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The fourth collection of poetry by the New Zealand poet, Anne French. Its extensive first section is provoked by overseas travel and provides a variety of comments on other places, times and people. The book then becomes satiric, reflecting on aspects of life in New Zealand.

The story of how an invalid child was able, through medical science and her own courage, to lead a normal life. It is also the harrowing picture of a fatherless family struggling to survive hardship and poverty in post-World War II New Zealand.

A new collection of poetry from a leading New Zealand poet. Packed with allusions to literature and the landscape, these poems reveal Smithman's gift for story-telling and his ability to animate forgotten lives and everyday events.

A brief and moving picture by a young New Zealand writer of his father, a man of talent and charm whose later years took a dark and tragic turn. Two sections of the book are told in his father's own words, while others are memories, recent and distant.

Comprises the memoirs of Margaret Thorn, an ardent New Zealand labour activist. The text includes snapshots of notable people, and others quite unknown, in desperate and jubilant moments.

Janet Charman is one of New Zealand's most uncompromising women poets. This, her second collection of poetry, examines the less sentimental aspects of motherhood and the harsher realities of the battle of the sexes.

This is the fifth collection of verse by one of New Zealand's leading modern poets.

A number of essays on the rapidly changing relationship between business and the state under New Zealand's fourth Labour Government.

A collection of poems by Bob Orr. His lyrics of the city, the sea and the road feature moments of celebration, tranquility and nostalgia.

This volume of verse has been written by a young New Zealand poet whose first collection, "What, Like This?", won the PEN First Book of Poetry Award in 1989. The poems are an evocation of childhood, motherhood and family life.

This first collection of short stories contains a range of eccentric characters whose exploits offer the reader an amused and affectionate impression of the female experience in modern New Zealand.

Two leading university teachers, both closely involved in the events they describe, give a detailed account and a forthright analysis of the changes that have occurred in the last decade in the relations between government and the universities in New Zealand. They set the s... FROM LONG DESCRIPTION

Fiona Farrell (Poole) shows a distinctive voice and a strong and sympathetic sense of ordinary lives in these 12 stories.

This volume features 100 selected poems, drawn from all of Smithyman's published collections from the 1940s onward, which show the full range of his achievement.

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A collection of poems pervaded by powerful images of ships, the sea, and voyages of exploration.

A new collection from one of New Zealand's leading poets. Many of the poems are about films, others are about friends, war in Crete and the Balkans, a visit to Canada, and events in Auckland.

Set in small-town New Zealand, this tale follows the fabulous adventures of a 17-year-old narrator who drives backwards and forward between Dargaville and Ruawai, accompanied from time to time by an imaginary woman.

Traces the history of one of New Zealand's most famous laws, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.

James Bertram's memoirs are a personal record of his experiences in New Zealand, Britain and China 1910-1980. Educated in New Zealand, he went to England as a Rhodes Scholar and then on to China in 1936, where he became a British correspondent.