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New Books Bulletin - June 2020
We are delighted to bring you the latest edition of our monthly New Books Bulletin, showcasing NZSA members published writing in the month of their release.
Watch #NZWritersRead on our YouTube Channel to hear authors read their new works. All NZSA authors with new work welcome to take part. |
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Ripiro Beach: A Memoir of Life After Near Death
Caroline Barron
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What does determine who we are? Ripiro Beach is a beautifully written, relentlessly honest memoir about one woman’s determination to gather the threads of a life that has come undone.
Publication date: 5 June 2020
Publisher: Bateman Books New Zealand
ISBN: 9781988538204
RRP: $34.99
Website: www.batemanbooks.co.nz
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Every Now and Then I have Another Child
Diane Brown
Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child, is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherhood, the creative impulse and the blurred line between imagination and reality.
Publication date: May 2020
Publisher: Otago University Press
ISBN: 978-1-98-859240-4
RRP: $29.99
Website: www.otago.ac.nz
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Sharing With Wolf
Melinda Szymanik, with illustrations by Nikki Slade Robinson
'I can't share with sheep,' said Wolf. 'I . . . ah . . . have a tendency to eat them. It's in my nature.' But would Lamb listen? No! He bleated on and on, determined to be Wolf's knitty-knotty new housemate . . .
Publication date: 1 June 2020
Publisher: Scholastic NZ
ISBN: 978-1-77543-572-3
RRP: $19.99
Website: wheelers.co.nz
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Hedgehog Heart
James Antoniou & Nikki Slade Robinson
What sort of heart do you have?
Love shows itself in many different ways and while we usually know the sort of heart someone has, sometimes it’s a little hard to tell...
Hedgehog Heart is a joyful celebration of love and friendship. A picture book for ages 4+.
Publication date: May 2020
Publisher: Duck Creek Press (imprint of David Ling Publishing)
ISBN: 978-1-927305-65-2 (paperback), 978-1-927305-64-5 (hardback)
RRP:
Website: davidling.co.nz
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Caught Between
Jeannie McLean
Caught Between centres around Tova Tan, 23, Māori/Chinese who becomes a suspect in the murder of a mother and her teenage daughter. Her half-brother and father are also under suspicion. Searching for the truth opens old wounds and puts Tova and others in danger.
Publication date: 5 April 2020
Publisher: Jeannie McLean
ISBN: 978-0-473-51464-8
RRP: $27.99
Website: fivedogsbooks.com
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DARK EMPIRE
John Horrocks
It is 1916, and Detective-Sergeant Tom Guthrie has been asked to find out why a prisoner from Somes Island has drowned in the Wellington Harbour. His questions threaten corrupt businessmen, politicians, and Harry Kember, who controls the city’s underworld.
Publication date: March 2020
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa
ISBN: 9-781990-007101
RRP: $35
Website: www.SteeleRoberts.co.nz
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Southern Spirit: The People and Places of Southland
Ian Dougherty
Southern Spirit is Ian Dougherty’s take on a region he regards as part of his extended back yard. It covers Southland's forms, flora, fauna, folk, food, fascinations and fun, and includes 150 colour photographs.
Publication date: May 2020
Publisher: Saddle Hill Press
ISBN: 978-0-473-51271-2
RRP: $30
Website: authors.org.nz/author/iandougherty
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Need to Want
Sava Buncic
Futuristic fiction novel. If you believe you are the last little group of people in the world, living as in the stone age on an small, isolated island, would you want to try to continue the human race? What would you consider the crucial, main sense of human existence?
Publication date: 28 February 2020
Publisher: ABSEES and Sava Buncic
ISBN: 0473506866, ASIN: B0843FMKS2
RRP: Paperback USD 29, E-book USD 2.99
Website: www.amazon.com
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Cardinal Force
Jude Peters
Nick Bridges is an anthropologist working in the jungle in Peru. When his friend is murdered, his quest to find the truth takes him through America and Europe to the Holy Lands and a final exciting confrontation with the shadowy religious forces behind the conspiracy.
Publication date: 31 March 2020
Publisher: Peter Wilberfoss
ISBN: 978-0-473-51681-9
RRP: US2.99
Website: judepeters.com
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Missing on Lion Rock
Patricia Snelling
The day Sandy Barrett risked her life saving a seagull and tumbling down a 100 metre cliff, she became a witness to murder
Publication date: 4 April 2020
Publisher: Patricia Snelling
ISBN: 9780473519377
RRP: $30
Website: www.patriciasnelling.com
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Memories of a Community Cop
Caroline Lawson
Quin had a difficult start in life but went on to enjoy the dramas and joys of being a country cop. He loved the people in his Northland New Zealand rural area and did his best to be fair and help them. The Moerewa riot certainly was one of the most memorable events.
Publication date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Wordly Press
ISBN: 978-0994147813
RRP: $25
Website: Wheelers
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Mellons Bay
Suzanne Singleton
MELLONS BAY is a story of relationships and family. It depicts life in colonial Auckland, change and adaptation in a new land, heartache, hope, love and loss. It is also a fictionalised account of the author’s great-great-grandparents.
Publication date: April 2020
Publisher: Wily Publications Ltd
ISBN: 978-1927167-41-0
RRP: $34.99
Website: www.wily.co.nz
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Poems About Iris The Coronavirus
Michael Morrissey
This is a collection of poems about Iris the Coronavirus. Apart from poems about trouble and bubble, it includes some poems about Jacinda Ardern and the Queen. Plus Dolly Parton! To buy, email michael.morrissey@pl.net.
Publication date: May 2020
Publisher: Aries Press
ISBN: 978-0-473-52114-1
RRP: $10
Website: michael.morrissey@pl.net
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For Reasons of their Own
Chris Stuart
Can the past ever be left behind? Ask a flawed detective, a former refugee and a government desperate to misuse a dead body to reshape Australia’s security policy.
Publication date: June 2020
Publisher: Your Books
ISBN: 978-0-473-51490-7
RRP: $34
Website: www.chrisstuart.nz
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King Solomon's Deadly Legacy
John Fergusson
Historical fiction
A British scientist travels to the time of King Solomon of Israel and discovers our world is making the same mistakes as Solomon, heading for the same outcomes—division, invasion, and exile.
Publication date: 15/05/2020
Publisher: Koehler Books
ISBN: 978-1-63393-982-0
RRP: $34.99
Website: www.jfm.org.nz
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Do you have a new book coming out?
A current member of the New Zealand Society of Authors and want your latest work included in the next issue? Deadline for the June 2020 issue is 26 June.
This Bulletin is sent out to NZSA members, book industry stakeholders, library suppliers and Booksellers NZ (who send on to all book shops and outlets on their database).
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