The 2014 general election was surely the most bizarre election campaign in New Zealand’s history. Moments of Truthtells the story of a campaign in which: NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Wikileaks founde
A returning hero. A desolate valley. A missing mathematician. A glamorous and beguiling council bureaucrat with a hidden past. A cryptic map leading to an impossible labyrinth. An ancient conspir
Since its grand opening in 1961, Wellington's Futuna Chapel ? devised by architect John Scott and artist Jim Allen ? has held a singular place in New Zealand's cultural history. Futuna: Life of a Buil
"The knowledge of everyone they’re about to hurt is not an element easy to breathe in. They’re the lovers. You can blame them now, if you want to. That’s your choice: this is the director’s cut." Sev
New Zealand's first and longest running professional theater company, the Downstage Theatre in Wellington, is celebrated in this large and lavishly illustrated document of its 40-year life span. From
It set Elizabeth Smither dancing, it enabled Maurice Gee to become a fulltime writer, it allowed Marilyn Duckworth to hire a babysitter. Barry Crump said, ?The New Zealand Literary Fund came across wi
You think of the Brighton Rock film where Helen Mirren still manages to look like Queen Elizabeth, especially when she wears a headscarf. You think of the poem you wrote about leaving a house, and
New Zealand was an early adopter of DNA forensic technology. It has now been 20 years since the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995 was introduced, and since then the range and power of
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Unsettling yet thought-provoking musings on religion, relationships, and responsibility intermingle in this collection of weird and wonderful cautionary tales.
Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand Literature interrogates the relationships between genre, realism and New Zealand literature. What modes of writing have been deemed more appropriate than
What do ancient Greece and Rome have to do with New Zealand? More than you might think. Athens to Aotearoa collects essays from some of New Zealand’s most important artistic and critical voices
In Douglas Lilburn’s famous address to the 1946 Cambridge Summer School of Music, the composer described his ‘search for tradition’ in the music of New Zealand and spelled out his ho
In the silence she could hear the oncoming hum, like a large flock approaching. She didn’t want to hear his story; she’d had enough of them. Tess is on the run when she’s picked up f
The Fuse Box gathers essays from the writing community to shine fresh light on the creative process. Editors Emily Perkins and Chris Price have invited some of our best writers to share their strategi
She is made of bloodshe raises herself upto be seenThe superb second book by the author of the acclaimed 2013 collection Other Animals traces the course of a failing marriage, while illuminating the w
This is a book about how New Zealanders have been inspired by visions for peace. Focusing on diverse Christian communities, it explores some of the ways that peace has influenced their practices, life
In 2016, Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler proposed and published a written, codified constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand. Since then the authors have travelled the country, discussing with the
In a series of backroom negotiations in 1956, the National Government and Labour Opposition agreed to put aside adversarial politics temporarily and entrench certain significant electoral rules. For a
