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101 Incredible Kiwis
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This world beating book profiles an array of the best and most ingenious talent born and bred in New Zealand - it's an invaluable and entertaining record of local and global achievers who have all helped New Zealand compete at an international level across diverse industries such as engineering, fashion, computers, film, astronomy, music and the arts, wine making, business, toys, yachting, science, education and much more. Legendary Kiwi personalities such as Peter Blake, Richard Taylor (WETA), the Finn brothers, Brotha D, Phil Keoghan, Karen Walker, Zinzan Brooke, Bruce McLaren and Sam Morgan join some less well known names in a showcase of extraordinary inventiveness and innovation.
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Book Self : The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic
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For more than 40 years, Karl Stead has been New Zealand's leading literary and cultural critic. Whether writing about Christianity or a trip to Croatia, he always brings a clear personal point of view, a strong analytical bent, and a witty pen to his work. In this latest collection of critical writing, a sequel to his successful books Kin of Place, Answering to the Language and The Writer at Work, Stead takes the reader on a personal journey, from his earliest discovery of poetry as a young man to his experiences on the literary trail over the last few years. And he takes us on a trip through literary history, from Katherine Mansfield and T S Eliot to Michael King and Elizabeth Knox. For the first time, Stead includes in this book a series of journal extracts that allow readers closer to the mind of the writer. "Here the ego is exposed-not quite naked, but now and then with its shirt off," he writes. In Book Self we see a great New
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