngātokimatawhaorua is an iconic waka taua, and not just for its size. It is intrinsic...
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He karanga tāpaetanga! Call for submissions!
He karanga tāpaetanga! Nau mai e te pukapuka hou e mau rā i ngā pakiwhāiti, i ngā kōrero pono auaha nei, i ngā toikupu kōrero, ka eke atu rā ki te...
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Vaughan Rapatahana reads two poems
Poet Vaughan Rapatahana reads two of his poems featured in this year's fabulous Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020.
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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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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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You Are Here reviewed in Kete
Jade Kake reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Kete: ‘'You are Here feels like a homecoming. Home: both the beginning and th...
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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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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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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in Heritage New Zealand
Anna Knox reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans for New Zealand Heritage magazine: ‘Ngātokimatawhaorua, the waka champi...
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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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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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A Moral Truth — Mediawatch interview
A Moral Truth: 150 years of investigative journalism in New Zealand opens with an extract from Te Hokioi, which the book's editor, James Hollings,...
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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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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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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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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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Downfall jointly wins WH Oliver Prize in the NZHA Awards
Named after New Zealand historian and poet William (Bill) Oliver (1925-2015), the W. H. Oliver prize is awarded to the best book on any aspect of N...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on Kete
Bob Frame reviews Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson: ‘This sumptuous social and environmental...
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Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021
Steve Braunias selects the 10 best illustrated books of 2021, and four Massey Press titles make the list: ‘The Architect and the Artists by Bridget...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua reviewed in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti o Te Ātiawa) reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka by Jeff Evans: 'Jeff Evans’s Ngātokimatawhaorua is a...
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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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John Walsh reveals Wellington’s rich architecture for Stuff
John Walsh, author of Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide with photographer Patrick Reynolds, has written about the city’ ‘treasure trove’ of...
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Rewi authors Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake speak to Mark Amery on Culture 101
Authors of the major publication Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, along with Rewi Thompson's daughter Lucy, recently spoke to...
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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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Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua reviewed in NZ Listener
Linda Herrick reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Listener: '"Gaze upon these works spread ou...
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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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Mark Derby introduces Rock College
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Shining Land reviewed by Sarah Shieff, ANZL
Sarah Shieff reviews Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima on the Academy of New Zealand Literature Te Whare Mātā...
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Making Space editor honoured
We were delighted to see Making Space editor Elizabeth Cox recently honoured by her own industry for the energy and commitment she has put in to do...
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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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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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Margaret Tennant talks to RNZ Nights programme
Bryan Crump on RNZ Nights programme talked to Margaret Tennant about City at the Centre: A history of Palmerston North. Listen to the full intervie...
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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 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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Matariki Williams reviews Rewi on The Spinoff
Matariki Williams has given an excellent review of Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen on The Spinoff: ‘“Rewi” scrawled in dis...
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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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In search of the missing murals of E. Mervyn Taylor
Sally Blundell tells the story of Bronwyn Holloway-Smith’s search for the lost murals of Mervyn Taylor in the New Zealand Listener: ‘In 2016, artis...
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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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Academy of New Zealand Literature reviews High Wire
Ian Wedde has reviewed High Wire at the Academy of Zealand Literature Te Whare Matatuhi o Aotearoa: ‘High Wire is the first picture book in the kōr...
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Ta Mark Solomon on Nine to Noon
Tā Mark Solomon spent 18-years at the helm of Ngāi Tahu. He was elected to the role in 1998 just as the iwi was about to sign its $170 million hist...
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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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Little Doomsdays is Volume’s book of the week
The fifth in the kōrero series conceived by Lloyd Jones is Volume’s book of the week: ‘Little Doomsdays, a collaboration between writer Nic Low and...
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Ngātokimatawhaorua shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled that Jeff Evans’ immersive and compelling Ngātokimatawhaorua: The biography of a waka is rubbing shoulders with three other fantast...
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Reawakened reviewed in Journal of Pacific History
Axel Defngin reviews Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans: Sirow. (A Yapese ceremonial apology given before spea...
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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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‘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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Downfall reviewed in The National Oral History Association of New Zealand newsletter
Roger M. Smith, a Wellington PhD student in German Poetry and Rights Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has reviewed Paul Diam...
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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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Kete Books reviews Life in the Shallows
‘Life in the Shallows is one of those immensely rewarding books where almost every page turns up a fascinating fact. For me that can all too often...
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Making Space reviewed in HOME
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, which is edited by Elizabeth Cox, in HOME magazine thi...
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Moana Ellis reviews Downfall for Stuff
A review of Downfall: The history of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond has been published on Stuff. Moana Ellis writes: ‘Paul Diamond spent 18 years...
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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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Katūīvei reviewed on Kete
Elizabeth Heritage reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand on Kete: ‘Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from...
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NZ Booklovers reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
This thorough and thought-provoking book will ignite interest in the life and works of New Zealand artist Edith Collier, who is now recognised as...
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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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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 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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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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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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Read an extract from You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
What is it that stops you now? Is it the possibility of failure? You’ve survived failure many times before, so whywould this be different? Perhaps...
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Hastings reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Many geniuses are recognized early on in t...
