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The Spinoff Book by Toby Manhire

$38.00 NZD

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Category: Anthologies & Essays

Five years ago, The Spinoff burst onto New Zealand's media scene with smart, screamingly funny and seriously relevant writing. Since then, it has enraged and inspired all the right people, respectably won Website of the Year at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards, and expanded into television, podcasts a nd now - shockingly - a book. Edited by Toby Manhire, it's jam-packed with The Spinoff's best work, along with full-colour artwork by Toby Morris, photography, collage, poetry and a clutch of new and exclusive essays. Simon Wilson, Jemaine Clement, Lorde, and Jesse Mulligan rub shoulders with Spinoff stars like Alex Casey, Madeleine Chapman and Emily Writes. From Shortland Street to sports, feminism to fashion and current events to Kiwi onion dip, this is an engrossing, original take on everything that matters in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 21st century. Featuring: Toby Morris Hera Lindsay Bird Leonie Hayden Mich le A'Court Ashleigh Young Lorde Jemaine Clement Alex Casey Madeleine Chapman Duncan Greive Simon Wilson Aldous Harding Emily Writes Scotty Stevenson David Farrier ...and more "The Spinoff is where we find stories no one else is covering . . . stories we need to hear." 2019 Voyager Media Awards Judges "Right now, every left-leaning, media-savvy, university-educated hipster you know (and probably their baby-boomer parents) is reading The Spinoff." Sunday magazine "Crap and a waste of our money." Mike Hosking ...Show more

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Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley

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Category: NZ Non-Fiction

Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visited the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincided with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 was the ful filment of a dream that took root in a childhood full of books, art and science and grew stronger during her time as a geology student in the 1980s. She is to travel south twice more, spending time with Antarctic scientists including paleo-climatologists, biologists, geologists, glaciologists exploring the landscape, marvelling at wildlife from orca to tardigrades, and occasionally getting very cold. A constant companion for Priestley is her anxiety both the kind that is brought on by flying to the bottom of the world in a military aeroplane; and the kind that clouds our thoughts of how our world will be for our children. Writing against the backdrop of Trump's America, extreme weather events, and scientist's projections for Earth's climate, she grapples with the truths we need to tell ourselves as we stand on a tightrope between hope for the planet, and catastrophic change. Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour, Priestley reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about Earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place? ...Show more

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Someone's Wife by Linda Burgess

$37.00 NZD

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Category: Anthologies & Essays

A brilliant collection of personal essays from a quietly subversive writer. These pieces read like the freshest of recent novels: clever, restrained and wittily observant. They range across the personal and the observational. There are essays on her lifetime of being an All Black wife (once an AB, alway s an AB); her love of teaching, education and the young; and a powerful essay on the death of her baby, Toby, striking in its honesty.  Linda is interested in family and friendship; shared and sometimes distorted memories. Her personal truths link to universal truths. Linda explores the era in which she grew up, and her experiences are timeless. She looks at living overseas, at children leaving home, at house-hunting in Wellington, at travelling with a grandchild, at Leonard Cohen concerts as tribal gatherings.  In the hands of a writer as accomplished as Linda Burgess, these essays are riveting and engaging. ...Show more

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All Who Live On Islands by Rose Lu

$30.00 NZD

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All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas to explo re friendship, the weight of stories told and not told about diverse cultures, and the reverberations of our parents' and grandparents' choices. Frank and compassionate, Rose Lu's stories illuminate the cultural and linguistic questions that migrants face, as well as what it is to be a young person living in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand. ...Show more

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Still Counting: Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-making (BWB Text) by Marilyn Waring

$15.00 NZD

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Category: Anthologies & Essays

30 years ago, Marilyn Waring's ground-breaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and ev en made into a film. Today, many people hope that the shift to a wellbeing approach - moving beyond narrow economic indicators when assessing New Zealand's progress - will mean women's work is finally valued fairly. But what does Marilyn Waring make of it? This short book provides an essential assessment of wellbeing economics from a leading feminist scholar. ...Show more

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Life on Volcanoes: Contemporary Essays by Tze Ming Mok; Tui Gordon; Tulia Thompson; Courtney Sina Meredith

$25.00 NZD

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This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social and political discourse - housed within a small, covetable, high quality hard-cover book complete with colour illustrations. The contributors are Tze Ming Mo k, Tui Gordon, Tulia Thompson and Courtney Sina Meredith. ...Show more

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Fresh Ink: A Collection of Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand 2019 by Collated by James George

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Category: NZ Fiction

From the historical to the fantastical, the real to the surreal, this exciting anthology of New Zealand fiction, poetry, and artwork presents the varied voices and styles of New Zealand writing at its best – exhibiting work from established and award-winning authors as well as some lively ‘f resh ink’ from previously unpublished literary voices. The second in this popular series, Fresh Ink 2019 is collated by James George.  The cover of the book was designed by Suzanne Day. Kārearea, the endemic New Zealand falcon featured on the cover, is Aotearoa’s most threatened bird of prey. To help ensure the voice of kārearea continues to be heard by future generations, a donation from the sale of each book will contribute to falcon conservation. ...Show more

