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Victoria University Press: 2016 Catalogue

2016 Fiction 3 Poetry 9 Non-fiction 19

2015 Fiction 27 Poetry 32 Non-fiction 35

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It’s Wellington, now. Acoustic Engineer Michael Stirling’s old life is gone. He’s on the dating scene, learning te reo Māori, living in an upmarket apartment complex, and visiting his father who has dementia. Wearing his online dating disguise, Michael meets Chrissie, the widowed mother of a young son. Then his beloved adult daughter arrives from Auckland with a new attachment, an artist whose project will push them all towards key moments of risk and revelation.

Dad Art is a vibrant, funny new work from the leading chronicler of contemporary life in Aotearoa. Told with great verve, this novel is about the capacity for surprise and renewal.

‘It adds to the list of likeable, though not quite admirable characters with which Wilkins has charmed readers for two decades: competent, scrupulous about their social and familial duties, but knocked off their perch into the uneasy condition of emotional outsiders.’—John Sinclair, Metro

March 2016ISBN: 9781776560561Paperback138 x 210 mm; 232 pp.RRP: $30Fiction

Damien Wilkins

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A returning hero.A desolate valley.A missing mathematician.A glamorous and beguiling council bureaucrat with

a hidden past.A cryptic map leading to an impossible labyrinth.An ancient conspiracy; an ancient evil.A housing development without proper planning

permission. All leading to the most mysterious mystery of all. Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley is a dark

and forbidding new comic farce by the author of Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley.

‘Aro Comic Noir just may become a literary cult of its own.’—David Hill, NZ Herald

June 2016ISBN: 9781776560479Paperback138 x 210 mm; 400 pp.RRP: $30Fiction

Danyl McLauchlan

MYSTERIOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ARO VALLEY

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‘The knowledge of everyone they’re about to hurt is not an easy element to breathe in. They’re the lovers. You can blame them now, if you want to. That’s your choice: this is the director’s cut.’

Seventeen powerful stories of contemporary New Zealand life from a writer whose penetrating gaze reveals the full experience of her characters’ lives—tragic, comic, rich.

May 2016ISBN: 9781776560585Paperback138 x 210 mm; 224 pp. RRP: $30Fiction

Tracey Slaughter

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‘Tracey Slaughter brings a breathtaking lyricism to the short story; the language is at once baroque and raw, pulsing with risk and edgy desire. These exquisite pieces don’t just get under the skin; they smash and kick at the heart.’—Catherine Chidgey

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November 2016ISBN: 978177650622Paperback138 x 210 mm; 320 pp.RRP: $30Fiction

Catherine Chidgey

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Mama had been saving sugar and flour for weeks, putting it aside into special tins that Erich was not allowed to touch. It was their duty, she said, to have a normal Christmas, even without Papa, even though when the wind blew in the right direction they could smell the smoke from the bombs that had fallen on Leipzig. The house filled with the aroma of hazelnuts and cinnamon, cloves and almonds, and Mama tucked her hair under her headscarf and hurried about the kitchen as if there was an emergency, kneading sweet brown dough and cutting it into fir trees and stars, pinching pieces of sugary white mixture into crescent moons. The shapes were the shapes of a still night in the forest, and Erich wished he could slip through his bedroom window when Mama was asleep and go to the woods beyond the farm and stand there in the fragrant dark, looking up through the black branches—but the forest was not safe any more. It hid runaways and traitors, all manner of enemies, bad shadows waiting in every hollow.

In the tub the carp was growing. When they needed to bathe Erich caught it in a bucket and set it aside and it waited, curled like a question mark, until he poured it back. At night he could hear it splashing, leaping from the water, and each morning he had to dry the bathroom floor so that nobody would slip and break their neck. The fish was calm then, barely moving, but it came to him when he beckoned it, nudging at his fingers as they fluttered beneath the water. And in the mornings, too, Erich saw Mama saying her prayers to the bronze head with the blank eyes. It glinted just as the carp glinted, although it was not a living thing; no, it was not alive, not alive, but its eyes watched without iris or pupil, and you could not tell where they were looking.

On Christmas Eve Mama killed the carp. She took a hammer, the hammer Papa used for fixing things, and she killed it, and then she cut it open, and it was not clean on the inside, even though it had been in the bath for days, and

An excerpt from THE WISH CHILD

Mama was wrong. Erich wept for the fish, lying on the sofa and burying his face in the tasselled green cushions where everything was soft and cool and dark, and he could not hear Mama saying that German boys should be brave; that German boys should know some things had to die. He could feel his grandmother stroking his back, and where she stroked, fins appeared, and he swam into the soft darkness, the tasselled weeds parting for a moment to let him through, then closing behind him.

