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Letters from Everest: A New Zealander's Account of the Epic First Ascent
  

Letters from Everest: A New Zealander's Account of the Epic First Ascent (Hardback)

By Lowe, George

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Sixty years after the first ascent of Mount Everest, this unique book of letters from New Zealander George Lowe celebrates, in a very personal way, this most majestic of mountains. In this touching book, unpublished letters from the Lowe collection are brought together for the fi ...

ISBN 9781775540335
Release Date 7 June 2013 by HarperCollins
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Glass Wings
 

Glass Wings (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Adcock, Fleur

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Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New Zealand to the clothes' mot ...

ISBN 9780864738875
Published 3 May 2013 by Victoria University Press
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The Baker's Thumbprint
 

The Baker's Thumbprint (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Green, Paula

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Philosophers, scientists and artists such as Socrates, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Einstein and Jane Austen pop in for lunch, stay for the afternoon, dance at outdoor concerts and generally inhabit the every-day in these playful and thought-provoking poems by much-admired poet Pau ...

ISBN 9780473236311
Published 1 May 2013 by Seraph Press
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Snow White's Coffin
 

Snow White's Coffin (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Camp, Kate

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These poems were written in Berlin while Kate Camp held the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency between September 2011 and October 2012.

ISBN 9780864738882
Published 3 May 2013 by Victoria University Press
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The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013
 

The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013 (Paperback)

By Wedde, Ian

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'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions betwee ...

ISBN 9781869407698
Published 10 May 2013 by Auckland University Press
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The God Boy

The God Boy (Paperback, New edition)

By Cross, Ian; Introduction by Robinson, Roger

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Set in a small town in New Zealand, this story is told through the eyes of a gauche 13-year-old boy called Jimmy Sullivan. It is the haunting tale of a young boy growing up in a Catholic household, seeing things he shouldn't and struggling to cope.

ISBN 9780141187440
Published 2 March 2004 by Penguin
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Series Penguin Modern Classics
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Odds Against Tomorrow
 

Odds Against Tomorrow (Hardback)

By Rich, Nathaniel

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New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two.

ISBN 9780374224240
Release Date 1 June 2013 by Macmillan Publishers New Zeala
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Night Swimming
 

Night Swimming (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Piahana-Wong, Kiri

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Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa / the mighty Pacific Ocean pervades night swimming -- whether swimming or sailing, surfing or drifting, or just quietly contemplating, the author is never far from its shores. These are lyrical poems of aroha and whanau, loss and yearning, renewal and erasure ...

ISBN 9780473245559
Published 14 May 2013
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New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less Than Complete Success
 

New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less Than Complete Success (Hardback)

Edited by Elder, Chris

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New Zealand's China Experience collects fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with China and the Chinese. Ne ...

ISBN 9780864738370
Published 7 December 2012 by Victoria University Press
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The Blue Marvel: Shorter Poems 1993-2012
 

The Blue Marvel: Shorter Poems 1993-2012 (Paperback)

By Trussell, Denys

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This is Denys Trussell's eigth book of poems. It continues his engagement with the natural world, but also involves the human subject, the peopled environment - particularly of Auckland - and many individuals. The Blue Marvel gathers together some of Denys' shorter poems that, ov ...

ISBN 9780908595808
Published 1 January 2013 by Brick Row
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