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For more than five decades Kees Bruin has established a unique visionary identity within the framework of New Zealand realism that is enthusiastically commissioned and collected internationally. His three overlapping categories are photo-realism, super-realism and what he terms 'visionary-realism'.

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Kelcy Taratoa: Who Am I ... Episode 001 is a bilingual English and Te Reo publication written by Warren Feeney and translated by Heni Jacob (Ngati Raukawa). It traverses the artist's life from growing up in the suburbs of Levin to Te Haka a Te Tupere, the artist's wharenui at Rangiwaea marae in Tauranga Harbour.

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The desire to protect a cultural icon led Eve Poole into politics and she was elected as Invercargill's first woman mayor in 1983, joining Cath Tizard in Auckland as trailblazers at both ends of the country. She was equally at home on TV shows such as Beauty and the Beast and retained the mayoralty for four terms until her untimely death in 1992.

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Light Keeping is a subtle and immersive novel drawing on the richness of family stories and their role in defining and connecting us. Set in the late-seventies and contemporary New Zealand, the book follows parallel storylines, evoking fascinating details of lighthouse life and reflecting on the relentless social change brought by new technology.

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Pakeha are divided between those who dream of a tiriti-based future, with shared language and entangled cultures and those who fear that future, John Bluck makes an eloquent and impassioned plea for a Pakeha voice that is confident enough to join the debate about this country's future without being defensive.

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Powerful yet tender and beautifully imagined, Mila and the Bone Man unites enduring love with the power of healing. A novel about guilt, forgiveness and finding your way home. And the secrets we keep to protect those we love the most.

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This beautiful, heavily illustrated book traces Peter Cleverleys formation and evolution as an artist, identifying the myriad influences that aroused in him a profound sense of the transience of human life and the paradoxical complexity of the human condition.

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Mike Beveridges poems return us to a time when poems had rhyme and rhythm (they are, in short, Poems For Remembering), while at the same time being wholly modern in their scope and points of reference. And New Zealand is a constant presence

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In this captivating and beautifully illustrated memoir, John Gillies vividly recalls his months as a member of the Otago University Medical Company on an active service tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Gillies takes us behind the scenes and records the people and places he saw when not tending to the wounded.

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One of the most influential Czechs living abroad, New Zealand author Jindra Tichy's fascinating memoir is one of exile and survival, of distance and painful longing. It depicts in a moving way the pain and confusion of banishment from home, family and friends into an exile removed from everything familiar.

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A novel of insights, bold assessments and revelations told by four characters from the generation whose lives were affected forever by World Wars I and II, the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the NZ waterfront lockout, and Vietnam war protests. It is a masterpiece of times that must never be forgotten. From the Foreword by Kevin Ireland

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In Barry Crump-style Michael Willis tells about his saving rare breeds from extinction, including rediscovering the kune kune pig, saving the goats of Arapawa Island, wild pigs on Auckland Island, the lost wild cattle of Enderby Island, and the threatened wild donkeys on the Galapagos. A life full of adventure with the animals he loves.

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Fast-paced and compelling, this contemporary legal drama, set in Otautahi Christchurch, follows child advocacy lawyer Rebecca Eaton as she navigates her work representing a surrogate mother and advising on a child endangerment case, as well as trials in her own life.

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New poems from one of New Zealand's most prominent, well-loved and accessible poets. In his 87th year, this is Kevin Ireland's 26th published volume of poetry and his 38th published book.

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From its inception, the directors of Sheppard & Rout Architects have been concerned that its architectural and planning projects all reflect their cultural and historical contexts.

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Skippers Canyon is an artists paradise and one of New Zealands most stunning locations. This historic and scenic gorge, carved out by the Shotover River in Queenstowns backcountry, has been a favourite destination and inspiration for artist John Gillies for some forty years.

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Poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, teacher and academic, C.K. Stead has made his mark on all these disciplines.

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Bob Calkin was born in 1935 and grew up as Aotearoa New Zealand was entering a period of unprecedented stability and boom times. Tales from the Lucky Generation follows Bobs rise from humble roots in working-class Whanganui to the world of law and business before a spectacular fall from grace landed him with a six-year prison sentence.

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Activist, creative entrepreneur and counsellor Robin Woodsford is a Baby Boomer and in this moving reflection on his life and times he discovers that his personal story is also a universal one. More, he says the job's not done yet.

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When Julian meets Julia, he is less than impressed. After all, what 13-year-old boy looks forward to having his great granny join the household But on discovering a diary written by her when a young girl, he is absorbed in her wild, romantic adventures in a South American forest as she goes in search of the legendary and magical Candle Trees.

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For the four teenagers staying near a West Coast lake, what begins as an intriguing puzzle ends with the most terrifying night of their lives, a night that will change them forever...

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These two cinematic novellas feature two strong, capable, modern day heroines determined to make their own way in the world.

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In this fascinating memoir, New Zealander Sir Donald McIntyre looks back over a huge slice of operatic history and his role in it. Mixing fun and gossip with judgement and insight, he brings to life a teeming gallery of the world's movers and shakers in the opera world of two generations.

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Past. Present. Future.These eighteen stories mark Barbara Elses return to fiction for adults. They are notable for their range in genre and tone, from realism to science fiction and fantasy, from subversive humour and sharp satire to thoughtful and humane contemplation of the human condition.