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Read two excerpts from Helen Beaglehole’s One Hundred Havens
Stuff has published two excerpts from author and historian Helen Beaglehole’s One Hundred Havens: The settlement of the Marlborough Sounds: ‘In 186...
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One Hundred Havens reviewed on NZ Booklovers
One Hundred Havens: The settlement of the Marlborough Sounds by Helen Beaglehole has been reviewed on NZ Booklovers by Anne Kerslake Hendricks: ...
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Helen Beaglehole on Nine to Noon
Author Helen Beaglehole first visited the Marlborough Sounds in a small yacht after a very stormy Cook Strait crossing. She returned numerous times...
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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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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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One Hundred Havens
A rich and complex story shaped by land and sea
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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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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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One Minute Crying Time reviewed — twice — on The Spinoff
‘Ewing writes that “we can only know the real plot of the story of a life, how one event led to another, in retrospect – and even then only perhaps...
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Barbara Ewing introduces One Minute Crying Time
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Audiobook version of One Minute Crying Time now available
Our first-ever audiobook is now available. Narrated by the author, acclaimed actress Barbara Ewing, One Minute Crying Time recalls her tumultuous c...
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Short | Poto
One hundred short, short stories in English and te reo Māori
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One Minute Crying Time
The dazzling memoir of one of New Zealand’s best-known actors
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The 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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ArtZone reviews Vonney Ball Ceramics
Sam Trubridge has reviewed Vonney Ball Ceramics for ArtZone magazine: ‘Helen Schamroth’s monograph on ceramicist Vonney Ball is quintessential coff...
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It Takes a Village
Where to go in one of New Zealand’s charming visitor hot-spots
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Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition
A glorious survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s best-regarded contemporary artists
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John Scott Works
A survey of the career of one of New Zealand’s most important architects
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The Front Line one of David Hill’s favourite books of 2021
David Hill has reviewed The Front Line by Glyn Harper, ‘one of New Zealand’s most significant military historians’. Listen to the review on RNZ’s N...
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Skinny Dip named one of the best kids’ books of 2021
Newsroom have named Skinny Dip one of the best kids’ books of 2021. Of the book, they write: ‘For kids who like poetry, and for those who just ha...
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Skinny Dip one of the Listener’s Top Children's Books of 2021
The New Zealand Listener has named Skinny Dip one of their Top Children’s Books of 2021: ‘“The Hypochondriac Packs”, by Freya Daly Sadgrove, is my...
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Dick Frizzell: 'I had my own private world all to myself that no one could enter'
Iconic New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell grew up as one of six kids, in a small town, where there was only room for one arty one, as he puts it. His...
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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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Downfall named one of Unity Books’ top picks
Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay is Marion’s pick in this week’s Unity Books newsletter. They say: ‘This is an historical...
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The Sun is a Star is one of the Listener’s Top Children’s Books of 2021
The Sun is a Star has appeared in New Zealand Listener’s Top Children’s Books of 2021: ‘The veteran Kiwi artist, who became hooked on the universe...
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Sylvia and the Birds is one of The Spinoff’s great, late Christmas books for kids
The Spinoff has released its great, late Christmas book guide for kids and Sylvia and the Birds by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing has made the list...
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Erebus The Ice Dragon one of the Listener’s Best Books of 2023
The New Zealand Listener has named its best books of 2023, and Colin Monteath’s illustrated history Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarct...
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10 Questions with Barbara Ewing
Q1: When did the idea for this memoir first start brewing? I had vowed always never to write any personal account concerning my life, although I h...
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Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
The history of one of New Zealand’s most important art galleries
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The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017
The one-stop-shop for the latest smart agribusiness and agrifood thinking
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Grid
The life and times of one of New Zealand’s greatest military heroes
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Raiment by Jan Kemp one of Steve Braunias’ best non-fiction books of 2022
Steve Braunias has named Jan Kemp’s memoir Raiment among his best non-fiction titles from 2022. He says: ‘Another memoir, small but perfectly forme...
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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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Me, According to the History of Art
A fast-paced romp through the history of western painting with one of New Zealand’s best-known painters
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10 Questions with David Littlewood
Now that it’s almost published, what delights you most about your book, Experience of a Lifetime? At the risk of using a cliche, I really can’t pic...
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Wanted
The detective hunt for some of this country’s most important and beautiful murals
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Agency of Hope
A century of Aucklanders helping Aucklanders
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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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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Herbst
New Zealand architecture’s new look
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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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Mark Adams
Fifty years at the forefront of photography
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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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Tūmahi Māori
Essential grammatical advice for users of te reo Māori
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Frontline Surgeon
An overlooked New Zealand medical pioneer
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Kaewa the Kororā
A delightful children’s book about little penguins
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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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Solo
Tales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealand’s backcountry
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Te Kupenga
Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand told through 101 objects
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MUP authors appearing at the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to have a number of our authors appearing at the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival: Barbara Ewing will be appearing at the Gala event,...
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Sing New Zealand
How group singing evolved from its colonial origins to today’s award-winning international choirs
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Patrick Reynolds is one of New Zealand’s best architectural photographers.
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A woman driven to photograph
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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The RNZ Cookbook
The recipe go-to for every New Zealand kitchen
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is one of New Zealand’s most eminent writers.
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Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley is a former broadcaster and Green MP
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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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Anne Noble
Anne Noble is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most widely respected contemporary photographers.
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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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Jane Ussher
Jane Ussher MNZM is one of New Zealand’s most lauded photographers.
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Lauraine Jacobs
Lauraine Jacobs MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best-known food writers.
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Robin Morrison
Robin Morrison (1944–1993) was one of New Zealand‘s most significant documentary photographers
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Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell MNZM is one of New Zealand’s best known and most versatile painters. He studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury.
