Words that make worlds. Arguments that change minds. Ideas that illuminate. Publishing books that make a difference – 2016 edition. Summer 2016 POLITICS AND THE MEDIA: SECOND EDITION Edited by Geoff Kemp, Babak Bahador, Kate McMillan & Chris Rudd Journalists and presidents, hacks and spin doctors, media moguls and prime ministers: in New Zealand and around the world, politics and the media are deeply intertwined. Politics and the Media introduces students to the rich literature on media and politics internationally, covering history, political economy and contemporary trends, and then analyses the particular shape of the media in New Zealand and its political role. This second edition features extensive coverage of the 2014 ‘Dirty Politics’ campaign, the increasing importance of online media, and updated material in all chapters. Geoff Kemp is a senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, Babak Bahador is a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Kate McMillan is a senior lecturer in politics at Victoria University of Wellington, and Chris Rudd is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago. February 2016, 230 x 165 mm, 360 pages Paperback, 978 1 86940 847 3, $59.99 2/3 Summer 2016 THIS PAPER BOAT Gregory Kan This Paper Boat follows the author as he traces his own history through the lives and written fragments of Iris Wilkinson (aka Robin Hyde), of his parents and grandparents. He explores old territories of Robin Hyde’s, still dripping with the past – the tide pool at Island Bay, the garden at Laloma. He listens to the stories of his parents and their parents, the eels and milk, frangipani trees, drains and barbed wire of their childhoods. While stumbling across irreparable fractures between worlds, the author uncovers the permission to have beautiful and imperfect plans. Gregory Kan is a writer based in Auckland. His most recent series of poems, ‘A holding apart of air’, features in the catalogue for the exhibition what is a life? by the painter Kim Pieters, at the Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, and his work is featured or forthcoming in literary journals such as brief, Hue & Cry, otoliths, Percutio, Sport and Turbine. February 2016, 210 x 148 mm, 84 pages Paperback, 978 1 86940 845 9, $24.99 4/5 Autumn 2016 A WHAKAPAPA OF TRADITION: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF NGĀTI POROU CARVING, 1830–1930 Ngarino Ellis, with new photography by Natalie Robertson In A Whakapapa of Tradition, Ngarino Ellis examines how and why a rapid evolution in Māori carving took place between 1830 and 1930 by exploring the Iwirākau school of carving. The six major carvers of this school went on to create more than thirty important meeting houses and other structures, which Ellis draws on to tell this story of Ngāti Porou carving and a profound transformation in Māori art. Beautifully illustrated with new photography by Natalie Robertson, and drawing on the work of key scholars, A Whakapapa of Tradition will be a landmark volume in the history of writing about Māori art. Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) is a lecturer in art history at the University of Auckland and co-editor with Deidre Brown of Te Puna: Māori Art from Northland. Natalie Robertson (Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh) is a photographic artist and senior lecturer at AUT University. March 2016, 248 x 200 mm, 304 pages, colour illustrations Hardback, 978 1 86940 737 7, $69.99 6/7 Autumn 2016 BESIDE HERSELF Chris Price ‘All of my best lines are accidents’, Chris Price writes in this book, and proceeds to prove that she has the knack of putting herself in harm’s way and the skill to build from there. Beside Herself plays with character, and with language, and with the way the one works on the other. A selection of beautifully crafted, riddling poems of persons and personae, truths and falsehoods, frank identities and masked selves, Beside Herself is a playful, shapeshifting performance. Chris Price is based in Wellington, where she teaches the poetry MA at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University. Her first collection of poems,Husk , won the 2002 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry and her next book, the genre-busting Brief Lives, was shortlisted in the biography category in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. March 2016, 198 x 132 mm, 120 pages Paperback, 978 1 86940 846 6, $24.99 10/11 Autumn 2016 FAT SCIENCE: WHY DIETS AND EXERCISE DON’T WORK — AND WHAT DOES Robyn Toomath Fat Science draws on the latest research and twenty years of working with overweight patients to offer realism and policy solutions to one of our biggest problems. Robyn Toomath shows how our modern world is making us fat. And while governments and individuals keep trying