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9780007290451

Dean Spanley: The Novel

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Author: Edward Plunkett,Baron Dunsany

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DoP Dec 2008, uk
Novel & film screenplay

Tie-in to NZ director Toa Fraser's (No 2) film of the same name starring Sam Neill as Dean Spanley. The classic humorous novella about an alcohol-loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog. Complete with the screenplay and photos from the new film starring Peter O'Toole and Sam Neill. Dean Spanley is the very archetype of a bland churchman: affable, conventional, prudent without being a prig. Only his keen interest in the transmigration of souls and almost excessive enthusiasm for dogs betray any shadow of eccentricity. And then, richly primed with a few glasses of Imperial Tokay, he slips over the threshold between past and present and becomes a dog. Or are his canine memories no more than fancy? Surely no mere dean could speak so vividly, with such total conviction, of the joys of hunting, of rolling in fresh dung, of baying the moon? No human could know so much of ... more

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9780958288835

DIY graffiti: the eighth in the Re-Draft series

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NZ$ 30.00 each

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Author: Tessa Duder & James Norcliffe (Editor)

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DoP 2009, Christchurch
A-4/92pp
Softcover
8th annual edition

The 8th annual Re-Draft anthology "DIY Graffiti" once again brings together New Zealand's very best young writers in a dazzling collection which will nudge, bump and in many cases shove you off your seat.

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9781931513173

Drifting at the Bottom of the World

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NZ$ 39.95 each

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Author: Lisa Williams

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USA 2003
After stealing the family icon, An Jones does a runner to escape her life and her past, taking off to Antarctica where she encounters an awe-inspiring landscape and a mysterious storyteller who collects the secrets everyone “leaks and reeks”. Drifting is a compelling novel about one woman’s journey to self-discovery; a mystical, magical adventure tale that transcends age, race and sexuality. Published by American lesbian press Bella Books, with a NZ-based author.

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9781869419912

Ewe Zealand Made

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Author: Colin Langmead

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Colin Langmead's hilarious herd of woolly characters return in Ewe Zealand Made. Following on from the success of The Wool Blacks, the second book in this series expands Colin's ovine repertoire to include subjects such as cars, countries, weather, writers and religion.
Using cartoons from his main flock, the "sheepish" puns and witty visual jokes in Ewe Zealand Made are just as funny as The Wool Blacks.

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9780864736017

Floating Worlds : Essays on Contemporary NZ Fiction

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Author: Anna Jackson & Jane Stafford (eds)

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Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction

First published March 2009, Wellington

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9780582547414

Flying Solo

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Author: Diane Bull

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9781877372933

Landfall 214 : Open House (November 2007)

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NZ$ 41.00 each

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Author: Jack Ross (ed)

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DoP - Nov 2007, Dunedin
208pp
After a number of themed issues, Landfall 214 opens up in a general issue, presenting new voices in poetry and fiction alongside more established writers. Prose writing includes Ted Jenner on Malawi, Stephen Turner on cultural plagiarism and the New Zealand dream of home, Bronwyn Lloyd on doppelganger suicide, and Ouyang Yu on 'the axis of exiles'. There are in-depth reviews of new books from a wide range of publishers, by writers from a variety of perspectives. Eight paintings by cover artist Emma Smith make up the first portfolio, while Gabriel White's photographs of South Korea form the second.

First published November 2007.

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9781869438456

Making Waves

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Author: Linley Jones

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Thirteen-year-old Jazzy is horrified when her parents decide to take the family sailing for a year in Tonga. However, it turns out to be a time of excitement, danger and even terror when the family stumble on a vanilla smuggling operation.

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0379526813013

Mana : vol 13 no.1 2001- special Solomon islands issue

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Author: various

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Mana is a publication of the South Pacific Creative Arts Society. This Society based in Suva and working through the Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific has existed for more than 25 years to encourage creative writing and other creative arts in all Pacific Island countries.

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9781921497209

Mountain Tails : The lives and loves of my animal neighbours

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Author: Sharyn Munro

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Sharyn Munro, author of the acclaimed The Woman on the Mountain, lives alone on her mountaintop refuge, surrounded by nothing but the Australian bush. As the only human resident, she has developed a keen interest in the lives and loves of her animal neighbours and it is their stories that she shares with us now. From quolls to kookaburras, snakes to kangaroos, spiders to koalas, Sharyn has encountered them all and has been both amused and infuriated by their behaviour. After all, how would you feel if your neighbours ate your roses, solicited for sex on your front lawn or took over your shed and wouldn't let you in? So come and take a walk in Sharyn's gumboots, and discover the humorous, intriguing and sometimes poignant world of life on the wild side.

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Redraft - the polar bear ward

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Author: Tessa Duder (editor)

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"Yet again the Re-Draft team has gathered the most exciting writing from our brightest and best new writers." The young writers showcased here demonstrate their virtuosity and variety. Keenly intelligent, sharp or silver-tongued, and with an ear to the ground and an eye to the sky. This is the seventh in the Re-draft series from the School for Young Writers.

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9781869413507

The Best of Fiona Kidman's Short Stories vol 4

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: Kidman, Fiona

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9781877378164

The New Zealand Book of the Beach

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NZ$ 34.99 each

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Author: Graeme Lay (ed)

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The cream of New Zealand's fiction writers with a thematic anthology that is perfect for summer reading. Stories are from established and new award-winning writers. A number of stories have been specially written for this collection Authors are Rhonda Bartle, Norman Bilbrough, Sue Emms, Charlotte Grimshaw, Witi Ihimaera, Kevin Ireland, Annamarie Jagose, Lloyd Jones,Shonagh Koea, Graeme Lay, Katherine Mansfield, Owen Marshall, Bruce Mason, Victoria McHalick, Linda Niccol, Emily Perkins, Sarah Quigley, Frank Sargeson, Jenah Shaw and Tina Shaw.

First published 2007.

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9781869416379

The Whale Road

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Author: Deborah McCutcheon (illus sharon Rowwena McCutcheon & Timothy Simon Burnett Paulson)

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The Whale Road is a creative nonfiction story based on a true tale, and told to an unborn child, in which a sailor falls off a cliff and turns into an albatross, and a pod of female sperm whales chases the setting sun. The journey begins on a research vessel, as her small crew follow the path of the whale, through the South Pacific. The old whaler's 'Line', was a hunting ground so fertile in the last century that sailors' logs claimed they saw a whale dead of natural causes every nautical mile. The expedition sails from Tahiti to New Zealand, to see if any whales are left at all. This is a story about food, love, and a search for place.

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9780790011387

Whare Korero: Best of Reed Writing

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NZ$ 41.00 each

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Author: Gavin McLean - Ed

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Dop 2007, Auckland

Structured by decade, this anthology showcases some of the most memorable and well-loved books produced by the country's oldest publishing house, Reed Publishing. Historian Gavin McLean has poured over national archives, private collections and company documents to bring together extracts from nearly 100 publications - pamphlets, pictorials, fiction, general history, Maoritanga, poetry, sport, cookery, reference, the outdoors and more - to celebrate the diversity and phenomenal output of new New Zealand books by Reed, a tradition that continues into the twenty-first century. Barry Crump, Mona Anderson and James K. Baxter are now household names and they are joined in the anthology by other New Zealand writers for Reed such as Dennis Glover, Janet Frame, James Cowan, David McGill, Anne Salmond, Frank Sargeson, Mona Anderson, Witi Ihimaera, Bill Manhire, Allen Curnow, Fleur Adcock, Philip Holden, Peter Wells, ... more

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AFRICAKABBO

Africa : Kabbo, Mantis and the Porcupine's Daughter

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NZ$ 42.50 each

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Author: Alistair Paterson

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'This is a poem intended to be experienced in the way that a musical composition such as an orchestral piece by Dmitri Shostakovich or Felix Mendelssohn might be experienced.' It reflects the myths and beliefs of a now vanished group of South African Bushmen who saw the past and present as coexistent, and the people, animals and events occupying them as always together.

First published September 2008
80pp

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9781869404031

A Good Handful : Great New Zealand Poems About Sex

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NZ$ 28.00 each

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Author: Stu Bagby (ed)

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In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives.

First published January 2008.

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9780473124908

All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens

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Author: Tim Jones

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All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens is Tim Jones’ second collection of poetry from HeadworX, following Boat People in 2002. It includes his poem “The Translator”, which was selected for inclusion in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, and poems which have been published in the Listener, North & South, New Zealand Books, JAAM, and a number of other venues, including US and Australian magazines.
The poems in the book range all the way from Southland to Iraq, from a backyard telescope to Mars, from the Rapture to rugby league. Along the way, there’s love, sex, children, and Motorhead. These poems are full of surprises.

In his review in "Southern Ocean Review" 45, Trevor Reeves said:

"This is Jones' third book and it has me captivated. The tasteful photo in
the front has been lovingly prepared. I liked 'Bloody but Unbowed' best, a
short poem lovingly crafted, with pungency and feeling. The personal
melds, rather than intrudes, in 'Two Creek ... more

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9780195583861

Autumn Testament (out of print)

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Author: James K Baxter

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At the time of his death in 1972 James K. Baxter was in the process of correcting the proofs of Autumn Testament. The book thus acquired a symbolic significance beyond the poet's intention.

What the title might reasonably have implied - the articulation of a covenant worked out by a man at the height of his creative power - would be overshadowed by the legal connotations of a man in decay disposing of his property. Inevitably Autumn Testament has been read as a presentiment of impending death and searched for clues that might explain Baxter's final days.

As Paul Millar's introduction argues, Autumn Testament should also be seen as Baxter writing at his most creative. The three sequences of poems and the two prose pieces of his last collection synthesize the best features of his other Jerusalem volumes: Jerusalem Sonnets (1970) and Jerusalem Daybook (1971).

With apparent simplicity, ... more

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9780476000001

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