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A companion, not a catalogue, to an exhibition of Brasch's (1909-73) collection of manuscripts, photographs, paintings, and books at the University of Otago Library. Writers, critics, academics, and librarians celebrate his life and work. Several paintings are reproduced in colour.

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Long-awaited biography of one of NZs first women poets and travel writers also a prison reformer, humanitarian, botanist and conservationist. One of the first writers with an authentic NZ voice.

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In the life-affirming sequel to Welcome to St Hell, author, illustrator and filmmaker, Lewis Hancox, gives guidance and wisdom to his past self, helping him navigate what it takes to become the man he wants to be - from his first chin hair to his first bromance. This funny and honest personal story shows what it truly means to find self-acceptance.

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Rare first hand account of the US withdrawal from Kabul through the eyes of a civilian.

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This book presents Edward Little's memoir of Phillip Tapsell with editing and annotation. Part 1 discusses Tapsell's life as a Pakeha-Maori; Part 2 reproduces Little's original manuscript; and Part 3 summarises key events, examines the manuscript as an artefact, and includes accounts of Tapsell's life and how that has been interpreted in Denmark.

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This memoir charts the author's breakdown after migrating from New Zealand to England: what begins as homesickness and career burn-out develops into depression, contamination phobia and OCD.

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Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherhood, the creative impulse and the blurred line between imagination and reality.

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Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldnt be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. Overall it is a story of survival.

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Autobiographical readable/humorous account of ten years as an experimental/military test pilot at MOD Boscombe Down.

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A range of appropriate texts have been selected that seek to demonstrate the changing face of Science Fiction over time. Detailed analysis of the conventions, themes, techniques and contextual impact has been provided to help teachers develop and deepen student understanding, critical evaluation and personal interpretation.

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A restless 17-year-old seeking fame, fortune (and romance) goes hitchhiking with three older girls. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life.

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In this fascinating book, an Italian literary scholar traces the story of his grandparents childhood on Stromboli, Italy, at the end of the 19th century, and their later immigration to New Zealand. Painting a lively picture of life in Island Bay, New Zealands Little Italy, from 1900 to the 1960s, this book weaves events and themes into a moving story of the familys moments of joy and sorrow.

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Elizabeth's father took his own life in 2012. Unable to find words of her own to write about what had happened, she took them instead from 'Twelve Angry Men' and combined them with the NZ Govt's `Fact Sheet 4 - Suicide and Self-Harm'. Armed with this limited dictionary, she was able to write poems that are by turns mournful, angry and searching.

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Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with the ghazal, a traditional form, which she first met via the work of Agha Shahid Ali and Mimi Khalvati. The poems are presented as an intellectual challenge to students of the ghazal and glosa forms, encouraging them to develop their own craft.

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From a long-drop that demands binoculars to Caberfeidh in the Catlins where his father picked plums from the passing train, Richard Langston writes poems that return over and over to the land.

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"The authors have interviewed over 30 theatre practitioners to tell the story of Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa from 1984 to 2016. This lively book showcases playwrights, directors and performers whose heritage lies in Samoa, Niue, Fiji, Tonga, Tokelau and the Cook Islands"--Back cover.

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Fly Boy - poems about planes and the people who fly them - celebrates a lifelong fascination with flight.

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