An up-to-date guide for people embarking on their first journey into recording Aotearoa New Zealand's past. In these pages, writers will find simple, practical advice on all aspects of researching, writing and publishing local histories, memoirs, family...
"Woodblock prints and poems (in English and te reo Māori) by Palmerston North poet and artist of twenty sites of battles in the New Zealand Wars"--Publisher's website.
"David Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to better understand ourselves and the lives we walk through. At the request of readers globally, Whyte returns with fifty-two short, elegant meditations on a single word...
"Writing at a time of great social and intellectual turmoil, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was uncompromising in his defence of truth, liberty and justice, and in his championship of the inarticulate and exploited he added a potent voice to the tradition of...
"The key is Courage. Discover 10 Second ways of transforming your fears and anxieties, turning them into confident and empowering experiences. With smart, quick, and easy tips and principles- 10 Seconds of Courage trains you to be mindful, prepared, brave and...
"Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of all English comedy. This edition includes his most famous plays, The Rivals, The School for Scandal, and The Critic, as well as two...
"This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the...
"Exploring naming and its power, the remarkable second collection from the award-winning poet and former Young People's Laureate for London. In Yoruba culture, newborn babies are welcomed into the world, and ushered into the social fabric, through naming...
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, two plays set in the north Dublin suburb of Barrytown. From novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle come these two colorful plays. both set in the North Dublin suburb of Barrytown. In Brownbread,...
""The book against death" is a collection of Elias Canetti's writings on death. He alternates between despair and fury, examining the inevitability and universality of death for all living beings, while also condemning the deaths caused by war and despotism,...
"Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Maori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print literacy within te ao Maori and vividly conveys how books are understood as taonga tuku iho - treasured items...
Molly Laurence is a rangatahi writer from Otautahi. Parallel Lines is a collection of currents interacting, dividing and running parallel through school days, turangawaewae, and the hum of bread baking. It is her first solo collection, and was found in a...
"One of England's preeminent poets, John Donne's poems are among the most passionate, profound, and spiritual in the English language. This rich representation reflects the wide diversity of his poetry. From such witty items as "The Flea, " which transforms...
"The present selection traces the development of Yeats' fully annotated verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his...
"Photography framed the world of the Bloomsbury Group. The thousands of photographs surviving in albums kept by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, and Lytton Strachey, among others, today offer us a private insight into their lives. Maggie Humm...
"A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung's wife and collaborator Emma Jung (1882-1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures...
"The hilarious guide to the countryside you never knew you needed, from up-and-coming TikTok- and Instagram-hit comedian Killian Sundermann. Welcome to the countryside! A place of rolling hills, winding rivers and natural beauty. Or is it? Killian Sundermann...
"From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art"--Publisher's description.
"what is it that you want? i want all this world can give me. then you're going to have to give it to yourself. i gave myself the world showcases the beauty of introspection and exploring personal conflict. Through a conversation with an inner voice, catarine...
"A never-before-seen volume of poetry by the preeminent poet laureate Herman Hesse-beautiful companion to Seasons of the Soul and the author's better-known prose work. Organized into four parts--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--The Seasons of Life relates...
"For over three decades, Anthony Joseph's work has explored the transnational vibrations of the African diaspora. Precious and Impossible brings together thirty years of Joseph's poetry and lyrics cementing his status as one of our greatest living poets and...
"Filled with warmth, wit, and a dash of irreverence, Clumsy Beauty is a celebration of life in all its messiness. This exquisitely illustrated collection of bite-size poems from J. K. Kennedy invites you to hear the "I love you" in every little moment. In an...
"This book continues where the paperback version of The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, published in 2020, left off. Like the previous book, which centered on some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, including the Homeric Iliad and...
""In the England of murder mysteries and TV detectives, no destination is deadlier than a quaint country village, and you never know you're in a murder village until it's too late. No attraction or local character is safe--whether in the pub for a pint, or on...
"Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems remain little known since they appeared in...
"Presents Virgil's epic poem in which Aeneas, the future founder of Rome, embarks from the ruins of Troy on a treacherous journey toward a new home, and includes an introduction, further reading list, and several other reference tools"--Publisher's...
"The work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei has long been celebrated in both China and internationally, and various English translations and mistranslations of their work played a pivotal but often unacknowledged role...