things that science shows do not work – from dieting to education campaigns – she outlines what just might make a difference in ending the obesity epidemic. A thousand books will tell you how to get thin. It looks like they haven’t worked. We just keep getting fatter. Fat Science – a small book about one of our biggest problems – can change that. Robyn Toomath is the clinical director of general medicine at Auckland Hospital, former president of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes, and founder of Fight the Obesity Epidemic. April 2016, 190 x 140 mm, 200 pages, NZ & Australian rights only Paperback, 978 1 86940 853 4, $29.99 12/13 Autumn 2016 A FEW HARES TO CHASE: THE LIFE AND ECONOMICS OF BILL PHILLIPS Alan Bollard ‘Bill Phillips was an inventor, an adventurer, a hero and a relentlessly original thinker. He was the Indiana Jones of economics and Alan Bollard has written a definitive biography.’ – Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist How did an electrician from New Zealand with a few mediocre grades in sociology write the second most cited economics article in the world, build the MONIAC – a revolutionary computing machine – and quickly rise to become one of the world’s leading economists? From a remote Dannevirke farm to wartime POW camps to London’s intellectual world, the Bill Phillips story is a true New Zealand tale of adventurous spirit and can-do energy. Alan Bollard is the executive director of the APEC Secretariat in Singapore, former governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and secretary of the Treasury, and the author of Crisis: One Central Bank Governor and the Global Financial Collapse (2010). April 2016, 216 x 138 mm, 296 pages, NZ & Australian rights only Paperback, 978 1 86940 829 9, $39.99 14/15 Winter 2016 SHELF LIFE: REVIEWS, REPLIES AND REMINISCENCES C K Stead Every morning for the past thirty years, C K Stead has written fiction and poetry.Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Stead takes the reader through nine essays in ‘the Mansfield file’, collects works of criticism and review in ‘book talk’, writes in the ‘first person’ about everything from David Bain to Parnell, and finally offers some recent reflections on poetic laurels from his time as New Zealand poet laureate. Throughout, Stead is vintage Stead: incisive, intelligent, personal. C K Stead has published more than forty books and received numerous prizes and honours recognising his contribution to literature. He received our highest award, the Order of New Zealand, in 2007 and he is the New Zealand poet laureate for 2015–2017. June 2016, 210 x 140 mm, 452 pages Paperback, 978 1 86940 849 7, $45 16/17 Winter 2016 BLOOMSBURY SOUTH: THE ARTS IN CHRISTCHURCH 1933–1953 Peter Simpson For two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of remarkable men and women remade the arts. Simpson brings to life the individual artists and their passions, but he also takes us inside the scenes that they created together: Bethell and her visiting coterie of younger poets; Glover and Bensemann’s exacting typography at the Caxton Press; the yearly exhibitions and aesthetic clashes of the Group; McCahon and Baxter’s developing friendship; the effects of Brasch’s patronage; Marsh’s Shakespearian productions at the Little Theatre. Simpson re-creates a Christchurch we have lost, where a group of artists collaborated to create a distinctively New Zealand art. A writer and scholar who now lives in Auckland, Peter Simpson lived in Christchurch for 25 years and both graduated from and subsequently taught at the University of Canterbury. Simpson is the author of six non-fiction books and has edited, or contributed to, many other titles. July 2016, 238 x 200 mm, 364 pages, colour illustrations Hardback, 978 1 86940 848 0, $69.99 18/19 Winter 2016 THE ROAD TO HELL: STATE VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN POSTWAR NEW ZEALAND Elizabeth Stanley From the 1950s to the 1980s, the New Zealand government took more than 100,000 children from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence and placed them in state homes like Epuni, Kingslea, Kohitere and Allendale. Within institutions, children faced abysmal conditions, limited education and social isolation. They endured physical, sexual and psychological violence, as well as secure cells, knock-out sedatives and electro- convulsive therapy. Stanley tells the children’s story: growing up in homes characterised by violence and neglect; removal into the state’s ‘care’ network; daily life in the institutions; violence and punishment; and the legacy of this treatment for victims today. Elizabeth Stanley is a Reader in the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of Torture, Truth and Justice and co-editor of State Crime and Resistance (Routledge, 2009; 2013).