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In 1966, international con-man Robert Gardner brought a highly skilled crew of grifters to New Zealand to pull off one of the biggest swindles in the country's history.

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Tmati Te Ito Ngmoke, a renowned Taranaki prophet, played a significant role in colonial New Zealands political landscape. This book uncovers his story and impact on Aotearoas history.

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Richards thinks his way into and through moments in the human condition, pausing to be surprised, to tease out a realisation, to share a half-shrugging joke or a laconic, lyrical epiphany. - David Hill

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A translation of Homer's poem of war which is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. This volume retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.

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A beautifully illustrated collection of haiku poetry from the 100 most famous Japanese poets.

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In The Intimacy Bus, award-winning poet Janet Charman reckons with some of life's heaviest traffic: bereavement, grief, ageing, loneliness, gender, sexual identity, power and inequality. Shorn of sentiment, direct and uncompromising, Janet Charman's The Intimacy Bus arrives as an irrepressible affirmation of love, life and lesbian desire.

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The poems in this fine collection reveal Lorna Staveley Anker as New Zealand's first woman war poet. She was a "war widow" of WWII--a civilian casualty in the "unsung generation." This collection contains the best of her published poems and a substantial number never seen before.

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The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree tells the stories of over 100 running related athletes and coaches, focusing on the interconnections between the generations as well as the important relationships within those generations. It has well-grounded roots, a strong trunk and vast experience, knowledge and inspiration coursing through its branches.

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A moving personal story of love, loss and prejudice, woven around Wiremu Maopo's service to his country during the First World War

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The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of the World War II in Asia.

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Recognised internationally as one of the 20th centurys great modernist innovators, Len Lye is most famous for his avant-garde experimental films and astonishing and playful kinetic sculptures. This timely and richly illustrated collection of essays considers Lyes place in modern art from a variety of fascinating and thought-provoking angles.

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The first ever English language biography of Erich Honecker, covering his entire life and career. Never before published details of Honecker's first marriage, his exotic private life and fractious relationship with Walter Ulbricht.

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Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlows The Moon in a Bowl of Water is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his craft.

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In this fascinating memoir, New Zealander Sir Donald McIntyre looks back over a huge slice of operatic history and his role in it. Mixing fun and gossip with judgement and insight, he brings to life a teeming gallery of the world's movers and shakers in the opera world of two generations.

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The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The angelically beautiful but fragile paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth.

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The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutral.