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HIGHLIGHTS
Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine
Nicholas Rove
A Long Road to Progress: Dispatches from a Kiwi
Commanders in Afghanistan
Richard Hall
As Commander of the New Zealand troops in the Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan, Colonel Richard
Hall gained a unique insight into the lives of Kiwi soldiers serving in a harsh climate amid daily
threats, as well as into the lives of the locals - from the female governor trying to establish order in a
patriarchal society, to the farmer scratching a living from an inhospitable land, to the orphaned girls
destined to be sold into marriage at a young age. He vividly and movingly recalls his experiences,
but also explains the vision he tried to implement there on behalf of this country. He tackles the
complex issues involved in an army that seeks to bring both aid and a Western way of doing
things in a deeply Islamic country. He offers an astute perspective on working with New Zealand
troops, American soldiers, corrupt Afghani officials, intransigent aid organisations, while tackling
crippling poverty, insurgents attacks, impossible terrain and severe weather. This is an important and
fascinating view of New Zealand’s role in Afghanistan.
(213 pages, 2010 - Random House)
ISBN: 9781869793067
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The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook
Lauraine Jacobs, Ginny Grant & Kathy Paterson
A meal isn’t complete without vegetables, and sometimes vegetables can be a complete meal. This
beautiful book celebrates the range and versatility of New Zealand’s seasonal produce, offering a wide
range of recipes from entrees and main dishes such as pies and flans, risottos and pastas, as well as
delicious side dishes and accompaniments.
The book is divided into four seasonal sections, each one dedicated to produce available at that time
of year, and with a feature vegetable for each season (eg ‘Spring means asparagus’). Mouth-watering
photography by Aaron McLean brings the dishes to life and celebrates the beauty of our beautiful fresh
produce.
This is not a vegetarian cookbook, but rather a celebration of how vegetables can be the star in a range
of delicious dishes. All the encouragement you’ll ever need to eat your greens!
(232 pages, 2010 - Random House)
ISBN:
9781869793654
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Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Whether dismissed as
bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, or rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st
Century, dance in Palestine has a rich and elusive story that remains to be told. ‘Raising Dust’ traces
one dancer’s journey into Palestine’s past and present. Through historical archives, the memories of
dancers of yesteryear and into today’s vibrant performing arts scene, Nicholas Rowe shows how
dance has acted as a barometer of social change, a forum for debate and a means of expressing forbidden ideas. Far from apolitical, this most physical of art forms has often defined the political mood
of the day. Sumptuously illustrated, the author provides a unique, rare and compelling cultural history
of dance in Palestine.
(244 pages, 2010 - I.B. Tauris)
ISBN: 9781845119430 $89.99 Hardback
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film
Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United
States, Australia and New Zealand
Peter Limbrick
education
Looking Back from the Centre: A Snapshot of Contemporary New
Zealand Education
Joanna Kidman & Ken Stevens
The School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington was an integral part of Wellington’s
educational domain from 1927 until its disestablishment in 2008. It is now part of the new Faculty of
Education at Victoria University. Here, past and present members of the School offer their reflections,
recollections and current research. This book is both a way of remembering and a way of looking
forward to the School’s continuing influence on education, both in New Zealand and internationally.
(287 pages, 2010 - Victoria University Press)
ISBN: 9780864736338
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Professionalism in Early Childhood Education & Care: International
Perspectives
Carmen Dalli (Victoria University) & Matias Urban
The professionalism of the early childhood sector has gained prominence on the policy agendas of
many countries. National pedagogical frameworks or curricula and an upsurge of pathways to gaining
or upgrading qualifications has led to a pervasive terminology of professionalism. Yet, despite the
pervasiveness of this terminology, the question of what professionalism means in early years contexts
remains open to debate.
This book draws together the work of an international group of scholars who have engaged with this
question. They ask: How can professionalism be conceptualised in early childhood settings? How might
one act professionally in increasingly diverse and changing social and cultural contexts? Do we have a
common ground of understanding about these terms? Are there key concepts that can be agreed upon?
Drawing on research and experience across a wide range of national contexts, this book seeks an
understanding of early childhood professionalism in local contexts that might throw light on the global
implications of this term.
(176 pages, 2010 - Routledge)
ISBN: 9780415574051
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In Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick argues that the United States, Australia, and New Zealand
share histories of colonial encounters that have shaped their cinemas in distinctive ways. Going beyond
readings of narrative and representation, this book studies the production, distribution, reception, and
reexhibition of cinema across three settler societies under the sway of two empires. Investigating films
both canonical and overlooked, Making Settler Cinemas not only shows how cinema has mattered to
settler societies but affirms that practices of film history can themselves be instrumental in encountering
and reshaping colonial pasts.
(272 pages, 2010 - Palgrave)
ISBN: 9780230102644
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business
Beyond Skill: Institutions Organisations & Human Capability
Jane Bryson (Victoria University)
Family Trusts in New Zealand
Jonathan Cron
Family Trusts in New Zealand is for anyone wanting to know: what are family trusts? -- how do they
work? -- what are the advantages (and disadvantages) for me in setting up a trust? -- how do I go
about setting one up? A family trust offers you the benefits, use and control of your assets and doesn’t
penalise you for owning them. This definitive guide brings together everything you need to know about
family trusts. Clear and straight-forward, and aimed at the layperson, it will include up-to-date advice,
with real-life examples and answers to commonly asked questions throughout. This book is intended to
be accessible for the general public, to inform them about if their circumstances mean they should set
up a trust, and how they work and should be run.
(256 pages, 2010 - Penguin)
ISBN: 9780143204305
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Getting the Right People: Effective Recruitment and Selection Today
Richard Rudman
Many employers describe people as their most valuable assets. But how many of those employers invest
enough time and effort to ensure they get the assets they need? To avoid the cost of hiring the wrong
person, organisations need to set up a systematic process for recruitment and selection, based on
assessing the role to be filled and the skills and abilities needed to fill it. Getting the Right People is a
practical guide that will help employers implement consistently high-quality human resource practices in
recruitment and selection. It discusses: the contemporary context for recruitment and selection, preparing
for recruitment and selection, attracting people to the organisation,
the selection process, job interviews, selection tests, engaging the new employee and assessing
recruitment and selection
(168 pages, 2010 - CCH)
ISBN: 9780864758026
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Human Resources Management in New Zealand 5th Edition
Richard Rudman
This completely reorganised and rewritten edition of Human Resources Management in New Zealand
provides a wide-ranging discussion of people management concepts and techniques, set in a New
Zealand context. It describes human resources management at both strategic and operational levels,
drawing ‘good practice’ examples from leading New Zealand organisations.
Human Resources Management in New Zealand is an up-to-date text for tertiary students, a reference
for human resources specialists, and practical guidance for anyone concerned with the employment,
management and development of people and their performance in the workplace.
(480 pages, 2010 - Pearson)
ISBN: 9781877371271
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Labour market, work and economic development policy visions in many developed countries have
been dominated in recent years by a fixation on skills. However, skill and skill development alone is
not enough to harmonise societies, transform economies, galvanise organizations, and fulfil individuals.
This book discusses the impact of government policy, other institutional arrangements, organizational
practices, collective and individual behaviour, on things of importance to many of us: work,
employment, pay, work environments, learning, participation and voice. It is a unique volume of insights
from leading researchers and research centres in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
(248 pages, 2010 - Palgrave)
ISBN: 9780230230576
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A Practical Guide to Taxing Property Transactions 4th Edition
Roger Thompson & Maurtis van den Berg
This comprehensive guide discusses the key tax issues associated with buying, selling and owning
property.
Sweeping changes have occurred since the previous edition of this book was published in 2002,
among them the depreciation regime, alterations to the death and asset transfer rules, and amendments
to deductions available for farm expenditure. This third edition has also been completely reviewed and
rewritten in the language of the Income Tax Act 2004.
