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Hot on the heels of Being Here, O'Sullivan's capacious selected poems, which many chose as one of the poetry highlights of the year, comes a collection of 75 new poems. They show a mature poet, full of experience, still with the capacity to dazzle.

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Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant.

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Another Beautiful Day Indoors is more likely to end with a dark flood than a beautiful sundown

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A collection of large-format reproductions of 72 photographs by leading New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart. They provide a nearly comprehensive record of 50 New Zealand memorials (those featuring statues rather than abstract sculpture), and a representative range of their Australian counterparts.

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

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In a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, New Zealand-born Georgies marriage has stagnated. But theres no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in: teeth break, her son can't find his words, theres something in her husbands eye, termites swarm the neighbourhood, and she finds a dead boy in the burning woods.

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The poems in Stephanie de Montalks new collection engage with the world as if through a window cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to solace in dreaming.

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A vet at a mid-sized rural practice has been called back during maternity leave and is coping just with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her bosss search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy. But something is shifting in Thea something is burning.

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The ability to make decisions and take actions that influence our life is critically important and ranges from simple everyday choices about what to have for breakfast, to far-reaching decisions about health care, personal or financial matters.

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Brings together award-winning poet and author Geoff Cochrane's two slim volumes of short stories, originally published in limited editions, his early novella Quest Clinic, and more recent stories.

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What do ancient Greece and Rome have to do with New Zealand More than you might think. Athens to Aotearoa collects essays from some of New Zealand's most important artistic and critical voices reflecting on their engagement with Greece and Rome and taking aim at New Zealand's complicated take on its classical heritage.

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Baby is a sunburnt psychological thriller of obsession and escape by one of the most exciting new voices in New Zealand fiction.

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Raymond Thomas Lawrence was one of the great literary colossi of the twentieth century. Seven years after his death, however, the trustees of the literary trust set up to memorialize New Zealand's greatest writer are facing rising costs and dwindling visitor numbers at the Residence. The Back of His Head is a hilarious and troubling satire on the making and manipulation of literary fame.

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Some say poetry is pulled unknowingly out of us, like birdsong. These people are annoying, seeing mystery for mystery's sake. Criticism is pulled unknowingly out of us like birdsong. Small talk is. Sleeptalk is. The first attempt at a phone message is. Poetry takes graft, craft and chisel-work. Especially limericks.

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Bad Things, the new collection by Louise Wallace - poet, not celebrity housewife - is about the different ways in which we survive.

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Six seminal plays from Ken Duncum and Rebecca Rodden, whose playwriting partnership powered the vibrant theatre scene round Wellington's BATS Theatre in the 1980s and 90s.

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The pau is the pulse of the Cook Islands, a rhythm carrying narratives of a culture to its people. But beyond the reach of its sound, on another shore, a community is working over the course of decades to build a new life.

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From the marginal clays and farms of the poet's hometown to the mountains and deserts of the American southwest, this wistful and wise collection offers poems that are fiercely honest and contain a wide variety of images, from science to religion to American life since 9/11.

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English translations of short stories from around the world.