THE INKLINGS – Christmas 20, Issue No. 14
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THE INKLINGS – Christmas 20, Issue No. 14 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 WITI IHIMAERA (HACHETTE LIVRE) HB NZ TITLE (GODWIT) MICHELLE ELVY, lived in harmony MELISSA (PENGUIN BOOKS) (VINTAGE NZ) PB NZ TITLE $49.99 HB NZ TITLE PAULA MORRIS, with our planet BOARDMAN PB NZ TITLE HB NZ TITLE $34.99 From Curio Bay to $65.00 JAMES NORCLIFFE 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. 120 HEREFORD ST. Ph: (03) 379 2882 THE INKLINGS – Christmas 20, Issue No. 14 1 FICTION the story of a father and son, a chance to make things right. mountains, the best and bright- and the country they call home. Up until now, her life has been est are trained for excellence in This is a world in which debt full of misery and regret. With the grand jeu: an arcane and has ruined countless lives and the help of the books in the mysterious contest. Léo Martin the gods of finance rule, where library, she can now undo every was once a student there, but immigrants live in fear and the one of her regrets as she tries now he returns in disgrace. unhealed wounds of 9/11 con- to work out her perfect life. Montverre has changed, even tinue to wreak havoc. A power- But soon her choices place the allowing a woman, Claire ful and unsparing novel. library and herself in extreme Dryden, to serve in the grand danger. Before time runs out, jeu's highest office of Magister she must answer the ultimate Ludi. When Léo first sees Claire question: what is the best way he senses an odd connection to live? with her. And as the legend- ary Midsummer Game draws closer, secrets are whispering in All Our The Living Sea of Hench the walls… Shimmering Skies Waking Dreams NATALIE ZINA WALSCHOTS TRENT DALTON RICHARD FLANAGAN (HARPERCOLLINS US) (HARPERCOLLINS AU) (PENGUIN BOOKS AU) PB $35.00 PB $34.99 HB $37.00 Anna does boring things for Darwin, 1942. As Japanese In a world of perennial fire and terrible people because even bombs rain down, motherless growing extinctions, Anna’s criminals need office help and Molly Hook, the gravedigger's aged mother is dying – if her she needs a job. But when she daughter, is looking to the skies three children would just allow finally gets a promising assign- and running for her life. Inside Troy it. Condemned by their pity to ment, everything goes very a duffel bag she carries a map, STEPHEN FRY living she increasingly escapes wrong, and an encounter with which will lead her – along with (MICHAEL JOSEPH UK) through her hospital window the so-called “hero” leaves her her unlikely travelling compan- into visions of horror and PB $37.00 badly injured. With no money ions – through the deep out- delight. When Anna’s finger Piranesi The story of Troy speaks to and no mobility, with only her back to Longcoat Bob, who vanishes and a few months later SUSANNA CLARKE all of us – the kidnapping of anger and internet research Molly believes has placed a her knee disappears, Anna too (BLOOMSBURY PLC) Helen, a queen celebrated for acumen, she discovers her suf- curse on her family. An odyssey feels the pull of the window. her beauty, sees the Greeks HB $29.99 fering at the hands of a hero of true love and grave danger, All around her others are simi- launch a thousand ships against Piranesi lives alone in the is far from unique. A sharp, Remote Sympathy every bit as beautiful and unfor- larly vanishing, but no one else CATHERINE CHIDGEY the city of Troy, to which they House. In his notebooks, day provocative, witty debut, in gettable as Boy Swallows Universe. notices. A strangely beauti- (VUP) will lay siege for ten whole after day, he makes a clear and which a young woman discov- ful story about hope, love and NZ TITLE years. It is a terrible war with careful record of its wonders. ers the greatest superpower – PB $35.00 orange-bellied parrots from a casualties on all sides as well as But then messages begin to for good or ill – is a properly For Frau Greta Hahn, life in Booker Prize-winning novelist. strained relations between allies, appear, scratched out in chalk executed spreadsheet. Buchenwald would appear to whose consequences become on the pavements. There is be idyllic. But lying just beyond tragedies. An unforgettable nar- someone new in the House. the forest is the looming pres- rative of heroism and hatred, But who are they and what do ence of a work camp, where her love and loss, desire and despair they want? Lost texts must be husband is camp administrator. by the inimitable Stephen Fry. found; secrets must be uncov- But then the prison population ered. The world that Piranesi begins to rise; supplies are inad- thought he knew is becoming equate, and the sewerage system strange and dangerous. A lumi- is under increasing strain. Frau nous feat of storytelling and a Hahn is forced into an unlikely gripping mystery.