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HIAKAI DOWN SOUTH MONIQUE FISO BRUCE ANSLEY A breathtaking account of kai Ansley takes us on an expedition Māori, traditions, techniques and across the , Te tikanga: 35 stunning recipes, Waipounamu, visiting the places ingredients directory and usage and people who hold the clues to notes. From the creator of the south’s famous character. ’s Hiakai restaurant. Harper Collins | $49.99 Penguin Random House NZ | $65.00

NAVIGATING THE STARS IMPOSSIBLE: MY STORY From master storyteller Witi STAN WALKER Ihimaera, a spellbinding, A startling and important memoir provocative and personal from one of the finest singers to retelling of traditional Māori emerge in a generation; a story creation myths for the 21st of redemption and the power of century. forgiveness. Penguin Random House NZ | $45.00 Harper Collins | $39.99

MOPHEAD TU: THE QUEEN’S POEM WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOA In the sequel to Mophead, Selina NED BARRAUD is invited to read a poem for the A fascinating and gloriously Queen in Westminster Abbey. illustrated children’s book Someone at work calls her a explaining what happened to the sellout. What will she do? moa, our most legendary extinct University Press | $24.99 bird. Potton & Burton | $19.99

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REMOTE SYMPATHY MONSTERS IN THE GARDEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY From the award-winning writer of The Wish Child; a tour de force , DAVID LARSEN (EDS) about the evils of obliviousness, Featuring stories by some of our compelling us to question our best-known writers and work continuing and willful ability to from exciting new talent. look the other way. Victoria University Press | $35.00 Victoria University Press | $35.00

STATE HIGHWAY ONE SAM COLEY VICTORY PARK After losing their parents in a RACHEL KERR shock accident, Alex and twin “A rich, funny, compassionate sister Amy try to reconnect on a exploration of care and road trip that spans the length of carelessness — this is a State Highway One. wonderful book — like its heroine, Hachette NZ | $34.99 astute as hell and full of heart.” Mākaro Press | $35.00

ADDRESSED TO GRETA: A NOVEL FIONA SUSSMAN NOUNS, VERBS, ETC. SELECTED POEMS A call from a lawyer acting on behalf of her dear friend Walter A ‘Best Of’ with some new work presents Greta with a terrifying, thrown in, from one of New though compelling, opportunity. Zealand’s favourite authors. Beautiful hardback gift edition. Bateman Books | $34.99 Otago University Press | $35.00

WOW THE SAVAGE COLONISER BOOK “Being the leading poet in NZ is In this electrifying new work, like being the best DJ in Estonia, Tusiata Avia gathers all the power impressive enough on its own of her voice to speak directly into terms. But Bill Manhire is more histories of violence. than that: he’s unquestionably Victoria University Press | $25.00 world-class.” Teju Cole Victoria University Press | $25.00 Memorable gift-gifting

KARL MAUGHAN NATURE – STILLED HANNAH VALENTINE & GABRIELLA STEAD JANE USSHER Karl Maughan is not only the Huia and kākāpō, fish, moths and best-known garden painter in NZ butterflies, unique mosses, and – he is one of the most successful lichens collected in : 157 in the world. A lush and stunning stunning photographs of the Te book dedicated solely to his work. Papa natural history collection. Auckland University Press | $79.99 Te Papa Press | $70.00

WONDERLAND NEW ZEALANDERS: THE FIELD GUIDE PETER ALSOP TOM SAINSBURY A superb tribute to the New Zealand landscape photography After years of mimicking NZ of Whites Aviation, these hand- celebrities and stereotypes on coloured photographs were a social media, Tom Sainsbury, sensation between the 1950s and aka Snapchat Dude, shares his the 1970s. favourite Kiwi personalities. HarperCollins | $36.99 Potton & Burton | $49.99

ENDLESS SEA FRANCES WALSH AN EXQUISITE LEGACY 100 stories of ships, sailors and the sea told through the taonga GEORGE GIBBS of the New Zealand Maritime The illustrated biography of G.V. Museum — a must-have for all Hudson, one of our greatest who love the ocean. pioneer naturalists and artists Massey University Press | $70.00 - his remarkable illustrations of this country’s insects are a national treasure.