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The revolutionary live interview with Peter Wells
The Spinoff has interviewed Peter Wells about his memoir Dear Oliver: ‘The return of the patented Spinoff revolutionary live email interview, this...
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Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast
‘ Stephanie Johnson reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Academy of New Zealand Literature: Family histories are having a moment in the sun. Charlot...
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Kete Books reviews Making Space
Making Space is an impressive recent release billed by its publisher Massey University Press as ‘a new book that sets the architectural record stra...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed (and recommended!) in the Read NZ newsletter
Chris Reed has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too in the latest Read NZ Te Pou Muramura...
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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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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Landfall
Skip back three years or so to when the world was beginning to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic would be. It’s here that writers and editors W...
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Rewi reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere is a major book exploring the work of the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa) who was a groundbrea...
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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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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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The Unsettled reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Paul Diamond reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Richard Shaw’s 2021 me...
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Ans Westra reviewed on NZ Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for NZ Arts Review: ‘Ans Westra, who died in 2023 was probably the most...
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Little Doomsdays: 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century
Finlay Macdonald et al. for The Conversation: ‘Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappoi...
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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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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Little Doomsdays, the fifth in the kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, has been reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review. John Daly-Peoples says of Nic...
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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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Edith Collier: New Zealand modernist reviewed in Kete
Linda Herrick reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist edited by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for Kete Books: ‘This is...
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New book covers artist's rich modernist history
'Jill Trevelyan is a writer and curator who first encountered the art of Edith Collier at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery during the 1990s. Alon...
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Katūīvei reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature
Erin Mercer reviews Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by David Eggleton, Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito fo...
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Ans Westra: A life in photorgraphy reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Athol McCredie reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘THE DUTCH-BORN Ans Westra (1936–2023...
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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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Ladies’ Litera-Tea event with Pip Desmond
Pip Desmond will be talking about her memoir Song for Rosaleen at the first Ladies’ Litera-Tea event on 2 September. Organised by the the Women’s B...
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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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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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Ian Templeton reviews Fridays with Jim
'In exploring the life and times of Bolger through his conversations over the best part of a year, Cohen ranges widely. Besides its political conte...
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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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Ten Questions with Ian McGibbon
Q1: Why did it take so long for New Zealand to set up a diplomatic service? For a long time New Zealand was content to follow the United Kingdom’s...
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Ian McGibbon interviewed on Māori Television
Editor of New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history Ian McGibbon was recently interviewed on Māori Television to talk about this new publication. Y...
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Ten questions with Kennedy Warne
Q1: You are known for writing about a range of outdoors and environmental subjects. Why did you choose the sea for this book? In 2000, after writin...
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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 questions with Colin Monteath
Q1: You’ve visited Antarctica many times as a mountaineer and a photographer, as well as working at Scott Base. What was your role there? As the Fi...
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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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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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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
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Ten questions with 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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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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Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere in the bestsellers this week
Reading room’s bestselling book list in October featured Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen’s handsome tome Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere, and Steve Braunias...
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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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Ten Question Q&A with John Walsh
Q1: When did the work of Lance and Nicola Herbst first come to your attention? In the early 2000s, not long after Lance and Nicola set up Herbst A...
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Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra by Paul Moon
Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits: 'A very attractive book and a fascin...
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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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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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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 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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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
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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 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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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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Elizabeth Cox writes of the many surprises discovered while editing Making Space
Historian Elizabeth Cox writes on the Spinoff about the surprises she uncovered during the process of writing Making Space: A history of New Zealan...
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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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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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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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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 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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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 Jacqueline Leckie
Q1: How did the book come about? The book follows from my historical research and friendships with Indian people in Aotearoa dating back to the mi...
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10 Questions with Bridget Hackshaw
Q1: When did the idea that you should write this book first seed in your mind? I began reading, photographing and researching this subject at the...
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10 Questions with 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 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 Peter Walker, author of Hard by the Cloud House
Q1: This your fourth book and it ranges far and wide. Where did the idea for it first take seed? I was reading a newspaper one day and saw a story...
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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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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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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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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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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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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Daniel K Brown has reviewed the latest in our walking guide series by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, fo...
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Fifty Years a Feminist reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Sue Kedgley’s Fifty Years a Feminist has been reviewed by Charlotte MacDonald of Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. In the latest...
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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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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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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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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in North & South
Theo Macdonald reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for North & South: ‘Unpacking required. A photograph can tenderly trace a...
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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 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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Katie Pickles’ speech from the launch of With Them Through Hell
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War – launch held on 15 November at Scorpio Books, Christchurch. Speech gi...
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Invisible reviewed for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has reviewed Invisible: New Zealand’s history of exclu...
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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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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
Mary Macpherson reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Art New Zealand: ‘For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life...
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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 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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Read an extract from Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand
Kuriheka A winding country road from Maheno, southwest of Ōamaru in north Otago, leads to the magnificent Kuriheka woolshed. Kuriheka was originall...
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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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Extract from Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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Read an extract from 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 Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
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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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Aspiring named in Top 10 summer reads for teens
Auckland Libraries have named their Top 10 books for teens to enjoy this summer, with Aspiring making the list. Fifteen-year-old Ricky lives in As...