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Contrarian, idealistic, sexually opportunistic and self-mythologising too, this was a movement, as the narrator duly discovers, not conceived with adolescents in mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The book is a polished amalgam of anecdote, character sketches and family histories, elevated by Bilbrough's exquisite wordsmithing.' —\u003ci\u003eThe Canberra Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This is no misery memoir. This is a very funny and closely observed romp. 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Miro Bilbrough trains a poet’s tender, unsparing gaze on growing up female in the anything-goes 1970s. \u003cem\u003eIn the Time of the Manaroans\u003c\/em\u003e lucidly portrays the visions and limits of the counter-culture, as well as all the fearful ecstasy of being young.’ —Michelle de Kretser\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e‘No comfortable, supine or conventional recollection, this is a quirky, zany and energetic piece of writing, confident in its method and enchanting in its prose style.’ —Gail Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e‘It gives insight into a world and a soul few people will have encountered before; and does so with grace and acumen.’ —Martin Edmond\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiro Bilbrough\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and filmmaker who grew up in New Zealand and lives in Australia. 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I adored this brilliant memoir: part liar, part cowgirl, mouthy and determined Gaylene grows up in Greymouth and migrates into the wild 70s, ending up in the tough-as-gumboots world of New Zealand film. Her book is irresistible.' —Jane Campion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'I loved this rich account of an exceptional life, lived with creative genius, passion and a beguiling sense of humour.' —Fiona Kidman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'I was completely mesmerised. The best memoir I've read in decades. Gaylene's voice is somehow compelling and companionable, salty and dry and loving and occasionally rueful, and so fully of this place. Completely fab.' —Kate De Goldi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDame Gaylene Preston\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, producer and director. 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Her work has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTakahē\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTurbine | Kapohau\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. \u003cem\u003eIthaca\u003c\/em\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCover: Keely O'Shannessy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427209613623,"sku":"9781776920761","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/Ithaca_front_cover__23123_0b8d6604-fb38-45b1-bf46-c9008b583f88.jpg?v=1752013232"},{"product_id":"jenny-mcleod-a-life-in-music","title":"Jenny McLeod: A Life in Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/biography\/jenny-mcleod-a-life-in-music-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\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\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\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-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eJenny McLeod was the sensation of New Zealand music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eBorn in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1967 she joined Victoria University’s music department and was soon appointed New Zealand’s youngest full professor. Two large public works for orchestra and children’s choirs – \u003cem\u003eEarth and Sky\u003c\/em\u003e (1968) and \u003cem\u003eUnder the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e (1971) – were seen by thousands and made her famous. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eIn 1976 her devotion to Maharaj Ji’s Divine Light Mission led to her early retirement from the university. However, her retirement from musical life was short-lived, and she was a prolific composer until her death in 2022. As well as many compositions based on Tone Clock Theory, her major works include music for the film \u003cem\u003eThe Silent One\u003c\/em\u003e, song cycles based on poems by Janet Frame, and the opera \u003cem\u003eHōhepa\u003c\/em\u003e, which premiered at the New Zealand International Arts Festival in 2012.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eDrawing on his many conversations with Jenny McLeod, as well as her writings, letters and works, Norman Meehan brings the story of this remarkable composer to life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e'A beautifully constructed account of the life of one of the country's foremost composers . . . Meehan covers McLeod's action-packed early life brilliantly, drawing an engaging picture of her character. Her trust for her biographer is clear throughout the book.' —Elizabeth Kerr, \u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘Norman Meehan has adroitly drawn out Jenny McLeod’s deepest influences and inspirations, her mercurial, searching nature, her ebullient and dogged personality, and her unique visionary status – I was completely hooked.’ —Eve de Castro-Robinson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorman Meehan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a New Zealand musician. An active composer, Norman has performed original music throughout the country and in Europe. Since 2008 his primary musical focus has been setting poetic text as song. He has collaborated with vocalist Hannah Griffin to set texts by New Zealand poets on Rattle Records releases. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTime Will Tell: Conversations with Paul Bley\u003c\/em\u003e (2003); \u003cem\u003eSerious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock\u003c\/em\u003e (2010); and \u003cem\u003eNew Zealand Jazz Life \u003c\/em\u003e(2016). 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Then, drawn in by a promise of meaning and purpose, they cast off their punk outfits and became born-again Christians. Unsure which fate would come first – nuclear annihilation or the Second Coming of Jesus – they sought answers from end-times evangelists, scrutinising friends and family for signs of demon possession and identifying EFTPOS and barcodes as signs of a looming apocalypse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eFast forward to 2021, and Rebecca and Maz – now a science historian and an engineer – are on a road trip to the West Coast. Their journey, though full of laughter and conversation and hot pies, is haunted by the threats of climate change, conspiracy theories, and a massive overdue earthquake.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eEnd Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"xapple-converted-space\" style=\"caret-color: #212121; 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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; 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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003einterweaves the stories of these two periods in \u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\"\u003eRebecca\u003c\/span\u003e’s life, both of which have at heart a sleepless fear of the end of the world. 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And \u003c\/span\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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003ewhere \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; 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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003ecan we find hope when it sometimes feels as if we all live on a fault line that could rupture at any moment?\u003c\/span\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; 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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\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\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eEnd Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eis an urgent and important book about much more than coal, climate change and Christianity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIt is a profound act of listening – an insightful, compassionate, and surprisingly funny exploration of where we have come from, how we got here, and where to now. It is also a story of a magnificent friendship. I have read nothing quite like it. At once terrifying and in some deeply human way, hopeful. Rebecca Priestley is our Rebecca Solnit but funny. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eI love this book so much.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; 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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\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; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e—\u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\"\u003eIngrid \u003c\/span\u003eHorrocks, author of \u003cem\u003eWhere We Swim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'A rich, honest, vivid book. Priestley’s patience with people achieves something invaluable; it evokes empathy but is also a stark reminder that this is no laughing matter. I loved reading about the things, landmarks and places I know, and I loved reading about granite. I saw the land and road she travelled, I saw these people and was deeply engaged in the kōrero she had with them.' \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #212121; 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; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; line-height: 1.2;\"\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; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e—\u003cspan data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"outlook-search-highlight\"\u003eBecky Manawatu\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuē\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\u003cem\u003e'End Times\u003c\/em\u003e succeeds at something I have seen many books aspire to but rarely achieve: stimulating, open and honest conversations.' —Tim Scott, \u003cem\u003eOtago Daily Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'I’d been looking forward to this book since \u003cem\u003eFifteen Million Years in Antarctica\u003c\/em\u003e, which delivered to my imagination clear images of what it’s like to exist as a person on that great, white, vulnerable continent. \u003cem\u003eEnd Times\u003c\/em\u003e carries the same sensitivity to the big but fragile natural world. It’s also characteristically funny with wry observations of Priestley’s younger self and her earnest rebellions. An ode to friendship as much as it is an ode to timely and sensible anxieties.' —Claire Mabey, \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'An empathetic look at what others believe when those views oppose your own, and how empathy could be the first step in bridging those divides.' —Rebecca Styles, \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;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'It's gentle; she's patient; it's also funny; it's wonderful.' —Carole Beu, RNZ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'I'm convinced that Rebecca Priestley is one of New Zealand's greatest writers and must be protected at all costs! Her musings in \u003cem\u003eEnd Times\u003c\/em\u003e achieve a great balance of immeasurable intelligence and a deep empathy.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e—Staff picks, Scorpio Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'A unique and very personal journey within a journey, with a lot to say about human connection and friendship, belief and what drives it, and how to orient yourself toward a fragile and threatened world.' —Sam Finnemore, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'Lived experience, deftly woven in with the disinformation she now sees playing out around her, gives her an empathy—and the womens’ friendship a resilience.' —Catherine Woulfe, \u003cem\u003eNZ Geographic  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\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\u003eRebecca Priestley\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. 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I hopes I disturb ye, I hopes I disturb ye enough to want to see this, your house, in ruins all around ye! Have you had enough yet? Or do you still have time for chaos? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e—Words spoken in court by Temperance Lloyd when she was tried for witchcraft in Devon in 1682\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo You Still Have Time for Chaos?\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, in the frightening quiet of a Covid-emptied Edinburgh, she begins her memoir; temporarily at home at the Randell Cottage residency in Wellington, she completes it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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;\"\u003eLynn Davidson’s long look back at what made and fractured her includes an account of single parenting with its shadows of poverty and stigma, and is interwoven with the ghostly presence of her uncontainable and courageous great aunt, and the long reach of witch hunts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cem\u003eDo You Still Have Time for Chaos?\u003c\/em\u003e is a love letter to the literature of Scotland and Aotearoa New Zealand. 