That night at dinner Mama lit the candles and sat in Papa’s chair. She placed the fish at the centre of the table, its fins and tail as brittle as sycamore wings. Erich could see the slit along its belly, and the filling of onions and parsley leaking onto the dish that had belonged to Mama’s mama, who was dead. The little wooden angels hung on the tree; angels in sleighs, angels playing trumpets, angels doing things that people do, and this was not at all strange, because angels were dead people, after all, and why should they not remember how to play trumpets and ride in sleighs? Erich wanted to ask Oma if angels had memories but Mama was peeling back the skin and cutting up the fish, cutting a slice for Oma and for Tante Uschi and for Erich and for herself, and telling him to say grace. He did not want to thank God or anybody else for the thing that lay before him, and so he said the words with his eyes open and his head unbowed, and when he had finished Mama said, Amen, just as she did when she finished her prayers to the head, and then she began to eat, plucking the fine bones from the flesh so that she would not choke. Erich pushed his fork into a piece of the carp and raised it to his mouth, and his mother smiled and the candle-flames shook and the shadows climbed the walls and the snow fell, and the hollow head watched like a father, and Erich knew then that the hand holding the fork was not his own, and nor was the mouth receiving the food; it was a different boy who placed the warm morsel on his tongue, a different boy who chewed and swallowed, chewed and swallowed, and asked for more.

This astonishing new novel from the bestselling author of In a Fishbone Church will be one of the literary events of 2016. The story of two German families caught up in the Second World War, The Wish Child is both a love letter of sorts to Berlin, and a terrifying portrayal of the way ordinary Germans were drawn into the Nazi dream.

Catherine’s first novel, In a Fishbone Church, was a New Zealand bestseller and won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction in the Montana NZ Book Awards, the South East Asia and Pacific Region Prize in the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Betty Trask prize for a first book (UK) and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Golden Deeds, was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction and was published under the title The Strength of the Sun by Henry Holt in the US, where it was a New York Times ‘Notable Book of the Year’.

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Published by Fergus BarrowmanMarch 2016ISBN: 9770133789004-44Paperback148 x 210 mm; 276 pp.RRP: $30Fiction, poetry and non-fiction

Packed with new essays, poetry and fiction from 56 leading and new New Zealand writers, Sport 44 is an essential overview of current New Zealand writing.

Essays: Nick Bollinger, Helena Wiśniewska Brow, Emma Gilkison, Elizabeth & Sara Knox, Catherine Robertson, John Summers, Giovanni Tiso, Chris Tse

Fiction: Pip Adam, Francis Cooke, Kate Duignan, Breton Dukes, Craig Gamble, Emma Hislop, Kirsten McDougall, Frances Mountier, Damien Wilkins

Poetry: Johanna Aitchison, Philip Armstrong, Jane Arthur, Tusiata Avia, Airini Beautrais, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria Broome, James Brown, Rachel Bush, Geoff Cochrane, Lynn Davidson, Lynley Edmeades, Trevor Hayes, Helen Heath, Alexandra Hollis, Erik Kennedy, Liang Yujing, Anna Livesey, Bill Manhire, Maria McMillan, Hannah Mettner, Bill Nelson, Gregory O’Brien, Claire Orchard, Nina Powles, Harry Ricketts, Frances Samuel, Kerrin P. Sharpe, C.K. Stead, Marty Smith, Oscar Upperton, Tim Upperton, Catherine Vidler, Louise Wallace, Sarah Natalie Webster, Sarah Wilson, Louise Wrightson, Ashleigh Young

Edited by Fergus Barrowman with Kirsten McDougall and Ashleigh Young

SPORT 44: NEW ZEALAND NEW WRITING 2016

Hinemoana Baker, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Glenn Colquhoun, Uwe Kolbe, Brigitte Oleschinski, Chris Price

The Transit of Venus has fascinated astronomers for centuries. In 1769 Captain James Cook sailed to the Pacific with a group of scientists to observe the Transit in Tahiti—but Cook had also received secret orders to voyage onwards in search of the fabled ‘Unknown Southern Continent’. It was on this voyage that he made landfall at Tolaga Bay, met the local Māori and initiated the first positive encounter between Europe and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Nearly 250 years later three German poets flew to the Pacific to join with three New Zealand poets in observing another Transit of Venus. They came together at a gathering hosted by the Tolaga Bay Uawa community that used the focus of this historically significant event to consider how science might make a difference to New Zealand’s future.

In poems presented in both English and German, these six remarkable voices present a fresh series of encounters between Europe and New Zealand and record a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The next Transit of Venus will not be seen until 2117.

February 2016ISBN: 9780864739797Paperback148 x 210 mm; 144 pp. RRP: $30Poetry

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March 2016ISBN: 9781776560578Paperback165 x 210 mm; 112 pp.RRP: $25Poetry

At the heart of Claire Orchard’s first poetry collection is Charles Darwin, during the intense period in which he was working on his controversial theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. His world as traced in his notebooks and letters—his daily habits, his relationships, his health—is drawn out in full imaginative colour and echoed in unexpected ways in the poet’s own world 200 years later.

We also find here depictions of childhood, parenthood, odd characters and split-second decisions. This witty, compassionate book speaks of the beauty and strangeness of all living things, including, and perhaps especially, humankind.

