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Since June is a poised and confident first book of poems. These deceptively simple, conversational poems tell stories and capture details of daily existence, but then take odd and surprising turns. Language slips and miscommunications lead to suddenly unnerving perceptions, and leave the reader both moved and a little unbalanced.

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Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women and the first of its kind.

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First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story.

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In the middle of his life, Jack Grout found himself abducted by aliens. There were other things. His wife left him. His son came one night to the Skylark Lounge and punched him. And there was the mistreatment for melanoma. But what Jack really needed to know was why the aliens had returned.

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In her first collection, Frances Samuel leads us into the lives of characters we have not met before in New Zealand poetry. A man with a snorkel trawls fountains for coins; a vending machine produces a sailboat; a zookeeper frees all of his animals. Each step forward clears a path of snow, and contemplates the question How do we get there

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Solitude, solace, and consolation are among the themes explored in this poetry collection that considers the ways that language, loss, history, and memory are linked together.

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The best of New Zealand's short stories are brought together in this essential single-volume anthology. Descriptive and nuanced, the stories breathe life into a range of endearing characters and situations, all set against the backdrop of the New Zealand landscape.

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Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016.

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Speech therapist Paddy knows better than most how our speech marks us and shapes our destiny, but even he is totally unprepared and unable to cope when his mother Teresa wakes up one morning speaking in a heavy French accent. Deeply moving and disarmingly funny, Speech Marks is Damien Wilkins' finest novel to date.

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A free-wheeling philosophical poem that emerged during the walks Roger Horrocks took over a year of his life. In this striking, one-of-a-kind work, he seeks to engage as directly as possible with the basic elements of life the self and the body, sleeping and waking, death and belief, and above all the strangeness of thought (the ghost in the machine).

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There is a difference between what public policymakers see and what those on the ground understand about education in Auckland. This book advocates a community-specific approach to educational success and transformation in New Zealand's largest city.

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In these 56 letters to his slightly older friend, then imprisoned as a conscientious objector, the teenage James K. Baxter pours out his ideas and feelings on life, philosophy and his own work. With the inclusion of the complete texts of the 255 poems written at the time and discussed in the letters, this is an insight into this NZ poet.

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A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from PaknSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . .

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Covering the remarkable life cycle of the largest spiny lobster in existence, this fascinating reference explores the packhorse lobster, one of the most primitive of all crayfish, found off the coasts of northern New Zealand and mid-eastern Australia.

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Stopover is a haunting suite of Bruce Connew photographs from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside a story of migration.

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THE STORIES OF BILL MANHIRE collects the stories from The New Land: A Picture Book (1990) and those added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-ownadventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Under the Influence (2003).

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Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen's visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevensonthis is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide.

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New York, summer of 2007. The Iraq War still rages. Domestic terror threats abound. The iPhone is about to launch. But the biggest story is straight bananas flooding the city, overtaking crack and heroin. Rich or poor, no one can resist peelin' straight.

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