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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Song for Rosaleen
Losing and finding a mother in dementia
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The Crewe Murders
A fresh look at the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe
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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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Woolsheds
Inside the historic buildings of New Zealand’s heartland
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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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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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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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Army Fundamentals
A unique insider view of the New Zealand Army
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Encountering China
Inside our relationship with a superpower
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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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On We Go
A jewel-like artist and poet collaboration about belonging to the earth
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Rooms
A lavish peek inside beautiful New Zealand homes
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Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture — Revised Edition
Seventy-nine buildings and six routes around a rebuilding city
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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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Rewi
The power of architecture to express te ao Māori and transform
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Theo Schoon
The important biography of a significant figure in New Zealand art and culture
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Felt
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
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Bordering on Miraculous
A vivid, compelling collaboration between a poet and a painter
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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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Ngātokimatawhaorua
The power of mana waka to inspire a people
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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 2022
An essential, 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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Shining Land
A unique story book for grown-ups
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Soundings
A love affair with the underwater world
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The Home Front
A fresh new look at a young nation at war
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The Sun Is a Star
An enchanting book about our galaxy by a much-loved painter
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Tree of Strangers
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery
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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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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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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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Aspiring
An engaging, funny and moving novel about a boy trying to make sense of it all
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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
Eminent writers think about a better world
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
An annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
An essential, annual collection of terrific New Zealand poetry
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The Front Line
New Zealand’s war through the lens of those who served
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The Lobster’s Tale
‘What’s the lobster’s tune when he is boiled?’
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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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The Architect and the Artists
How contemporary religious art and modernist architecture were fused
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Edith Collier
Rediscovering a remarkable woman painter
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Fearless
The fascinating and little-known story of New Zealand’s daring military aviation pioneers
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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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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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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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The Writing Life
Candid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature
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The Ones That Bit Me!
A young vet’s experiences with cows and camels
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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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Sam Brooks reviews HomeGround on the Spinoff
HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson was reviewed on the Spinoff in January. Sam Brooks writes: ‘I see HomeGround...
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10 Questions with Claire Robinson
Q1: There’s so much amazing visual material in this book. How did you amass it all? It wasn’t easy! Collecting, preserving, cataloguing and digitis...
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10 Questions with 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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James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica for takahē
James Norcliffe reviews Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd: 'I couldn’t help but gather adjectives from the first few pages of this h...
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10 Questions with Paul Moon, author of Ans Westra
Q1: For how long had you been aware of Ans Westra and what made you decide that you wanted to commit yourself to this project? I had been aware...
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I heard that the old prison was being vacated, and its remaining inm...
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Habitat by Resene chat to Rooms author Jane Ussher
Photographer Jane Ussher is well known for her ability to make even the most hesitant or nervous characters come to life in front of the camera. Fo...
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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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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: Jack Ross invited you to be the guest editor of the 2020 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Terrifying? Or a great opportunity? Dame Chri...
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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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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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Read an extract from Otherhood in Ensemble magazine
Ensemble has featured Lil O’Brien's essay ‘Our American fertility dream’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent ed...
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10 Questions with David Cohen
Q1: How would you describe this book? It’s not a biography and nor is it a ghost-written memoir. So what is it? A conversational memoir. In the obv...
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Martin Edmond reviews the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht on Newsroom
Martin Edmond has reviewed the revised edition of Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe on ReadingRoom: ‘In the European t...
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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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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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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 launched at Devonport Library
The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 was launched in style last night at Devonport Library. Associate Professor Bryan Walpert’s opening speech is r...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
Peter Bale has reviewed New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, in North & South: Breakfast: Our Most Diplomatic Meal...
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‘The big questions’: an extract from The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
I grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand. Fifty years ago, the conversations I overheard in my parents’ kitchen were about droughts, the difficulty...
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10 Questions with 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 the editors of Otherhood
Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. Her debut essaycollection, Ithaca, was published in 2023. Lil O’Brien (she/her) i...
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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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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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10 Questions with Chris Price and Bruce Foster
Q1: Was it an immediate ‘yes!’ when ‘kōrero series’ mastermind Lloyd Jones asked whether you’d like to work together on this? BF: When Lloyd phoned...
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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
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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 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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Erebus author Colin Monteath interviewed for Stuff
The moment that drove Colin Monteath to write a book about Mt Erebus, the mercurial Antarctic volcano, came in 1978. That was the year he first inf...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
1. How did you arrive at the idea of this book? I thought about writing a textbook on New Zealand religious history, and it seemed to me a very du...
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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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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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10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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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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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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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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10 Questions with Elizabeth Cox
Q1: This is a major project, and you already had a big day job! Where did the idea come from, and how did you keep driving yourself forward on it...
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Ans Westra reviewed on 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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Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
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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 Nigel Robson
Q1: Has the South African War 1899-1902 been overlooked in our history? While the war itself has not been overlooked, it has long existed in the sh...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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 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 Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me!
Q1: Being a vet — one of the best jobs in the world? Sorry to go all Charles Dickens on you: it’s the best and the worst. It depends entirely on th...
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Extract from The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories by Marcus Taylor
IT ALL BEGAN WITH A TURKEY. We stood eye-to-eye, locked in a toddler–bird standoff. I was three years old, so we were of equal intelligence, but th...
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Massey News reviews The Ones That Bit Me! by Marcus Taylor
Massey News reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories: ‘From the very first page, it’s evident Ma...
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Jessica Hutchings, author of Pātaka Kai, interviewed on bFM
Jessica Hutchings, one of the authors of Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty is interviewed by Beth for 95bFM. You can listen here.
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The Ones That Bit Me! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Marcus Taylor’s book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories for NZ Booklovers: ‘In his hilarious heartwa...
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Marcus Taylor, author of The Ones That Bit Me!, interviewed on Bookenz
Morrin Rout talks to Marcus Taylor about his book The Ones That Bit Me! Camels cows and other young-vet stories on Bookenz, a weekly programme that...
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Experience of a Lifetime: David Littlewood on Radio NZ
Experience of a Lifetime examines the experiences of individuals, from high command leaders to ordinary soldiers, in WWI. Dr David Littlewood is...
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RNZ Cookbook editor Kathy Paterson talks with Morrin Rout on Bookenz
Kathy Paterson, one of the editors of The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers, recently ch...
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Urgent Moments’ Amber Clausner interviewed on RNZ
One of the co-editors of Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 by Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram and Amber Clausne...
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The Spinoff best books of 2018
The Spinoff has named Theo Shcoon: A Biography by Damian Skinner as one of the best books of 2018: ‘The best picture book of 2018. That’s on accoun...
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10 Questions with Ken Downie
Q1: Where did the idea of this book come from? This is one of the many book ideas I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. It’s sort of an homag...