"Legends of the North presents... The story of Marmion – A Tale of Flodden Field ‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive' is the famous phrase spoken by the somewhat scheming character of Marmion in Scott's historical romance. For...
"Journal writing is an unrivalled way to understand and appreciate your 'one precious life'. Dr Stephanie Dowrick is an award-winning writer with a unique breadth of psychological insight and creative writing experience. Here she takes journal writing to a new...
"Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It's not a subject that's generally taught in creative writing programs. There are few online resources, but in terms of craft books, what exists is...
"The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the...
"Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role,...
"Paul Kidby shines a light on the influences and inspirations behind some of the Discworld's most iconic imagery, the collaboration between author and artist, and shows how real-world art, music, and culture fed into and became part of the world of the...
"When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could reach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddles with difficulties, and that behind...
"A fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls. In Girl, Ruth Padel presents a triptych of interlocking sequences. A moving retelling of the Christian story transforms the Virgin Mary into a girl...
"As a White House speechwriter, Terry Szuplat helped craft hundreds of speeches for President Obama. But when it came to public speaking himself, Szuplat—like many people—was gripped by anxiety and preferred to stay in the shadows. When he was invited to give...
In the cracks of light, Apirana Taylor's seventh book of poetry, shows one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most prolific and versatile writers at his best. The seventy-three short poems here challenge our conceptions of poetic form. They are minimalist in...
A book celebrating ten years of Otepoti Dunedin as Aotearoa New Zealand's UNESCO City of Literature, and 100 years of Janet Frame. Within these pages, readers will find original work from 60 writers: collaborative and individual poems, celebrated poets and new...
"Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy,...
A collection of columns written for Tauranga's Bay of Plenty Times 2004-2019 about sport, tourism, industry, people, places and events in New Zealand. The author sees the world through song lyrics which often feature in the book.
"'I wanted to put you bang in the picture. Apprise you of the difficulties. Because, in case you hadn't noticed, he's a human boobytrap. And now, guess what, surprise surprise, boom!' A world-famous children's author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake...
"Talanoa is a collection of narrative stories from promising authors all around the Pacific! Take a dive into various completely true stories as they take you on a sail to read about different islands and their lifestyles! Read about heartwarming moments with...
"Women are frequently told they are too emotional – too hysterical – to be taken seriously, to be leaders of countries and companies, to be believed when pointing to their own hurt. Hysterical challenges these myths with poetry that confronts body politics,...
"In Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness,'Agathologist' Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead's most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple's appearances on page,...
"An illuminating book of concise craft essays and exercises for poets, from Pulitzer Prize finalist and The Poet's Companion coauthor Dorianne Laux. From "a poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes), Finger Exercises for Poets is an engaging...
"Introspective, vulnerable, and tantalizing, this is a love letter to queerness -- capturing the joy, grief, ecstasy, and hope that accompany it. The poems tackle the complexities of infatuation, heartache, sexual assault, and toxic masculinity. Across three...
"There is always a link. This is the magic of Taylor Swift... She has trained her fans to follow her threads. An anthology of 113 brand new poems. Responding to 113 songs by Taylor Swift. Can you match every poem to the song that inspired it? Including brand...
"Just over a century ago poetry was all the rage in Australia. Newspapers and magazines published it, entertainers and elocutionists performed it on stages across the country, and ordinary Australians recited it in schools, local halls and suburban parlours....
"Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous preface....
"In October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'. Strange...
"This volume brings together a collection of Byron's poetry and prose, including poems, letters, journals, and transcripts of conversations, and gives the reader an insight into his work and thinking"--Publisher's description.
"In the long-awaited follow-up to his bestselling collection, The Truth of You, poet Iain Thomas explores the unseen forces that shape our inner experience. A collection of over 200 pieces of poetry and prose, The Secret of You focuses on the thoughts and...
"From romance to rejection, the complex themes of love and desire have inspired some of the greatest poetry ever written. The collection of classics in Poems to Swipe Right to takes this tradition and reframes it within the bewildering experience of modern...
"Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a devastating period of writer's block and back into a life of growth, creativity, and healing. Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the...
"Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals -- both as a disabled...
"This is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress"--Publisher's description.
