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Amazing Navigating the State Highway Down South Hiakai: Modern Ko Aotearoa Aroha: Māori Birds of Aotearoa Aotearoa Stars: Māori One BRUCE ANSLEY Māori Cuisine Tātou I We Are wisdom for a New Zealand: Activity Book Creation Myths SAM COLEY (HARPERCOLLINS) MONIQUE FISO New Zealand contented life Collective Nouns GAVIN BISHOP (HACHETTE LIVRE) HB NZ TITLE (GODWIT) MICHELLE ELVY, lived in harmony MELISSA (PENGUIN BOOKS) (VINTAGE NZ) PB NZ TITLE $49.99 HB NZ TITLE , with our planet BOARDMAN PB NZ TITLE HB NZ TITLE $34.99 From Curio Bay to $65.00 HINEMOANA (HARPERCOLLINS) $25.00 $45.00 It's been years since Golden Bay, writer After years overseas in (OTAGO ELDER (PENGUIN HB NZ TITLE UNIVERSITY PRESS) There are 60+ awe- From master storyteller Alex was in New Bruce Ansley sets Michelin-star restau- BOOKS) $29.99 NZ TITLE some games, puz- Witi Ihimaera, a spell- Zealand, and years off on a vast expe- rants, Monique Fiso PB HB NZ TITLE A whistling of whio? zles and activities in binding and provocative since he spent any one- dition across the returned to Aotearoa to $39.95 $30.00 A loot of weka? A tus- this fun, creative and retelling of traditional on-one time with his South Island, Te begin Hiakai, an inno- Ko Aotearoa Tātou | Discover traditional sock of takahē? This We Are New Zealand is high-quality activity Māori myths for the twin sister, Amy. When Waipounamu, visiting vative pop-up venture Māori philosophy is a book for children, book based on Gavin twenty-first century. In they lose their parents the places and people that’s now a revered, bursting with new works through 52 whaka- adults and bird-lovers Bishop's bestselling this milestone volume, in a shock accident it who hold clues to the award-winning res- of fiction, nonfiction, tauki – simple, power- alike. These collective Aotearoa. You'll learn Ihimaera traces the his- seems like the perfect south's famous char- taurant in Wellington. poetry and visual art cre- ful life lessons, one for nouns reveal something to introduce yourself tory of the Māori people time to reconnect as acter. Not so very long This book is just as ated in response to the every week. Each one about the character of in Māori, solve puzzles through their crea- siblings. To reconnect ago, the South Island unforgettable: ranging editors’ questions: What is retold by respected our birds, so we can get is New Zealand now, in and crack codes, play tion myths. He follows with this country they had most of New between history, tradi- Māori psychiatrist Dr to know them better. games, invent a super- Tāwhaki up the vines call 'home'. As they Zealand's people and tion and tikanga, as well all its rich variety and Hinemoa Elder to show Birds of Aotearoa New hero, draw your future into the firmament, journey the length of just about all of the as Monique’s personal contradiction, darkness how we can live a less Zealand: Collective Nouns home, make maps, Hine-titama down into State Highway One, money. Gold miners journey of self-discov- and light? Who are New stressful daily life, with also contains informa- curate your heroes in a the land of the dead, they will scratch at found fortunes in the ery, it tells the story of Zealanders? The works more contentment and tion on how our birds wall of fame, design a Māui to the ends of wounds that have never hills and rivers, sheep kai Māori, provides for- flowed in from well- kindness for each other live, so we can better flag, create a menu, and the earth, and the giants healed – and Alex will barons straddled aging and usage notes, known names and new and the planet. Find help them. A unique much more! Designed and tūrehu who sailed be forced to reckon mountains, valleys and an illustrated ingredi- voices. Māori, Pākehā, out how the power of and stunningly illus- to stimulate bright across the ocean to our with what coming plains. Wealthy south- ent directory, and over Pasifika, Asian, new aroha can help you each trated book featuring minds, this is the ideal shores ... From Hawaiki home really means. erners ruled the gov- 30 breathtaking recipes migrants, young voices, day, and through its Aotearoa's native birds, activity book for chil- to Aotearoa, the ancient ernment. Where now that give this ancient queer writers, social war- many meanings – fun- each with its very own riors… Aotearoa’s many dren aged 5-12. navigators brought their lies the South Island's knowledge new life. damental Māori values collective noun. myths, while looking to golden fleece? And Hiakai offers up food faces are represented in – make a happier world the stars – bright with what is its future? to behold, to savour, to this unique and impor- for everyone. gods, ancestors and sto- celebrate. tant compendium. ries – to guide the way.

