{"title":"Genre-defying","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"i-loved-you-the-moment-i-saw-you","title":"I Loved You the Moment I Saw You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'Looking at the photographs in \u003ci\u003eI loved you the moment I saw you\u003c\/i\u003e has alerted me to this: to the different ways in which perception is situated, and to the laminated or layered times it takes to take that in –– to be moved, to be in love, in “the moment”.' —’—Ian Wedde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn eighty-two brilliant, disturbing, and compassionate photographs, extended as if across the time it takes for a baby to wake up and recognise the grandfather who is waiting with the child to cross a dangerous street, Peter Black has composed one of the great photo-portraits of our time. 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His photographs have been published and written about in many individual and group publications since the National Art Gallery’'s 1982 catalogue \u003cem\u003eFifty Photographs\u003c\/em\u003e, including in \u003cem\u003eReal Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eSport 30\u003c\/em\u003e, 2003).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI loved you the moment I saw you\u003c\/em\u003e is Black'’s fourth and most comprehensive colour portfolio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Wedde \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in 1946. He is a poet, novelist, critic, and curator. His essays have been collected in \u003ci\u003eHow to be Nowhere: Essays and Texts 1971–1994\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eMaking Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992–2004\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and \u003cem\u003eThe Social Space of the Essay \u003c\/em\u003e(2024). 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And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eIn a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, twins with otherworldly ways are born to a stone carver and his wife. As they grow into themselves, the landscape and its histories will rise up to meet them and change their whānau forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCave art leaps from walls, pounamu birds sing, legends become reality, and history becomes the present in this verse novel by Ruby Solly (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, Kāi Tahu). \u003cem\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the histories of our great Southern iwi through the whakapapa of its characters and the rich world they and their ancestors call their tūrakawaewae—their place to stand, their place to sing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'For readers with an interest in innovative poetry – in New Zealand literature, Indigenous literature, Māori literature – this book is significant and needed. \u003cem\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/em\u003e is an āhuru mōwai, a shelter made from poetry, and is to be celebrated for its craft and heart, and for its whakapapa.' —Robert Sullivan, \u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Ruby Solly is a polymath and this collection of linked poems, interspersed with her own paintings, reveals her deep engagement with multiple art forms and with pūrākau of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Kāi Tahu. The book is mesmerising and hums with a musician’s ear for rhythm and cadence, which reminds me of brilliance of Keri Hulme.' —Claire Mabey, \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'A mesmerising verse novel that weaves together the history and traditions of Southern iwi. Solly's evocative storytelling brings to life cave art, pounamu birds, and legendary tales. This enchanting book immerses readers in a rich cultural tapestry, celebrating the whakapapa and heritage of its characters.' —\u003cem\u003eAvenues Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Deeply evocative – cave art leaps from walls, pounamu birds sing, legends become reality, and history becomes the present.' —Neil Johnstone, Wellington City Libraries\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuby Solly\u003c\/strong\u003e (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a writer, musician and taonga pūoro practitioner living in Pōneke. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eTōku Pāpā\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2021 and longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She has had poetry published in Aotearoa, Australia, America and Antarctica. In 2020 she released her debut album, \u003cem\u003ePōneke\u003c\/em\u003e, and in 2021, \u003cem\u003eBird Like Men\u003c\/em\u003e, as part of the group Tararua. She is currently completing a PhD in public health, focusing on the use of taonga pūoro in hauora Māori.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover: Ruby Solly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427210268983,"sku":"9781776920709","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/The_Artist_front_cover_web_RGB__14444_c0c5b9bb-26da-4c30-809d-4076c2eac299.jpg?v=1752013248"},{"product_id":"root-leaf-flower-fruit","title":"Root Leaf Flower Fruit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/product\/search?search=root+leaf\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e Best Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eA woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, after an auction result for which he was not prepared, and echoing her desperate flight years earlier, his uncertain return leads to a haunting and unguessable destination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoot Leaf Flower Fruit \u003c\/em\u003eis a verse novel about slow time – the turning of the seasons, the farming of land, the generations of a family – and about sudden, devastating interruptions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'This intriguing verse novel leads us at a walking pace – sometimes tumbling and scraping – across country and suburb, and volatile seasons. There are pivots in perspective and a rich sense of deep time as we encounter nature, injury and recovery, and a settler farming legacy. Bill Nelson’s writing has a sonic quality, protean line breaks, and surprise story threads. The final section with its hint of the New Zealand gothic, is gripping.' —Ockham NZ Book Awards \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'Nelson’s book-length poem is an extraordinary act of art-making. The writing is visceral: Nelson writes the weather, the mud, the rain, the roots, the beats of bodies. There is a beautiful rendering of human cycles (interrupted as they are by death, injury, and emotional upheaval) against the entropy and flourishing of the land around and underneath. I was so impressed by the ambition and the beauty of this book.' —Claire Mabey,\u003cem\u003e The Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'It’s quite a feat to create a novel-length poem like this. Bill Nelson has done it with panache. . . . The final walk of the grandmother is a tour de force of style and painfully realistic.' —\u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘This book kept surprising me. I loved its fascination with the body’s sleights of hand, and the careful attention it paid to childhood, memory and other buried things.’ —Anna Smaill, author of\u003cem\u003e The Chimes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBird Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"caret-color: #212121; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e‘\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoot Leaf Flower Fruit \u003c\/em\u003eseems to me to be a sort of Pākehā whakapapa, or a yearning for it, and a commentary on the ways in which Pākehā reach for connection to place and people but sometimes miss. The most beautiful passages describe the body failing while the whenua continues its seasonal rotation. I was completely absorbed by this story song of a grandson and grandmother trying to connect both to the world around them and to their sense of self.’ —\u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\"\u003eTina Makereti, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere the Rēkohu Bone Sings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #232323; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘Funny and destabilising, \u003cem\u003eRoot Leaf Flower Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting insight into the “pattern of a damaged brain slowly healing”.’ — Lawrence Patchett, \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBill Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e's first book of poetry was \u003cem\u003eMemorandum of Understanding\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest New Zealand Poems, Sport, Landfall, Hue \u0026amp; Cry, Shenandoah, The Spinoff, Minarets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe 4th Floor\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as in dance performances and art galleries and on posters. In 2009 he won the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he is a founding editor of \u003cem\u003eUp Country: A Journal for the NZ Outdoors\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with his partner and two children, and his dog, Callimachus Bruce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427211743543,"sku":"9781776921164","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Root-Leaf-Flower-Fruit-CVR-final__55644_609e26cd-a8b0-44ab-ab66-136ca9bfedde.jpg?v=1752013280"},{"product_id":"ash","title":"Ash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/novels-contemporary\/ash-ebook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eA vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss’s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eBut something is shifting in Thea – something is burning. Or is it that she is becoming aware, for the first time, of the bright, hot core at her centre? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThen comes an urgent call.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eIngeniously layered, \u003cem\u003eAsh\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about reckoning with one’s rage and finding marvels in the midst of chaos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e'I have not felt this seen by a book, ever.\u003cem\u003e Ash\u003c\/em\u003e worked through me like a drug: I will be going back again and again. The craft is exquisite, the comedy deeply satiating. What Louise Wallace has achieved in \u003cem\u003eAsh \u003c\/em\u003eis a monumental call to all the women who have been called good girls and bitches with the same breath. \u003cem\u003eAsh \u003c\/em\u003esimmers and smokes with honesty. It makes sparks fly.' —Claire Mabey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Wallace’s ability to weave four narrative approaches in a way that produces something greater than the sum of its parts. . . . Wallace has achieved something particular and exciting in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAsh.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e —Pip Adam, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A rare and compelling honesty wriggles under the novel’s skin. Wallace tells Thea’s story with surgical economy. The cast are rendered alive by the lightest of brush strokes, the author choosing to notice what is most telling, selecting prose that scorches with wit. I cannot recall reading another text that so convincingly portrays the stream of micro-injustices that jab at the psyche of a working mother. Each incident presents an unseen injury, which combined spells a death by a thousand pinpricks.' —Anna Scaife, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Wallace\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four collections of poems, the latest of which is \u003cem\u003eThis Is a Story About Your Mother\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). She is the founder and editor of \u003cem\u003eStarling\u003c\/em\u003e, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa, and the editor of \u003cem\u003eŌrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e2022\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a recipient of the Biggs Prize for Poetry and a Robert Burns fellow. 