The topic of this book may seem a little dry but is actually interesting reading. Ann Beaglehole is a refugee immigrant herself (Hungary 1956), and here examines our country’s response to refugees and asylum seekers since 1840. She looks at…
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Born to a Red-headed Woman / The White Clock
Music can evoke memories and emotions and using that ability, Kay McKenzie Cooke has created a collection of poetry that highlights people and places from her past. Cooke grew up in the rural Southland of the 1950s and 60s and…
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Cloudboy / Essential NZ Poems
Siobhan Harvey is an internationally recognised poet who has been critically acclaimed through receiving or being shortlisted for many awards. She won the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2013 for her Cloudboy collection. These poems share what life is like with…
Great read captures Kiwi experience
Flying Kiwis: A History of the OE, by Jude Wilson (Otago University Press, RRP $45): Going on the big OE is something of a rite of passage for many young Kiwis, so it should come as no surprise that there…
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Edwin’s Egg and Other Poetic Novellas
Whimsical work a little gem Former New Zealand Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen has produced a cute little collection of poetic novellas that will appeal to her existing fans and also provide a great introduction to her work for new fans.…
Seeing the value in NZ’s dolphins
Dolphins Down Under: Understanding the New Zealand Dolphin, by Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson (Otago University Press, RRP $30): Found only in New Zealand’s waters, Hector’s dolphins are both cute and fascinating. They are also – as the publisher points out…
The ugly face of war
Reconstructing Faces: The Art and Wartime Surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem, by Murray C Meikle (Otago University Press, RRP $60): While the horrors of war are something we would all rather avoid, sometimes it is through those horrors…
Tracing NZ’s tartan history
Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand, by Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking and Jim McAloon (Otago University Press, RRP $70): This is an informative study of the nature and effect of Scottish migration to New Zealand. It covers myriad…
Kiwi history makes this a page-turner
Fitz: The Colonial Adventures of James Edward Fitzgerald, by Jennifer Roberts (Otago University Press, RRP $40): The subject of this biography is an important figure in the settlement of Canterbury. He was the province’s first superintendent, a politician, a watercolourist and founder…
A little something to cure what ails you
Pills & Potions At the Cotter Medical History Trust, by Claire Le Couteur (Otago University Press, RRP $25): This little book offers a fascinating trip down the memory lane of pills, potions and, in some cases I am sure, snake-oil…