A selection of books from our shelves. Click through to find out more:
A selection of books from our shelves that get their literary juice by reworking other works. Click through to find out more:
Dedalus [Ulysses by James Joyce (with appearances by Hamlet)]
James [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain]
Perfection [Things by Georges Perec]
Great Expectations [Great Expectations by Charles Dickens]
Call Me Ishmaelle [Moby-Dick by Herman Melville]
Autobiography of Red [fragments by Stesichoros]
A Ghost in the Throat [‘Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire’ by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill]
Beasts of England [Animal Farm by George Orwell]
P.S. Just arrived! Sea, Poison [The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo]
“It’s political,” say ministers both prime and sub-prime, trying to disparage collective action taken by workers in the health, education, and public service sectors (as if politics were some kind of dirty thing). They are right in this at least: politics is and should be the ways we work together with those whose interests we share to make the world better for us all. Are the outcomes of our political structures expressing this?
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How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Fierce Hope: Youth Activism in Aotearoa
Nature, Culture, and Inequality
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A selection of books from our shelves.
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Books may burn but no book is to be burnt.
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Kia kaha te reo Māori! Two selections from our shelves — one for adults; one for tamariki!
Get your head together with this selection of books from our shelves. Click through to find out more:
Sometimes writing is not all that writers do. Here are a few Aotearoa fiction writers also involved in bands (there will be others — send us an email with your additions!). Just as the books pictured are not the only books by these authors, several of them have also been in many bands — we have just selected a sample track for each author.
Click on the author’s name for the books, and on the band’s name for the music:
Rachael King — The Cakekitchen
Damien Wilkins — The Close Readers
A selection of books from our shelves resonating with voice/s.
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Friday 22 August is Aotearoa’s National Poetry Day, the day to consider how to get more poetry into our lives (our lives will be better for it!).
The books pictured are just a sampling of our stock of recent Aotearoa poetry.
Makeshift Seasons by Kate Camp
over under fed by Amy Marguerite
/ slanted by Alison Glenny
Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit by Emma Neale (Ockham winner)
Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel
In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles
Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan
Hopurangi / Songcatcher by Robert Sullivan (the new Aotearoa Poet Laureate)
A selection of wonderfully self-obsessed literature from our shelves. Click through to find out more:
The Last One (not pictured)
What’s with the titles? A selection of books from our shelves. Click through to find out more:
These invisible books look good!
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A selection of books from our shelves that use the accumulation of fragments as a literary form.
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
A selection of books from our shelves on film, film-making, and film-watching. Click through to find out more:
God and the Devil: Ingmar Bergman
A selection of bed-adjacent books from our shelves.
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A selection of biographies from our shelves that show innovations in literary form.
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All books are books of something — some declare it in their titles. Click through to find out more about this selection from our shelves: