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In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Vans life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive.

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The range and power of DNA forensics, as well as the powers of the state to obtain DNA samples, have expanded rapidly, raising questions about the implications for criminal justice and human rights. This book provides a framework for discussion of these implications, and makes recommendations for how to proceed with laws about the collection and retention of DNA samples.

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A holidaying writer becomes entranced by the story of two great New Zealand eccentrics.

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Icludes memoirs, stories, and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writers - among them Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, and Michael King. French writers - including Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis Lalanne, and Charles Juliet - have, in turn, visited New Zealand and their engagement with the region is also represented.

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Combining reportage and memoir, The Commercial Hotel is a sharp-eyed, poignant yet often hilarious tour of Aotearoa.

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When Chester Farlowes father is killed, Chester is forced to leave the vast cattle ranches of New Zealands central volcanic plateau for the badlands of urban Auckland. This mythical story reconfigures the New Zealand experience with an absorbing coming-of-age tale.

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Wystan Curnow is New Zealand's longest-serving and, arguably, most important art critic. This edited collection brings together a selection of his art writings from 1971 to 2013. Selectively drawing on his considerable output, the publication features Curnow's long-form essays that investigate the stakes for high culture in a small province like New Zealand.

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Accompanying a major survey of Gavin Hipkins' work at The Dowse Art Museum, The Domain is an extensively illustrated book that combines new essays with a selection of art writing from the past 20 years. It illuminates not only Hipkins' ever-evolving practice but critical approaches to photography.

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First performed in 1959, The End of the Golden Weather has become a part of New Zealand history, a touchstone of New Zealand experience.

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

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These 14 magnificent new stories from Vincent O'Sullivan exhibit a shrewd understanding that pierces to the heart of what it means to be human. O'Sullivan can mock, satirize, and laugh, but he also finds dignity in unexpected places. He is interested in the art of living and in the borderland where truth and lies meet, both in life and in fiction itself.

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The story of Walter Mantell's 1848 journey down the east coast of the South Island in New Zealand, to set aside reserves for Ngai Tahu within a large land-block purchased by the government, is countered with a modern woman's very different story of violence on a South Island farm.

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An alternative view of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkins 600-line verse tale, The Fountain at Bakhchisaray comes to life in this spellbinding historical fiction novel. A tale of a Tatar khan's impossible love for a captive Polish countess in his Crimean harem is interwoven with stories from the life of the poet Pushkin in 1821.

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

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In The High Jump, internationally acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Knox recreates the sensory pleasures and gathering shadows of a New Zealand childhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Exploring the concept of memory, this collection of poetry delves into the remembrances that live and grow within families, as well as those that are inspired by rediscovered childrens songs and stories. The featured verse demonstrates how some recollections are triggered by chance encounters with old boyfriends, some are personal and lyrical, and others are as strange as untamed rhymes.

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TheIceShelf, a novel written as Acknowledgements, is an allegory for the dangers of wasting love and other non-renewable resources.

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Unsettling yet thought-provoking musings on religion, relationships, and responsibility intermingle in this collection of weird and wonderful cautionary tales.

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A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community.