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Mark Derby introduces Rock College
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Mark Derby interviewed on Magic Talk
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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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Rock College wins the non-fiction category of the 2021 New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards
Congratulations to Mark Derby, whose book Rock College: A unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison, has won the non-fiction category of the 2021 New...
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I heard that the old prison was being vacated, and its remaining inm...
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An excerpt from Rock College
‘From late 1962 the "back basement" housed a national celebrity, perhaps the best known and most widely admired criminal figure in this country's h...
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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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Te Kupenga reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Lee Davidson has reviewed Te Kupenga: 101 stories of Aotearoa from the Turnbull ‘Once a year, I take my museum and heritage studies class to the A...
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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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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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The Sun Is a Star
An enchanting book about our galaxy by a much-loved painter
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Theo Schoon
The important biography of a significant figure in New Zealand art and culture
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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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Greg Fleming reviews The Crewe Murders on Kete
Greg Fleming has reviewed The Crewe Murders: Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case by Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings on Kete: ‘The 1970...
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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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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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Hastings reviewed in New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for New Zealand Arts Review: ‘Many geniuses are recognized early on in t...
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Extract from Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024
An extract from the upcoming book Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, edited by Tracey Slaughter: Writing from the red house The day I wrote my first...
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10 Question Q&A with Dick Frizzell
Q1: When you got on the train and headed south to art school in 1960 you probably thought that it was goodbye forever to Hastings. How has it staye...
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Read 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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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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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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Anthony Byrt reviews Theo Schoon: A biography for The Spinoff
Read Anthony Byrt’s brilliant and in-depth review of Theo Schoon: A biography by Damian Skinner: ‘Art history is a brutal discipline, which feeds o...
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Hastings reviewed on NZ Booklovers
Chris Reed reviews Hastings: A boy’s own adventure by Dick Frizzell for NZ Booklovers: ‘Dick Frizzell’s Hastings is a warm, nostalgic, and often h...
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The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Akinga o ngā Rangatira reviewed on Landfall
This is a timely book because it adds much to the distressing story of the concerted Māori effort to slow the alienation of their land and reveals...
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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
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Extract from 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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Little Doomsdays reviewed in the Otago Daily Times
Laura Borrowdale has reviewed Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson in the Otago Daily Times: ‘Reading Little Doomsdays is a meditative act....
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Little Doomsday reviewed for Otago Daily Times
Laura Borrowdale reviews Little Doomsdays by Nic Low & Phil Dadson: 'Reading Little Doomsdays is a meditative act. The looping series of stori...
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Read an extract from You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
What is it that stops you now? Is it the possibility of failure? You’ve survived failure many times before, so whywould this be different? Perhaps...
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10 Questions with David Cohen and Kathy Paterson
Q1: What part does RNZ play in your daily life? Kathy Paterson: It’s a constant, one that informs me with interviews connected to news headlines fr...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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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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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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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Roger Smith’s speech from the Wellington launch of We Are Here
We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa was launched in Wellington on October 8 by Roger Smith, cartographer at Geographx Map Design Studio. Tēnā koutou...
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Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
Launch speech, Bill & Shirley by Keith Ovenden We meet in the shadow not just of the pandemic but of the election. So, I want to put it on reco...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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 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 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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Kim Hill talks to Paul Diamond
In 1920 Whanganui residents were rocked by the news that their mayor had shot D'Arcy Cresswell, a young gay poet, who had been blackmailing him....
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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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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 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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Little Doomsdays: 20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century
Finlay Macdonald et al. for The Conversation: ‘Last month, we enjoyed reading The New York Times Best Books of the 21st century – but were disappoi...