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The Raurimu Massacre took place on 8 February 1997, at Raurimu Lodge. Six people died, including Steve's own father. In Steve's own words, learn what went wrong, how he made his recovery, and now leads a meaningful life post detention in forensic mental health units, and committing one of New Zealand's worse mass shootings.

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A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealands place in the world, then and now.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.