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Cartography Is Here — review essay of We Are Here
Igor Drecki reviews We Are Here for the International Journal of Cartography. ‘Originality is one of the prevailing strengths of the atlas, which m...
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Gretchen Albrecht reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Gretchen Albrecht Revised Edition: Between gesture and geometry by Luke Smythe for Waiheke Weekender: ‘An absolutely sumptuo...
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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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How to Die by Jo Randerson: An extract from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
How to Die: Thoughts on life and death As a child, I was fixated on images of the remains of inhabitants at Pompeii. Their final moments as the hea...
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Solving an art history mystery
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith talks to Kathryn Ryan from RNZ’s Nine to Noon programme about her work uncovering the murals of E. Mervyn Taylor, including...
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Congratulations to MUP author
Congratulations to Massey University Press author Dr Kathryn Hay (Social Work in Aotearoa) of Massey University’s School of Social Work, who has be...
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Landfall reviews Theo Schoon: A biography
Read Laurence Simmons’ review of Theo Schoon: A Biography. ‘Émigré artist Theo Schoon, whose life intersected with important cultural moments in Ne...
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Landfall reviews Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry
Read Robyn Maree Pickens’ review of Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry. ‘Gretchen Albrecht: Between gesture and geometry has the heft...
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Robyn Salisbury talks to RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan
Clinical psychologist Robyn Salisbury, author of Free to be Children: Preventing child sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand, talks to Kathryn Ryan...
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Jordan Hamel reviews Felt
‘One of this collection’s strengths is its ability to give Emeney’s stories room to breathe. The poet and publisher seem to understand where the re...
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Chris Reed reviews The Sun Is a Star
Chris Reed reviews The Sun Is a Star for NZ Booklovers: ‘One may be surprised at what can be learned from this book. The level of research and the...
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Philippa Prentice reviews Conversātiō
Philippa Prentice reviews Conversātiō for Home Style: ‘Could this book be any more magical? Its author, Anne Noble, is one of Aotearoa’s preeminent...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide appears in the Listener
Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds received a mention in the Listener this month: ‘Given walking guides to...
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Jane Ussher on Nine to Noon
Jane Ussher knows a great room when she sees one. Over the years she has shot interiors ranging from Shackleton’s Antarctic huts to highly specifie...
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The Mixtape with Dick Frizzell
Picking the music is one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated and recognisable artists. From reimagining the Four Square man to exploring Māori iconograp...
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Read an excerpt from High Wire
HIGH WIRE LLOYD JONES EUAN MACLEOD I’d written to Euan Macleod proposing a project about bridges. He replied enthusiastically — and, over t...
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Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go
Kiri Piahana-Wong reviews On We Go for Kete. ‘Poetry as a genre sings out for accompanying artwork and the superlative treatment a hardcove...
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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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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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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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The Forgotten Coast reviewed in Landfall
Landfall has published a comparative review by Rachel Smith of Richard Shaw’s memoir The Forgotten Coast and David Young’s Wai Pasifika: Indigenous...
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Read an extract of Rooms by Jane Ussher and John Walsh on Kete
Kete has published an extract of Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors by Jane Ussher and John Walsh: ‘The things in a room, as Jane...
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The Crewe Murders co-author Kirsty Johnston profiled in Taranaki Daily News
‘A former Taranaki Daily News reporter has co-written a book on one of New Zealand’s most fascinating cold case. Kirsty Johnston, who now works for...
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An interview with Shadow Worlds’ Fiona Pardington, Andrew Paul Wood and Megan van Staden
‘When one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading photographic artists provides an image for the cover of a book, it’s bound to be striking; when that bo...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 reviewed on Poetry Shelf
Paula Green reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter for Poetry Shelf: ‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 24 is again edited by Tra...
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The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
The paintings that Whanganui painter Edith Collier created in England 100 years ago remain to this day, utterly fresh. At that time, there was no o...
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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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Nick Allen — Mastering Mountains, RNZ interview
As a child, Nick Allen had a map of Mount Everest pinned to the ceiling above his bed. It was always his dream to one day climb it. But after he de...
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Sunday Star-Times reviews Wanted
The Sunday Star-Times’ Rosa Shiels makes a salient point in her review of Wanted: The search for the modernist murals of E. Mervyn Taylor: ‘In high...
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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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Dame Lois Muir talks to RNZ’s Jim Mora
Dame Lois Muir is one of the netball greats who features in the recently released Will to Win. Dame Lois played in the first netball World Cup in 1...
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High Wire reviewed by Sally Blundell
‘In High Wire, Jones the writer and Macleod the artist engage in a long conversation, each provoking the other, reaching out, edging along this unc...
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Kete reviews Kaewa the Kororā
Dionne Christian and Zoe Gadd round up new New Zealand children’s books for Kete: ‘At the National Aquarium of New Zealand in Napier, the rehabilit...
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Paula Green reviews Sylvia and the Birds for Poetry Box
Paula Green has reviewed Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing’s new book Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can...
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Shadow Worlds reviewed in Stuff
Andrew Paul Wood’s fascinating new book Shadow Worlds: A history of the occult and esoteric in New Zealand has been reviewed on Stuff by Philip Mat...
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Ziggle! reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviewed Ziggle! The Len Lye art activity book for the 14 September Waiheke Weekender. ‘An art activity book with ideas inspired by...
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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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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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The Architect and the Artists appears in UoA’s Special Collections Twenty at 20
Author Bridget Hackshaw discovered two stained-glass window designs by artist Colin McCahon during her research for her prize-winning book, The Arc...
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Raiment by Jan Kemp reviewed on Newsroom
Steve Braunias from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp. ‘We think of Rosemary McLeod, rightly, as one of New Zealand's great prose...
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Paula Green reviews The RNZ Cookbook on NZ Poetry Shelf
Paula Green has reviewed The RNZ Cookbook: A treasury of 180 recipes from New Zealand’s best-known chefs and food writers edited by David Cohen and...
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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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Robert Oliver on Lady Sunday Club’s Kitchen Confessional
Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution cookbook, answers some questions and supplies a tasty recipe for Lady S...
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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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10 Questions with Andrew Colarik
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Cyber Security and Policy: A Substantive Dialogue? Two things in particular please me about...
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10 Questions with Lloyd Jones
Q1: This is the first title in a planned ‘kōrero series’ of books. What’s the idea here? A conversation across craft and discipline between artist...
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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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A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha reviewed on Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Pamela Morrow has reviewed A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle...
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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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10 Questions with Robyn Salisbury
Q1: One doesn’t have to read too far into this book to see that it has been a passion project for you. What’s driven you? I was compelled to produc...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
Q1: You’ve got a really big day job at the Herald and so accepting the invitation to write this book must have given you pause. Why did you decide...
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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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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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A Meeting of Cultures
World War I is widely perceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors and elites pushed naive young...
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Lloyd Jones on the kōrero series of ‘picture books for grownups’
Following the release of Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, Lloyd Jones spoke with Stuff about his process as editor of th...
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The Crewe Murders profiled in the Readingroom newsletter
Steve Braunias has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s most infamous cold case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings in the Readingroo...
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Almas Sadique reviews Making Space for STIRworld magazine
Almas Sadique recently reviewed Elizabeth Cox’s Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture for the architecture, design and art m...
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10 Questions with Adam Claasen
1. Is this a book you’ve long been wanting to write? I actually had plans for something completely different until I was made aware that the peopl...
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Corpus reviews Song for Rosaleen
Sue Wootton at Corpus reviews Pip Desmond's memoir Song for Rosaleen. 'A memoir, by definition, is composed of memories. It is almost unbearably po...
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Poetry alive and in progress
Laine Moger at Stuff.co.nz reports back from the launch of the 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: ‘A collection of new poetry has been metaphoricall...
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EyeContact reviews Theo Schoon
Andrew Paul Wood at EyeContact reviews Theo Schoon: A Biography. ‘So many people, including myself, have wandered down the rabbit hole of trying to...
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Gretchen Albrecht launch at Auckland Art Gallery
Join us at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki on Tuesday, 9 April to launch Gretchen Albrecht: between gesture and geometry. Gretchen Albrecht C...
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Sarah Ell reviews Endless Sea
‘Endless Sea has been assembled by an all-star pairing: former Metro feature writer and now in-house scribe for the museum, Frances Walsh, and one...
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Gregor Thompson gives a shining review of Tree of Strangers
Gregor Thompson reviews Barbara Sumner’s evocative memoir, Tree of Strangers: ‘Tree of Strangers is Barbara Sumner’s first literary work. Her newl...
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Melody Thomas interviews Sue Kedgley and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine
Melody Thomas sits down to interview Sue Kedgely and Nicola Willis for Capital Magazine. ‘When Sue Kedgley was sworn in to parliament in 1999 arou...
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NZ Booklovers reviews The Front Line
‘There are spectacular images of the air force in action, as well as naval warfare. In one photo, there is a confronting image of a flying officer...
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Paula Green reviews The Sun Is a Star
Paula Green reviews The Sun Is a Star for NZ Poetry Box: ‘Dick Frizzell’s The Sun Is a Star is a dazzling book, which is just what you want in a bo...
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David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast
David Hill reviews The Forgotten Coast for Kete: ‘Years back, Elizabeth Smither and I wrote a book about our home province of Taranaki. Around that...
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30 Queer Lives contributor Andy Davies interviewed for BusinessDesk
Andy Davies, who features in 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been interviewed for BusinessDesk. ‘I found my attracti...
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Jan Kemp talks to Kim Hill about Raiment: A Memoir
Kim Hill has interviewed Jan Kemp about her new memoir, Raiment on RNZ’s Saturday Morning. ‘Jan Kemp burst onto the New Zealand poetry scene in the...
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North & South reviews Bordering on Miraculous
A review of poet Lynley Edmeades and artist Saskia Leek’s collaboration Bordering on Miraculous has appeared in North & South’s May issue: ‘The...
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ANZL reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Ian Wedde has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek, the latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones. ‘At firs...
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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on Ako
Jody Anderson has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can, too by Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing....
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Soundings reviewed in The Booklover newsletter
Independent bookshop The Booklover has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s memoir Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea: ‘For the past 40 years,...
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Living Between Land and Sea author Jane Robertson talks to Jesse Mulligan on RNZ
Author Jane Robertson spoke to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons about her new book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbou...
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023 reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Hamesh Wyatt reviews recent work for the Otago Daily Times' poetry roundup: 'New Zealand’s longest-running poetry journal is into its 57th edition....
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A genius in pink jandals: Rewi Thompson, the Māori architect who shocked his neighbours
He was one of the boldest and most influential Māori architects, whose outfits were as eye-catching as his buildings. A new book captures his cre...
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Herbst: Architecture in context reviewed in Architecture Now
Sean Flanagan reviews Herbst: Architecture in context by John Walsh for Architecture Now: ‘Recently published by Massey University Press, the book...
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10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
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10 Questions with David Straight
Can you remember the moment you knew you wanted to create a book about John Scott? I had been thinking of a book on John Scott for a few months pri...
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10 Questions with Chris McDowall and Tim Denee
Q1: We Are Here is off to print! Do you feel exhilaration or exhaustion? TD: Both! There’s also some trepidation — for better or worse, it’s out o...
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10 Questions with Susette Goldsmith
Q1: Had editing this sort of book, one that argues for trees, been on your mind for quite some time? Yes. My research interest is natural heritage...
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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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Vasanti Unka reviews On We Go
‘This little book, on we go, with its title in lower case as if it’s making a quiet announcement, takes me home to the countryside of fields and sm...
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Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom
Rajorshi Chakraborti reviews Invisible for Newsroom: ‘Anyone with an Indian passport resident in New Zealand would be familiar with one absurdity t...
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Eye of the Fish reviews Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide
John Walsh and Patrick Reynold’s latest book in the architecture series Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide has been reviewed on Eye of the Fi...
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Rooms reviewed in HOME magazine
Federico Monsalve has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s newest book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors in HOME: ‘People with...
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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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Downfall reviewed on Landfall
Triumphantly juxtaposing Edwardian Whanganui and Weimar Berlin in granular detail by retailing the life experiences of an apparently minor historic...
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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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Ziggle! reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Ziggle! The Len Lye activity book by Rebecca Fawkner has been reviewed on NZ Booklovers: ‘There are hours of creative fun to be had, for children...
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Vaughan Rapatahana analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Read a Poem
Vaughan Rapatahana, editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand analyses All day on Ma’uke by Rob Hack for How to Re...
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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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Dick Frizzell interviewed in Hawkes Bay Today
Jack Riddell interviews Dick Frizzell, author of Hastings: A boy’s own adventure for Hawkes Bay Today: ‘One of Hastings' favourite sons has created...
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10 Questions with Noel O’Hare
Q1: What drew you to write about this subject? I was researching material for the Public Service Association’s centenary celebrations and I became...
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Read a review and extract of HomeGround on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson. ‘For many years the crowds milling outside...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017? I think the thing I like best about it is the number of y...
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‘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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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 Jack Ross
Another Poetry New Zealand Yearbook is off to print. What are the strengths of the 2019 edition? I think this may well be the issue I’m proudest o...
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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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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 Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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10 Questions with Thom Conroy
1. When you first started thinking about this collection, what was your hope for it? What I wanted from Home was to be surprised — to be shown new...
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The Crewe Murders reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Dan Eady reviews The Crewe Murders by Kirsty Johnston & James Hollings: 'The 1970 killing of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmho...
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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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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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Edith Collier reviewed in takahē
Jenny Partington reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson for takahē: ‘Edith Collier:...
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Read an extract from Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell
24: AIN’T GONNA WORK ON MCINNES’S FARM NO MORE I know that the name Frizzell comes from the Fraser clan, so maybe that had some part in how Dad li...
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10 Questions with Nick Allen
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about To the Summit? Most definitely the photos — they look great! In part, this thrill comes from...
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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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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. What’s the focus of this year’s edition of The New Zealand Land & Food Annual? This year we’ve focused on food, and more specifically the ‘...
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
1. Now the book is back from the printer, are you pleased with it? Yes! The cover looks great and is attracting a lot of interest but, more than th...
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10 Questions wth Glyn Harper
1. In a nutshell, what were the battles of El Alamein, and in what way were they the turning point in the war? Three battles were fought on the El...
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Massey Press authors appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to announce that four Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival, taking place from 15–20 M...
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City Art Depot lists Theo Schoon biography as top art book of 2018
The City Art Depot has included Damian Skinner’s Theo Schoon: A Biography as one of its top 5 art books of 2018: ‘Probably the most important art b...
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Acclaimed author Peter Wells on finding friends in the isolation of illness
Anneke Smith at Hawke’s Bay Today talks to Peter Wells: Reading Peter Wells’ posts about living with cancer is not as morbid or frightening as one...
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Read an extract from Song for Rosaleen
Stuff.co.nz features an extract of Pip Desmond’s memoir Song for Rosaleen: This extract from Pip Desmond’s new book Song for Rosaleen is an unflinc...
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10 Questions with Luke Smythe
Q1: This wonderful book has the most lovely subtitle: Between Gesture and Geometry. Could you explain why it’s so fitting? Most abstract painters f...
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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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An extract from Bill & Shirley
'Bill’s last year, the end of his journey, was a catastrophe. In the spring of 1974 he was arrested and charged with an offence under the Official...
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10 Questions with Jeff Evans
Q1: What first drew you to the subject of traditional wayfinding and voyaging? I had met several of the Pwo navigators while writing the biography...
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Phillida Bunkle reviews Fifty Years a Feminist
Phillida Bunkle reviews Sue Kedgley‘s memoir Fifty Years a Feminist for Newsroom. ‘Sue Kedgley has earned her uncontested place as one of New Zeal...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: What stands out most for you about this book? The range and quality of the photographs we were able to find: from a Nazi victory parade in Wars...
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Kids Books NZ reviews Skinny Dip
‘One of the (many) joys of reviewing, is never knowing just what treasure lies waiting inside the courier package. These treasures are sometimes on...
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Sarah Catherall interviews Anne Noble for Woman magazine
Sarah Catherall interviews Anne Noble for Woman magazine: ‘Renowned Kiwi photographer Anne Noble is generating plenty of buzz with her recent work....
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On We Go reviewed in Ako Journal
Ako Journal has reviewed On We Go, the first collaboration between poet Jane Sayle and artist Catherine Bagnall. Sarah Barnett writes: ‘A collabora...
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Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris
Read NZ Q&A with Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry b...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews The Architect and the Artist
‘One of the highlights of the 2020 exhibition “A Place to Paint” at the Auckland Art Gallery was Colin McCahon’s restored windows which had origina...
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Rachel Buchanan reviews The Forgotten Coast
Rachel Buchanan reviews The Forgotten Coast for the Spinoff: ‘The Forgotten Coast is heartfelt, poetic; a pleasure to read. I really like Richard’...
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10 Questions with 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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Read an extract from Sylvia and the Birds on Newsroom
‘Newly rescued birds were always a bit skittish, so I kept them in this dark shelter. The ones who’d been with me a while enjoyed their playground...
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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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Waiheke Weekender reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘Hailed as a ‘part graphic biography, part practical guide to protecting our bird wildlife’, this engrossing book is filled with factoids – includi...
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BikesportNZ.com calls Kiwi Bikers a ‘must-have for any collection’
BikesportNZ.com has called Ken Downie’s book Kiwi Bikers: 85 New Zealanders and their motorbikes a ‘must-have for any collection’ in their latest r...
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Listen to Jesse Mulligan read his foreword to The RNZ Cookbook
‘Some of the country's top chefs and food writers have contributed to RNZ's culinary heritage, which is now the inspiration for a new cookbook. It...
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Listen to an interview with Making Space editor Elizabeth Cox on RadioActive
‘The hidden history of women and architecture in New Zealand is one that, until very recently, has been a story full of prejudice and bias. Pioneer...
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Sunday Best reviewed in Toi Motu magazine
Toi Motu InterIslands magazine featured a review of Peter Lineham’s Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealand shaped the churc...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed on Kete
Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie is reviewed on Kete: ‘Don’t be put off by th...
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Shock and awe: The ‘harsh, dangerous’ reality of wartime surgery
A new book, Frontline Surgeon, tells the story of Kiwi Doug Jolly, one of the most influential and highly-regarded war surgeons of the 20th century...
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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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Country calendar: Woolsheds, in Newsroom
Steve Braunias reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for ReadingRoom: ‘Milki...
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in New Zealand Journal of Public History
Emma Jean-Kelly reviews Old Black Cloud: A culture history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand for New Zealand Journal of Public History:...
