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Home New writing EDITED BY THOM CONROY

FINE ESSAYS FROM TWENTY-TWO OF NEW ZEALAND’S BEST WRITERS A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of ‘Home’ and commissioned from 22 of New Zealand’s best writers. Strong, relevant, topical and pertinent, these essays are also compelling, provocative and affecting, they carry the reader from to West Papua, Jamaica to Grey’s Avenue, Auckland. In this marvellous collection , Martin Edmond, Ashleigh Young, Lloyd Jones, , , , Nick Allen, Brian Turner, Tina Makereti, Bonnie Etherington, , Thom Conroy, Jill Sullivan, Sarah Jane Barnett, Ingrid Horrocks, Nidar Gailani, Helen Lehndorf, James George and show that the art of the essay is alive and well.

‘ . . . this collection is exceptionally good . . . fun to read, relevant, compassionate and frequently sharp’ — Annaleese Jochems, Booksellers NZ Blog $39.99 ‘[The essays] are honest, moving and thoughtful, various in style and content, all a delight to read. To contemplate what ‘home’ means to us in a physical, emotional and CATEGORY: Literature philosophical sense, Home: New Writing is a marker of social and cultural history as well ISBN: 978-0-9941407-5-3 as of politics, on the grand and small scale.’ — Stella Chrysostomou, VOLUME; Manawatu eSBN: 978-0-9941407-6-0 Standard 29 June 2017 BIC: DNF, IMBN BISAC: LCO10000 ABOUT THE EDITOR PUBLISHER: Massey University Press IMPRINT: Massey University Press Dr Thom Conroy teaches creative writing in the School of English and Media Studies at PUBLISHED: July 2017 Massey University. He is the author of two novels, The Naturalist (2014) and The Salted Air (2016), both published by Vintage. His short fiction has appeared in journals in New PAGE EXTENT: 304 Zealand and abroad, including , Sport, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly FORMAT: Limpbound Review and Agni. His fiction has been recognised by Best American Short Stories SIZE: 200mm x 148mm 2012 and has won other awards, including the Katherine Ann Porter Prize in Fiction and the Sunday Star-Times Short Fiction Competition. In 2013 Thom received a Vice- Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

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• Superb pieces by literary luminaries Selina Tusitala Marsh, Martin Edmond, Ashleigh Young, Lloyd Jones, Laurence Fearnley, Sue Wootton, Elizabeth Knox, Nick Allen, Brian Turner, Tina Makereti, Bonnie Etherington, Paula Morris, Thom Conroy, Jill Sullivan, Sarah Jane Barnett, Ingrid Horrocks, Nidar Gailani, Helen Lehndorf, James George and Ian Wedde • Handsomely packaged • Affecting, topical and engaging PRINTABLE A3 POSTER AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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