Matariki

Melanie Drewery

'Tonight we have to go to bed really early,' said Mum. 'Tomorrow morning we are going to have a surprise.' But what event would be so special to get you up in the middle of a cold New Zealand winter? Matariki is rising and the New Year is on its way....

Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish Essays

Tom McCarthy

Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish is Tom McCarthy s own selection of the best of the essays he has published over more than a decade in such places as The Believer and the London Review of Books. It includes essays on writers, of course (Laurence Sterne, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, and Kathy Acker among them)...

Mapping the Past

Drazin Charles

'Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?' 'A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!' Charles Drazin knew little about his mother's father - only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it pro...

Arewhana Hunahuna (Have You Seen Elephant? te reo Māori edition)

David Barrow

A te reo Maori edition of this internationally bestselling picture book about a boy and his elephant playing an absurd game of hide and seek. This brilliantly interactive, bestselling picture book, now in te reo Maori, tickles the funny bones of both children and adults. Kei te hia hunahuna a Arewhan...