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I’m delighted to launch Rebecca’s brilliant book on the subject of why we go to Antarctica. One very deft thing that Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica does is to give its readers a sense of scale. In order for us to get that fifteen milli

One of the enduring sources of delight in Elizabeth Knox’s work is a recurring trope. It’s a genre trope that has been stripped back to its bare walls and backfilled with nuance. It is this: an individual comes to an awareness of their rare gift.

Tēnā koutou and welcome to this launch of Laura Southgate’s The Boyfriend. Be warned: that title is supremely ironic. Boys, some of whom are friends, are everywhere in this novel: there’s Dieter, Paul ‘so self contained he was practically shr

Ransack by essa may ranapiri was launched on the 18th of July at Poppies Bookshop in Hamilton. The book was launched by Waikato University Senior Lecturer and writer, Tracey Slaughter. Pick up this book and you’re at the threshold of a tactile j

I want to start by talking about location. Māori as, but I feel like where we stand and how we interact with the land is integral to the work we create and I see it in your work. The Waikato, with all her history has a specific sort of Wairua and sig