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Christopher Hare, one of the world's top food writers, has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, with the chic dining companion known to readers as 'The Glace'. But, in the new mood of austerity ushered in by the credit crunch, will the world still be interested in what he thinks of Robuchon's caramelised quail

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Chinese Opera is a dark and dazzling novel set in an all too plausible New Zealand of the near future.

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First published as a special issue of Robin Duddings literary magazine Islands (Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1976), Dick Seddons Great Dive won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and was republished in The Shirt Factory and other stories by VUP in 1981.

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In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.

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Celebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Weddes third collection of essays.

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Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany.

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Trifecta looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture and real coffee to New Zealand. Many years after his early death from a heart attack, Klepka's children are struggling in their different ways with the difficult legacy of their charismatic, overbearing father.

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Bill Culbert is one of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. In Bill Culbert: Making Light Work, the first substantial book on Culbert, Ian Wedde explores the ideas, materials, and conditions that have formed Culbert's art over the past 50 years.

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Gives readers five poems that lope along in a rhythmic way exploring the concept of beauty and the nature of language. Here, the poet enables us to see our world freshly and alerts us to the wonders delivered to us by our senses. This book is an example of a mature and confident talent responding with imagination to the local and the familiar.