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Celebrating the history of the School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington, past and present members of the school offer their reflections, recollections, and current research.

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Loop Tracks is a major New Zealand novel, written in real time against the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic and the New Zealand General Election and euthanasia referendum.

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This graceful, witty and unsettling book is Jenny Bornholdt at her very best: her language at once bold and subtle, and even her smallest insights profound.

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Lost Possessions, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly before The Bone People won the Booker Prize.

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In her arresting new book, Kerrin P. Sharpe raises her voice to address with passion and urgency the political, moral and ecological injustices of the world today.

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Ashleigh Young's first book of poems chronicle a decade of her life, glimpses of which have appeared as published poems that are now collected together in this volume. But apart from the already known poems, there are a host of new ones, all of which lend greater weight and resonance to each other.

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Man Alone is a portrait of an existential loner, and a testament to the necessity of comradeship in times of hardship.

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Mansfield and Me charts Sarah Laing's journey towards publication and parenthood against Katherine Mansfield's dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand. Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.

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Exploring an issue of international significance, this collection of essays addresses the reconciliation of the pre-existing, inherent rights of indigenous peoples with those held and asserted by the state.

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This collection of poems shows the benefit of ten years gestation. A group of beautiful formal lyrics which recount time spent in Japan is followed by one considering family and ancestry. The major part of the book consists of poems coming from years spent living and studying overseas and then settling back in New Zealand and starting a family.

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Margaret Mahy's extraordinary young-adult novels are examined by leading scholars in this collection of critical essays. Considering the ways that fantasy provides both adventure and security for adolescents, the discussion centres on the role of witches, pirates, ghosts, and tricksters in Mahy's tales.

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In Mary Shelleys 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankensteins Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back - only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoas deep south

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The full story of the gifted but troubled R.A.K. Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons after his extraordinary beginning that Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated.

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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for TV and film. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Gee's life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming man in the grey cardy alongside his unsettling stories.

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There were many Melvin Days, but the term `Artist' encompasses all of them

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In his debut poetry collection Bill Nelson steps into John Coltrane's body and wears it around. He is a turtle disappearing into the sea. He plumbs the depths of business jargon. He takes singing lessons in Berhampore. He takes his grandfather roller skating. Funny, strange and arresting, these poems test our understanding of understanding.

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Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts.

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The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America.

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