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DIRT by Gemma Walsh (Recipes) and Katie Kerr (Editor)

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Category: Cooking, Food & Wine

Dirt is an beautifully crafted cookbook that digs into the relationship between food and words. Twelve earthy recipes from chef Gemma Walsh are accompanied by a collection of stories, poems and conversations from some of New Zealand’s contemporary writers. The collection is the result of a series of brunches, lunches and dinners held at Walsh’s Grey Lynn villa over the winter of 2018. On each occasion, a writer was invited to join the hosts for a meal—a plant-based recipe artfully concocted by Walsh. The writer was then asked to respond to the experience with a piece of writing. The resulting texts unearth a range of narratives on memory, culture and place. Texts by Courtney Sina Meredith, Lana Lopesi, Amy Weng, Rosabel Tan, Dominic Huey, Vanessa Crofskey, Natasha Matila-Smith, Owen Connors, Liam Jacobson, Reem Musa, Gabi Lardies and Sam Walsh. ...Show more

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Landfall 237 - Autumn 2019 by Emma Neale

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Category: Anthologies & Essays | Series: Landfall Ser.

Featured artists: Sharon Singer, Ngahuia Harrison, Peter Trevelyan. Awards & Competitions: Results and winning essays from the 2019 Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition, and judges report by Emma Neale. Writers: John Adams, Peter Bland, Laura Borrowdale, Bill Bradford, Iain Britton, Medb C harleton, Stephen Coates, Carolyn DeCarlo, John Dennison, Lynley Edmeades, David Eggleton, Joan Fleming, Jasmine Gallagher, John Gallas, Brett Gartrell, John Geraets, Tim Grgec, Michael Hall, Rebecca Hawkes, Joy Holley, Aaron Horrell, Gail Ingram, Claudia Jardine, Sam Keenan, Erik Kennedy, Arihia Latham, Jessica Le Bas, Wes Lee, Tina Makereti, Ria Masae, Cilla McQueen, Zoë Meager, Robynanne Milford, Sean Monaghan, Art Nahill, Kavita Nandan, Rachel ONeill, Maris ORourke, Claire Orchard, Joanna Preston, essa may ranapiri, Anna Rankin, Jeremy Roberts, Leanne Radojkovich, Carrie Rudzinski, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Sarah Shirley, Rachel Smith, Elizabeth Smither, Catherine Trundle, Kirsteen Ure, Tam Vosper, Tom Weston, Anna Woods, Kirby Wright Reviews: Landfall Review Online: books recently reviewed, John Dennison on Collected Poems by Allen Curnow, eds Elizabeth Caffin and Terry Sturm Michael Hulse on Allen Curnow by Terry Sturm, ed. Linda Cassells, Tracey Slaughter on Carolines Bikini by Kirsty Gunn, Philip Temple on Charles Brasch Journals 19581973, ed. Peter Simpson, Lynley Edmeades on louder, by Kerrin P. Sharpe; Enclosures 4 by Bill Direen; and Luxembourg by Stephen Oliver, Airhia Latham on Tāngata Ngāi Tahu /People of Ngāi Tahu (Vol. 1), eds Helen Brown and Takerai Norton ...Show more

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Sport 47 (2019) by Edited by Tayi Tibble

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Category: Anthologies & Essays

Edited by Tayi Tibble

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Strong Words 2019 - The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition by Emma Neale (Selected by)

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Category: Anthologies & Essays

Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submissions made it impossible to choose. After a nails-bitten-to-the-quick struggle, she optimistically submitted her shortlist of 21 essays.The publisher had so me strong words with her. Emma was told a shortlist needed to be shorter than 21. A lot shorter. There were no fingernails left to chew. She wasnt flexible enough to bite her toes. The only thing left to gnaw down was the too-long list. In the end she pared the list back to 10 but it seemed so wasteful not to be awarding many more prizes. The world needed to be able to read these damned fine essays. Thats when this book was born ... Strong Words is a striking collection of essays that show what Virginia Woolf once described as the art that can at once sting us wide awake and yet also fix us in a trance which is not sleep but rather an intensification of life. It celebrates an extraordinary year in New Zealand writing. ...Show more

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Geometry: Issue Four Nov / Dec 2018 by Harley Hern & Sophie van Waardenberg (editor)

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Category: Anthologies & Essays

  This scintillating issue brings more fabulous work from established and emerging writers, poets and artists around the globe including: Stunning poetry such as Paula Harris's Geometry| The Open Book competition winning 'I Eat Men Like Air', new work by Kerrin P Sharpe, Marianna Collette, Joha nna Emeney, Meagan France, Carl Boon, Anthony Lawrence, Ivy Alvarez, Colleen Nehmer, Mingzhao Xu and David Mohan. Gorgeous graphic art by Jason Hart and Rae Joyce. Fantastic fiction by Kathryn Hummel, Jenny Hayes and Samir Bhimji.  Thought provoking nonfiction by Alie Benge, Katie Culligan and Bonnie Etherington. Colourful collections by artists Holly Roach and Mr G (Graham Hoete). ...Show more

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