Claire Orchard

COLD WATER CURE

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Hot on the heels of Being Here, his capacious Selected Poems which was chosen by the NZ Listener as one of the poetry highlights of 2015, comes this dazzling collection of 75 new poems.

I so like the man who wrote, ‘I believe in a daisy because I can see it,’and could not have given as you might saya metropolitan’s toss, should he be thought a bit of a simpleton even, as though,as though a man who says thatwith the appalling confidence of knowing he has said so much about belief,and clarity, and the point of endurance, knows as well there is smokingrubble and the shards of fractured stars that five minutes back were windows, that daisies for half the childrenyou have heard of are as likelyto be in that lost box of words theywill never have use for, ever need to say, ‘Weren’t those the ones we nearly picked?’

—‘I So Like the Man Who Wrote’


Vincent O’Sullivan

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Andrew Johnston

FITS & STARTS

fit noun1. Also fytte.A section of a poem or song; a canto. obsolete exc. hist. OE. start noun2.A sudden burst of energy or activity; an outburst of emotion, madness, etc.; a flight of humour. Also, a sudden broken utterance or sound. Now rare or obsolete. l16. (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary)

Andrew Johnston’s mesmerising new collection weaves together fragments of dream, myth, memory and experience. With humour and melancholy, these poems draw upon the random treasures of the radio alphabet and the ancient contradictions of the Old Testament. At their centre, the mythical figure of Echo roams through an imaginary landscape. Hope, love, health and voice disappear and reappear, rescued by faith in poetry’s power to invent its own kind of sense.

POETRY

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The dogs will find you first. Even under the snowthey can smell the fear and sweatand polypropylene socks.

Your grandfather can smell it too.He pulls you out by the scruff of your neck.

You are strapped into a pair of skis.Edward Scissorfeet. Disturbed,eating a sandwich with metal polesdangling from your arms.

—‘Arrest’

In his debut poetry collection Bill Nelson steps into John Coltrane’s body and wears it around. He is a turtle disappearing into the sea. He plumbs the depths of business jargon. He takes singing lessons in Berhampore. He takes his grandfather roller skating. Funny, strange and arresting, these poems test our understanding of understanding.

‘Our messy human natures are accounted for here with care and precision. Clever and surprising, but also warm and down to earth, these poems are great company.’—Kate Camp

April 2016ISBN: 9781776560639Paperback138 x 210 mm; 64 pp.RRP: $25Poetry

Bill Nelson

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In Tusiata Avia’s new collection Fale Aitu | Spirit House, the voices of the living and dead, the past and the present are woven together in poems that are both confessional and confrontational. Speaking from Samoa, Christchurch, Gaza, and New York—Avia’s fearless voice combines mythic with the everyday stories, never shying away from moments of pain nor strange wonder.

May 2016ISBN: 9711776560646Paperback138 x 210 mm; 112 pp.RRP: $25Poetry

Tusiata Avia

FALE AITU | SPIRIT HOUSE

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2016‘It’s nice to know that I can still stumble across New Zealand writers who I’ve never read and fall in love with their writing.’ —Sarah Jane Barnett

Rachel Bush’s distinctive, haunting poems acknowledge the consolations and undoings of thought. In Thought Horses we encounter a speaker who—as she is stepping outside, or googling an old friend, or lying awake too early—is sometimes lifted up, and sometimes overtaken by thought. A beautifully wrought new collection by the author of The Hungry Woman (1997), The Unfortunate Singer (2002) and Nice Pretty Things (2011).

April 2016ISBN: 9781776560721Paperback210 x 148 mm; 68 pp.RRP: $25Poetry

Rachel Bush

THOUGHT HORSES

Ask the god to open the house of your chest wide enough that your enemy may enter

ask aitu: lie down with memy heart is open as a window

ask aitu: walk with memy heart is younger than the sun

— an excerpt from ‘House’

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‘I think there’s a pretty strong case which suggests Hera Lindsay Bird is like the most exciting newish poet in NZ.’—Steve Braunias ‘Hi, dear, have to say how much we enjoyed, if right word, the Hate poem. Really made us think, loved the line about the ancient cannon.’—a text message from Ashleigh Young’s mum

this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl……with many beneficial thoughts and feelings……

with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is…………….juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes

Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog……or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert……

this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness…..

this is the book for you……………………………

July 2016ISBN: 9781776560714Paperback165 x 210 mm; 112 pp.RRP: $25Poetry

Hera Lindsay Bird

HERA LINDSAY BIRD

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CHILDREN ARE THE ORGASM OF THE WORLD