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Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eTold through a series of brilliant interludes and jump cuts, \u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop\u003c\/em\u003e is sometimes blackly funny, sometimes angry and sometimes lyrical, and sometimes – as a car soars off the road on a horror road trip to the Wairarapa – it takes flight into surrealism. A glimpse into immigrant life in Aotearoa, this is a highly entertaining, surprising and poignant debut novel about grief, struggle and community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003e'Now,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003elook,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003eI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003eloved\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003ethis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003ebook. It looks at race and the immigrant experience in a really nuanced, smart way. It's touching, insightful, kind of melancholy and funny.' —Kiran Dass, RNZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'On every level – character, form, language – dissanayake manages to offer something both innovative and complex in when I open the shop. I loved this bold and beautiful book.' —Madeleine Ballard,\u003cem\u003e The Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword-white-space\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'It’s an exhilarating read, the general vibe of the novel akin to chancing on a frozen lake and deciding then and there to get your skates on. But there’s unpredictability in the firmness of the ice and fascinating things lurk underneath; those figure-eight loops demand rigorous attention to craft.' —Angelique Kasmara, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about loss, exile and dislocation, in which time, space, and memory become a beautiful, fluid thing. It is very funny, angry and constantly pleasurable and moving in the way it depicts people opening space for themselves, and finding comfort, in spite of everything.’ —Brannavan Gnanalingam, author of \u003cem\u003eSprigs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSlow Down, You’re Here\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e‘This is a beautiful and compelling work. The language is magnificent on a sentence-by-sentence level, but I think that the structure is an incredibly adept act of decolonisation.’ —Pip Adam, author of\u003cem\u003e Audition\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Nothing to See\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'Much of \u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop \u003c\/em\u003eis a gift. It has the feeling of embodiment to it—not the general embodiment of life, but the specific embodiment of this person, this narrator, who moves through the world in their particular way, with their particular history—which we are delivered glimpses of throughout the book. The story is most of the time, highly uninterested in ‘explaining’ itself.' —Hannah Patterson, \u003cem\u003ebad apple\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'What makes dissanayake, and his debut, special is how he finds the music in naturalism, and the symphony in routine. . . . Fittingly, for a book about a man who opens his own space to put down his stake in the world, dissanayake has done exactly the same.' —Sam Brooks, \u003cem\u003eDramatic Pause\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'While the narrative drives us forward, dissanayake’s poetic sensibilities allow for a closer view, zooming in to focus on a small moment or musing, then zooming back out again for the narrative push to take over.' —Louise Wallace, \u003cem\u003eNZ Poetry Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eromesh dissanayake \u003c\/strong\u003e(Sri Lankan, Koryo Saram) is a writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePantograph Punch\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Enjoy Contemporary Art Space\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Clear Dawn: An Anthology of Emerging Asian New Zealand Writers\u003c\/em\u003e. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eWhen I open the shop\u003c\/em\u003e, was the winner of the 2022 Modern Letters Fiction Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eover illustration: H Y Chai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214299447,"sku":"9781776921300","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921300_RGB_WIOTS_web__95603_95493a2d-a80b-4e07-8573-47cc88bc1bf3.jpg?v=1752013305"},{"product_id":"performance","title":"Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/fiction\/novels-contemporary\/performance-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/blobid0.png?t=1619991380\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"50\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e is a self-portrait like no other. David Coventry takes us into his experience of ME, a debilitating systemic disease which took hold in March 2013 but has roots in his childhood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFor Coventry, ME radically overturns the rules of time, thought and embodiment – an experience which has shaped the writing of this book. Through an illuminating blend of life transcription and deep imaginative projection, he shows how placing fiction into the stories of our damaged lives can remind us of who we are and who we might have been, even when so much of us has been taken away by illness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFrom a mountaineering disaster in Kaikōura to a literary encounter in Austria, a country mansion to a volcanic archipelago, this novel is a strikingly vivid, at times disorienting series of journeys, stopovers and emergencies that take in the world, one in which Coventry is often an outsider, even when at home in Wellington. With purposeful unreliability and flashes of humour amid pain and searching,\u003cem\u003e Performance\u003c\/em\u003e takes us into a space where ‘reading’ itself fails as a description of how we meet the text. This is a generous, unforgettable vista of life within illness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Like all great art, \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e defies paraphrase. This novel is a staggeringly ambitious work that few writers or scholars could conceive and probably only one could enact. It locates David Coventry in a genealogy of modern and postmodern writers including Virginia Woolf and Thomas Bernhard, whose illness intelligence is part of what makes their work innovative, important, and unforgettable.’ —Martha Stoddard Holmes, author of \u003cem\u003eFictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victoria Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘A masterpiece of narrative disintegration with a deep psychic grip on the reader – a book whose design not infrequently had me exhaling in both profound affect and aesthetic astonishment. A monumental achievement.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Tracey Slaughter, author of\u003cem\u003e Devil’s Trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Conventional Weapons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e is a mesmerising and at times beautiful read, albeit tragic . