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Absolutely Kids order quantity
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NZ$ 17.95 each
Author: Katie and Roz Walker
 
AUP New Poets 2 order quantity
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NZ$ 21.95 each
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Author: Stu Bagby
This is the second volume in AUP's occasional series presenting new poets (Sonja Yelich, Jane Gardner and Stu Bagby) to the growing poetry-reading audience.

While the three poets here have distinctive voices of their own, each explores childhood memories and families past and present in ways that will strike a chord in many readers.

Stu Bagby writes in spare simple language about brief intense moments in ordinary lives, sometimes drawing on his own experience, sometimes on the fleeting glimpses of strangers in crisis he catches in his work as a gravedigger.

Sonja Yelich pieces together colourful pictures of a New Zealand childhood haunted by a harsh European past and adds to the mix the voices and dramas of her own four children in contemporary Devonport.

Jane Gardner's poems too move back and forth in time, from recalling the past to observing the present. They are scenes of house and street, in ... more
 
Baches and Holiday Homes to Rent order quantity
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NZ$ 19.95 each
Author: Mark and Elizabeth Greening
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Change of Heart order quantity
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NZ$ 27.95 each
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Author: Barbara Anderson
Oliver Gurth Perkins is 75, and the darkest cloud on his horizon is that the local bookshop no longer stocks collected volumes of the Times cryptic crosswords. He has an easy companionship with his wife; his dental practice is undemanding; his son is a decent enough sort; and his granddaughter who comes for the school holidays is a delight. But when a minor heart episode convinces Oliver that it’s time to put a little more time into the lives of those close to him, further shocks are in store . . .

Change of Heart traces Olly’s passage from the desolation of his first realisation that Hester is quite happy with the way things are and has no desire for more intimate communication with him, to his happy embrace of an extended family life.

Change of Heart is a glittering jewel of a book, an audacious mixture of comic invention and sensitive human insight that is Barbara Anderson at her very best.
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Changing Colours : The Irene Van Dyk Story - out of print order quantity
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NZ$ 34.95 each
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Author: Russell Gray
In this revealing new biography by leading sportswriter Russell Grey, Irene talks frankly about the issues, controversies, challenges and rewards of her decision to change colours. Also included are interviews and comments by team mates, leading opponents and coaches, such as Jill Macintosh (current Australian coach), Vicki Wilson (Australia’s ex-captain and living legend), New Zealand coach Yvonne Willering and leading Silver Ferns. There is also extensive coverage and commentary on the inter-dominion netball series during the past two years, along with behind-the-scenes comments from players closely involved in the games.
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Classical Music order quantity
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NZ$ 27.95 each
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Author: Cowley, Joy
Delia and Bea, sisters, but never close. Delia lives a glamorous life in New York and Bea lives thousands of miles away in New Zealand, looking after elderly parents and playing the role of dutiful daughter. Delia and Bea both long for the warmth and intimacy of sisterhood, but it always eludes them.

When Delia rushes home for their father's funeral there is an opportunity to spend some time together, but Delia and Bea move in orbit around each other, both recalling grievances and hurts, neither prepared to admit their need for each other.

But as the day of the funeral passes, memories are unlocked: memories of their mother and her passion for music, memories of their father and memories of a magical summer and a man they had all loved.
 
Dog - out of print order quantity
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NZ$ 21.95 each
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Author: C K Stead
A new collection of accessible and provocative poems from a leading writer whose poetry has been in recent years as prolific and impressive as his fiction.
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Dogside Story order quantity
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NZ$ 27.95 each
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Author: Patricia Grace
Set in a rural Maori coastal community, the humour and aroha of the community are powerful life preserving factors. But there is conflict in the whanau. Te Rua is battling for custody of his daughter against his two aunts. But why are they disputing custody and what is really going on?.
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Ellie and the Shadow Man - out of print order quantity
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NZ$ 34.95 each
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Author: Maurice Gee
This superb new novel from the bestselling Maurice Gee is the story of Ellie. It is a story in five parts, each languishing on a significant period of her life.

It ranges from the 1950s when, as a girl, she lived in a YWCA hostel in Lower Hutt, to her twenties where she lives on a commune in Nelson, through to middle age, as she raises a son and becomes a painter. During this time she becomes involved with a series of rather feckless, forgettable men but also, most importantly of all, she becomes a painter of distinction. But her canvasses are haunted by an enigmatic ghostly figure she thinks of as her shadow man, elusive but ever present.