by Hera Lindsay Bird

This morning on the bus there was a woman carrying a bag with inspirational sayings and positive affirmations which I was reading because I’m a fan of inspirational sayings and positive affirmations. I also like clothing that gives you advice. What’s kinder than the glittered baseball cap of a stranger telling you what to strive for? It’s like living in a world of endless therapists. The inspirational bag of the woman on the bus said a bunch of stuff like ‘live in the moment’ and ‘remember to breathe,’ but it also said ‘children are the orgasm of the world.’ Are children the orgasm of the world like orgasms are the orgasms of sex? Are children the orgasm of anything? Children are the orgasm of the world like hovercraft are the orgasm of the future or silence is the orgasm of the telephone, or shit is the orgasm of the lasagne. You could even say sheep are the orgasm of lonely pastures, which are the orgasm of modern farming practices which are the orgasm of the industrial revolution. And then I thought why not? I like comparing stuff to other stuff too. Like sometimes when we’re having sex and you look like a helicopter in a low-budget movie, disappearing behind a cloud to explode. Or an athlete winning a prestigious international sporting tournament at the exact same moment he discovers his wife has just been kidnapped. For the most part, orgasms are the orgasms of the world. Like slam dunking a glass basketball. Or executing a perfect dive into a swimming pool full of oh my god. Or travelling into the past to forgive yourself and creating a time paradox so beautiful it forces all of human history to reboot, stranding you naked on some distant and rocky outcrop, looking up at the sunset from a world so new looking up hasn’t even been invented yet.

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March 2016ISBN: 9781776560547Hardback245 x 330 mm, over 150 colour photographs RRP: $70Non-fiction, photography

Fiona Pardington considers each of her photographs to be ‘a sovereign world’, offering the viewer an uneasy, dreamlike experience. She uses the phrase ‘a beautiful hesitation’ to describe photography’s power to arrest time and to alter our relationship with what a photograph both places under our gaze and withholds from it.

Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation showcases the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important and celebrated photographers. Covering thirty years, it is the most comprehensive publication of her work to date.

The book includes newly commissioned essays, a substantial interview and an archive section including earlier significant texts. Designed by the artist’s brother, Neil Pardington, this book includes more than 150 images. Many early photographs are published here for the first time.

Fiona Pardington, edited by Kriselle Baker and Aaron Lister

A BEAUTIFUL HESITATION

July 2016ISBN: 9781776560653Paperback148 x 210 mm; 70 pp.RRP: $25Poetry

Kerrin P. Sharpe

RABBIT RABBIT

she gave him the lungsto open the hands of fields and walk through an alphabetof rabbits

—‘the train kept my son breathing’

In her third collection, Kerrin P. Sharpe writes about trespass and return, the homelessness of flight, and anatomies both human and object. Her poems take the form of oblique, sometimes tragic, always powerful vignettes. These are poems that are deeply restless in time and place.

‘Kerrin P. Sharpe’s poems make me think of migratory birds. It’s as if they have just settled very briefly on the page after long journeys from far-off places—from Europe, from Antarctica, from other centuries.’—Bill Manhire

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The Pacific region contains a highly diverse and fascinating range of countries, from the large nations of Australia and Papua New Guinea to the tiny, isolated islands of Pitcairn and Rapa Nui. However, the literature on the politics of the Pacific Islands remains much slimmer than for other regions.

The first edition of Pacific Ways helped to redress this balance by providing the kind of information for the Pacific that is readily available for nations in other parts of the globe: their politics, historical background and colonial experience, constitutional frameworks, political institutions, political parties, elections and electoral systems, and problems and prospects. It covered all regions—Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia—and all countries, irrespective of their size or political status. The second edition updates the information on all of the countries and territories in the first edition, and adds two more: West Papua, administered as part of Indonesia, and East Timor/Timor-Leste.

April 2016ISBN: 9781776560684Paperback148 x 210 mm; 398 pp.RRP: $40Non-fiction, politics

Edited by Stephen Levine

PACIFIC WAYS: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN THE PACIFIC, 2ND ED.

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China and the Pacific: The View from Oceania is based on a conference held at the National University of Samoa in Apia from 25 to 27 February 2015. China’s new role as an important diplomatic and economic partner of the island countries of the Pacific has attracted increasing attention, and some controversy, in recent years. The unique priority of this conference in Samoa was to give full opportunity for both Pacific voices to be heard on the subject and for productive engagement and discussion between Pacific island participants and those from China.

Samoa’s Prime Minister, China’s Ambassador to Samoa, and leading politicians and academics from all around the Pacific islands region made contributions which are included in this book.

March 2016ISBN: 9781776560530Paperback 170 x 240 mm; 284 pp.RRP: $40Non-fiction, politics

Edited by Michael Powles

CHINA IN THE PACIFIC: THE VIEW FROM OCEANIA

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Since its grand opening in 1961, Wellington’s Futuna Chapel—devised by architect John Scott and artist Jim Allen—has held a singular place in New Zealand’s cultural history. Futuna: Life of a Building tells the remarkable story of the chapel’s inception and construction, and its status beyond as well as within the architectural world. The book also tells the vexed story of the chapel’s sale to a developer in 2001 and its subsequent dereliction and, at the eleventh hour, rescue. Since then, the chapel has been transformed from a place of Catholic worship to a non-denominational centre for spiritual, cultural and artistic expression. With essays by Chris Cochran, David Mitchell, Niall McLaughlin, Gregory O’Brien and Nick Bevin and photographs by Paul McCredie and Gavin Woodward, this book takes us into the heart of one of the most dynamic and affecting human-made structures in Oceania. N

