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• A Fence Around the Cuckoo

  Park, Ruth, 1917-2010

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  Ruth Park is a NZ born writer who spent most of her life in Australia. Known for her fiction, this is the first of two volumes that make up her autobiography, telling the story of her childhood in New Zealand in the 1920/30's a time of great…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Archive

  Feltham, Flora

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  Highlighting the importance of "keeping the scraps of the past from the bin of today". Pōneke/Wellington based Archivist, Writer, and Winner of the 2021 Letteri Family Prize for Creative Non-fiction, Flora Feltham explores the idea of human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beautiful Afternoon

  Beautrais, Airini

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  Ockham Book award-winner Airini Beautrais tackles non-fiction in "The Beautiful Afternoon", a stunning collection of essays which explore the people we are and how we change. With pieces on literature, sea hags, solo travel, environmentalism, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Otherhood

  Essays About Being Childless, Childfree and Child-adjacent

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  The choice to be childfree has been gaining momentum in Aotearoa New Zealand. 'Otherhood' is a series of thought-provoking essays by a variety of NZ writers who have found themselves living outside of the traditional Western family norms as an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Innerland

  a Journey Through the Everyday Landscape of New Zealand

  Vance, Matt

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  Local Horomaka/Banks Peninsula writer Matt Vance combines essay and memoir to explore the more unseen or typically mundane influences of the everyday that can shape images, words, and memories. Both witty and expressive, 'Innerland' provides a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Things I Learned at Art School

  Dunn, Megan

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  Tinderbox writer Megan Dunn brings her satiric sensibilities, personal reflections and trademark humour to growing up in New Zealand during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Expect a healthy dash of vinegar, especially when she pulls back the curtain on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tranquillity and Ruin

  McLauchlan, Danyl, 1974-

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  Danyl McLauchlan delves deep into mysticism and neuroscience and reflects on what makes us think and how we feel. Examining human consciousness could be dry and heavy but Danyl brings a light, reflective touch with more than a dash of humour,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Commercial Hotel

  Summers, John, 1983-

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  Meet John Summers at The Commercial Hotel 's lounge bar and prepare to be transported to the freezing works, a tramp in the bush, the rubbish dump, moments of life and death including murder, Pacific islands and several trains of the world. Be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Climate Aotearoa

  What's Happening & What Can We Do About It?

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  Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has assembled scientists, engineers, researchers and social advocates to assess our national bill of health when it comes to global warming. Thorough and practical with a research-based mix of calmness and urgency…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Turangawaewae

  Identity & Belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand

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  If you want to examine what it means to be a Kiwi and how our society ticks this book is for you. The editors have assembled researchers and academics to probe the origins of our society and in what directions it is developing. The new edition…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bloody Woman

  Essays

  Lopesi, Lana, 1992-

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  Writer, art critic and researcher Lana Lopesi articulates the challenges Pasifika women face in New Zealand society. Lopesi connects with big, societal ideas by writing candidly about her personal experience. Mixing in traditional beliefs completes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tree Sense

  Ways of Thinking About Trees

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  Ecologists, a poet laureate, Māori environmentalists, artists and science writers present a vigorous defence of trees. In one essay Christchurch's Dr Colin Meurk packs in ecological history, mentions Covid-19 and promotes the growing of natives in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kia Whakanuia Te Whenua

  People, Place, Landscape

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  Academics, environmental scientists, iwi representatives and architects from Aotearoa argue that a Māori-led approach will help restore the environmental health of an ailing Land of the Long White Cloud. Topics include urban planning, protecting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can You Tolerate This?

  Personal Essays

  Young, Ashleigh

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  Kiwi writer Ashleigh Young won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University with this dazzling collection where she examines, among other subjects, a rare skeletal disease, a stone-collecting French postman, the music scene in 1990s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mau Moko

  the World of Māori Tattoo

  Te Awekōtuku, Ngāhuia, 1949-

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  Artist and academic Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku leads an in-depth examination of moko and its cultural significance in Aotearoa. As well as the history of traditional Māori tattoo, the stories of moko artists and "wearers" are also presented.

• The COVID Chronicles

  Lessons From New Zealand

  Little, Paul, 1957-

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  Paul Little explores 2020's Covid lockdown in Aotearoa by weaving together reflections and experiences from leading New Zealanders including microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles, finance minister Grant Robertson, funeral directors Francis and Kaiora…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inequality

  a New Zealand Crisis

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  Academics, policy advisers, researchers and economists traverse the growing gap between rich and poor and how it affects people's lives in the areas of health, housing, education, welfare and crime and punishment. Journalist and editor Max…Read moreRead more of this annotation