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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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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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Jenny Nicholls reviews 30 Queer Lives for the Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls has reviewed Matt McEvoy’s book 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the Waiheke Weekender: ‘I loved this...
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
Cathie Dunsford from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp, an account of her growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s...
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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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Simon Bridges reviews New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history for Newsroom
Simon Bridges recently reviewed Ian McGibbon’s ‘compendious, 564-page, multi-authored volume’ New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history on Newsroom:...
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Soundings reviewed by Ingrid Horrocks for New Zealand Geographic
Ingrid Horrocks has reviewed Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea for New Zealand Geographic: ‘THIS IS KENNEDY Warne’s memoir of a li...
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Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
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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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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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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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10 Questions with Andrew Cameron
1. Now that it is published, what pleases you most about your book? Many times when I have recounted stories to various people, about some of the s...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw
Q1: Readers of The Conversation will know your pieces of commentary and observation but a book such as The Forgotten Coast, with its elements of me...
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
Q1: Why go solo? For me a big part of the joy of tramping is attempting things you think might be (too) hard. If you’re lured by the challenge, it...
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Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
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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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Extract from The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere
This book is about three adjoining Auckland suburbs — Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere — and the people who have lived here. As in all suburbs, th...
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10 Questions with Jack Ross
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018? I’m happy with the feature: the poems, interview and essa...
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10 Questions with Deborah Shepard
1. It must be good to see The Writing Life sent off to print. It’s a strange feeling letting go of a manuscript that has occupied your every waking...
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10 Questions with Glyn Harper
Q1: Four years ago you published the very successful Johnny Enzed, the story of the New Zealand soldiers who signed up with the New Zealand Expedit...
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10 Questions with Cliff Simons
Q1: The New Zealand Wars, the Land Wars, the Māori Wars — these nineteenth-century conflicts have had a few name changes, as well as changing ideas...
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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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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Fresh perspectives on experiences of WWI
The First World War has been thoroughly documented over the past 100 years. But there is scope for deeper understandings of New Zealanders’ experie...
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10 Questions with Pip Desmond
1. Why did you want to write this book? To help me make sense of looking after Mum through the heartbreak that is dementia, and to find her again....
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10 Questions with Anna Rogers
1. How does it feel now that With Them Through Hell has gone to print? A mixture of relief and slight anxiety that I’ve done a good job, but more o...
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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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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
Q1: What prompted you to write the book? I was asked to take on the commission a while ago now, back in 2013. It appealed to me because I have long...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Jack Ross has passed on the torch and you are now the editor of the venerable Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Exciting? An exhilarating honour (an...
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Damien Wilkins’ launch speech for On We Go
On We Go was launched at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, on Monday 15 March by Damien Wilkins. I’m very happy to say a few words about this gorgeous,...
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10 Questions with Lauraine Jabobs
Q1: It’s been 13 years since your last book on the Matakana region was published. What made you want to write a new version of it? The development...
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10 Questions with Matt McEvoy
Q1: This is your second book, and so you did know before you began that being an author is not the easiest gig in town. Why did you decide to do it...
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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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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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The Forgotten Coast reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Georgina White has reviewed Richard Shaw’s memoir, The Forgotten Coast for the New Zealand Journal of History: ‘This is an elegant, thought-provok...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on Newsroom
Read an extract from Hinemoana Baker's essay ‘Kingfisher’ from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Be...
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Ans Westra reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A gentle biography of the photographer who took some...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Reid’s Reader
Nicholas Reid reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie on Reid’s Reader: ‘Jac...
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Ans Westra reviewed on Landfall
Max Oettli reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon: ‘Everyone seems to have an Ans Westra story to tell. Mine involves Westra swear...
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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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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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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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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
Q1: How long after The Forgotten Coast was published did the idea of this book come to you? Pretty quickly. More or less immediately after The Fo...
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10 Questions with Shiloh Groot
1. Why did you all want to write this book? Because knowledge shouldn’t be hoarded by elite individuals. Because we want to share the stories of...
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10 Questions with Steve Duffin and Bill Fish
1. What is critical thinking? Critical thinking seems to mean something different to lots of people. I take it to be a careful and detailed analysi...
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10 Questions with Peter Wells
1. Why did you want to write this book? Dear Oliver was a book that had been in my mind for years, and the time arrived to write it. 2. It’s the...
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Short Story Club – 1 November
BUTTERFLY SMITH 1987 The first time they lost Butterfly was in the Auckland railway station. One moment he was standing there guarding the shabby...
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10 Questions with Frances Walsh
Q1: Choosing 100 objects from a large museum collection is no easy task for an author. Did it help that at the time the book project started you ha...
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
Q1: The subject is a wide-ranging one and the book covers a lot of ground. Who do you see as the target reader? The target readers are high schoo...
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10 Questions with Mark Revington
Q1: You’ve had the privilege of helping Mark Solomon write a book that reflects on his life and on key issues. Was it your idea, and why? Both Tā...
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Don Abbott reviews The Lobster’s Tale in Art New Zealand
Don Abbott, deputy editor of Art New Zealand, has reviewed The Lobster's Tale in the Summer ‘22 issue. ‘The cover of The Lobster’s Tale provides a...
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Soundings reviewed on Kete
Gem Wilder has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s memoir, Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea, on Kete: ‘That feeling you get when you read th...
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Soundings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter has reviewed Kennedy Warne’s Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea on NZ Booklovers: ‘In Soundings, Kennedy Warne celebrate...
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HomeGround reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Bill McKay has reviewed Simon Wilson’s HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives in Architecture New Zealand: ‘Auckland City Mission’s...
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Lama Tone reviews Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere for Kete
‘Waiho rā kia tū takitahi ana ngā whetū o te rangi / Let it be one alone that stands among the other stars in the sky (Alsop & Kupenga) In Poly...
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Otherhood editors interviewed on RNZ's Nine to Noon
On RNZ's Nine to Noon, Kathryn Ryan discusses Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent with editors Alie Benge, Lil O’Bri...
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Read an extract from Otherhood on the Spinoff
Read an extract from Lily Duval's essay from Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien a...
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Read an extract from Frontline Surgeon in the Otago Daily Times
A new book by Mark Derby tells the remarkable story of Cromwell-raised surgeon Doug Jolly. The following extract describes his work during in the S...