(422 pages, 2009 - CCH)
ISBN: 9780864757913
$108.00
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Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
Kathleen Jones
Widely acknowledged as New Zealand’s finest writer, Katherine Mansfield holds a special place in
the hearts of New Zealanders. A new biography is a significant literary event. Katherine Mansfield:
The Story-teller is the first new biography of Mansfield for a quarter of a century. It is published at a
time when interest in Mansfield and her work is increasing throughout the world. Kathleen Jones gives
a vivid portrayal of Mansfield, correcting previous misinterpretations of her illnesses and relationships,
and weaving a compelling drama from the detail. The story extends further still, beyond Mansfield’s
death in 1923, to include the subsequent life of her husband, John Middleton Murry, shedding
fascinating new light on the way Murry controversially manipulated the publication of some of
Mansfield’s unpublished work. Drawing astutely on Mansfield’s own letters and journals, biographer
Kathleen Jones, using the present tense throughout, has crafted a text unusually sparkling and intimate,
providing a new kind of picture of this brilliant, original yet fragile writer. This is a major work, and a
worthy addition to our understanding and appreciation of New Zealand’s greatest writer.
(524 pages, 2010 - Viking)
ISBN: 9780670074358
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Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World
Lydia Wevers
In Reading on the Farm, Lydia Wevers uses the library on Brancepeth Station in the Wairarapa, its staff
and users as the ground for an extended reflection on the meaning of books, reading and intellectual
life in colonial New Zealand. Drawing on station records, the archive produced by the library, and the
books themselves, she offers a compelling interpretation of the social world of books and the cultural
significance of reading. The books themselves come to life, in close examination of their borrowing
histories, physical condition and marginalia. Human characters include the Beetham family who own
Brancepeth, farm workers, Wairarapa Maori, swaggers who seek shelter during the long depression,
and most vivid of all the clerk and librarian John Vaughan Miller. This learned and petulant man, with
his letters to the newspapers and indiscreet private correspondence, epitomises the class cleavages,
social anxieties and uncertainties that were at the heart of both Brancepeth and popular Victorian
fiction.
(344 pages, 2009 - Victoria University Press)
ISBN: 9780864736352
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sociology
Illegal Markets and the Economics of Organized Crime
Martin Bouchard & Chris Wilkins (Massey Unibersity)
history
Quarantine: Protecting New Zealand at the Border
Gavin McLean & Tim Shoebridge
Every day, all over the world, quarantine officials screen international passengers and cargo and every
week a border protection story is in the news. As a group of islands for which biosecurity is vital, New
Zealand provides an ideal focus for this book, the world’s first national history of quarantine.
Colonial border control was ad hoc and reactive, initially focusing more on human disease than
plants and animals, although sheep scab was held at bay. From the early 1890s, the new Agriculture
Department’s fruit inspectors took on codlin moth, fruit fly and other nasties, building fumigation
sheds and trying to educate importers. Aircraft dramatically increased the biosecurity threat and fear
of malarial mosquitoes and fruit fly forced the country to rewrite its rulebooks in the 1950s. As trade
diversified, new sea routes posed new biological threats and at last the government began inspecting
imported timber. More recently, MAF Biosecurity NZ has been exercised defending the country against
such headline-makers as varroa mite, didymo, Mediterranean fruit fly, and the painted apple moth.
The result? Although there have been some costly incursions, New Zealand remains free from many
dangerous diseases and agricultural and environmental threats. How this was achieved makes an
exciting story.
(184 pages, 2010 - Otago University Press)
ISBN:9781877372827
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Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli & the
Western Front
Matthew Wright
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 destroyed New Zealand’s fantasies of war as a glorious schoolboy
adventure on behalf of a beloved Empire. The Western Front campaign that followed in 1916-18 gave
shape to the emotional impact. It was a horror world of death and mud that destroyed the souls of the
young men who fought in it. Together, these two campaigns shaped the lives of a generation of New
Zealanders and have given a particular meaning to modern memory of war. In Shattered Glory, highly
regarded historian Matthew Wright illuminates New Zealand’s human experience during these two First
World War campaigns, exploring the darker side of New Zealand’s iconic symbols of national identity
and explaining some of the realities behind the twenty-first century mythology.