Gee's new novel contains elements of his earlier book Loving Ways and also The Burning Boy, in its location in Nelson and Golden Bay. There are strong touches of the New Zealand backdrop - the 1981 Tour, the Nelson artists' scene, whitebaiting on the West Coast, the wildfoods festival, and so ... more
 
Gentlemen in My Garden: Plants Named After People, Mostly Men order quantity
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NZ$ 21.95 each
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Author: Fay Clayton
 
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire order quantity
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NZ$ 49.95 each
Author: Gibbons
 
Hang on a Minute Mate order quantity
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NZ$ 19.95 each
Author: Barry Crump
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High Tide order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
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Author: Bernard Rhodes
With so much coastline, it was almost inevitable that New Zealand would spawn a nation of sailors. And with our relative isolation from the world, a sense of adventure is nearly as predetermined. Combine the two and you have a recipe for the indomitable men and women in High Tide. People like Danny who, aged four, virtually moved aboard his rubber dinghy; aged eight, taught himself to sail a trimaran, and aged twelve bought a near derelict Hartley 16 and restored it. Also featured is Duncan and his trimaran, Krisis, which won the first Coastal Classic in 1982. Much slower, but no less interesting, is Destiny, a pirate ship that runs on waste Canola oil collected from takeaway outlets: when she goes chugging past, all in her wake get hungry! Coffee features on Daisy Belle, home to a family of four in the Bay of Islands. Built in 1938, she was a kauri-constructed fishing boat until she sank about 30 years ago. The Boswell family bought ... more
 
How to Make Money Out of Antiques order quantity
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NZ$ 24.95 each
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Author: Judith Miller
 
Images of New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 12.95 each
Author: Buddy Mikaere
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In Endless Fear order quantity
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NZ$ 34.95 each
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Author: Colin Crump
"He had a length of milking machine hose in his hand and I watched in terror as once more he laid into my brother Barry with a merciless thrashing that just went on and on, Barry just lying there, as he always did, and taking it all. Then he turned on me – they were really ferocious blows. The weapon he had chosen was, without doubt, the worst we had ever endured. I yelled, screamed, pleaded, cried, and of course, wet myself."

This book is Colin Crump’s courageous and heart-warming story of growing up in a New Zealand farming family with his brother Barry.

Stories of an often-idyllic country boyhood, running wild half a century ago, are interwoven with almost unbearable scenes in which an abusive father delivers brutal beatings to his spirited sons. In Endless Fear casts powerful new light on the Crump story.

‘I keep reminding myself that the old man did in fact give me one very great lesson in life. All I had to do was not be ... more
 
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NZ$ 6.95 each
Author: jasons
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Katerina: the Russian World of Katherine Mansfield order quantity
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NZ$ 39.95 each
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Author: Joanna Woods
Katherine, or Katya as she liked to be called, became addicted to Russian style during her first trip to London and believed she had a special affinity with the Russian temperament. Her early writing was likened to Russian writing, so much so that critics thought that she actually plagiarised Chekov.

Mansfield took on Russian lovers, attended the Ballet Russe and Russian concerts and plays, wore Russian-style clothing and threw herself into reading Russian literature. She even died with the Russians, at a bizarre commune run by the Rasputin-styled guru, Gurdieff.

This new biography gives an intimate view of a more colourful and warmer Katherine Mansfield, and a fascinating slant on the Bloomsbury world of people like D.H. Lawrence, Otteline Morrell and Virginia Woolf.

Revealing and original.
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Life (and Death) in a Small City Garden order quantity
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NZ$ 24.95 each
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Author: Philippa Swan
When her tiny but perfect city courtyard garden transformed itself into an estuarine mudflat (minus wading birds) in the rain, landscape architect Philippa Swan knew it was time for a change. She couldn't exactly visualise her new garden but she knew it should be a shortcut out of the city, a 'somewhere-else garden'. Life (And Death) In A Small City Garden tells of the disasters and triumphs of making a real garden in an area the size of a single-car garage. Along with tips for using hair dryers and sticky tape in the garden, and turning wine into water, it offers a Mars and Venus explanation for why men like hairy fantasies and growing really big pumpkins, and insights into why courtyard gardens live fast and die young, This hilarious, candid account of contemporary urban gardening will strike a chord with all gardeners, particularly those besieged by too many grand ideas and not enough cynicism.

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Long Hot Summer order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
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Author: Barbara Anderson
It's 1936, at the beginning of a long, unshadowed summer, when a group of families gathers at the Beach. To enliven their lazy days, James Clements - the most handsome man in the Bay - decides to shoot an amateur cowboy film. James enlists the expertise of local Maori along with the holidaymakers. In doing so, he brings two worlds into collision, and lights the fuse to emotions whose explosion will astonish them all.
Pressed into the eager company of actors is Lorna Hopkins, a discontented thirty-something mother. She and her small daughter Ann take it in turns to describe the sometimes painful, sometimes comic events of their unforgettable summer. Nothing will ever be the same at Laing's Point after the filming of Lust in the Dust.
In Long Hot Summer Barbara Anderson is writing at the top of her form. She has a ruthless eye, a generous heart, and absolutely perfect pitch.
 
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