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Set on a single day in 2016, in a time when the deadly political divisions of the past are being redrawn, The Spanish Garden tells a story of memory and loss, the generational impact of war, the fatal history shared between two families, Pakeha and Maori, and a man's enduring obsession with love.

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These really are travels to write home about. Whether you made a similar journey, or wanted to, or would like to, or are yet to be seduced by the lure of the road less travelled, this is the book for you.

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Spanning the last decade of the 19th century, this page-turning saga explores the healing power of friendship while celebrating the pivotal role women played in one of New Zealands most turbulent eras.

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In this, the eighth volume in the Detective Inspector O'Rorke series, it is the summer of 1888. As O'Rorke prepares to leave London to return to New Zealand, Crimean War 'ghosts' of both friends and enemies materialise and as circles of intrigue and terror spread, O'Rorke begins to distrust even his closest allies.

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"The work of a poet who knows how important people and places are... I kept thinking, too, about life's voyagings. I found the whole very affecting - touching, tender, rueful at times... And all the more impressive for being unsentimental." - BRIAN TURNER

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An absorbing blend of trip descriptions laced with background notes about the meaning and significance of places that were encountered, it tells the story of the author's journeys to the principal sources of each of the 24 rivers that flow down to the sea from the Main Divide of the Southern Alps.

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The world is going crazy. In a not too distant future, climate change is slowly drowning coastal areas, Artificial Intelligence is running almost everything, and social media continues to rule people's lives. Funny, dark, and sexy, this is a story in which the main character is a woman achieving self-determination and independence.

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Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. When he died, we lost the man and many believe we lost our way. This book examines the promise of Kirk's leadership and the social contract that is central to a liberal democratic society.

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This is the story of Roland Clark (aka Norwester), a provocative and entertaining farmer and agricultural commentator, and his wife Betty, who farmed at Staveley in the Foothills area of Mid Canterbury from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Canterbury gardener Margaret Long tells the fascinating story of her garden, Frensham, considered one of New Zealand's finest gardens. Highly acclaimed garden photographer Juliet Nicholas photographed its changes through an entire year, providing a unique insight into the growth and development of this beautiful and peaceful garden.

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In Hindsight is an engaging, informative read, relevant for anyone in the farming sector, interested in its history and, of course, with deer-industry connections.

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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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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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Douglas Brass was as fine a writer in his field as his more famous contemporaries and close friends,Denis Glover, Charles Brasch and Ian Milner. In Tunis is Mad Tonightjournalist Douglas Brass, a long neglected New Zealander, takes his deserved place in the spotlight and an extraordinary life is revealed.