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Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son.

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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.

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This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy "Vera" to the controversial "Salome" and the little-known fragments, "La Sainte Courtisane" and "A Florentine Tragedy".

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The sonnets in this collection divide into two parts; the first 126 are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious "Dark Lady". In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes two lengthy poems on classical themes.

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This is an autobiographical account of Marilyn Waring's extraordinary years in parliament. She tells the story of her journey from being elected as a new National Party MP in a conservative rural seat to being publicly decried by the Prime Minister for her `feminist anti-nuclear stance' that threatened to bring down his government.

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In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the ancient Celtic islands of her ancestors. These are words to be visited again and again, by one of this country's most talented writers.

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James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim

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Here is the inside story of all those colourful escapades and Linn's adventures in the Big Apple in the '70s and early '80s, from downtown $20-a-night gigs to uptown's swanky ivories, with stops along the way for marriage, divorce and a baby. The Redhead Gets the Gig is a rollicking yarn - with a heart.

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Michael Clayton was a journalist on Fleet Street - but the highlight of his career was his editorship in the field of horses, especially hunting horses. Here he talks frankly about the Royal family and their horses, his roving hunting brief, racehorse reporting, and all the key characters of the equine world whom he got to know first-hand.

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The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea as a metaphor, a mirror, a companion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nightmares. Dunedin poet Victor Billot finds in the South Pacific Ocean an oracle of the future and a keeper of our histories.

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Lady Barker wrote 18 books, and is perhaps best known for "Station Life in New Zealand", which was republished by Vintage in 2000. The Seven Lives Of Lady Barker, published here for the first time in paperback, is a full account of the rich and turbulent life of this extraordinary woman.

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In this translated classic, Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. He says that we can only be free under the law by voluntarily embracing that law as our own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate all our desires to the collective good, the general will.

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The incredible true story of Olga Trujillo, whose childhood was devastated by sexual abuse and violence. This memoir follows Olga as she splits herself into "parts" and develops dissociative identity disorder to cope with the abuse, and then struggles to merge these parts and overcome the disorder in adulthood.

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First winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry, this book reveals an exciting new Australasian voice.

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The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.