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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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Hastings reviewed in Kete
Peter Simpson reviews Hastings: A boy's own adventure by Dick Frizzell for Kete: ‘'An element which runs through all of Frizzell’s multiple activi...
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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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10 Questions with Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging? Perhaps it’s the ‘thingness’ of the book itself – we...
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10 Questions with 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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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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Three brilliant reviews of The Writing Life
Lesley Vlietstra has reviewed The Writing Life, by Deborah Shepard, for the Booksellers NZ blog: ‘There are so many things to like about this book,...
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The Monday Extract on The Spinoff
An excerpt from Pip Desmond’s best-selling memoir about her mother’s descent into dementia. I read about a hairdresser who had three customers pas...
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10 Questions with Lana McCarthy, Andy Martin and Geoff Watson
Q1: Netball is hugely popular in New Zealand. What is it that has made it such a favourite of New Zealand girls and women? AM: Traditionally netbal...
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
Tooth and Veil NOEL O'HARE Introduction Shop assistants working along the ‘golden mile’ in Wellington had witnessed many marches down Lambton...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Q1: You’ve written many books and are well acquainted with the highs and lows of the authorial life. But was this one just a bit different? It is d...
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Lloyd Jones‘s launch speech for Shining Land
Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde was launched in Auckland on 11 November 2020. Lloyd Jones had the following to say: Writing is an act of dis...
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Newsroom reviews Christchurch Architecture
‘It’s a very ordinary scene in New Zealand’s second or third largest city, and most of us barely notice the architectural wonder around us. The Hin...
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Mike Houlahan reviews Our First Foreign War
Mike Houlahan reviews Our First Foreign War for Otago Daily Times, 19 June 2021. ‘In the introduction to this excellent book, Nigel Robson sets out...
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10 Questions with Susan Paris and Kate De Goldi
Q1: What’s the thinking behind this great new project? We noticed there was very little poetry being published for younger readers. Original, conte...
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David Hill reviews The Front Line
‘What are the great war photos? Alexander Gardner’s rag bundles of Confederate dead after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. Capra’s Republican infantrym...
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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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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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NZ Booklovers reviews Bordering on Miraculous
Chris Reed has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous, the fourth and latest in our kōrero series edited by Lloyd Jones, for NZ Booklovers. She says of t...
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Linda Herrick reviews Bordering on Miraculous for Kete
A review of Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek’s collaboration Bordering on Miraculous has appeared in Kete. It’s the fourth in the kōrero series, edi...
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New Zealand’s Foreign Service reviewed in North & South
New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A history, edited by Ian McGibbon, was reviewed in North & South’s September book reviews. Paul Little says: ‘Th...
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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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Proof: Two decades of printmaking reviewed on Kete
Proof: Two decades of printmaking by Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand has been reviewed on Kete. Peter Simpson says: ‘These are times when, on th...
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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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Sylvia and the Birds reviewed on the Christchurch library blog
One of the Christchurch librarians, Bronwen Knowles, has reviewed Sylvia and the Birds: How The Bird Lady saved thousands of birds and how you can,...
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NZ Booklovers reviews the South Island of New Zealand From the Road
Lyn Potter has reviewed Robin Morrison’s The South Island of New Zealand From the Road, which was republished this month in a new edition. She says...
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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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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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John Daly-Peoples reviews Ngātokimatawhaorua for New Zealand Arts Review
Anyone who has attended the ceremonies around the annual Waitangi Day commemorations will have seen the massive waka Ngātokimatawhaorua which is la...
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On We Go review on Volume NZ
On We Go is a beautiful book, in design and content. This collaboration between artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle is a whimsical dreamsc...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Jane Robertson's most recent book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on N...
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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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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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Urgent Moments reviewed on Kete
Graham Reid has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber...
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Little Doomsdays reviewed in the Otago Daily Times
Laura Borrowdale has reviewed Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson in the Otago Daily Times: ‘Reading Little Doomsdays is a meditative act....
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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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Little Doomsday reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Laura Borrowdale reviews Little Doomsdays by Nic Low & Phil Dadson: 'Reading Little Doomsdays is a meditative act. The looping series of stori...
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10 Questions with 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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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
Q1: In a nutshell, what is Pacific Island Food Revolution all about? Pacific Island Food Revolution uses the power of reality TV, radio and socia...
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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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Book launch brings hero’s tale to light
Medals and mayoral chains were on show to honour the "coming home" of one of Cromwell’s own last week. The official launch of Wellington author Mar...
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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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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for Waiheke Weekender:...
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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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Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books reviews Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
The ‘Almost Legendary Wanganui Artist’. That description, by the then-director of the National Art Gallery Stewart MacLennan, was made in a 1956 re...
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Read an extract from The Dark Dad by Mary Kisler
In 1985, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. I took him to the hospital for surgery, and was allowed to sit with him before he was wheeled in...
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10 Question Q&A with Sarah Farrar
Q1: This book is linked to a comprehensive survey of Mark Adams’s work at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Not every living artist gets a survey....
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You Are Here reviewed in Aotearoa NZ Review of Books
Kelly Ana Morey reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for Aotearoa NZ Review of Books: ‘You Are Here is the sixth book in the kōr...
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You Are Here reviewed in NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for NZ Booklovers: ‘In You Are Here, Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin craft a deep...
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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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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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10 Questions with 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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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
Q1: How do you define ‘active citizenship’? We purposefully define ‘active citizenship’ broadly so as to accommodate a diversity of approaches a...
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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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10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
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10 Questions with 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 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 Paul Spoonley
Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Rebooting the Regions? The fact that we are focusing on a key political and policy issue — the...
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Grey Is a Feminist Issue — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Grey Is a Feminist Issue Claire Robinson 2015 was the year grey hair went mainstream. What started in the noughties as the street-fashion trend ‘...
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10 Questions with William Hoverd
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about National Security: Challenges, Trends and Issues? We really like the cover. We tried to use...
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10 Questions with James Hollings
1. When you first started thinking about this collection of investigative journalism, what was your hope for it?I teach a course on investigative j...
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10 Questions with Anne Ridler
1. How long have you had an association with this somewhat venerable book? Dave and Neil wrote the first edition together and I helped revise the s...
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10 Questions with Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher
1. You’ve travelled from north to south to create this book. Was that a pleasure? DC: A privilege, a pleasure, and hard work. JU: The spectacular l...
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10 Questions with Adrienne Jansen
Q1: Taking over another writer’s book is not an easy task. Which aspect did you find most challenging? I’d been working with Guy intensively on thi...
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10 Questions with 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 Tracey Slaughter
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this time for 2022. How many poems were submitted? The submission screen went on for mil...
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The New Zealand Listener reviews 30 Queer Lives
Andrew Paul Wood has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the New Zealand Listener. You can read the full review...
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Our First Foreign War reviewed by Peter Wood for the New Zealand Journal of History
Peter Wood has reviewed Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899–1902 on New Zealand for the New Zealand Journal of History....
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10 Questions with Jane Ussher
Q1: This is a major project. How long did it take? About two years actually taking the photographs but the idea behind the book has been developing...
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10 Questions with Paul Diamond
Q1: This book has been a long quest for you. When did you first get become interested in the Charles Mackay story? Downfall began in 2004 when I wa...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: This is a revised edition of a book first published in 2020. Why another edition so soon, and what’s new about it? When the first edition of t...
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Read an interview with David Cohen, editor of the RNZ Cookbook
David Cohen, editor of The RNZ Cookbook along with Kathy Paterson, was recently interviewed on Stuff: David Cohen is a Wellington-based journalist...
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Ten questions with Rebecca Fawkner
Q1: You teach school children in an amazing place — the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth. What five adjectives would you use to describe the emotiona...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 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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Encountering China reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Bolin Hu reviews Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Brian Moloughney and Duncan Campbell: ENCOUNTERING CHINA...
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10 Questions with Tracey Slaughter, editor of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
Q1: Another bumper edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 123 new poems by 102 poets. How many poems were submitted? A jaw-dropping amount — we...
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The Unsettled reviewed on Landfall
Rowan Light reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw: ‘Aotearoa New Zealand, like the Arthurian setting of Kazuo Ishigu...
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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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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 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Health and History
Neil Pollock reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Health and History: ‘This is a superbly written...
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The Near West reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Paul Moon reviews The Near West: A history of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘OF THE DIFFEREN...
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‘A Leader in the Making’: an extract from Experience of a Lifetime
Lindsay Inglis joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in April 1915 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant, and spent the entire war as an o...
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10 questions with Andrea Bennett, Jenny Parry and Carolyn Wirth
1. Now that it’s been published, what pleases you most about the Fundamentals of Finance? That it is much improved and up-to-date. 2. It’s been m...
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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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Conversātiō: a photo essay for Shepherdess
A beautiful photo essay has appeared in Shepherdess featuring images and an extract from Conversātiō: In the Company of Bees: ‘Upon starting her ow...
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Poetry Shelf review: Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek’s Bordering on the Miraculous
Paula Green has reviewed Bordering on Miraculous on NZ Poetry Shelf. ‘Great title, inviting cover! Bordering on Miraculous is the fourth contributi...
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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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Solo reviewed in the Otago Daily Times
Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips has been reviewed in the Otago Daily Times. Reviewer David Barnes says: ‘P...
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Massey University Press titles shortlisted in 2023 Booklovers Awards
Three Massey University Press titles have been shortlisted in the Booklovers Awards for 2023. HomeGround: The story of a building that changes live...
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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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Paul Diamond interviewed by the Whanganui Chronicle about Downfall's Ockham shortlisting
The Whanganui Chronicle recently interviewed author Paul Diamond about his book Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay, which is shortlisted i...
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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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Little Doomsdays reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson has been reviewed in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. It’s the fifth in the kōrero series edited b...
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Ziggle! reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Ziggle!: The Len Lye art activity book by Rebecca Fawkner on New Zealand Arts Review: ‘“Ziggle! The Len Lye Art Acti...
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Rebecca Fawkner interviewed on Kete Books
Rebecca Fawkner is a teacher and has worked at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth for 20 years. She has just compiled one of the most...
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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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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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Otherhood reviewed on Capsule
Capsule talks to the editors behind the new essay book, Otherhood: Essays On Being Childless, Childfree & Child Adjacent about expanding the co...
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Hard by the Cloud House reviewed for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
Sally Blundell reviews Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker for Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: ‘Islington, London. On a bright autumn da...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Waiheke Weekender: ‘A brilliant war surgeon,...
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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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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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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in Stuff
Damien Grant reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Stuff: ‘There is a picture taken at Waitangi in 1963. It is of the Queen...
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Freedom and tragedy in exile: The story of Charles Mackay
As an exiled newspaper correspondent living in Berlin almost a century ago, Charles Mackay found freedom — and a tragic death — on the streets of N...
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You Are Here reviewed by Volume Books
Stella from Volume Books reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin: ‘Beautiful production, beautiful concept, and beautifully executed...
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Mark Adams reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Lyn Potter reviews Mark Adams: A survey | He kohinga whakaahua by Sarah Farrar and Mark Adams for NZ Booklovers: ‘Mark Adams: A Survey /He Kohinga...
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An excerpt from To the Summit
Chapter 1 — Rushing to base camp October 2015, Everest region, Nepal The track from Chukhung crossed the ice-laced waters of a cloudy glacial strea...
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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10 Questions with Bill Kaye-Blake, Margaret Brown and Penny Payne
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? BK-B: I’m passionate about agriculture and rural communities. I think we can learn a lot from how people...
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10 Questions with Paula Green
Q1: Now that Wild Honey is off to print, are you feeling proud of it? Yes, a thousand times yes. But also a tad anxious. Q2: It’s a huge book a...
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10 Questions with Clare Ladyman
Q1: Getting enough sleep is a huge issue for many people today, what drew you to sleep during pregnancy in particular? I was a brilliant slee...
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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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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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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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Ten Question Q&A with 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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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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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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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
It began with a simple realisation. Over the course of a generation, there had been a fundamental shift in the way Pacific people ate. Processed fo...
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Extract from 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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10 Questions with Karen Denyer and Monica Peters
Q1: Why wetlands? KD I’ve always had a soft spot for the underdog, the tatty stray cat, the three-legged dog, those most in need of love. For me we...
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Ten questions with Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake
Q1: A much-loved, much-missed and near mythical figure — when did you each decide that Rewi Thompson should be honoured with a book and that you sh...
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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. Now that it’s published, what delights you most about the first New Zealand Land & Food Annual? It’s an annual publication, so for as long a...