Zone of the Marvelous by Martin Edmond
‘He’s constantly demonstrating that the natural world is as splendiferous as any fable.’ – Jim Shepard, New York Times. The antipodes existed in the imagination of Europe far before it ever became…
NZ NonFiction
We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998 by Mark Derby, Jenny Rouse, and Ian Wedde
We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998 Mark Derby, Jenny Rouse & Ian Wedde, Victoria University Press ($60) This beautiful book is an important record of New Zealand’s…
Washday at the Pa by Ans Westra & Mark Amery
Washday at the Pa Ans Westra & Mark Amery, Suite Publishing ($25) Washday at the Pa is a central text of New Zealand photographic history and one whose reputation has…
Mad On Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age by Rebecca Priestley
Mad On Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age Rebecca Priestley, Auckland University Press ($45) Recorded history has a peculiar inertia. Its status as a record often makes it seem…
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition by David Grant & Bob Kerr
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition David Grant & Bob Kerr, Steele Roberts ($35) Sometimes the stories we hear most often are those…
‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer’ by Michael Parekowhai
To say that Michael Parekowhai’s artwork explores what it means to be a New Zealander is an exercise in reductionism. His touch – playful, deep, curious and personal – reveals a…
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature Edited by Jane Stafford & Mark Williams, Auckland University Press ($75) Click here to listen to Kiran’s review on 95bFM’s Morning…
Unnerved: The New Zealand Art Project
The Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art in Queensland Australia holds the largest collection of contemporary New Zealand art outside of this country, including works acquired since the 1990’s through the…
