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Karl Maughan

Editors: Hannah Valentine & Gabriella Stead. Publisher: Auckland University Press.

A walk through the intricate painted gardens of Karl Maughan, one of New Zealand’s most-loved contemporary artists.

3 December 2020 release

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Fiction, Adult Author Fiction, Adult Author

Archangel’s Sun

Author: Nalini Singh. Publisher: Hachette.

A horrifying secret rises in the aftermath of an archangelic war in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh's deadly and beautiful Guild Hunter world.

24 November 2020 release

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Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde

Authors: Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima. Publisher: Massey University Press.

In Shining Land Morris and Sameshima focus on the New Zealand journalist, poet, fiction writer and war correspondent Robin Hyde, exploring three locations important to her difficult life and ground-breaking work.

12 November 2020 release

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Poetry, Adult Author Poetry, Adult Author

Chosen

Author: Geoff Cochrane. Publisher: Victoria University Press.

The nineteenth collection of poems by cult Wellington poet and pedestrian Geoff Cochrane.

12 November 2020 release

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Fiction, Adult, Comic Author Fiction, Adult, Comic Author

This is Not a Pipe

Author: Tara Black. Publisher: Victoria University Press.

Tara Black’s comic is surreal, dark, sad, perversely joyful, and if you bet someone they couldn’t find another book remotely like it, you would win.

12 November 2020 release

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Railways Studios: How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand

Authors: Peter Alsop, Neill Atkinson, Katherine Milburn and Richard Wolfe. Publisher: Te Papa Press.

For many decades the Railways Department's design studios, Railways Studio, was New Zealand's 'go-to' advertiser. Its tourism and product ads appear on railway-station hoardings and billboards throughout the land, and it developed some of New Zealand's most iconic graphic images. This big, beautiful book brings this treasure trove of design together for the first time.

12 November 2020 release

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Fiction, Adult Author Fiction, Adult Author

Portrait of a Man

Author: Vicky Adin. Publisher: AM Publishing.

A mystery in the world of art - threads link 1860s Dunedin and Invercargill with contemporary Auckland, all tied together by Luciano, the mysterious Italian lover from The Cornish Knot.

November 2020 release

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Fiction, Adult Author Fiction, Adult Author

Jacko. One Bloke. One Year.

Author: Robert Philip Bolton.
Publisher: Robert Philip Bolton.

Jackson Fearnsby’s fiftieth year began badly, ended better, and was in between punctuated by a series of seasonal events and anniversaries shared with his friends and family.

2 November 2020 release

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Poetry, Adult Author Poetry, Adult Author

A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water

Author: Hana Pera Aoake.
Publisher: Compound Press.

This authoritative debut volume collects a number of the author’s provocative texts from online sources, and reformats them for a new printed experience, brought to life by special use of the mid-20th Century typefaces designed by Samoan New Zealander Joseph Churchward.

November 2020 release

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Fair Weather Hitchhiker

Author: Julia Millen. Publisher: Cuba Press.

As a restless 17-year-old seeking fame and fortune (and romance), Julia Millen goes hitchhiking in the South Island with her cousin and two older friends. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life.

9 November 2020 release

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