Potton & Burton | $59.99 HIGH WIRE / SHINING LAND LLOYD JONES & EUAN MACLEOD / KO AOTEAROA TĀTOU | WE ARE NEW ZEALAND & HARU SAMESHIMA MICHELLE ELVY, PAULA MORRIS, Jones & painter Macleod tell (EDS) a spellbinding story that Fabulous anthology crosses the Tasman. Morris & commemorating the March 15 photographer Sameshima explore massacre: poetry, fiction, non- the tragic life of Robin Hyde. fiction, and 32pp colour art. Massey University Press | $45.00 each Otago University Press | $39.95 THIS IS NOT HOW IT ENDS For living well JEHAN CASINADER The power of storytelling helps a NOTE TO SELF TV journalist survive depression. REBEKAH BALLAGH A gritty, vulnerable book, offering practical tools to help readers Jam-packed with handy tips, understand and overcome mental bite-sized wisdom and thoughtful distress. illustrations to help readers HarperCollins | $35.00 navigate through feelings like anxiety, stress, worry, guilt and sadness. MAGNOLIA KITCHEN DESIGN Allen & Unwin | $24.99 BETS GEE This spectacular new book SHARED KITCHEN has loads of step-by-step JULIE & ILARIA BIUSO instructions, design techniques Julie Biuso shares the kitchen and incredible cake creations bench with her daughter Ilaria. A to inspire bakers and cake unique collection of enticing new designers at every level. recipes, and they also give the Allen & Unwin | $49.99 classics a shake up! Bateman Books | $39.99 BELLA ANNABEL LANGBEIN For the first time, the internationally celebrated cook COMMON GROUND: shares her huge and varied GARDEN HISTORIES OF AOTEAROA life story, and includes over 60 MATT MORRIS delicious recipes to live by.

A loving look at the evolution Allen & Unwin | $$49.99 of gardens in Aotearoa since Polynesian settlement. Otago University Press | $45.00 THIS FARMING LIFE TIM SAUNDERS An exceptional memoir about the joys and the harsh realities of farm life – Tim’s family has farmed the same piece of land for OBSERVATIONS OF A RURAL NURSE 5 generations. SARA MCINTYRE Allen & Unwin | $36.99 Like a walk in the King Country after the rain ... a love song to our country in sensational images.

Massey University Press | $60.00 Fascinating lives and mind-stretching ideas

WILD AT HEART NOT THAT I’D KISS A GIRL MIRIAM LANCEWOOD LIL O’BRIEN Miriam and Peter walked through A heartbreaking yet hugely funny Europe and Turkey, but met with story of a young woman coming disaster in the Australian desert: to grips with her sexuality in the a gripping story of life and death, face of stark disapproval from courage and the power of love. her parents. Allen & Unwin | $36.99 Allen & Unwin | $36.99

A LIFE OF EXTREMES: CROSSING THE LINES: THE STORY OF THREE THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A POLAR FILMMAKER HOMOSEXUAL NZ SOLDIERS IN WWII MAX QUINN BRENT COUTTS Quinn’s work takes him from NZ Bringing to light the previously to Alaska, Antarctica to the Arctic: untold history of NZ homosexual vibrant text and stunning images soldiers in World War II, illustrate 50 years of adventures drawing on the experiences of in polar climates. ordinary men who lived through Exisle Publishing | $49.99 extraordinary times. Otago University Press | $49.95

THE COVID CHRONICLES BWB TEXT SERIES PAUL LITTLE VARIOUS AUTHORS A dramatic multi-stranded BWB Texts (now 80 available) account of NZ’s response to the are short books on big subjects! global pandemic, and the lessons This acclaimed series is one of we must heed for our future. NZ’s most influential platforms HarperCollins | $36.99 for discussion, ideas and critical analysis. Bridget Williams Books | $14.99

