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From one of our very best filmmakers comes a memoir of filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Through the biography of a remarkable man, this work traces the development of New Zealands national library system - from the intervention of the Carnegie Corporation in the 1930s to the establishment of the National Library of New Zealand in the 1960s.

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This classic autobiography is a moving life story that reveals great insight into the making of a major writer. Broken down into three parts, the book details Anderson's childhood, the years she spent primarily as a mother and the wife of a naval officer, before concluding with her return to school and a renewal of the desire to write.

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Broken down into three distinct parts, the book details Anderson's childhood, along with the years she spent primarily as a mother and the wife of a prominent naval officer, before concluding with her return to school and a renewal of the desire to write late in life.

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Imaginative and intriguing, this novel gives a fictionalized account of the time when Frank Sargeson took Janet t Frame into his home after she emerged from a lengthy stay in hospital for mental health problems.

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Here is a novel whose razor-sharp dialogue, wit and compassion reveal a writer of prodigious gifts.

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From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70, to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. The Grass Catcher is at once a moving personal memoir and an engaging and reflective essay on the nature of memory.

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Set in a world that is deeply familiar (but also a bit sexier and more stylish than the real one), Greta and Valdin will speak to anyone who has had their heart broken, or has decided that they dont want to be a physicist anymore, or has wondered about all of the things they dont know about their family.

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In his new collection, Harry Ricketts addresses the people and places that fill a life and the gaps they leave behind. These are poems of friendship, romance, youth, and moments that still glow or ache decades after. Half Dark is tender, funny, sad, and deftly crafted from the splinters and spaces of the past.

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How did New Zealand writers make nationalism out of modernism What did the process owe to a revolution in sexuality And what did this mean for writing by women Writing as a poet as well as a historian, as a critic of ideology, and as a self-confessed fan of the nationalist legacy, John Newton tackles these intriguing questions.

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Best known for his discovery of the Alpine Fault on the South Island, Harold Wellman began his career in the 1930s with no formal academic training and based his work on observations of gold and coal mining, oil drilling, geophysics, and neotectonics. This biography also includes a memoir, which Wellmen wrote in his 80s.

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God, shes just so good. Shes the best. She kills me always, every time, and forever. Hera Lindsay Bird

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30 different real life essays, interviews and 'as told to' stories about anxiety written by people from all walks of life.

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Entomologist Phil Lester explores the wonderfully complex and sometimes brutally efficient life history of honey bees, and the problems they face in New Zealand and around the globe. What causes a beehive to collapse Are pesticides as big a problem as they appear What can we do to improve the health

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this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl...with many beneficial thoughts and feelings... with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is...juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes

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Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didnt suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings.

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Welcome to the Repertory Apartmentswhere scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages.

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Providing a vital background to some of the pressing issues in contemporary New Zealand politics, this novel perspective on the distinctive foundations of the countrys welfare state raises issues concerning modern-day concepts of citizenship as this welfare state comes under challenge.