Books published by Victoria University Press
Where?
Books » Publisher » Victoria University Press
Total 333
Detail View List View Gallery

To view longer descriptions (catalogue), with more details on every title.

View a compact list of titles, ISBN's and pricing.

View a visual gallery of images and titles.
|
«‹ previous12345...next ›»
|
|
jump to: go
showing in stock and locally sourced titles, and sorted by popularity (top selling titles).
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
|
'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 ...
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
|
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 ...
|
|
|
On the way to an ambush is a series exhibited first at War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2008.
|