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Everyone with sight knows the pleasure of colours, the fascination of faces and bodies, the subtle forms of nature, and the curious patterns of art. This book is for everyone who would like to delve deeper into their experience of seeing. Richly textured and profoundly engrossing. Murray Edmond. Fresh and lively.Linda Tyler

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Bernard Brown taught law at the University of Auckland for over forty years, including to ex-Prime Ministers David Lange and Winston Peters. This book is an entertaining romp through Brown's wartime and post-war experiences before arriving in NZ. It includes his meetings with such formidable figures as Margaret Thatcher and author Anthony Burgess.

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Culture in a Small Country provides a remarkably wide-ranging but indepth account of the arts in New Zealand, including interviews with writers, painters, composers, filmmakers and other artists. Horrocks big picture history is convincing and revelatory because his insiders knowledge of the arts is so uniquely broad and deep. Wystan Curnow

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18 yr old Andy Ingle, with his yellow typewriter called Half-Arse under his arm, embarks on one of the great Kiwi road trips, from Palmerston to Dunedin and back to Auckland. On the way falling in with drug dealers, a washed-out Professor, and a rag-tag collection of some of the most eccentric and entertaining characters to appear in Kiwi fiction.

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Time to Make a Song and Dance captures a spirit of revolt that swept over Auckland and Aotearoa in the 1960s, affecting every aspect of NZ culture. It included such figures as Janet Frame, Tim Shadbolt, Carmen, Hone Tuwhare, Jean Watson and Barry Crump, and culminated in a series of bombings that rocked Auckland at the end of the decade.

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In 2013 the Hautapu family went through the extremely traumatic experience of their 7 year-old daughter Quinn being diagnosed with brain cancer. Quinns mother, Roanne Barnes Hautapu, has written a profoundly moving account of what the family went through, living at Ronald McDonald House whilst undergoing treatments at Starship Hospital.

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On 12 July 1863, British and colonial troops crossed Waikato Moris northern border, instigating the Waikato War. This book tells the story of the Queens Redoubt, and the buildup of military power along the Waikato border, which led directly to the most significant campaign of the New Zealand Wars, the invasion of the Waikato.

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Russell Tregonning's memoir takes the reader through his medical career - from introducing pioneering techniques in reconstructive surgery, to personal struggles with depression, medical mishaps, run-ins with senior surgeons, and sexism in the workplace. It is a fascinating look behind the facade of one of the most respected of professions.

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The Nazis have won WWII - in the occupied countries of Britain and Europe small resistance forces combat each other and the German SS to overthrow the fascist rule. Meanwhile Hitler is senile and dying as his top commanders plot to become the next Fuhrer.

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On the Farm: New Zealands Invisible Women tells the fascinating stories of Kiwi farm women predominantly in their own words, and shows how they struggled for greater recognition for their contributions to farming. A valuable contribution to Aotearoa New Zealands record of herstory. - Danna Glendining, Nat. Council for the Employment of Women