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Lynn Davidson ricochets from New Zealand to Scotland and back again, vividly recreating the landscapes she has inhabited. She is a brave spirit, in search of a life that will enable her to be the family member she wants to be, while remaining true to herself as the reader and writer she must be.' —Robyn Marsack\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003ePoet, essayist and fiction writer \u003cstrong\u003eLynn Davidson\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Pukerua Bay, Wellington. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently\u003cem\u003e Islander\u003c\/em\u003e (Te Herenga Waka University Press and Shearsman), a novel, essays and short stories. Lynn had a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and a Bothy Project Residency in the Cairngorms in 2016. 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Never not honest about hard things, especially the brutality that can happen in intimate relationships, you sometimes ache for her in her loneliness, but it's impossible to pity her. She doesn’t need it. Hers is the freedom that comes from taking the time, and the effort to look directly at herself and take her own measure as a writer, as a woman. Beautrais writes with a luminous, matter-of-fact intelligence about life's disappointments, and also life's consolations – writing, poetry, pole-dancing, magnolia blossoms –  with a level of care and attention that is in its own way a kind of liberation.’ —Noelle McCarthy, author of \u003cem\u003eGrand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAirini Beautrais \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Auckland in 1982. 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In his 50-year foreign affairs career he lived and worked in Asia, Europe and the South Pacific, and was involved in some of New Zealand’s most important diplomatic achievements of the 20th century, including establishing New Zealand’s first embassy in China, securing trade agreements with the United Kingdom after it joined the EEC, dealing with the fallout from New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy, directing New Zealand diplomacy during the Fiji coups, and gaining a seat on the UN Security Council during the turbulent early 1990s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis memoir is bursting with anecdotes from behind the scenes, and offers insight into the ways in which New Zealand has used its ‘insignificance’ on the world stage to achieve results which outweigh its size and importance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e'This insightful book on Terence Christopher O’Brien’s life’s work is one that I recommend to all who want a better understanding of how New Zealand and the world developed their thinking over the past 60 years following the end of World War II.' —Jim Bolger, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eTerence O'Brien \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e(1936–2022) served as a diplomat with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for over 40 years. 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He wrote and lectured widely on international and regional relations, security affairs, and New Zealand foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eCover photograph: Terence O'Brien photographed by Judith Ahern\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427214561591,"sku":"9781776921393","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776921393_RGB_Terence_OBrien__20122_a4029c41-14c7-4fe9-a4b6-1b8c42982bac.jpg?v=1752013312"},{"product_id":"first-things","title":"First Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/biography\/first-things-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\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 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst going hitchhiking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst seeing my father angry. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst shotgun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eFirst poem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003elens of ‘firsts’: those moments that can hold their detail and potency \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eacross a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003efragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eobsessions that have shaped Ricketts’ world, from his first friends \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eand rivals to his first time being caned by a teacher and his first time \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003edropping acid. There are other, more enigmatic firsts here too, like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ethe first time he realised what really mattered, and the first time he \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ebegan doubting God. ‘I wanted to believe in God and, even more, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003ewanted God to believe in me.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003eWho really were we, back then? 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The puzzles that are people intrigue him; they’re recorded and respected.' —David Hill, \u003cem\u003eNZ Listener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e'When a brilliant polymath like Harry Ricketts takes to memoir, you just know it is going to be something special. \u003cem\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/em\u003e does what it says on the tin. It’s an exercise in autobiography defined by firsts: the first things that he can remember, the first times he experienced certain things – his first poem, his first shotgun, the first time he went hitchhiking, the first time he ever saw his father angry.' \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"keyword\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eAndrew Paul Wood, \u003cem\u003eKete Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarry Ricketts\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and literary scholar and has published around 30 books. He has lived in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, since 1981. Until his retirement in 2022, he was a professor in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. His books include the internationally acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling\u003c\/em\u003e (1999) and \u003cem\u003eStrange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e (2010). His recent poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eWinter Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). 