UPRIVER: FROM THE SEA TO THE SOUTHERN ALPS HOOKED FOR LIFE: A CELEBRATION OF FLY FISHING COLIN HEINZ LES HILL WITH DR GRAHAM MACDONALD The story of the author’s journeys to the principal sources of the 24 Based on 63 years of fly fishing, rivers that flow to the sea from this book shares the joy of the Main Divide of the Southern catching trout and invaluable Alps/Kā Tiritiri o te Moana. lessons on how to go about it. Quentin Wilson Publishing | $49.99 Quentin Wilson Publishing | $45.00 LLEW SUMMERS: BODY AND SOUL THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH: VINCENT O’SULLIVAN With over 200 photographs, A compelling, nuanced this is a joyful record of a life in biographical portrait of the sculpture and a testimony to the great artist Ralph Hotere based value of public art. on years of research and Canterbury University Press | $65.00 conversation with Hotere, his friends and family. Penguin Random House NZ | $38.00 THE GIRL FROM REVOLUTION ROAD GHAZALEH GOLBAKHSH A powerful collection of personal THIS PĀKEHĀ LIFE: AN UNSETTLED MEMOIR essays on displacement, being ALISON JONES different and living between two A timely and perceptive memoir worlds, told with humour and from an award-winning author self-reflection. whose frank and humane Allen & Unwin | $36.99 account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights. Bridget Williams Books | $39.99 TREE OF STRANGERS BARBARA SUMNER A dazzling, bestselling and MERCHANT, MINER, MANDARIN: THE LIFE AND achingly beautiful memoir about TIMES OF THE REMARKABLE CHOIE SEW HOY stranger adoption and how it can JENNY SEW HOY AGNEW & TREVOR AGNEW wreck a life. A compelling biography of one of Massey University Press | $35.00 the most distinguished figures of NZ business and an intriguing account of late 19th-century society, industry and race relations. HE PUKAPUKA TĀTAKU I NGĀ MAHI A TE Canterbury University Press | $49.99 RAUPARAHA NUI | A RECORD OF THE LIFE OF THE GREAT TE RAUPARAHA TAMIHANA TE RAUPARAHA, ROSS CALMAN SEARCHING FOR CHARLIE (ED) TOM SCOTT This pioneering work of Māori Stunning biography of the most literature - an 1860s biography of highly decorated soldier in the renowned chief Te Rauparaha by Commonwealth forces of WWII, his son - is available for the first who ended his war in the famous time in Māori and English. Colditz POW camp. Upstart Press | $49.99 Auckland University Press | $59.99 WHITI: COLOSSAL SQUID OF THE For younger DEEP VICTORIA CLEAL readers Sparkling and informative text with amazing illustrations make this a must-have natural history book for young readers. HARE POTA THE FOREVER Te Papa Press | $30.00 ME TE WHATU HORSE MANAPOU STACY GREGG THE TOP SECRET J.K. ROWLING INTERGALACTIC NOTES OF A dual narrative intertwining BUTTONS One of the greatest children’s stories the stories of Rose Bonifait, a MCGINTY of all time, J. K. Rowling’s Harry groundbreaking 19th-century RHYS DARBY Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, feminist painter, a young art The grand finale (Book 3) in the translated into te reo Māori. student and a beautiful black Buttons McGinty action journalling Auckland University Press | $24.99 stallion. series from international funny HarperCollins | $25.00 man Rhys Darby. BEAUDY: SKILLS, Scholastic New Zealand | $17.99 DRILLS, & THE PATH TO THE TOP AMAZING TREE BEINGS BEAUDEN AOTEAROA RAYMOND BARRETT ACTIVITY BOOK HUBER & From his childhood to his rise GAVIN BISHOP SANDRA through the rugby ranks with the Kids 7+ can write their own SEVERGNINI Hurricanes, Barrett shares his personal history into the story of story, insights and tips to help A fresh look at trees, not as silent New Zealand with this fun, creative statues but as beings that enrich young players improve their game, activity book based on bestsellers on and off the field. the whole planet. Foreword by Dr Aotearoa and Wildlife of Aotearoa. Jane Goodall. Upstart Press | $39.99 Penguin Random House NZ | $25.00 Exisle Publishing | $34.99 7-12+

NEANDS DEADHEAD THE RISE OF THE DAN SALMON GLENN WOOD REMARKABLES: BRASSWITCH AND BOT GARETH WARD

A new virus is affecting some In small town NZ Constable The first in a high-stakes, action- homosapiens as they succumb Garrett is resurrected as a packed steampunk adventure to a recessive Neanderthal gene. conscious cyborg, controlled by series from an award-winning Charlie’s scientist parents have Spencer Langley (13). Things get children’s author and magician. disappeared – if he follows their complicated when local criminals Walker | $22.99 trail, will he find a cure? and Garrett’s ex-partner get OneTree House | $24.00 involved. OneTree House | $30.00 12+ SONG OF THE GRANDMA’S RIVER LOST HER CORGIS JOY H. DAVIDSON

A child follows the river’s journey Engaging rhymes and colourfully from its source in the mountains chaotic pictures - children can all the way to the sea. Beautifully join the hunt by looking for corgis illustrated by Kimberly Andrews. hidden on every page.

MIHI Gecko Press | $19.99 DHD Publishing | $28.50 GAVIN BISHOP SAM’S BATH THE GOOD OLD ALI FOSTER & LOOKY BOOK This beautiful board book for NIKKI SLADE DONOVAN BIXLEY babies introduces ideas of me and my whānau within the form of a ROBINSON A hilarious puzzle book that looks simple mihi or pepeha. Sam’s farmhouse lacks a bath but at the history of New Zealand. Great fun for children, with loads of extra Gecko Press | $17.99 his answer to the problem upsets all the sheep, cows, birds and details for adults. frogs. What can he do? Hachette NZ | $24.99 REO PĒPI - Duck Creek Press | $19.99 TORU 3 KITTY THE BOY WITH BROWN & CHRISTMAS IN TWO SHADOWS KIRSTEN SUMMER MARGARET PARKINSON SUZY CATO MAHY & SARAH GREIG A gorgeous set, 3 bilingual board books introducing essential Suzy and the Itty Bitty Beats’ Minding a witch’s shadow can concepts for everyday use of te catchy new song will be a hit with be very complicated! Features reo Māori: Mahi (Actions), Kupu young and old. Santa’s having fun brand new illustrations by award- Tauaro (Opposites), Kare ā-roto at the beach, surfing and cooking winning local illustrator, Sarah (Feelings). a BBQ. Greig. Allen & Unwin | $49.99 Scholastic New Zealand | $19.99 Hachette NZ | $19.99 0-6

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