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June 2016ISBN: 9781776560523Hardback230 x 230 mm; 160 pp.RRP: $50Non-fiction, history, illustrated

Edited by Gregory O’Brien and Nick Bevin

FUTUNA: LIFE OF A BUILDING

James Belich once argued that in New Zealand the ‘grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernibly than elsewhere’. New Zealand in 1914 was a leading liberal democracy with modern infrastructure and institutions, high average living standards and a populist disposition, whose sense of national identity was developing alongside an increasing orientation towards Britain. This attitude was not universal, however, and despite New Zealand’s astonishing commitment to the war, social consent to the demands of mobilisation were neither unconditional nor uncontested.

This book conveys some of the complexities of a small land in a world war, by examining individual facets of New Zealand society. Its 18 investigations of particular social institutions, associations and groups—including the rugby club, the pulpit, the union meeting, the voluntary association, civilian and military leadership, Māori, women, children, German immigrants and pacifists—give us a richer, more detailed understanding of how New Zealanders thought and acted during the First World War.

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July 2016ISBN: 9781776560608Paperback152 x 232 mm; approx. 300pp. RRP: $40Non-fiction, history, illustrated

Edited by Steven Loveridge

NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY AT WAR 1914–1918

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Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand—but she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, ‘Oh to be a writer, a real writer.’ And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists, lost her brother in World War I, dabbled in Alistair Crowley’s druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a Fontainebleu commune with Olgivanna, Frank Lloyd Wright’s future wife. She was as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories.

Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer, too. A writer as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured. Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfield’s dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand. Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.

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October 2016ISBN: 9781776560691Paperback160 x 245 mm; 336 pp. RRP: $35Graphic memoir

Sarah Laing

MANSFIELD AND ME: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New ZealandEdited by Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie LaceyJuly 2016ISBN: 9781776560707Paperback, 224 pp.RRP: $40

This collection of personal essays, a first of its kind, re-imagines the idea of place for an emerging generation of readers and writers. It offers glimpses into where we are now and how that feels, and opens up the range and kinds of stories we can conceive of telling about living here. Contributors include Tony Ballantyne, Sally Blundell, Alex Calder, Annabel Cooper, Tim Corballis, Martin Edmond, Ingrid Horrocks, Lynn Jenner, Cherie Lacey, Tina Makereti, Harry Ricketts, Jack Ross, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Giovanni Tiso, Ian Wedde, Lydia Wevers and Ashleigh Young.

Labour: The New Zealand Labour Party 1916–2016Peter Franks and Jim McAloonJuly 2016ISBN: 9781776560745Paperback240 x 170 mm, 320 pages approx., more than 100 illustrations$50

Founded in July 1916, the Labour Party is New Zealand’s oldest political party, and has a proud progressive tradition that continues to this day. This groundbreaking history tells the Party’s full story, including New Zealand’s labour governments, periods in opposition, and times of upheaval and conflict.

Bats Plays (Polythene Pam, Truelove, Flybaby, Jism, The Temptations of St Panic!)

Ken Duncum & Rebecca RoddenDecember 2016ISBN: 9781776560738138 x 210 mm; 320 pp.$40

Marking the 30th anniversary of leading playwright Ken Duncum’s first professional production at Bats Theatre, this volume brings together the early plays, many written in collaboration with Rebecca Rodden, that forged his style. With an introduction and notes by the author.

PoetryJenny Bornholdt, Selected PoemsAlistair Te Ariki Campbell, Collected PoemsJames Norcliffe, Dark Days in the Oxygen CaféNick Ascroft, Back with the Human ConditionBrian Turner, new collectionJames Brown, new collection

Non-fictionErueti et al (eds), Aotearoa and Implementation of the UN Declaration

on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Theory and Practice Bernardine Vester, Southern Transformations: South Auckland Education

ReformBarbara Francis, You Don’t Travel in China at the Full Moon: Correspondence

from China by Agnes Moncrieff of New Zealand, 1940–1945Erin Mercer, Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand LiteratureAshleigh Young, Can You Tolerate This? (Essays)Geoffrey Troughton and Stuart Lange (eds), Sacred Histories in Secular

New ZealandAnna Jackson, Helen Rickerby and Angelina Sbroma (eds), Truth and Beauty:

Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand Norman Meehan and Tony Whincup, Contemporary New Zealand

Improvising Musicians

August 2015ISBN: 9781776560370Hardback, four volumes in a slipcase152 x 232mm; 2662 pp. RRP: $200Non-fiction

James K. Baxter, edited by John Weir

Complete Prose chronicles Baxter’s life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulent occasions. Its contents are remarkable for their range, coherence and passionate integrity.