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She takes us on a frenzied bender in Croatia, learns tapestry and meets romance novelists, all while wondering how families and relationships absorb the past, given everything we don’t say about grief, mental illness or even love. Most importantly, she asks, how do you write about a life honestly – when there are so many flaws in the way we record history and, more confrontingly, in the way we remember?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBad Archive\u003c\/em\u003e is a lucid, continually surprising, funny and at times bracingly personal essay collection by the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e‘Flora is just so smart and funny and these essays have so much heart. Her idiosyncratic, warm and wry voice moves seamlessly across time and space.’ —Rose Lu, author of \u003cem\u003eAll Who Live on Islands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e‘Feltham’s voice – smart, hilarious, curious, and disarmingly wise – is one I’d read on any topic. I inhaled this collection and urge you to seek out a copy. It will certainly be a standout of the year.’ —Maddie Ballard,\u003cem\u003e The Spinoff\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;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFlora Feltham\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and weaver from Pōneke. 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With her ancestor Tūtepourangi she relives Te Rauparaha’s bloody legacy, and attempts and fails to write her great historical novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eBut it is her wāhine, past and present, who carry her, even as the ground behind her smoulders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eTempestuous and haunting, \u003cem\u003eWhaea Blue\u003c\/em\u003e is a tribute to collective memory, the elasticity of self, and the women we travel through. It is a karanga to and from the abyss. It is a journey to peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘This is a wild road trip, frightening and funny. 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Marshall dives fearlessly into the darkest topics – pain, loss, abandonment, violence, death, madness, war – and comes up with a testament you won’t forget.' —John Dolan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘Marshall’s whirlwind prose effortlessly slams the reader with neck-snapping speed from laughter to sorrow to recognition to disbelief and then back again.  An uncommonly good debut by an author who is as original as she is undeniable.’ —Victor Rodger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\" style=\"text-overflow: unset;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e'Talia Marshall is fearless. 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She has had work published in \u003cem\u003ePoetry \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, \u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSport,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMana\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCanvas,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Spinoff\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePantograph Punch\u003c\/em\u003e and with City Gallery. 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Each chapter begins with an increasingly fanciful – and very colourful – account of an exciting life. Under the cover of this playful narrative, he smuggles in deeply considered ideas about music, and about what it means to be a composer – a person who is both philosopher and storyteller. These ideas are accompanied by beautiful and exuberant pen and ink drawings – some for graphic scores, others for his own pleasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eHe says, ‘When we look at art, we look for something deep and private. 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In 2016 when he became an Arts Foundation Laureate, he said, ‘I find it impossible to tell lies when I’m writing music. I tell my story and give my view of the world.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLyell Cresswel\u003c\/strong\u003el (1944–2022) was a pre-eminent New Zealand composer of contemporary music. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht, and after 1985 was a full-time composer based in Edinburgh. His music is widely performed, and he was a featured composer at many festivals around the world and in New Zealand. His many honours include the Ian Whyte Award for the orchestral work Salm (1977) and the APRA Silver Scroll for his contribution to New Zealand music (1979). In 2002 he was awarded an honorary DMus degree by Victoria University of Wellington. 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After his falling out with Muldoon he was an advisor to the Lange\/Douglas Labour government, then a cofounder of the ACT Party. Re-elected to Parliament in 1996, he became chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence Select Committee, whose report \u003cem\u003eDefence Beyond 2000\u003c\/em\u003e became the ‘blueprint’ for the Clark Labour government’s defence policy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChallenging the Status Quo\u003c\/em\u003e is a principled conservative’s insider history of New Zealand’s evolving maturity from its golden years when it was beholden to Britain to its status as an independent nation in today’s uncertain world. It highlights some of the successes and failures of the country’s key politicians during that progression and illustrates what needs to be done to avoid the mistakes of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘Derek Quigley earned a reputation as an issues-driven politician. 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After a further term in Parliament in 1996–99, he has worked as a consultant, and as a visiting fellow at ANU’s Strategic \u0026amp; Defence Studies Centre, and now lives in Madrid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eCover: 1975 election campaign bus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50427219181879,"sku":"9781776922208","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776922208_Challenging_the_Status_Quo__24939_fda1c9f3-9657-4b13-8aef-6758d56d9db3.jpg?v=1752013374"},{"product_id":"without-fear-or-favour-a-life-in-law","title":"Without Fear or Favour: A Life in Law","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mebooks.co.nz\/without-fear-or-favour-a-life-in-law-ebook\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-58zklai\/images\/stencil\/original\/image-manager\/mebooks-for-product-page-on-web.png?t=1739413048\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"60\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eIn this essential book, Sir Kenneth Keith draws on his illustrious career as a lawyer, teacher, judge and judicial reformer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout Fear or Favour\u003c\/em\u003e begins with fundamentals: who does what and how, the sources of law nationally and internationally, constitutional principles and values, and time and the law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eKeith then moves on to consider the growth (and retreat) of the law, with chapters on the roles of international law in our constitutional and legal system, te Tiriti o Waitangi, bringing law to bear on governments, and protecting human rights.