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Offers a collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen, with snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote Kilda island. This book includes poems that are conversational in style; one is written in the form of a play, and another appears at first to be a dictionary definition. It closes with a section entitled 'A Widow's Songs'.

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Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers and artists, plus reviews of the latest books, art, film, drama and dance.

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In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Maori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Maori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for all New Zealanders into how matauranga is positively influencing the Western-dominated disciplines of knowledge in the research sector.

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Shows the predicament of returned servicemen and women after the First World War. Through the story of Douglas Stark, this book describes the many ways in which New Zealand was failing their expectations.

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The Ones Who Keep Quiet showcases David Howard's ability to give our world a metaphysical mulling, which he achieves with memorable lyricism and an edgy attention to questions of identity and time, silence and isolation.

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Queen Salote ascended the throne of Tonga in 1918, at the age of 18, to lead this Pacific nation through the hazards of the 20th century until her death in 1965. This biography paints a portrait of Salote, from her childhood through her education and her years as queen, drawing on oral histories, personal papers, and newspaper accounts.

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Spiders colonised the Earth long before Gondwanaland began to drift into separate continents. New Zealand spiders have links with spiders world-wide. This book is the guide to these remarkable creatures. It explores the anatomy, physiology, behaviour and ecology of both native and introduced spiders. It is aimed at scientist and layperson.

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'The Braided River' explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different countries, spanning all ages and life stages.

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Drawing on interviews with women who served as "land girls" during World War II, this book relates a chapter in New Zealand's war experience. It shows that like their Rosie the Riveter sisters, these Women's Land Service recruits gained independence, little recognition, and discontent about giving up their farm jobs when the soldiers came home.

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Author-s bicycle journey through small-town New Zealand, revisited 'a generation on' , with postscript on cycling in Antarctica.

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This engrossing history offers not only the portrait of a firm that was at one time our largest manufacturing business, but a window on the development of the New Zealand economy and the emergence of a manufacturing sector.

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Explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New Zealanders' ideas of themselves.

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Histories of Hate explores intolerance and extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand, from the emergence of the precursors to the radical right during British settlement in the late nineteenth century to todays QAnon conspiracists and keyboard warriors.

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Published to celebrate the centenary of its foundation, this book introduces and samples the Hocken Library's principal collections. It includes significant holdings of twentieth-century New Zealand art, early New Zealand manuscripts, maps and publications, early Australian manuscripts and many other items of great interest.