Through Shaded Glass - Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 -1960 by Lissa Mitchell
Category: Best Illustrated Books
The contribution of women to the first century of photography has been overlooked across the world, including in New Zealand. With few exceptions, photographic histories have tended to focus on the male maker. This important book tilts the balance, unearthing a large and hitherto unknown number of women ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
Category: Best Poetry Books
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Category: Best Poetry Books
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Landed by Sue McCauley
Category: Best Fiction
From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The f ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
Category: Best Illustrated Books
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
a - wake - (e)nd by Audrey Brown-Pereira
Category: Best Poetry Books
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-life crisis into opportunity. Set against an unkind pandemic, a Pacific evolving revolving, and a deteriorati ...Show more
Āria by Jessica Hinerangi
Category: Best Poetry Books
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 seeds, from the grating city, to the harnessed horizon. Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. S ...Show more
Ithaca by Alie Benge
Category: Best Non Fiction
From returning to Ethiopia to find it wasn’t as her memory had left it, to the Australian Army and Bible school, and culminating in an 800-kilometre trek through the Camino, Alie Benge writes of searching and longing for a sense of place – whatever that may be. 'If home is love, can you have a home and ...Show more
Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa by Olive Jones
Category: Best Non Fiction
In 1979, teenager Olive Jones was one of a group of hippies, idealists, and subsistence farmers that set up an alternative community on a farm in the Motueka Valley near Nelson. Influenced by the countercultural movement sweeping the country during the 1970s and 80s, they were part of a widespread inter ...Show more
The South Island of New Zealand from the Road by Robin Morrison (Photographer)
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In 1979 the photographer Robin Morrison and his family spent seven months onthe road in the South Island, where Morrison photographed people and places. Theresulting book was published in 1981 by Alister Taylor and became an overnightsuccess. Alas, conflict between Taylor and the printer, and the later ...Show more