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New Books Bulletin - June 2021
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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Ghosts
Siobhan Harvey
Ghosts is a book about migration, outcasts and the search for home. In the migrant, homeless, reject, other, unknown ancestor, memory, family trauma, and written word, the ghost survives, symbol of human resilience.So Ghosts voices the lost souls carried inside us all.
Publication date: May 2021
Publisher: Otago University Press
ISBN: 9781988592985
RRP: $27.50
Website: www.otago.ac.nz
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Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women's Anthology
Mikaela Nyman & Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen (Eds)
An anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women – and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming of age in 2020.
Publication date: May 2021
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9781776564200
RRP: $30
Website: vup.victoria.ac.nz
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Nancy Business
R.W.R. McDonald
The Nancys are reformed when an early morning explosion kills three people and destroys the town hall. But something’s up with the team. Uncle Pike and Devon can't seem to agree, and when a truth bomb goes off for Tippy can the Nancys stay together and save the town?
Publication date: June2021
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760878870
RRP: $32.99
Website: allenandunwin.co.nz
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The Only Living Lady Parachutist
Catherine Clarke
Historical fiction based on the life of a remarkable but little-known woman who earned her living by jumping from a hot air balloon in 1890s Australia and New Zealand. A story of courage and ambition, and the consequences of secrets and lies.
Publication date: June 2021
Publisher: Idle Fancy Press
ISBN: 9780473571474
RRP: $35
Website: nationwidebooks.co.nz
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LIT: Stories from Home
Edited by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
LIT – Stories from Home is a new collection of Aotearoa’s home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers. These sixteen stories explore ideas about identity, activism, awareness, coming-of-age, society, and family.
Publication date: June 2021
Publisher: One Tree House
ISBN: 9781990035067
RRP: $29
Website: onetree-house.com
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Fulcrum
Jillian Barnes
A suspicious death. Murder or suicide? Detective Carla Cunningham doesn’t believe it’s suicide. In this intriguing mystery wrapped around a three-way love story no one can be trusted, not even the victim.
Publication date: April 2021
Publisher: McCaw Media
ISBN: 978-0-473-55376-0
RRP: $8.50
Website: jillianbarnesauthor.wordpress.com
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Shadows Between Lies series
Nicky Webber
A secret love where three ordinary friends embark on an extraordinary relationship. All the trio want is to live, love and laugh together for the rest of their lives. Whatever happened to for better or for worse?
Publication date: May, 2021
Publisher: Media Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780995134744, 9780995134751,9780995134768
RRP: $3.99 Kindle
Website: Amazon
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Sticks and Stones
Michelle Kelly
In book 3 of the Riverstones series the man responsible for trying to kill Mary and her husband Jim, has been arrested. Determined to see him hang, Mary travels to Dunedin. While in Dunedin, a ghost emerges from the past and leaves her wondering - will love remain?
Publication date: January 2021
Publisher: Ryegrass Publishing
ISBN: 9780473554200
RRP: $29.99
Website: michellekellyauthor.com
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To Kill A Conman
Kevin Berry
Everyone succumbs to the conman… until one of his victims fights back.
Stuart Baker makes a lot of dough from conning people. Broke and desperate, P.I. Danny Ashford thinks his life can’t get any worse. Then Baker is found murdered, and Danny becomes the main suspect.
Publication date: May 2021
Publisher: Quake City Publications
ISBN: 978-0-47-357579-3
RRP: 20.00 paperback, 3.99 kindle
Website: Amazon
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The Last of Her Kind
Quill Holland
When an alien xenologist spots the opportunity of a lifetime, he is driven to engage with it – but his opportunity doesn’t want to be engaged with. For both the observed and the observer know the same, terrible truth: that she is the last of her kind!
