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Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here.

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In April 1938 Agnes Moncrieff, in her role as the YWCA of New Zealand's foreign secretary to the YWCA of China, wrote to her mother, 'You do not travel in China at the full moon if you can help. There are always air raids.'

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In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win.

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All Her Lives is the first work of fiction by celebrated New Zealand author Ingrid Horrocks.

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Bonfires on the Ice is the latest collection of poetry by Harry Ricketts, one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most loved poets.

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More than twenty years before Damien Wilkins wrote his instant classic Delirious, winner of the 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, came Chemistry. Published internationally, Chemistry is a riveting story about families in crisis.

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Giving Birth to My Father is about learning to live with a loss that at first seems too heavy to bear. In her new book of poems, Tusiata Avia tells the imagined story the one of how things should go followed by the story of what really happens.

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This collection of thoughtful essays challenges readers to reclaim their role in governance.

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Existing views of Featherston are fragmentary, negative and not very satisfactory. He was the little Doctor, a single-minded despot wielding tyrannical power and casting an oppressive shadow. As I began to understand more of his life, I realised that there was little appreciation of a man who had contributed so much.

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Its What He Wouldve Wanted is the sixth book of poetry from the author of the acclaimed The Stupefying (the very best book of poetry of 2022 said Newsroom).

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In this collection spanning her career, highly regarded art historian and curator Christina Barton reminds readers of the art writers essential quandary: how to put the visual/material/sensory/temporal into words.

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Joseph Kinsey is not a name many of us know or not as well as we know the name Scott. But from his base in Christchurch, Kinsey book and art collector, philanthropist, science enthusiast, businessman forged deep connections with the Antarctic expeditions and the explorers themselves through his tireless work as the agent for expeditions.

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At the heart of this groundbreaking book are personal stories from women who have had abortions. Their experiences - which encompass suffering and resilience, isolation and community - are deeply moving, and vividly convey forty years of change.

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Filled with wit and observation, the author's third volume of poetry solidifies her reputation as one of the break-out stars of the contemporary New Zealand scene.

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This striking first book of poems moves from the Balkans to New Zealand, and from Serbian proverbs to literary experiments. Poet Aleksandra Lane's intelligence is everywhere, but it is never obvious or intrusive. Instead she uses it to explore a variety of different poetic forms and to encompass big themes.

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This is a story not only of the creative activity that has come out of Victoria, but also of the university's role as a custodian of cultural treasures, and of its engagement with creative and cultural life beyond its doors.

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Emerging from this story about the downtrodden and disadvantaged is a celebration of human resilience that reminds us of the importance of intimacy and compassion.

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This collection of personal essays, a first of its kind, re-imagines the idea of place for an emerging generation of readers and writers. It offers glimpses into where we are now and how that feels, and opens up the range and kinds of stories we can conceive of telling about living here.

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In an attempt to break free from rationality and make her life a work of art, Gigi Fenster decides to induce a fever in herself. Fever, she surmises, is a `particularly writerly thing. What follows is a captivating memoir of that attempt.

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An examination of emerging trends in New Zealands governance, this study explores the effect of shared accountability, agency restructuring, environmental policies, and e-government on the growth of the countrys public sector. Using brand-new research, this book contains valuable insights into how New Zealands public sector currently operates and how it might operate in the future.

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In June 1944, when 14-year-old Stefan Wisniewski stood by his mother's dusty Tehran grave, he knew his world was about to change again, forever. Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand.

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