This four-volume set contains over a million words, in the form of reviews, essays, lectures, journal articles, drafts and rough notes, meditations, fables, stories, a short novel, interviews, letters to the editor, correspondence with friends and critics, and diary entries, covering Baxter’s entire career, from his first draft of ‘Before Sunrise’ as a teenager in 1942 to his ‘Confession to the Lord Christ’ shortly before his death in 1972. Edited with scrupulous care by John Weir, Baxter’s friend and the foremost scholar of his work, it also includes an extensive introduction, notes and references, a glossary of Māori words and phrases, biographies of key people, an index and a bibliography.

JAMES K. BAXTER: COMPLETE PROSE

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Joan Riviere was an early English psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud’s earliest translator. Hermann Henselmann was a German architect, famous for many of the post-war buildings of the German Democratic Republic. The two novellas about their lives explore complementary attitudes to the world.

Lucidly realised and formally inventive, R.H.I. combines historical research with fiction, blurring and refocusing our ways of seeing the past.

138 x 210 mm; 208 pp.RRP: $30Fiction

August 2015ISBN: 9780864739827Paperback

Tim Corballis

R.H.I.

The Invisible Mile is a powerful re-imagining of the 1928 Tour de France from inside the peloton, where the test of endurance, for one young New Zealander, becomes a psychological journey into the chaos of the War a decade earlier.

Longlisted for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

‘Why have we waited so long for such a brilliant debut?’—Sunday Star-Times

‘A truly extraordinary first novel.’—NZ Listener


June 2015ISBN: 9781776560431Paperback

David Coventry

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Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide.

The Stories of Bill Manhire collects the stories from The New Land: A Picture Book (1990) and those added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-own- adventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Under the Influence (2003).

‘There’s alchemy at work here; a fiery energy in the spaces between stories. The volume delivers a sassy one-finger salute to any concern about staleness in re-issued fiction.’—Sue Orr, The Spinoff

November 2015ISBN: 9780864739254 (HB) , 9781776560752 (PB)Hardback, paperback to be printed in April 2016138 x 210 mm; 320 pp.RRP: $40 (HB), $30 (PB)Fiction

Bill Manhire

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‘You couldn’t ask for a more perceptive, painstaking companion through the mazes of human thoughts and motivations.’

—David Hill, NZ Herald

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‘Poignant, profane, insistently engaging. Patrick Evans gets better and better.’—David Hill, Canvas

Raymond Thomas Lawrence was one of the great literary colossi to bestride the twentieth century. He turned his upbringing in conservative Canterbury and participation in the Algerian War of Independence into a series of novels that dazzled the world, and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seven years after Lawrence’s death, however, the four trustees of the literary trust set up to memorialise New Zealand’s greatest writer are facing rising costs and dwindling visitor numbers at the Residence. While fending off a self-appointed biographer, they find themselves confronting the secrets of their own intimate relationships with The Master.

The Back of His Head is a hilarious and troubling satire on the making and manipulation of literary fame, by the author of the acclaimed novel Gifted.


October 2015ISBN: 9781776560462Paperback138 x 210 mm; 376 pp.RRP: $30Fiction

Patrick Evans

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Trifecta looks at the odds in the lives of the three children of Martin and Agnes Klepka. Martin was one of the refugees of Nazism who famously brought Modernist architecture and ‘real coffee’ to New Zealand. Many years after his early death from a heart attack, Klepka’s children are struggling in their different ways with the difficult legacy of their charismatic, overbearing father.

‘Trifecta is a triptych of skilfully drawn character portraits that together depict a main character who never speaks for himself.’—NZ Listener


September 2015ISBN: 9780864739834Paperback

Ian Wedde

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IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF FAME

Rock musician Jed Jordan’s former fame means the events in his life have become public property. Vivid and engaging, In the Neighbourhood of Fame shines a light on modern relationship struggles within and between families, and on the unpredictable power of celebrity and social media.

‘Van der Zijpp has written an adult, thought provoking and gripping story on a real social issue.’—Sunday Star-Times

Bridget van der Zijpp

April 2015ISBN: 9780864739247Paperback


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Being Here is the first book to survey the entire span of Vincent O’Sullivan’s poetry, from Bearings (1973) to new poems first published in this volume. On display is the full range of the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty of one of New Zealand literature’s finest poets.

‘A stunningly good book.’— NZ Books

‘The poetry has the wry wisdom and expansiveness of someone who has lived several lives, here vividly recreating the locations of that life: the Waikato, Wellington and Dunedin.’—Landfall

138 x 210 mm; 96 pp.RRP: $40Poetry

April 2015ISBN: 9780864739315Hardback

Vincent O’Sullivan

BEING HERE: SELECTED POEMS

Song of the Ghost in the Machine is a free-wheeling philosophical poem that emerged during the walks Roger Horrocks took over a year of his life. In this striking, one-of-a-kind work, he seeks to engage as directly as possible with the basic elements of life—the self and the body, sleeping and waking, death and belief, and above all the strangeness of thought (‘the ghost in the machine’). In his curious look at life from unexpected angles, he draws upon state-of-the-art science and philosophy, doing so in a lively, accessible, down-to-earth way.