(416 pages, 2010 - Penguin)
ISBN:9780143020561
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This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic
aspects of organised crime and illegal markets. It provides new insights into defining and quantifying
the influence of organised crime by drawing on innovative approaches to studying criminal networks
and organisations such as the Hells Angels. The book includes analysis of the structure of illegal
drug markets from international leaders in the field. Finally the text includes empirical case studies of
the diverse markets where organised crime is currently active including the illegal market for crystal
methamphetamine in Australia, tiger products in China and the falcon and fur trades in Russia. This
book was based on a special issue of Global Crime.
(176 pages, 2010 - Routledge)
ISBN:9780415565516
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politics
International Conflict in the Asia Pacific: Patterns Consequences &
Management
Jacob Bercovitch (Canterbury University) & Mikio Oishi (Otago University)
sport
The A-Z of Meads
Keith Quinn
Sir Colin Meads continues to be a fascination for the New Zealand sports public. Whenever he is
asked to speak publicly, and that is very often even though he is now into his 70s, crowds of New
Zealanders young and old come to hear his down-home ability to tell a tale. With his pinpoint
recollections, his droll humour and an uncanny sense of timing, he is always a hit.
In The A-Z of Meads there are revelations about his preference in music, his favourite recipes, even his
favourite beers. He adds new slants to famous incidents he was involved in during his rugby prime.
Author Keith Quinn gives Meads’ friends the chance to tell their side of on-field battles they had with
the mighty Meads. They make for absorbing and often hilarious reading.
Keith Quinn is a household name in New Zealand, a broadcaster of world renown and a passionate
rugby follower. He is also an inveterate collector and hoarder, and has been accumulating stories and
yarns about Meads for more than 40 years. Because many of the Meads stories are so interesting, and
because so many have never been aired publicly, Quinn thought: “Why not publish them?”
The result is a unique New Zealand rugby book, and one which will surely be hugely popular.
(282 pages, 2010 - Trio Books)
ISBN: 9780986461507
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The Last Everyday Hero: The Bert Sutcliffe Story
Richard Boock
This is a tale of two men: one who became the first hero of New Zealand cricket, and one whose
lifelong dream was to write his biography. Bert Sutcliffe, a stout-hearted giant of the post-war cricketing
world, never did get to see his long-awaited story hit the press. He died in 2001 aged 77, leaving
behind a trail of re-written record books. And what records those were: whether it’s the stories about
Sutcliffe’s brace of centuries for Otago against the MCC in 1947, about his two triple centuries in the
Plunket Shield, his heart-wrenching partnership with Blair at Johannesburg, or his heroics at Kolkata
during his comeback tour, there were no shortage of highlights. It’s not hard to understand Rod Nye’s
desire to write Sutcliffe’s biography. Quite apart from the sheer enormity of Sutcliffe’s influence on New
Zealand cricket and his massive popularity as a player, a full biography of his life and career had
been long overdue. Tragically, Nye, who had been nearing the completion of his life’s mission, died in
2004, leaving behind a treasure trove of research on the remarkable batsman, much of it never before
heard. In The Last Everyday Hero, highly regarded cricketing writer and commentator Richard Boock
joins the talents of these two men and completes the story. Many of those who have contributed to this
book have also since departed; it is New Zealand cricket’s field of dreams.
(279 pages, 2010 - Longacre)
ISBN: 9781877460555
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This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the
Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and India-Pakistan), and
aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage these conflicts. International Conflict in the AsiaPacific brings together in one volume four major international conflicts that have shaped the region,
and studies how they evolved and how best to manage them. The book seeks to find a pattern common
to the four conflicts and their management as well as taking note of variations among them, hereby
aiming to establish what might be called the ‘Asia-Pacific way of managing intractable conflicts’. This
book will of much interest to students of international conflict management, Asian politics, security
studies and IR in general.