Publication date: October 2020
Publisher: ScorPress Publishing
ISBN: 9780473549893
RRP: $0.99 USD
Website: https://quillholland.nz/
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Because of Mercy
PD Dawn
Because of a crippling accident, a young couple are brought together but people and events conspire against them leaving their hopes and dreams seemingly in ruin. Yet despite everything they must each choose forgiveness if they are to ever find peace.
Publication date: April 2021
Publisher: PDDawnWriter
ISBN:978-0-473-56532-9
RRP: $29.99
Website: http://pddawnwriter.net
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The Tablets of Ur
Patricia Berwick
The Tablets of Ur is a novel of heroism, personal sacrifice, strength, character, loyalty and the survival of two women alone. It recounts the terrifying journey of Ai’shah, and her favourite professor (Dr Cassandra), into the heart of the Taliban in Pakistan.
Publication date: June 2021
Publisher: Global Publishing Group LLC
ISBN:978-1-954804-04-3
RRP: $33 plus GST
Website: berwicksbooks.com/
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Transgressing Tikanga, Captured By Maori
First Hand Accounts 1816-1884
Trevor Bentley
This anthology contains 20 Maori captivity narratives. Written or dictated by Pakeha men and women seized by iwi throughout New Zealand between 1816 and 1884, it reveals the ways the captives or their countrymen transgressed tikanga Maori (customary law).
Publication date: April 2021
Publisher: Potton and Burton
ISBN: 9781988550183
RRP: $39.95
Website: penguin.com
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The World Within Women: the femenome guide to your menstrual cycle
Jane Catherine Severn
Speaking new language into old silence and profound healing into an ancient wound in the female psyche, these simple yet revolutionary insights offer a radically new view of the menstrual cycle and the unrecognised elegance and sophistication of women’s hormonal design.
Publication date: May 2021
Publisher: Luna House Books
ISBN: 978-0-473-56849-8
RRP: $49.50
Website: www.lunahouse.co.nz
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Balage Contractor
Caroline Foss
Balage Contractor is the first of a series of non-fiction readers aimed at reluctant teenage readers and students who have learning differences. It highlights the important work balage contractors do throughout New Zealand as part of our Agriculture industry.
Publication date: November 2020
Publisher: User Friendly Resources New Zealand
ISBN: 978-0-9951350-2-4
RRP: $24.99
Website: userfriendlyresources.co.nz
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Cricket Crazy
Vivienne Bailey
Tom Willard is a cricket crazy kid who lives with solo dad, Dave and Archie the dog.
He dreams of playing at Wellington's Basin Reserve and making the rep cricket squad.
Then everything in his life goes mental. When he meets Izzy, things start to improve, or do they?
Publication date: March 2021
Publisher: The Cuba Press
ISBN: 978-0-9951233-7-3
RRP: $25
Website: thecubapress.nz
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My Name is Henry Fanshaw
Gillian Torckler
Henry Fanshaw travelled the world with the Royal New Zealand Air Force's No. 75 Squadron - one of New Zealand's most famous air force squadrons In this book Henry, now a bedraggled one-eyed bear, recalls the Squadron's role in WWII.
Publication date: March 2021
Publisher: Bateman Books
ISBN: 9781988538631
RRP: $24.99
Website: batemanbooks.co.nz
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World Folk Tales
Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
Introduce children to myths, legends and fables from across the globe in this movingly illustrated collection. The varied stories use a range of storytelling techniques and perspectives with full-colour, two-page illustrated spreads.
Publication date: June 2021
Publisher: Giltedge Publishing
ISBN: 9781877535666
RRP: $30
Website: www.giltedgepublishing.co.nz
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Just Remember
Donna Blaber
Em Rogers life changes forever when she gets her first after-school detention. If she'd known Dad would die in an accident on the way to pick her up, and Mum suffer a nervous breakdown, she never would have talked in class. Was it all her fault? Readers 11-14 years.
Publication date: May 2021
Publisher: Lighthouse Media Group
ISBN: 978-1-927229-72-9
RRP: $22
Website: www.donnablaber.com/bookstore
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