May 2015ISBN: 9780864739858Paperback

Roger Horrocks

SONG OF THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE

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This book of fiction and slant autobiography by Joan Fleming occupies the dizzying space between what can be told about love, and what cannot.

‘Joan Fleming’s odd, singular vision is a wonderfully new and valuable addition to contemporary New Zealand poetry.’—Tim Upperton


August 2015ISBN: 9780864739896Paperback

Morgan Bach weaves a line between waking life and the unstable dreamworld beneath, disorienting and reorienting us from moment to moment. In poems of childhood, family, travel and relationships, she responds to the ache and sometimes horror of life in a voice that is restless and witty, bold and sharp-edged.

‘Bach has the ability to hold her chosen material—however personal—at arm’s length. The fact her objectivity doesn’t preclude humour and compassion makes this debut all the more impressive.’ —NZ Listener


July 2015ISBN: 9780864739872 Paperback

Joan Fleming

Morgan Bach

FAILED LOVE POEMS

SOME OF US EAT THE SEEDS

POETRY

2015

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Brent Kininmont’s first collection of poetry musters scenes from antiquity, a life in Japan, and a preoccupation with flight in its varied forms. Islands are stepping stones far below; plains are bused, cycled, hiked across. At any moment a giant might appear. Poems tracing a mother’s illness keep company with a daughter’s rapt examination of her world. Throughout these beautifully voiced and distilled pages, both loud and faint thuds can be detected.


November 2015 ISBN: 9781776560455Paperback

Brent Kininmont

Ocean and Stone, Dinah Hawken’s seventh collection of poetry, is a book of many elements. At the heart of this book is urgency: the urgency to know the limits of our planet and ourselves, and to live within them.

‘The experience of reading Hawken is to be lulled and then shocked awake, to see the land and the sea with such freshness you taste salt, and to feel her poems rise in your body.’—NZ Booksellers



THUDS UNDERNEATH

Dinah Hawken

OCEAN AND STONE

POETRY

2015

138 x 210 mm; 288 pp.RRP: $30Non-fiction, memoir


Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile explores the story of one of the 732 Polish child survivors of wartime Soviet deportation offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand. Seventy years later, and no closer to a longed-for Polish homecoming, Stefan’s New Zealand-born daughter revisits his past. What is the burden her father has carried all these years? And why is he unable—or unwilling—to let it go?

With an ageing father and the ghost of a namesake aunt as her guides, Helena Wiśniewska Brow searches for meaning in the family lives shaped by exile: her father’s, her mother’s and her own.

Helena Wisniewska Brow

GIVE US THIS DAY

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Remembering Gallipoli tells the story of Gallipoli in the words of the soldiers who fought there, taken from interviews towards the end of their lives. Immediate, vivid and engrossing, it is an important record of a pivotal moment in New Zealand’s history.

‘How well served New Zealand has been by histories of its recent wars, especially of the Gallipoli campaign, whose centenary is being marked this year […] The authors have done future generations of New Zealanders a great service.’—Otago Daily Times

170 x 240 mm; 324 pp.RRP: $40Non-fiction, history


Edited by Christopher Pugsley and Charles Ferrall

REMEMBERING GALLIPOLI: INTERVIEWS WITH NEW ZEALAND GALLIPOLI VETERANS

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Maurice Gee once described himself as ‘a New-Zealandy sort of writer living in a New-Zealandy sort of place . . . writing New-Zealandy sort of books’.2 It is that ‘New Zealanderness’, to use C.K. Stead’s term, its intense and particular familiarity, that gives Gee’s work its essential, central place in New Zealand literary culture: widely read, loved and awarded. His novels have won him many literary prizes. They have examined the domestic lives and drawn the landscapes of New Zealand’s provincial towns and middle-class suburbs with, in another critic’s words, ‘the fidelity of a Balzac’.3 Yet it is far from a comfortable familiarity. Maurice Gee’s fictional New Zealand is a dark place, where murders happen, suicides and drownings, where families hurt and self-destruct, where there is violence and cruelty and evil. The term New Zealandy he took from the Australian novelist Patrick White, who referred to a certain, ‘New Zealandy’ kind of murder and recognised a ‘despair and confusion under the simple, uncomplicated New Zealand surface’.4 This is Gee’s territory.

It has frequently been remarked that it is a curious thing: that such a quiet, reserved, unassuming— ordinary—man as Gee should write such dark and troubling stories. ‘The man in the grey cardy’, a late profile of him was affectionately titled, encapsulating Gee’s abiding impression of gentle ordinariness.5 Where does the darkness come from?

It is curious too that a man whose instincts tend to

privacy should produce novels which both contain and examine self-revelation. More than many writers, more perhaps than most, Gee has written his life into his fiction. He has done so directly—in his Plumb trilogy, which draws extensively on his family history, and remains the core of his literary achievement, especially —and in smaller, subtle and allusive ways: in stories, names and places, words and images, in an increasingly rich and familiar symbolic and metaphoric repertoire. Across his extensive output—seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for television and film, written over more than 50 years—Gee’s fictional landscape has drawn from a very particular, personal place.

