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Kia ora koutou

June is proving a wonderful month for us at AUP. Not only have we returned to the office, but the glorious books we had to hold back over the last two months have hit the stores. And boy, do they look superb. The icing on the cake for us at AUP was the news that Selina Tusitala Marsh's children's book, Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference was chosen as a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults – well done, Selina! You can read more about Mophead and the awards here.

Noho ora mai,
the AUP team
‘...this may be the most impressive book I’ve ever reviewed on radio’ says David Hill on Nine to Noon, RNZ 

Volume 2 of Peter Simpson's stunningly detailed chronicle of the life and career of Colin McCahon is out now in bookstores. Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol. 2 1960–1987 features over 300 images of the latter half of McCahon's output, many of which are his most renowned works.

You can buy both volumes signed by author Peter Simpson and combined in an exclusive slipcase edition limited to 100 copies. This set is an extraordinary work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. 
Colin McCahon, Victory over death 2, 1970, synthetic polymer paint on unstretched canvas, 2075 x 5977 mm. 
Courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962
Anthony Byrt
The untold story of how a group of young outsiders reinvented art in early sixties London.

Award-winning writer Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment in cultural history and tackles big questions: Where did Pop and conceptual art come from? How did three remarkable young outsiders (Billy Apple, David Hockney and Ann Quin) change British culture? And what was the relationship between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these major shifts in contemporary art?

Watch Anthony on Episode 7 of the Auckland Writers Festival Winter Series here.

In stores 18 June 2020
READ A SAMPLE HERE
David Hockney and Barrie Bates in Cornwall, October 1961, photo: Ron Fuller
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956–1986
C. K. Stead
The second volume of memoirs from New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman. Stead tells the tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. At its heart it is an account of a remarkable life among books – of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors.

Read Diana Wichtel's profile on C.K. Stead as published on newsroom.co.nz

In stores 18 June 2020
READ A SAMPLE HERE
C.K. Stead in conversation with Steve Braunias

Venue: Upstairs at Time Out Bookstore
Date: 6pm, Friday 3 July

We triumphantly return to events with C.K. Stead in conversation with Steve Braunias at Time Out Books, Mt Eden, Auckland. Please join us as C.K. Stead discusses his fascinating and oft-times controversial life as a New Zealand literary great, critic and activist. Drinks and nibbles provided and C.K. Stead will sign copies of his new book You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956–1986.
Dame Anne Salmond's award-winning, topical and most ambitious book, Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds, is back in stores in paperback format. OUT NOW
One of our most beautiful and informative art books focused on the Māori portraits from Bohemian artist Gottfried Lindauer is back in paperback format. SEPTEMBER
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