(224 pages, 2010 - Routledge)
ISBN: 9780415580045
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travel
Escape to the Pole
Kevin Biggar
biography
The Years Before My Death: Memories of a Comic Life
David McPhail
In The Years Before My Death, renowned and much loved actor-director and comedy show writer David
McPhail recounts his early life and what led him to pioneer the satirical TV programmes (including
A Week of It and McPhail and Gadsby) for which he is famous, what drove him to perform comedy,
and what was behind his desire to make us laugh. He tells of his creative friendships with the likes of
A.K. Grant, Bruce Ansley and Jon Gadsby; his encounters with former Prime Minister Robert Muldoon,
the comic genius Dudley Moore, and the television networks of the day. As one would expect, every
anecdote is told with insight, perfect timing and a glint in the eye.
(263 pages, 2010 - Longacre)
ISBN: 9781877460579
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cooking
Kiwi Backyard Cooking: Easy Summer Recipes
Maggi
No one wants to spend a glorious summer afternoon slaving in the kitchen. The team at Maggi have
put together this collection of easy to prepare summer meals, perfect for the barbecue, the family picnic
or a pot-luck dinner with friends. With handy hints on barbecue techniques to get the best from that
juicy steak or tender seafood, this book emphasises barbecue recipes, but also has salads and sides
and perfect summer desserts. Great dishes for the whole family.
(120 pages, 2010 - Random House)
ISBN: 9781869793739
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The hilarious sequel to The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower. One hundred years ago Robert
Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen were racing to claim the last great geographic prize, the South
Pole. It was an epic battle, a life or death struggle. Now, a century later, Kevin and Jamie know how
they feel. The Hot Polish Girl (HPG) is starting to get clucky. Kate is back in the picture. Their carefree
bachelor days are numbered. There is only one solution. They set themselves the challenge of trekking,
unsupported 2400kms from the Antarctic coast to South Pole and back across the coldest, windiest,
highest, driest, most ‘est’ place on Earth. Along the way they experience abyss-like crevasses, toothcracking cold, fickle GPSs and skin-melting frostbite. They are ravaged by auto-cannibalism, attacked
by white ninjas and meet girls in bikinis. Through their adventures they unravel the mysteries around
Captain Scott’s last expedition. Written in the same whimsical, entertaining style as The Oarsome
Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower, Race to the Pole puts a modern human face on a classic adventure
story.
(304 pages - 2010 - Random House)
ISBN: 9781869793999
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poetry
Koiwi Koiwi Bone Bone
Hinemoa Baker
Lives of the Poets
John Newton
The Romantic inheritance may be poison, but it seems to be all we have. When I first began writing I
didn’t look at it this way, which made being a poet, and writing poetry, easier. Ever since that time I
have been trying to teach myself how to write again. This has felt mostly like a kind of beachcombing,
fossicking beyond the high-tide mark of expressivism, never entirely giving up hope of discovering
something that might still be useable. While the bulk of these poems were written recently, a few of
them go back twenty-five years; but all are part of this search for new terms of engagement with a
language of longing and excitability.’
John Newton’s debut volume Tales from the Angler’s Eldorado came out in 1985, and his work is
represented in most of the major anthologies to have appeared since that time. Lives of the Poets is
the long-awaited follow-up. In poems that range from lyric to satire, and from formalist set-pieces to
extended verse narrative, this book charts a journey through the backblocks of Romanticism and through
fractured contemporary landscapes of writing and feeling.
(86 pages, 2010 - Victoria University Press)
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fiction
The Fallen
Ben Sanders
When Auckland cop Sean Devereaux, who enjoys skating close to the edges, does a favour for his
attractive neighbour, he unwittingly exposes a web of deceit and corruption. As he investigates the
murder of a 16-year-old Epsom ‘princess’ in his day job, his after-hours efforts have him stumbling into
the aftermath of a scam involving senior colleagues, and he is soon enmeshed in an escalating cycle
of kidnapping, murder and violent mayhem. With his unconventional ex-colleague-turned-securityspecialist John Hale, Devereaux slowly begins to unravel the truth as the body count climbs and the
stakes become personal. As an outwardly terse, street-savvy operator, Sean Devereaux emerges as
an engaging and irreverent hero, becoming the catalyst for an absorbing, strangely uneasy murder
mystery, set in unnervingly familiar surroundings. A superb blend of international standard crime-writing
with a strong local ambience that lures you in and delivers a strong, emotionally satisfying read, this
book heralds the arrival of an exciting new writer.
