Recent New Zealand publications
Fiction
Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection | Nalini Singh
Warrior angels, vampire hunters, and angels gone bad heat up this altogether sizzling paranormal alternate universe. This anthology of novellas features Angels' Wolf, Angels' Judgment, Angels' Pawn, and the never-before-published Angels' Dance. Original.
(Orion Publishing, January 2013)
My Brother’s Keeper | Donna Malane
Diane Rowe, our missing persons expert, will once again take us on a dark ride through the underbelly of a city not prepared to give up its secrets easily.
(Harper Collins New Zealand, January 2013)
The Trespass | Barbara Ewing
It is 1849. Harriet becomes a prisoner in her own home, her father would rather she acted as his wife than his daughter and she can see nothing but horror before her. It seems impossible, but her only escape route is to flee after her cousin Edward who has recently emigrated to the new colony of New Zealand.
(Little, Brown, March 2013)
Who Was That Woman Anyway?: Snapshots of a Lesbian Life | Aorewa McLeod
Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio careers from ice cream factory to children's home to Oxford to rehab. Along the way, she discovers herself and her sexuality.
(Victoria University Press, February 2013)
Anticipation | Tanya Moir
This rich and darkly humorous novel is about family history and the power and risk of knowledge. Startlingly original and superbly written, Tanya's Moir's rich and surprising new novel takes a darkly humorous look at family history, and the power and risk of knowledge.
(Random House, March 2013)
Poetry
The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007–2012 | C. K. Stead
C. K. Stead has always swum through literature, cultures, surroundings both physical and social, with a deft stroke. Completed in his eightieth year, The Yellow Buoy sees the poet firmly attached to his memories, attuned to his craft and attentive to his world.
(Auckland University Press, February 2013)
Other Animals | Therese Lloyd
How are we to survive our own lives? Therese Lloyd’s poems create a lyrical pathway through the thorny and singular questions of our time. And there, among so much that can be underestimated or go unnoticed, she finds alternative strength and beauty in things. —Bernadette Hall
(Victoria University Press, March 2013)
Wild Like Me | Elizabeth Nannestad
Elizabeth Nannestad’s playful, close observations of wilderness and wild women of several generations are held together by the wind and time shifts. Seventeen years after her last book, Wild Like Me brings back one of the vital voices of New Zealand poetry.
(Victoria University Press, February 2013)
Family Songbook | John Newton
John Newton’s new collection asks, how does landscape get its hooks in us? Romantic, hyperbolic, painterly and plot-driven, Family Songbook is New Zealand pastoral in a different key.
(Victoria University Press, February 2013)
Non-Fiction
Fit to Fight: Compulsory Military Training and National Service in New Zealand 1949 -1972 | Peter Cooke
What do Colin Meads and Carmen have in common? Or Barry Brickell, Jim Bolger, John Hawkesby, Paul Reeves and Witi Ihimaera? They all took part in compulsory military training (CMT). In this ground-breaking study, military historian Peter Cooke follows the process of men being given a number, called up and regimented.
(David Ling Publishing Limited, March 2013)
We Will Work with You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998 | Edited by Mark Derby; Jenny Rouse, Ian Wedde
We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998 tells the story of a group of young Kiwi designers and political activists committed to broadly defined left-wing principles and politics.
(Victoria University Press, February 2013)
How to Speak New Zenglish | Jesse Mulligan
Designed for both New Zealanders and people who want to talk to New Zealanders, How to Speak New Zenglish brings everyday Kiwi conversation to life with unnerving accuracy, and celebrates the mangled mess of a language we proudly call our own.
(Penguin, February 2013)
The New Zealand Book | Nigel Beckford, Michael Fitzsimons, Jess Lunnon and Sandi McKechnie
This is a New Zealand book with a difference. It's a visually stunning and entertaining memento of what it's like to live in this country. The NZ Book comprises pages of fresh and quirky illustrations capturing the people, the landscape and the culture of New Zealand.
(Fitzbeck Publishing, February 2013)
Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand | Vincent O'Sullivan
A timely new and revised edition of this successful book providing a glimpse of the New Zealand Katherine Mansfield knew with abundant images and relevant quotes from her writing.
(Steele Roberts, February 2013)
The War That Never Ended: New Zealand Veterans Remember Korea | Pip Desmond
More than 6,000 New Zealanders served in the Korean War during the early 1950s. Based on in-depth interviews, The War That Never Ended records the memories of 12 of those veterans - gunners, signallers, seamen, a mechanic, dispatch rider, dentist, engineer and official photographer. The men tell intimate and often surprising stories
(Penguin, February 2013)
A Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand | Peter Holland
During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed New Zealand's South Island. Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand's ecological transformation.
(Auckland University Press, February 2013)
Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki | Judith Binney
Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki was one of New Zealand's significant nineteenth century leaders. In both war and peace, he sought to redeem his people and the land. Yet his reputation as a guerrilla fighter obscured his purposes and his achievements for generations. This award-winning biography shifted public perceptions of this remarkable man.
(Bridget Williams Books, January 2013)
Above the Treeline: A Nature Guide to the New Zealand Mountains | Sir Alan Mark
New Zealand's alpine environment is challenging, not only for the humans who explore it but for the plants and animals that inhabit it. The extremes of temperature and high rates of erosion make for an uncertain environment, and flora and fauna have adapted to it in interesting ways. This book is an important reference and field guide, and a celebration of the richness of New Zealand's alpine environment.
(Craig Potton Publishing, January 2013)
Coastal Fishes of New Zealand: Identification, Biology, Behaviour | Malcolm Francis
Coastal Fishes of New Zealand provides a comprehensive, informative and up-to-date identification guide to the fishes likely to be encountered by New Zealand divers and fishers. If you were to have one book on the abundant fish life found around our coasts, this is the one to own.
(Craig Potton Publishing, January 2013)
Diplomatic Ladies: New Zealand's Unsung Envoys | Joanna Woods
This book tells the inside story of New Zealands diplomatic wives and daughters over a hundred years of diplomacy. Based on private letters, MFAT archives and personal interviews, it records many unknown episodes in New Zealand diplomatic history.
(Otago University Press, December 2012)