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4 THE INKLINGS – Christmas 20, Issue No. 14 scorpiobooks.co.nz BIOGRAPHY the Coronavirus pandemic. It book takes you on a tour around Graham Greene was a restless Zealand, this frank and humane captures, with magical reso- the universe. It's a starlit journey traveller, and a witness to many account of a life spent travers- nance, the thoughts and feel- through space that will lead you of the key events of modern ing Pākehā and Māori worlds ings of millions worldwide as to a wonderful planet brimming history – including the origins offers important insights we adapt to a new way of life, with all kinds of life – includ- of the Vietnam War, the Mau into our shared life on these cast aside old habits and reflect ing yours. This stunning story Mau Rebellion, the betrayal of islands. ‘I have written this on what truly matters to us. It demonstrating the scale of the the double-agent Kim Philby, book for Pākehā – and other is a story for all readers, young universe and our place in it was the rise of Fidel Castro, and New Zealanders – curious or old, who dare to dream of a created especially for children the guerrilla wars of Central about their sense of identity fairer, kinder, more loving world. aged three years and up by the America. This new biography and about the ambivalences award-winning author-illustra- responds to the thousands of we Pākehā often experience in tor Vasanti Unka. pages of lost letters that have our relationships with Māori.’ A recently come to light, and deals timely and perceptive memoir sensitively with questions of pri- from award-winning author vate life, sex, and mental illness. A Life of Extremes: Alison Jones. Impossible: My Story The Life and Times STAN WALKER of a Polar Filmmaker (HARPERCOLLINS NZ) MAX QUINN (EXISLE) PB NZ TITLE $39.99 HB NZ TITLE $49.99 For the first time, Stan Walker OUT IN NOV speaks with startling honesty Max Quinn’s filmmaking career about abuse and addiction, has taken him to the ends of hardship and excess, cancer the earth, from his native New and discrimination, and grow- Zealand to Alaska; Antarctica Timeline: Science ing up in a family where love to the Arctic. A Life of Extremes and Technology That Christmas and violence were horribly is a personal account of his PETER GOES RICHARD CURTIS, ILLUS. entwined. From one of the work, featuring vibrant text (GECKO PRESS) REBECCA COBB (PUFFIN) finest singers to emerge from and stunning images that illus- New Zealand Aotearoa in a HB NZ TITLE $39.99 HB $37.00 OUT IN NOV trate 20 years of adventures generation, Impossible is a story Timeline is a visual introduc- From international film phe- in polar climates. Learn, from of redemption and the power tion to our planet and society nomenon Richard Curtis The Wild Silence behind the camera, about the The Best of Me of forgiveness. It's also a story told through the history of our and award-winnning illustra- RAYNOR WINN natural history and wildlife of DAVID SEDARIS about a young Māori boy find- greatest inventions and the tech- tor Rebecca Cobb, comes a (MICHAEL JOSEPH UK) our world. A unique insight into (LITTLE BROWN) ing his place and purpose, never nology that has changed the heartwarming tale of a magi- HB $40.00 some of the most beautiful and PB $37.99 OUT IN NOV forgetting who he is and where world. In his signature playful cal, unconventional Christmas. In The Salt Path, Raynor and most extreme places on earth. What could be a more tempt- he came from. style, Peter Goes illustrates the Christmas is the same every year, her husband Moth headed to ing Christmas gift than a com- most fascinating technologies, isn't it? 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live there and who live to surf, us how to release your self- Zealand, these essays range from including Kaikōura, Westport, limiting beliefs and embrace a childhood in war-torn Iran, Greymouth, Sumner and your potential. Celebrated including the trauma of a night Dunedin. The characters, the therapist and Holocaust survi- spent in prison as a six-year-old, competitions, the breaks, the vor, Dr Edith Eger, provides to learning English so she could communities, the dream life- a hands-on guide that gently make friends, to dating in the styles – dive into surfing culture encourages us to change the days of Corona. This is about and its importance to Kiwis. imprisoning thoughts and growing up as a young woman destructive behaviours holding torn between her immigrant us back. Accompanied by sto- roots and her desire to be like ries from Eger’s own life and everyone else. 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the country. First presented in Peter Alsop’s 2016 Hand- Coloured New Zealand, Wonderland collects the best of these images in a more con- densed edition, presented in the style of a New Zealand pictorial and geographically organised from Northland and Auckland, right down to the deep south.

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well. Utilising easily available delight for dishes and ingredi- ingredients and with handy tips ents, her new book is an indul- to whip up plant-based dishes gent combination of delicious with confidence, it includes recipes and narrative essays that Chelsea's epic Lockdown loaf celebrate the rhythms and ritu- and 10-second aioli and a range als of her kitchen and food phi- of other nifty reboots and ver- losophy. Philosophical musing satile staples that will satisfy all such as “What is a recipe? and eaters and occasions. “A Loving Defence of Brown Food” intertwine with 150+ new recipes that make the most of favourite ingredients and occasions with dedicated chap- Ottolenghi Flavour ters to Rhubarb, Anchovies (the YOTAM OTTOLENGHI, bacon of the sea!), solo suppers IXTA BELFRAGE and family dinners. 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