(432 pages, 2010 - Harper Collins)
ISBN: 9781869508760
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In this compelling second collection from one of New Zealand’s most exciting rising poets, Hinemoana
Baker amplifies what’s usually whispered, magnifies the microscopic and x-rays the mundane.
Hinemoana Baker is a writer, musician and radio producer living on Wellington’s Kapiti Coast. Born
in Christchurch, she has travelled widely, and was 2009 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence. Her first
book, published jointly by VUP and in the US by Perceval Press, was matuhi | needle:
‘It’s that sense of meanings which are mysterious, obscure and submerged and then rise as beauty and
wisdom to the surface of our lives.’ Bill Manhire
(94 pages, 2010 - Victoria University Press)
ISBN: 9780864736314
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The Ihaka Trilogy
Paul Thomas
Slaughter Falls
Alix Bosco
When Anna Markunas comes to Brisbane to watch a rugby test, two members of her tour party die
sudden, violent deaths. Anna tries to track down the elusive family of one man, but each discovery
about his past leads her further into the dark world of Queensland’s corrupt underbelly. Soon Anna
is running for her life - she has discovered the secrets of those who will stop at nothing to silence her.
Slaughter Falls is the tense, terrifying sequel to Alix Bosco’s critically acclaimed Cut and Run.
(348 pages, 2010 - Penguin)
ISBN: 9780143203995
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Traitor
Stephen Daisley
What would make a soldier betray his country? In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young
New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the
blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital. Mahmoud
is a Sufi. A whirling dervish, he says, of the Mevlevi order. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London
with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad for love, and of the saint who flew to
paradise on a lion skin. You are God, we are all gods , Mahmoud tells David; and a bond grows
between them. A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend. Stephen Daisley’s
astonishing debut novel is a story of war and of love-how each changes everything, forever. Evoking
horror and beauty and a profound sense of the possibility of transformation, Traitor is that rarest of
things: a work of fiction that will transport the reader, heart and soul, into another realm.
(293 pages, 2010 - Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781921656491
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children’s
All About New Zealand’s Wildlife of the Past
Dave Gunson
Which ancient seabird had false teeth? Which was the first dinosaur not to dribble its dinner? And how
come there were horsetails long before there were horses ...? You’ll find answers to these questions,
plus many other fascinating facts, in All About New Zealand’s Wildlife of the Past. Including a timeline
that spans the Age of Dinosaurs through the Age of Change to the Age of Settlement, this book is a
superb introduction to the subject of New Zealand’s past. Children will learn about extinct wildlife
and identify current endangered species. Terrific illustrations by Dave Gunson along with hundreds
of interesting facts, make this an ideal introduction to the fascinating story of New Zealand’s extinct
wildlife.
(64 pages, 2010 - New Holland)
ISBN: 9781869662820
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Maverick Maori cop Tito Ihaka, a detective sergeant in the Auckland CID.
Despite treading on numerous toes and breaking most of the rules in the book (and thanks in part
to the indulgence of his boss, the dour Ulsterman Finbar McGrail), Ihaka eventually gets his man
- and sometimes his woman. As well as incorporating elements of the New Zealand underworld such
as Maori gangs and the Karangahape Road vice scene, the Ihaka novels also have a significant
international dimension, featuring characters good and bad from various intelligence agencies and
organised crime groups and locations ranging from Bangkok to Washington. Old School Tie is about
the unlocking of a dark 25-year-old secret relating to a teenage girl’s mysterious suicide at a private
school ball. Freelance journalist Reggie Sparks’ investigation spills over into an underworld turf war
involving the Sydney mafia and a ferocious Maori gang, the Blood Drinkers. Inside Dope involves a
race for the lost treasure of the Mr Asia drug syndicate which attracts the attention of a rogue American
narcotics agent and the CIA, while Guerilla Season pits Ihaka against a shadowy and sinister terrorist
group in a case which turns out to have links to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
(575 pages, 2010 - Hodder Moa Beckett)
ISBN: 9781869711948
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