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe reader too feels a sense falling into Coventry’s world as they read this extraordinary book.' —Alyson Baker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'Compelling, thoughtful, memorable, suitably frustrating and disconcerting. It is a unique contribution to the literature of illness.' —Thomas Koed, Volume Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Performance\u003c\/em\u003e has all the qualities of the best \"creative non-fiction\" – compelling characters, arresting situations, stimulating themes – but Coventry permits himself something more besides: points of view other than his own and fantastical flights (at one point literally) of imagination that take leave of reality altogether. . . . And despite what it asks of us as readers – perhaps \u003cem\u003ebecause\u003c\/em\u003e of what it asks of us – \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e leaves more of an impression than many a more conventional book.' — Guy Somerset, \u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Coventry\u003c\/strong\u003e’s first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Mile\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. It was also published in the UK and Commonwealth by Picador UK, and the USA and Canada by Europa Editions. It has been translated into Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Danish and German. His second novel, \u003cem\u003eDance Prone\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2020. David received an MA in Creative Writing in 2010 from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he was the recipient of the 2015 Todd New Writer’s Bursary from Creative New Zealand. In 2022 he completed his PhD exploring the complexities and impossibilities of living a creative life with ME\/CFS – a project which was selected for the 2022 Dean’s List, and forms the basis of \u003cem\u003ePerformance\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). He was the 2022 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover photograph: Henry Coventry, Tararua Lodge Fire, Mt Ruapehu, 8 August 1954\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Simon Waterfield\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214725431,"sku":"9781776920808","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776920808_Performance_RGB__05728_fe05eb3c-10b2-4c9d-abe9-e2826e22195c.jpg?v=1752013314"},{"product_id":"im-working-on-a-building-b-format","title":"I'm Working on a Building (B-format)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eEverything becomes clearer in reverse – because sometimes, things have to be taken apart to be understood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eIn the near future, an exact replica of the world’s tallest tower, Dubai’s Burj al Khalifa, is being built on New Zealand’s West Coast. 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Pip lives in Wellington, and holds the 2024 University of Canterbury Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing. 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McCormick Prize for Best First Book at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eWe all used to be something else, and we will all be something new again in the worlds to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eWritten in an effort to ward off existential dread, and to find new understandings and consolations for those similarly afflicted, \u003cem\u003eThe Chthonic Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e is an eccentric and brilliantly curated tour through time, in which fascinating objects glint and spark and the transience of humanity flickers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAt the heart of Una Cruickshank’s debut are Earth’s interlocking cycles of death and reuse. The blood of a billion-year-old tree emerges from the sea as a drop of amber; 4,756,940 pieces of Lego float towards the Cornish Peninsula; a giant squid’s beak passes through a whale’s intestines into bottles of Chanel No. 5. The violence of colonisation underpins some of the transformations illuminated here, as we follow wave after wave of ruin and remaking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is a rare kind of writing, both galaxy-sweeping and microscopically specific. \u003cem\u003eThe Chthonic Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us to be chastened and scared by our world – its mind-bending age, the insane complexity of its systems, the violent upheavals and mass extinctions – as well as to be awed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'This is such beautiful writing – clever, lyrical, sensitive to source. Cruickshank's breadth is oceanic without getting bogged down. She is her own unique voice.' —Andrew Paul Wood, \u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e 'I have been incredibly moved by Una’s book. It has shifted my mind and my world. It offers such an exciting opportunity to explore a new perspective of our current moment.' —Pip Adam, \u003cem\u003eBetter Off Read\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A warmly obsessive debut . . . rousing, inquisitive, challenging . . . Truly admirable.' —Theo McDonald, \u003cem\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; color: #212121; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'Rich and lyrical, gorgeous and astonishing, scientific and poetic — this stunning collection has left me smiling, looking afresh at the world. I loved this book for its intensity and curiosity and its vivid language.' —Rebecca Priestley, author of\u003cem\u003e End Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e15 Million Years in Antarctica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘Una Cruickshank reaches across the history of life on Earth to hold a mirror up to our lives. With exacting precision, charisma and curiosity, \u003cem\u003eThe Chthonic Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e casts light on the links between everything in the vast web of earthly delights, putting each of our lives in the perspective of deep time and the ever-present cycles of evolution and extinction. Every page of this rich and illuminating debut is a feast.’ —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eAsh Davida Jane, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Live with Mammals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'A beautiful book.' —Louise Ward, RNZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUna Cruickshank\u003c\/strong\u003e has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and another earlier MA that she doesn’t talk about as much. She was born in Tamaki Mākaurau Auckland and now lives in Pōneke Wellington. 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