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This graceful, witty and unsettling book is Jenny Bornholdt at her very best: her language at once bold and subtle, and even her smallest insights profound.

The Stories of Eileen Duggan presents the two collections of short stories Eileen Duggan wrote but did not offer for publication, and includes a Preface by the editor, Helen J. O'Neill, and a substantial introduction by John Weir.

Denis Glover wrote New Zealand's most famous poem, yet his work has fallen in and out of print over the years

Presents a selection of Eileen Duggan's poetry. Her best known poems are accompanied by many previously unpublished pieces. There is also a selection of her autobiographical and literary prose writings.

Tells the story of Greville Texidor's extraordinary life in full for the first time, and puts her small but essential body of work in vivid context. Illustrated with many never-before-seen photographs, it restores an essential New Zealand writer to new generations of readers.

In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer.

Conventional Weapons is Tracey Slaughter's first full poetry collection. In these dark, lyrical poems, Slaughterclosely observe the textures of the world and the beauty and depravity of human nature.

The Black and the White is a new work - witty, fearless, formidably concise - from one of the most distinctive voices in New Zealand poetry.

The quivering luminosity of Islander is the rippling movement of the sea in sunlight, reflecting at once here, at once there, and then dissolving the distinctions.

First published in 1987 and reissued for the first time, In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say a Lot restores an essential New Zealand writer to new generations of readers.

John Psathas has said that, of all New Zealand composers, John Cousins has `thrown the spear furthest', meaning he is one of our most original artists, going beyond the edge. Provocative and penetrating and fundamentally true, Cousins remains absorbed and energised in and by creative work.

Provides an absorbing insight into a century and a half of printing history. Beginning in the early 1860s when the first typographical unions were formed in Dunedin and Wellington, this history ends in 1996 when printers and journalists amalgamated with the Engineers Union to form NZ's largest private sector trade union.

This collection of essays draws on the lived experiences of a number of people who are active members within the trans community.

This is a story not only of the creative activity that has come out of Victoria, but also of the university's role as a custodian of cultural treasures, and of its engagement with creative and cultural life beyond its doors.

Are Friends Electric? is an audacious new work by the author of the prizewinning collection Graft.

Part ecology, part history, part personal odyssey, Nga Uruora offers a fresh perspective on our landscapes and our relationships with them

While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her husband, Jack Macalister, is equally determined to remain the cheerfully philandering and selfish man that he is.

Whatever It Takes recounts the politics and process behind ground-breaking works in New Zealand film. This is a story of entrepreneurs and dreamers, a disparate bunch bound together in pursuit of films that would define New Zealand cinema.

Here is a novel whose razor-sharp dialogue, wit and compassion reveal a writer of prodigious gifts.

Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts.

I think it's fair to say I was rewarded, praised, applauded, more than most fathers.Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to a trip to Europe years later with his family. An unexpected revelation forces Peter to navigate anew his roles as a husband, father and son.Set in Wellington after the fall of the Twin Towers, and traversing London, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, The New Ships is a mesmerising book of blood-ties that stretch across borders. A novel of acute moral choices, it is a rich and compelling meditation on what it means to act, or to fail to act.

30 different real life essays, interviews and 'as told to' stories about anxiety written by people from all walks of life.

In a series of backroom negotiations in 1956, the National Government and Labour Opposition agreed to put aside adversarial politics temporarily and entrench certain significant electoral rules. In Search of Consensus tells the story of why and how such a remarkable political settlement happened.

This follow-up to Saints and Stirrers brings the history of the Christian-inspired peace movement up to the present.

The superb second book by the author of the acclaimed 2013 collection Other Animals.

Writers explore the concept of well-being in relation to te reo Maori and share evidence-based information about what supports and hinders the revitalisation of te reo Maori in communities, homes, kura and schools in Aotearoa in the 21st century.

Poets, dramatists, novelists and writing teachers open up to reveal their wiring in essays that are strikingly honest, political and playful.

With his sixth poetry collection, highly rated New Zealand poet James Brown is back to flood another chamber. `teeth and claws, poetic sensibility, and stimulating peculiarities'-Elizabeth Knox on James Brown

Risking Their Lives is the third book in a series recording the history of abortion in New Zealand. It fills the gap between Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980 and Rough on Women: Abortion in 19th-Century New Zealand.

How did New Zealand writers make nationalism out of modernism? What did the process owe to a revolution in sexuality? And what did this mean for writing by women? Writing as a poet as well as a historian, as a critic of ideology, and as a self-confessed fan of the nationalist legacy, John Newton tackles these intriguing questions.