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The account of the 1956 visit to the People's Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders. At the centre of the book is the diary kept by Canterbury Museum director Roger Duff, detailing his efforts to bring to Christchurch the collection of antiquities gifted to the museum by Rewi Alley.

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(Paperback)

New Zealand's history is peppered with mysterious tales of otherworldly beings, strange sightings, inexplicable disappearances and unusual crimes. In this book, Scott Bainbridge turns his investigative skills towards some of the best-known of these mysteries.

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Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddick's third collection of poetry, Next, examines the past, observes the present and speculates on the future.

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Ngaio Marshs 1943 Hamlet production typescript is reproduced here for the first time, together with Douglas Lilburns especially commissioned incidental music score. An introduction by Polly Hoskins examines the staging of the production and the wartime context in which the play was performed. A note from Robert Hoskins introduces Lilburns music.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

This is the biography of Ngoingoi Pewhairangi a highly respected leader who was passionate about the revitalisation and flourishing of the Maori world. She actively introduced initiatives in education, langauge and the arts, receiving a QSM for her services to Maori. Mainly in English with some te reo Maori text.

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The story of the second half of Nigel's career as one of the most famous referees in World Rugby and one of only two Welsh refs ever to officiate at a Rugby World Cup Final, including the full story of his last Rugby World Cup in 2019.

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Lauris Edmond (1924-2000) is described by the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature as "one of the most significant, assured and accessible of contemporary poetic voices, and as a widely read autobiographer and commentator."

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Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Stevens Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.

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No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand.

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One of New Zealand's leading mountaineers, Dave Vase, recounts his outdoor life, caving and rafting, before turning to climbing. In 2015, a relatively minor slip resulted in a broken neck, and incomplete tetraplegia. Dave's brave, compelling story concludes with how he makes sense of a changed life now lived in a wheelchair, far from the mountains.

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After Sarah Jane Barnett had a hysterectomy in her forties, a comment by her doctor that she wouldnt be less of a woman prompted her to investigate what the concept of womanhood meant to her. Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, part coming-of-middle-age story, Notes on Womanhood is the result.

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Now When It Rains: A writer's memoir

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(Paperback)

The Burns Fellowship is New Zealand's oldest and most prestigious literary residency. Iconic writers like Janet Frame, James K Baxter and Owen Marshall, and effervescent newcomers such as Jo Randerson, Alison Wong and Sue Wootton have each spent a year at its host, the University of Otago. This book provides a history of this cultural institution.

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In O me voy o te vas / One of us must go, love is a powerful magnet that attracts and repels in equal measure. In this lyrical collection, Rogelio Guedea (with English translations by Roger Hickin) examines what it means to share ones life with another person and questions whether and how love can survive realitys steady tap-drip repetitions.

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In this, the first book to consider Olivia Spencer Bower's life and work, art historian Julie King offers, through a lively and impeccably researched text and a selection of watercolours, paintings, drawings, prints and illustrations, a superb evocation of one of the most important and vital artists New Zealand has produced.

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Debut collection from Wellington poet and dancer, originally from South India. Rao writes about the Asian and migrant experience in Aotearoa. She performs with Meow Gurrrls and participated in the International Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2019.

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