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ePart three considers the law of negligence and piracy, the actions of public authorities, the disclosure and protection of information, the writing and reading of law, and litigating and judging.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eFinally, Keith turns to the future. 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It is a work to be mined by those who want to understand law now and think about where it may be heading.' —Sian Elias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSir Kenneth James Keith\u003c\/strong\u003e ONZ KBE KC was born in 1937 and educated at Auckland Grammar School, the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law School. He was a faculty member of Victoria University from 1962 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1991, and served in the New Zealand Department of External Affairs during the early 1960s, and as a member of the United Nations Secretariat from 1968 to 1970.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eFrom 1996 to 2003, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, and was subsequently one of the inaugural appointments to the new Supreme Court of New Zealand, which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 2004. 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With her tūpuna at her elbow she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her father. She walks through the darkness with others, in awe of Te Kore, Te Pō and Te Ao Mārama—a universe of potential being, dark and light. These are some of the kaupapa that underpin her work and her way of moving through the world, both enlivened and haunted by a compulsion to write.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIncluded here are frank and moving essays about the wāhine who have shown her many ways of being a Māori woman, the pain and dark humour of living with an alcoholic, a blue boob from breast cancer treatment, and the potential of art to return power to survivors of colonialism. What if we could transform the events that made us who we are? What if there were a way back to the beginning? 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Her fiction sings with their voices; this new book describes where they come from, how they manifest, inspire and protect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e‘What pervades \u003cem\u003eThis Compulsion In Us \u003c\/em\u003eis the power of imagination, the impact of story, the motivation to grasp, examine, and release. Writing, in itself, is an act of defiance and bravery. Tina has the courage to write what scares her, to put it all out there, carefully, eloquently, and by doing this she makes sense of so much. And she offers this to the reader, asserting that writing is healing and retaliation, discovery and exposure. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\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;\"\u003eTaku taina, tēnei rā taku mihi aroha ki a koe; mā te pene, mā te tuhituhi, ka piri pono ai, ka hono tahi ai, ō tātou wawata.\u003c\/span\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e—Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, \u003c\/span\u003eKohitātea 2025, Te Kuirau\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTina Makereti\u003c\/strong\u003e (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā) is the author of three acclaimed novels: \u003cem\u003eWhere the Rēkohu Bone Sings, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke\u003c\/em\u003e, and most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Mires\u003c\/em\u003e, shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 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As Sir Neil rose to the highest rank in the New Zealand armed forces, the family moved frequently and traveled widely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAnderson returned to university in her fifties, this time to study English, renewing to her early love of literature and desire to write. Bill Manhire'’s writing course in 1983 led to work broadcast on Radio New Zealand, success in short story competitions, and to the publication of her first book in 1989, at the age of 63. 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I thought I knew The Diary so well, after all these years listening and watching from the wings. But reading The Diary myself, as she does in this remarkable project, is richer, funnier and, yes, sadder than experiencing it live in eight-minute snippets. I’ve often wondered about Kate Camp: how did she get to be so fearless, so peerless, so bold? The answer is in these pages.’ —Tracy Farr, author of \u003cem\u003eWonderland\u003c\/em\u003e and convenor of the Bad Diaries Salon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘An irresistible blend of darkness and light.’—Catherine Chidgey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Guilt\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘IF YOU EVER GET TO SEE KATE CAMP READ FROM HER 14YO DIARY DO IT FUCKING DO IT.’ —Melody Thomas, host of \u003cem\u003eThe Good Sex Project\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Camp \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eYou Probably Think This Song Is About You \u003c\/em\u003e(2022) and eight acclaimed collections of poems, including \u003cem\u003eThe Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls \u003c\/em\u003e(winner of the NZ Post Book Award for Poetry in 2011), \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(2020), and \u003cem\u003eMakeshift Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e (2025). 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I could not.