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An innovative new collection from an ward-winning NZ poet whose work has been described as `laconic and original

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A fifth volume of poetry from a beloved New Zealand troubadour that includes old favorites, such as "Sad Joke on a Marae" and "Cocoa Cola Jesus and Mitsubishi Mary." It explores topics such as nature and landscape, love and war, poverty and racism, and the poet's Maori ancestry.

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For many Kiwi baby boomers, growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s was a special time heaps of playmates, freedom to run wild, and opportunity to exercise imagination. Pete Majendies stories of his childhood in New Brighton capture those experiences.

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'A Feeling for Food' began as a letter to two sons leaving home, giving them the recipes of the food they'd grown up with so they could feed themselves, but Lis Cowey soon realised she was giving them another kind of nourishment that was all about who they were, where they'd come from and the adventures awaiting them.

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"Poems are born to blow a kiss at everlasting life as they rise to the rim of language then bubble and cascade over" says Kevin Ireland, one of New Zealands best-loved and richly lived poets in this, his 24th collection. Here are poems that make us laugh, reflect, question, celebrate "its poetry going about its stunning business once again."

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Peter Bland's poems have an ecstatic sensibility and a vividly personal voice, or voices. In this new collection Peter continues his search for 'a lost sense of the sacred' and explores his 'wanting to be a child again.' These are poems of recovery and intervention, full of the intoxicating feeling his work evokes.

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90-year-old Christchurch author lives through a pandemic and keeps writing about the joys of the life in front of her.

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This book takes a global perspective, tracing the development of children's literature from ancient stories such as Aesop's Fables and the Indian Panchatantra, to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to the highly collectable Ladybird books of the 20th century, and up to modern classics and bestsellers such as the Harry Potter series.

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The story of Tony Hunter-Choat's service in the elite 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment of the Foreign Legion during the Algerian War. It draws on the unpublished memoir of this much decorated legionnaire: Commander of the Legion d'Honneur, Medaille Militaire and three awards of the Croix de la Valeur Militaire.

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In 2015 Natalie was diagnosed with breast cancer. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, she found new ways of coping as the illness progressed and became incurable. Hers is a story of diagnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies - but also of faith and community, hope and family.

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As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of 'sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia...'.

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"As well as the poems from Lonie's published volumes, [this collection] includes over a hundred unpublished works, two essays and an extensive commentary"--Jacket.

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In Anatomy, Jamie Trowers unique voice took the reader into the world of a person living with physical disability. In his new work he delves into mental health and its many faces.

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A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska, himself raised in Karori, retraces Mansfield's old ground: the sights, sounds and smells of the rickety colonial capital.

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A collection of contemporary creative writing from emerging and celebrated writers. The works are at once individual and part of a larger, compelling conversation that spans years and miles. Pip Adam This collection is banging a drum. Jane Arthur

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Memoir by former managing director of Montana Wines, Peter Hubscher. Covers Montanas early days through to its emergence as NZs biggest winemaker and exporter.