Looking for the traces of the life in the fiction is at one level an easy game. It gains an added dimension in the case of a writer whose novels most characteristically take biography or autobiography as their frame and the single consciousness as their point of view; whose principal themes include the workings of memory and telling, and the processes of self-knowing—which include concealment and evasion. The place from which Gee’s fiction arises, and which it inscribes, is both a geographical and an emotional one. He was to end where he began.1 Sole Survivor, London: Faber and Faber in association with Penguin, 1983, p.197.2 Patricia Rolfe, ‘Kiwi characters come to life’, Bulletin, 18 Feb. 1997, p.72.3 Ian Gordon, New Zealand Herald, 30 July 1994, section 3, p.7.4 Patrick White to Ben Huebsch, 17 Feb. 1963, in David Marr (ed.), Patrick White: Letters, Sydney: Random House, 1994, p.219.5 Michele Hewitson, ‘Maurice Gee: the man in the grey cardy’, New Zealand Herald, 29 July 2006.

All the best murders happen in Loomis.1

An excerpt from MAURICE GEE: LIFE AND WORK

THE DEEPENING STREAM: A HISTORY OF THE NEW ZEALAND LITERARY FUND

152 x 232 mm; 456 pp.RRP: $60Non-fiction, biography

July 2015ISBN: 9780864739926Hardback

Rachel Barrowman

MAURICE GEE: LIFE AND WORK

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers. In this revelatory new work, acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Maurice Gee’s life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming ‘man in the grey cardy’ alongside his unsettling stories. Immaculately researched, with full access to her subject and his records, Maurice Gee: Life and Work offers a fascinating portrait of a writing life.


‘Barrowman is a brilliant guide through an eerie labyrinth of haunting fiction, her breakdowns of the plots is sure and clear and some of her sleuthing into sources and parallels is breathtaking.’—NZ Listener

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October 2015ISBN: 9781776560363Paperback

138 x 210 mm; 304 pp.RRP: $40Non-fiction, history

Elizabeth Caffin and Andrew Mason

The New Zealand Literary Fund was a small amount of public money skilfully dispensed over forty years to hundreds of writers and publishers. The Deepening Stream charts the growing confidence of New Zealand writers and the infrastructure supporting them, and gives vivid pictures of individual writers, fledgling publishers and struggling magazines.

‘This book gives you such an interesting glimpse into how our literary culture came about […] an unofficial literary history, very rich in facts and figures.’—Harry Ricketts reviewing on Nine to Noon, Radio New Zealand

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New Zealand was an early adopter of DNA forensic technology. It has now been 20 years since the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995 was introduced, and since then the range and power of DNA forensics, as well as the powers of the state to obtain DNA samples, have expanded rapidly, raising questions about the implications for criminal justice and human rights.

This book provides a framework for discussion of these implications, and makes recommendations for how to proceed with laws about the collection and retention of DNA samples from those suspected of committing a crime.

170 x 240 mm; 271 pp.RRP: $40Non-fiction, law

November 2015ISBN: 9781776560516Paperback

Nessa Lynch and Liz Campbell

THE COLLECTION AND RETENTION OF DNA FROM SUSPECTS IN NEW ZEALAND

The Plays of Bruce Mason is the first comprehensive survey of Mason’s dramatic works. In this critical overview, Smythe interrogates each text to reveal a master craftsman’s artistry, at the cutting edge of socio-political awareness.

‘This a worthy volume for any theatre lover interested in our dramatic history.’—Roger Hall, Canvas

138 x 210 mm; 266 pp.RRP: $40Non-fiction, theatre

November 2015ISBN: 9781776560554Paperback

John Smythe

THE PLAYS OF BRUCE MASON: A SURVEY

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The 2014 general election was surely the most bizarre election campaign in New Zealand’s history.

At the end of the day John Key remains the country’s prime minister—how, after all the tumult and confusion, did that happen?

The contributors to Moments of Truth—an experienced group of political party leaders and campaign managers, media and political commentators, pollsters, consultants and academics—seek to provide some answers and insights into an election unlike any before it.

148 x 210 mm; 416 pp.RRP: $50Non-fiction, politics


Edited by Jon Johansson and Stephen Levine

MOMENTS OF TRUTH: THE NEW ZEALAND GENERAL ELECTION OF 2014

The Empire City traces the history of Wellington, from the middle of the 19th Century till the present day. Stories are told through song, text, paintings and photographs and offer a creative insight into the history of life in the capital city.

The book includes a CD with original songs by Andrew Laking, and features a number of exceptional guest artists.

‘The Empire City speaks quietly, and by not raising its voice invites you in to pay closer attention . . . and Kerr’s images (and a couple of recent photos by Ines MacMullen) compliment the project with similar understatement.’—Elsewhere

210 x 210mm; 64 pp.RRP: $35Non-fiction, art, music

September 2015ISBN: 9780864739902Hardback

Andrew Laking

THE EMPIRE CITY: SONGS OF WELLINGTON

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