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2015, Marty Smith set out to immerse herself in the world of thoroughbred horse racing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto spend time in the stables and training grounds of the Hawke’s Bay racecourse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etalk to people \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e every \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erole\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe project turned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e out to be harder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand more surprising\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efunny\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and drawn out—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethan she’d ever expected\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Over ten years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe lives of the racecourse open\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the book became a portrait of a changing industry and the people within it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. This is a life of hard work and constant risk, as well as community and love. And horses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarty Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eTaranaki \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003eTūturu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eĀti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Awa)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has been in racing for years; if not as a rider or an owner\/breeder, then putting on a fiver here and there. She thanks the TAB for some nice dresses. She spent her teaching life at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaradale\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e High School, loving the school family. Her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epoetry collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003eHorse with Hat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoetry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein 2014. In 2015 she won an arts grant to take half a year’s grace to write this book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e years \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elater, s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe thanks those generous people more than they can know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover: Zero Tolerance, a two-year-old filly by Derryn out of Bluzero, trained by Tayla Hall\u003cbr\u003eCover \u003cspan\u003eand author photos\u003c\/span\u003e: Florence Charvin Photography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51839247712567,"sku":"9781776923212","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923212ItGetsInYourBlood.jpg?v=1774901757"},{"product_id":"perfectly-themselves-horses-in-the-human-world","title":"Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhen Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses,\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshe realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaining social bonds, moving together in synchrony, their communication constant and subtle. In domestication, we isolate them – move them from paddock to stable to yard – separating them from their companions for our convenience, then find them fragile, anxious and difficult to handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAn immersive and transporting memoir, \u003ci\u003ePerfectly Themselves \u003c\/i\u003eoffers intimate portraits of horses living freely\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the company of their own kind, from Aotearoa to the Outer Hebrides, Iceland and Mongolia. Underpinning Letteri’s research is a question sparked by a 33,000-year-old carved horse that seems alive with vitality and ease: what did we once know about horses that we have forgotten?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003ePart travel narrative, part intellectual inquiry and part personal reckoning, \u003ci\u003ePerfectly Themselves \u003c\/i\u003echallenges long-held assumptions about human–horse relationships, inviting readers into a more compassionate way of seeing them – not as objects of human desire, but as beings perfect in \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003ethemselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e'Endlessly illuminating and stunningly told, this book changes the way we see horses. With descriptive beauty and moral clarity, Abby Letteri sets out new ways of being alongside non-human lives. A profound work.’ —Damien Wilkins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\"\u003e 'An extraordinary book—at once earthy and lyrical, deeply researched, and rich with personal experience. I couldn’t put it down!' —Rebecca Priestley\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘The gift that Letteri shares in this book is the clear-eyed perspective of someone who has travelled far, studied deeply, and still retains her sense of wonder. A horse-mad girl who never lost her curiosity, never hardened into certainty, and who has created something that gently, but profoundly, has the power to change the world for horses.’ —Bonnie Mealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘I am delighted by how Letteri combines the hardened world of science with her own exploration, creating a work that embodies the journey of discovering our horses, and ourselves, all over again.’ —Emily Kieson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\"\u003e‘Perfectly Themselves is a gem. Abby Letteri weaves her own deeply personal journey of discovery to pose questions that matter greatly for equine welfare: who are horses, and what do they need to thrive? It’s this willingness to make herself a part of the study, honest, curious and never claiming more than she knows, that gives this book its special character. The result is a beautifully crafted personal narrative, deeply felt, that explores how we see horse and, in doing so, hopefully, challenges how we treat them.’ —Professor Natalie Waran, OBE\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbby Letteri\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003edown they forgot: a memoir\u003c\/em\u003e (2021) and her poetry, stories, reviews and essays have appeared in various publications in the United States and New Zealand, including \u003cem\u003eWhat She Wrote: An Anthology of Women’s Voices\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), \u003cem\u003eTurbine\u003c\/em\u003e | \u003cem\u003eKapohau \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. She has written for \u003cem\u003eConcordia International Equestrian Magazine \u003c\/em\u003eand the British Horse Society. \u003cem\u003ePerfectly Themselves \u003c\/em\u003ewas completed as a PhD thesis at the International Institute of Modern Letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover art: Julie Greig, \u003cem\u003eWaiting for the Sun, St Bathans \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51887004713271,"sku":"9781776923236","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923236PerfectlyThemselves.jpg?v=1775456417"}],"url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/collections\/memoir-1.oembed?page=3","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}