Best-selling poet Lang Leav presents a gorgeous hardcover gift book featuring the best of Lullabies and Love & Misadventure plus thirty-five new poems for fans to discover, along with original color illustrations by the author. For fans of Lang Leav, this...
"This volume comprises the full poetic works of one of our wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems. When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope became that rarest of creatures: a celebrated poet...
"Josh Lynott and his work stands in the liminal space of poetry and running, two forms of movement and expression that, within fragmented spectacles of contemporary life, seem to be in perpetual flux. Perhaps appearing as an unlikely pairing, Lynott explores...
"A new translation of the fifth-century Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love"--Publisher's description.
"Seasonal Storytelling is a colourful, illustrated handbook for storytellers and teachers that follows seasonal rhythms. Acclaimed and experienced storyteller, Tanya Batt, provides a guide for interactive storytelling; notes for organising process dramas;...
"A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity. mother is a work rooted in an intimate an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non-Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed...
"An accessible and engaging history of trolling before the internet, tracing the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies from ancient Greece to the 20th century. Taking in the contrarianism of Lord Byron, the wit of Oscar Wilde, insult trading in...
"This collection of inspirational thoughts represents Tolstoy's lifelong quest to find meaning and understand life's purpose. Chronicled as a biographical arrangement of his philosophical views, featuring quotations from his earliest diaries, stories,...
"When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for late-night drinks after a party, the stage is set for a night of drunken recriminations and revelations. Battle-lines are drawn as Martha and George drag their guests...
'Lindsay Rabbitt's work is austere and uncompromising, yet warm; empathetic yet wry; tough yet tender. In these poems you can feel language as a physical force, primal utterance, language as emergence. Their openness brings the reader in as a co-creator,...
Hekate, the enigmatic Greek Goddess of magic, moon, ghosts, medicine and crossroads stands at the boundary between the divine and the human world. As the leading character crosses this threshold, the goddess, becomes a presence that reveals and mirrors...
"The Cantos of Ezra Pound is one of the great landmarks in twentieth-century poetry. This Fourth Collected edition of 1987 includes two previously uncollected cantos, and some passages from other cantos, omitted from earlier printings, restored to the...
"A poet whose work is "a cause of celebration" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) reveals the extraordinary within the ordinary. In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty,...
"How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, the wisdom and the humour that is the gift of the greatest poets of our human civilization? From the genius of the Greeks and Romans to love and metaphysics of...
"A selection of stories from 2024, written by members of the Franklin Writers Group. These authors meet weekly in Pukekohe to shore stories within a caring group dynamic. They encourage new writer to visit their group.
"Poet David Eggleton has joined forces with local artist Alan Harold to produce a poetry and art book in association with National Poetry Day. The limited edition publication, entitled Mundungus Samizdat, is published by the Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop in...
"This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels...
"The Wicked Wit of England is a celebration of British humour, featuring a collection of stories, anecdotes, quips and quotes that capture the various idiosyncrasies of the English character. If there is one thing that first-time visitors to England find...
"For all of Robert Louis Stevenson's achievements in fiction, most famously Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance,...
"The debut poetry collection from Lyndsay Rush (aka @maryoliversdrunkcousin) is a humorous and joyful celebration of big feelings, tender truths, and hard-won wisdom, for fans of Maggie Smith, Kate Baer, and Kate Kennedy. At long last, a book of poetry for...
"'Get Carter' are two words to bring a smile of fond recollection to all British film lovers of a certain age. The cinema classic was based on a book called 'Jack's Return Home,' and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that...
"When Dr Stockmann makes a disturbing discovery about the healing waters in his local baths, he holds the future of the whole town in his hands. But doubt spreads faster than disease, and those with everything to lose refuse to accept his word. Soon, a battle...
"Katherine Hamilton is a nineteen-year-old woman facing arrest and trial in the King's court, with only her quick wit as defense against execution. James V: Katherine is a dramatic interpretation of key events during a turbulent time in Scotland's history,...
"Thousands of writers--from first-time authors to #1 New York Times best-selling authors--have learned from Lisa Mangum's masterful literary advice and inspiration. Now she's collected the best of her writing and editing tips in this helpful book that covers...
"On the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called "Frances Farmer Is My Sister," arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her partner held a...
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