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For over 50 years the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has been at the forefront of protecting Aotearoa New Zealands natural environments. This is the story of how a small organisation took on the establishment and won.

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For more than ten years, the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have organised a biennial writing competition to promote Maori stories and writers. This is a collection of the best short stories and novel extracts from the 2015 awards. The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English, Best Short Story written in Maori and Best Novel Extract.

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(Paperback)

Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. In these 18 stories we meet a girl in a standoff with the neighbourhood goose killer, a druggy who turns possums into pop culture icons, and an emotional support animal gone wild.

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A collection of short stories in which a variety of characters face individual challenges. Their experiences are rendered freshly, in sharp detail, and with surprises. Human frailty and resilience are on display in stories that are both amusing and moving.

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Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story collections celebrating the art of short fiction in Aotearoa New Zealand. These 13 stories, set in New Zealand and in the UK, are a testament to Gunn's unrivalled ability to look directly into the troubled human heart and draw out what dwells there.

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Rupa Maitra's dbut collection of short stories lures us into diverse worlds. Some of her stories spring from her background in music and medicine, some from her Bengali heritage and all from a vivid imagination.

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(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The people in these stories do not speak very much, these people plant gardens, chop wood, make jam - everyday tasks that go on through grief and pleasure, childhood and old-age, making a framework for endurance. They are 'Ordinary people'. This title presents the stories that echo the precisely observed landscape of the author's poems.

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Zetties fictional story. She stops talking, at age seven, and starts to listen to the worlds she finds in language and books, and to the people and places she encounters as she moves across continents.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Past. Present. Future.These eighteen stories mark Barbara Elses return to fiction for adults. They are notable for their range in genre and tone, from realism to science fiction and fantasy, from subversive humour and sharp satire to thoughtful and humane contemplation of the human condition.

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Twenty funny, tender, compassionate, sharply observed stories whose subjects range from a woman cooking up a storm to fend off a lover; a woman who is arrested for drunk driving after attending a wedding anniversary; a meditation on breasts; a cat called Min, and three sisters who commemorate their mother each year with a piano recital.

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In Emma Neales first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships.

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Third collection of original writing edited by Marco Sonzogni. 'Visible Cities' features eleven emerging Aotearoa authors under the age of thirty who have each taken a city and written a short story that pays tribute to Italo Calvino and addresses the bigger themes that shape their city in the twenty-first century.

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(Paperback)

Reincarnation drama gets sent into overdrive in this tale full of romance and scheming -- and don't miss the manga adaptation, also from Seven Seas!

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Reincarnation drama gets sent into overdrive in this tale full of romance and scheming - and don't miss the manga adaptation, also from Seven Seas!

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In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the worlds best-selling and best-loved authors. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchetts long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,;

(Paperback, Main)

A poignant and compelling collection of short stories about those whose lives have been marked by the risk of displacement, from the winner of the AKO Caine Prize

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Fourteen stories that explore love, identity, politics, fantasy and a fresh take on an age-old fairy tale, transporting readers into the heart of contemporary writing from Assam.

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A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and The Ten Thousand Doors of January.

(Hardback)

We asked listeners to be honest, creative, funny, engaging and evocative in their writing to try to make us laugh, cry and think. We never imagined we would get the quantity and quality of entries that we did for A Page from My Life. Ray DArcy