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The Intentions Book
 

The Intentions Book (Paperback)

By Fenster, Gigi

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While Morris Goldberg waits in the night for news of his daughter, Rachel, missing in the bush, he remembers his life and marriage to Sadie. A tender and funny first novel.

ISBN 9780864738233
Published 1 March 2012 by Victoria University Press
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I Got His Blood on Me: Frontier Stories
   

I Got His Blood on Me: Frontier Stories (Paperback)

By Patchett, Lawrence

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A bloodied figure travels through time, a stepfather kicks a ball and curses a snack machine, a cranky ghost brakes a Kapiti train. From a reimagined history to a future where holograms walk the streets, these stories traverse time and genre to explore the frontiers that face the ...

ISBN 9780864737687
Release Date 1 June 2012 by Victoria University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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A Search for Tradition and A Search for Language
 

A Search for Tradition and A Search for Language (Hardback)

By Lilburn, Douglas

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'Unsurprisingly, Douglas Lilburn doesn't date - his ideas are as fresh and pertinent now as when he wrote these lectures. And he knows that audiences matter as much as writers, artists and musicians. He is especially good on heritage and future, on the need for wonder and imagina ...

ISBN 9780473183790
Published 2 June 2011 by Victoria University Press
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Scenery and Agriculture
 

Scenery and Agriculture (Paperback)

By Beach, David

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David Beach's first book of sonnets, Abandoned Novel, won the 2008 Prize in Modern Letters for an Emerging Writer, and his second, The End of Atlantic City, was a 2008 Listener Book of the Year.

ISBN 9780864737595
Published 17 February 2012 by Victoria University Press
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A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction
  

A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction (Paperback)

By Jackson, Anna; et al.

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Most New Zealand writing for young adults is designed to appeal to adolescents everywhere. Is there anything, then, that is characteristically 'New Zealand' about it? To what extent does it derive from local experience, or address a local audience? Focusing on a series of overlap ...

ISBN 9780864736970
Published 2 December 2011 by Victoria University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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The Pohutukawa Tree
  

The Pohutukawa Tree (Trade Paperback/Paperback, Revised edition)

By Mason, Bruce

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The play has at its centre Aroha Mataira, kaumatua of her tribe, who has adopted Christianity with a rare severity, and who cannot leave her tribal land to go to a new home.

ISBN 9780864730732
Published by Victoria University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
Series New Zealand playscripts
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We, the People(s): Participation in Government
  

We, the People(s): Participation in Government (Paperback)

Edited by Charters, Clare; Knight, Dean

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We, the people begins the preamble of the United States Constitution. The revolutionary concept of this Constitution is that power comes from the people and that rulers rule with their consent. New Zealand has a creditable record in democratic longevity and participation but, be ...

ISBN 9780864736925
Published 1 December 2011 by Victoria University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan
  

A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan (Paperback)

Edited by Whiteford, Peter

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The enigmatic figure of John Mulgan remains a striking presence in New Zealand culture, his sole novel, Man Alone (1939), one of the classic landmarks of a mature and independent New Zealand literature. His second book, Report on Experience, published posthumously in 1947, is one ...

ISBN 9780864736932
Published 2 December 2011 by Victoria University Press
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Scrim: The Man with a Mike
   

Scrim: The Man with a Mike (Paperback)

By Renwick, William

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Scrim tells the intriguing story of one of New Zealand's first broadcasting superstars, and of the trouble that can arise when media, politics and religion become improperly entangled. Colin Scrimgeour - Scrim - Uncle Scrim - first found his voice in the early years of the Great ...

ISBN 9780864736956
Published 4 November 2011 by Victoria University Press
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On the Way to an Ambush
  

On the Way to an Ambush (Trade Paperback/Paperback, 2nd Limited new edition, Contains Paperback and Poster and DVD)

By Connew, Bruce

On the way to an ambush is a series exhibited first at War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2008.

ISBN 9780864733764
Published 10 April 1999 by Victoria University Press
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