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A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water

This authoritative debut volume collects a number of the author’s provocative texts from online sources, and reformats them for a new printed experience, brought to life by special use of the mid-20th..

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A Better Place *Ockham 2024 Shortlist*

In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Ro..

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A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAGICIANS is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom. It..

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A Garden is a long time

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A House Built on Sand

Winner of the 2023 Gifkins Prize, A House Built on Sand is the vivid and gripping story of a mother-daughter relationship and the secrets that threaten to shatter their world Maxine has been losi..

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A Lack of Good Sons

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a liminal gathering: Elixir & Star Grief Almanac 2023

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A Long Road Trip Home

A Long Road Trip Home goes to the heart of the matter. Invention is one thing, knowing is another. John Allison knows that the wisdom of experience leads to poems of discovery and revelation. These ar..

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A Mistake: Film tie-in

Now a major motion picture written and directed by Christine Jeffs, featuring Elizabeth Banks. Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling..

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A Petulance of Politicians

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A Riderless Horse

The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton...

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A Runner's Guide to Rakiura: A novel

"A Millennial New Yorker, a Stewart Island fisherman, and a WW II veteran walk into a bar..." Maudie's on the run - from New York and from her past - but she runs headlong into her future when sh..

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A Smatter of Minutes

"A Smatter of Minutes" belongs to the genre labelled Women's Literary Fiction and has around 83,000 words. They are, every one of them carefully curated to paint a picture of the kind of nuanced chara..

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A-wake-(e)nd

What does it mean to be a good Pacific woman? Audrey doesn't care. In her third collection, a - wake - (e)nd, acclaimed poet Audrey Brown-Pereira turns a lens to her own life, transforming a mid-l..

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All Day at the Movies

Wry, moving, beautifully observed and politically astute, this latest novel from one of our finest chroniclers pinpoints universal truths through very New Zealand lives. Life isn't always like it app..

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All That We Know

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard labour' - Mareikura 'Whatever you do, please don't read me a grief quote from the internet'..

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Allen Curnow: Slipcase Dual Edition

This handsome slipcase brings together the definitive biography and collected poems of Allen Curnow (1911-2001), widely recognised as one of the most distinguished poets writing in English in the seco..

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Always Italicise: How to write while colonised *Winner Ockham 2023 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry*

Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts, butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this, gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . 'Alwa..

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Amma

'I couldn't put it down - a moving, heartbreaking (and repairing) family drama. The writing is gorgeous, transporting, powerful: this will be one of the big adult novels of the year' The Spinoff ..

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And So It Is: New Poems

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anomalia

Cadence Chung's visceral and intelligent debut anomalia casts poetry as scientific investigation. Populated with strange specimens, cicada husks and glittering gems, these poems explore the love and c..

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Aria

Where is my tongue? On display, a trophy of war. Where is my tikanga? Kept in the basement. Where is my mana? Locked in the museum. And where are my whanau? Scattered like dandelion seed..

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As The Trees Have Grown

The poems in Stephanie de Montalk's new collection engage with the world as if through a window - cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Mont..

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Ash *Book of the Month May 2024*

Thea lives under a mountain - one that's ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice has been called back during maternity leave and is coping - just - with the juggle of meetings, mealtim..

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At The Grand Glacier Hotel

From award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley comes an intriguing story about recovery, reflection and reconnecting with ourselves and others. Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Cur..

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At the Point of Seeing  *Winner Ockham 2024 Best First Book Award (the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry)*

At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Otepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching's poems bestow a unique attention upon the w..

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Audition *Ockham 2024 Shortlist*

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Aue

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Aue can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. It spills out of the gang violence that ki..

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AUP New Poets 10

Distinctive, fresh and compellingly present, AUP New Poets 10 features three exciting new voices. Looking out from today at a landscape peopled with her tupuna, Tessa Keenan (Te Atiawa) writes po..

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Baby No-eyes

This major novel merges contemporary headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. This major novel merges contemporary headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. 'Do you..

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Backwaters *Ockham 2024 Longlist*

Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's..

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Bad Things

No one can imagine how bad things must be. They sprout in the dark, damp folds of my mind. They grow there- a forest of tiny umbrellas. They flourish- a crown of terrible heads. Bad Things, the ne..

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Beat of the Pendulum

From the author of the acclaimed The Wish Child comes something unexpected and fearless: a found novel. The Beat of the Pendulum is the result of one year in which Chidgey drew upon the language she e..

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Beautiful Chaos: On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love

Selected poems from bestselling author and Instagram poet, Jessica Urlichs. Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beauti..

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Because All Fades

Andrew and his girlfriend Jess are making a life for themselves in London, but it's a bit of a grind, and now their relationship is beginning to suffer. Andrew's best friend Jaryd on the other hand is..

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Before You Knew My Name

'A murder mystery with a difference. Richly descriptive...a confident and courageous entry into the world of fiction and one that will earn Bublitz many fans.' - Canberra Times 'Beautiful, brilli..

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Better Left Dead

DI Nyree Bradshaw and her team have their work cut out for them once again. Local woman Lizzy Bean has been found dead, garrotted with a piece of wire. Lizzy's property, a 1970s beach house overlookin..

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Better the Blood: The past never truly stays buried. *Ockham 2023 Short List* *Ngaio Marsh award winner (first novel)*

**Shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards** **Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger** 'A compelling, atmospheric page turner ..

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Between the Flags

What if the worst thing that could ever happen to you had already happened, but you didn't realise? Like your brain couldn't handle it, so you turned it into a comic. Then closed it. Fourteen-yea..

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Beyond the Rimu Grove

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Big Fat Brown Bitch *Ockham 2024 Longlist*

The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing a..

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Bird Child and Other Stories *Book of the Month February 2024*

### Book of the Month February 2024 ### A powerful new collection from one of Aotearoa's most esteemed fiction writers. Mythology and contemporary Maori life are woven together seamlessly in..

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Bird Collector

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Bird Life *Ockham 2024 Longlist*

Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park,..

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Birdspeak

In Arihia Latham’s debut collection of poems, birdcall resounds through poetry that is both personal and political, as fierce as it is tender. Arihia (Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Waitaha) is a writer, rongo..

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Birnam Wood *Book of the Month January 2024* *Ockham Shortlist 2024* *2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist*

Birnam Wood *Book of the Month January 2024* Birnam Wood is on the move ... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving..

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Birnam Wood *Book of the Month January 2024* *Ockham Shortlist 2024* *2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist*

Birnam Wood *Book of the Month January 2024* Birnam Wood is on the move ... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leavin..

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Birnam Wood *Book of the Month January 2024* *Ockham Shortlist 2024* *2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist*
Black Marks on the White Page

A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak o..

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Black Silk and Sympathy

A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. 'Men..

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