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The Writing LifeCandid conversations with 12 writers who helped shape New Zealand literature A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent OSullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with experienced oral historian Deborah Shepard, they offer a marvellous insight

this book encourages reflection on the power of collective action to enhance the dignity and rights of others

In the last year of the war

Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s

‘This book is fundamental to providing careful historical context and complex

David Straight’s book should help change that and possibly inspire interest in other overlooked architects of the mid-20th century

Described as a “hymn to the internal lives of boys today”

’ — Andrew Paul Wood

to social enterprise and online campaigning

‘This is popular science writing of the first order: as good as anything by Richard Dawkins or Stephen Jay Gould’ — Jack Ross

it opens up vistas well beyond its relatively modest scale

and her paintings feature in many important collections both in New Zealand and overseas

Even before diving into Mary Kisler’s Finding Frances Hodgkins