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Wild Honey
A comprehensive guide to poetry by New Zealand women poets written by poetry champion Paula Green
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Vaughan Rapatahana reviews Wild Honey, in conversation with Paula Green
‘Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry, by Paula Green, is an important book. Indeed, it is a key book in that there has not been such a c...
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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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Wild Honey reviewed on The Spinoff
‘This book is an open house with a garden party happening out the back, and you’re invited.’ Read Joan Fleming’s review of Wild Honey on The Spinoff.
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Claire Mabey reviews Wild Honey
Claire Mabey reviews Wild Honey on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan: ‘It’s epic!’ Listen to the full review here.
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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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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 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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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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The New Zealand Horse
A handsome book showing the horse in all its glory
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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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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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Three Kiwi Tales
Three more endearing stories of helping New Zealand wildlife from the case files of Wildbase Hospital
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How to Mend a Kea
The ultimate children’s book about New Zealand’s wild creatures
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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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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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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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Rock College
Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealand’s most infamous gaol
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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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Hastings
A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand
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Soundings
A love affair with the underwater world
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#Tumeke!
An exuberant multimedia novel for young readers and the young at heart
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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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Sylvia and the Birds
Inspiring young readers to help and protect our native birds
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Hard by the Cloud House
An eagle, and its place in our history
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Hazel Phillips
Hazel Phillips is a Ruapehu-based writer and outdoors enthusiast.
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Catherine Bagnall
Catherine Bagnall is an internationally recognised artist who teaches at the College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwharangi, Massey University.
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Fire and Ice
One woman’s quest to uncover secrets in a mountain world
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Colin Monteath
Colin Monteath is a widely published polar and mountain photographer and writer based in Christchurch.
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Nic Low
Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former programme director of WORD Christchurch.
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Janet Hunt
Janet Hunt is one of New Zealand’s best known natural history writers, for adults and children.
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Dick Veitch
Dick Veitch spent his working career with the New Zealand Wildlife Service, now part of the Department of Conservation.
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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 Jacqueline Leckie
Q1: How did the book come about? The book follows from my historical research and friendships with Indian people in Aotearoa dating back to the mi...
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Hazel Phillips’ Solo a ‘riveting read’
Carolyn Enting has reviewed Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand, the new book by Hazel Phillips on her three years’ adventuring i...
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10 Questions with 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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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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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 Janet Hunt
Q1: Your previous book featuring stories from Wildbase was How to Mend a Kea. Are you just as pleased with this one? Absolutely! In some respects...
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5 Questions with Hazel Phillips for Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine chats with Hazel Phillips about the experiences behind her new book, Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Fo...
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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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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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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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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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Raiment: A memoir reviewed in Landfall
Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp has been reviewed in Landfall. Reviewer Wendy Parkins writes: ‘In 1971, the Canadian author Alice Munro wrote: ‘Ther...
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Hard by the Cloud House reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews Peter Walker's latest novel Hard by the Cloud House for Waiheke Weekender: ‘There is much to love about this book, which is...
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10 Questions with Janet Hunt
1. Now the book is back from the printer, are you pleased with it? Yes! The cover looks great and is attracting a lot of interest but, more than th...
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10 Questions with Rachel Haydon and Pippa Keel
Q1: What were the challenges and opportunities in basing the story around the real penguins at the National Aquarium? Rachel Haydon: The kororā, or...
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The Forgotten Coast reviewed for Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine
Richard Wild has reviewed The Forgotten Coast in the March edition of Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine: ‘Until recently, the sacking of Parihaka, and...
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Soundings reviewed in Tui Motu
Diana Atkinson reviews Soundings: Diving for stories in the beckoning sea for Tui Motu: ‘Soundings flows from Warne's early family life in the Bay...
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10 Questions with Anne Noble
Q1: What prompted you to begin the Conversātiō book project? Following the inclusion of Conversātiō and a suite of my other works about bees in t...
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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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Colin Monteath talks about Erebus with Wilderness magazine
Wilderness magazine recently asked Colin Monteath, author of Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, seven questions ahead of hi...
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Rooms reviewed on The Spinoff
Charlotte Fielding has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand Interiors for The Spinoff: ‘As som...
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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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Kete Books reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘In an eggshell, Sylvia and the Birds pays homage to Sylvia Durrant, who looked after 140,000 New Zealand birds during her 35 years as a bird rescu...
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10 Questions with John Walsh
Q1: After the success of A Walking Guide to Auckland Architecture and A Walking Guide to Christchurch Architecture, Wellington must have seemed ine...
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10 Questions with Lyn Wade and Dick Veitch
Q1: You both have a long association with Hauturu Little Barrier Island — do you remember your first visit? LW: I was four years old and my family...
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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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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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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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Mark Derby introduces Rock College
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Little Doomsdays
A unique collaboration in words and art
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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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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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How to Mend a Kea announced as a Storylines Notable Book
We are thrilled that How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital has made it onto the Storylines Notable Books list. 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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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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The Taranaki Daily News interviews Janet Hunt
Read the Taranaki Daily News interview with Janet Hunt here.
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Booksellers NZ reviews How to Mend a Kea
Sarah Forster at Booksellers NZ has reviewed How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital: ‘I’d recommend this wonderful...
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‘If you know a child who is interested in wildlife, then you know a child who will love this book’ — Corpus reviews How to Mend a Kea
Sue Wootton, co-editor of Corpus, reviews How to Mend a Kea + other fabulous fix-it tales from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt: ‘If you know a chil...
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The Sapling reviews How to Mend a Kea
The Sapling's biscuit & bird illustrator Giselle Clarkson has taken on her first *current* book review! Click here to get a brilliant perspecti...
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What we can learn from animals, from a vet-turned-author
Marcus Taylor has been a vet since 2013. His memoir, The Ones That Bit Me! Camels, cows and other young-vet stories, published by Massey University...
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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...