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Sol3 Mio are Kiwi stars on a meteoric rise. The award-winning operatic trio – tenor brothers Pene and Amitai Pati, and their baritone cousin Moses Mackay – stormed the New Zealand popular music charts in 2013. Almost out of nowhere, their success has been rapid and undeniable. But it wasn''t always easy. Sol3 Mio: Our Story charts their remarkable life story: overcoming adversity, a real connection to family and community, living and loving life, working incredibly hard for your dreams – and realising them. Sol3 Mio: Our Story is a book of rare charm – a biography that portrays a genuinely engrossing story of heart, humour and Kiwi boys done good.   ''These three young men are incredible talents. They have worked hard to achieve their dreams and taken on the world.'' —SIR JOHN KIRWAN   Also available as an eBook

''Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.'' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have considered it a subject best kept quiet about in public. Paul Moon brings together an impressive array of sources from a variety of disciplines to produce this frequently contentious but always stimulating exploration of how and why Maori ate other human beings, and why the practice shuddered to a halt just a few decades after the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand.  The book includes a comprehensive survey of cannibalism practices among traditional Maori, carefully assessing the evidence and concluding it was widespread. Other chapters look at how explorers and missionaries saw the practice; the role of missionaries and Christianity in its end; and, in the final chapter, why there has been so much denial on the subject and why some academics still deny that it ever happened. This Horrid Practice promises to be one of the leading works of New Zealand history published in 2008. It is a highly original work that every New Zealand history enthusiast will want to own and read.

How to negotiate the minefield of buying a home in New Zealand today.Property prices going through the stratosphere, leaky buildings, P contamination, bullying body corporates - purchasing a house today can feel akin to entering a minefield. Written by a news journalist who has covered many of the horror stories, this book takes a no-holds-barred look at the challenges facing home buyers and offers savvy advice on how to navigate that minefield. It will appeal to all home buyers, from first-timers hoping for a small apartment to older people looking to downsize and everyone in between.With chapters on the search, mortgages and legal aspects, types of title, buying at auction, buying off plans, checks and warning signs, bodies corporate and the special problems to be found in Christchurch, there is plenty of information for everyone.

This completely new edition of The New Zealand First Aid Handbook was revised and updated by St John in 2016.Accidents and emergencies can occur at any time and in any place - and the action of people first on the scene often determines the outcome. The information in this comprehensive guide is essential for a wide variety of situations, from road accidents to bush walks, from the workplace to the home. You can make a difference. Just some of the information included in the The New Zealand First Aid Handbook: what to do in an emergency CPR techniques for adults, children and babies first aid for burns, wounds, fractures and head injuries help for those with medical conditions.

New Zealand’s most popular modern day Prime Minister, John Key shocked many with his decision to step down from office less than a year out from a general election. Rather than doing what most expected and seeking an historic fourth term, Key opted to quit while his approval rating was still high and before voters tired of him. ‘I always thought leaders overstay their welcome. They just start grating with people. All the things people liked about them they start not to like,’ Key tells journalist John Roughan in this updated edition of John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister. A fascinating insight into Key’s early life, personality and motivations, Roughan’s account of John Key’s rise and rise examines how the twin ambitions of a boy in a state house ‘to make a million dollars and be Prime Minister’ were realised beyond his dreams. As popular as ever after eight years as Prime Minister, Key chose to leave the job he loved – and the voters who seemed certain to return him to office. But, as Roughan concludes, it’s perhaps not surprising that the instincts that served him so well as a currency trader, and which also informed his approach to politics, ultimately fuelled Key’s unprecedented decision to retire at the height of his power.

''A book to be treasured for the access it gives us to a little-known corner of the New Zealand experience.''Tipene O''Regan, Evening Post This award-winning, trail-blazing book by Michael King restored the Moriori of the Chatham Islands to their rightful place in New Zealand, Pacific and world history. This revised edition contains material that has come to light since first publication. ''King has set the record straight in a richly readable and often moving account of a long ignored sideshow to the history of our country.''Gordon McLauchlan, National Business Review ''It is authoritative but it is also popular history in the best sense, and that is precisely what is needed to clear away the brambles of racial prejudice and historical error which have all but overwhelmed the subject in the past.''Atholl Anderson, Otago Daily Times ''This book decisively strips away all the muddle . . . a clear, thoroughly readable and honest history of the Moriori.''Judith Binney, Sunday Star ''A timely book which must be read so that we will all know more about ourselves and about us as a nation.''Hirini Moko Mead, Dominion

If you want to get ahead in life, both financially and sustainably, budgeting guru Lyn Webster can help.In Save Make Do, you will learn:- how to shop smarter- what to grow in your garden- the magic of baking soda and vinegar- 30 handy recipes (meals, treats and snacks; cleaning products and cosmetics)- clever ways to save, save, saveWith a Save Make Do attitude, you’ll soon be on the road to financial freedom – by making simple, healthy and sustainable choices. Make a little go a LOT further.Previously published as Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce

Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II. A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed enemy machinegun posts single-handed and led a frontal assault on enemy guns. His exploits and individual heroism are the stuff of Kiwi legend. He then spent the rest of the war in prisoner-of-war camps, including the famous Colditz Castle, where he made life a misery for the German guards, constantly trying to escape. This bestselling book was first published by Hutchinson in Britain in 1962 and reprinted many times. It has become a classic. In a new Afterword written for this edition, Bruce Wallace, author of Battle of the Titans, describes Upham''s life following the war until his death in 1994. Also available as an eBook

I wonder why Edwin''s mother left him — why his mother left and mine stayed? I mean, which is the more damaging — the mother who tells you she loves you and leaves, or the mother who calls you stupid and stays?This beautifully written novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set in the southern South Island, it describes the unusual bond formed between sixty-two-year-old photographer Edwin and twenty-two-year-old Matilda, as their relationship grows in ways neither could possibly have predicted.I liked the look of concentration on his face when we made love. His hands moved gently over my body; it was as if he was turning the pages of some fragile book - the type of book that has tissue pages, like an old-fashioned Bible. He reminded me, too, of a child learning to read. I pictured his fingertips tracing the words on the page, his lips mouthing the sounds, so intense was his focus. ''Edwin,'' I teased, ''am I a good book?''Also available as an eBook

Rich and satisfying, Sonata for Miriam will stay with the reader long after they have put it down.A middle-aged man living on Auckland''s Waiheke Island recalls vividly the sudden death of his daughter Miriam. Grief silenced Adam at the time, but now he decides to break the silence and explore the secrets of the past. The search becomes a tribute to his daughter, and takes Adam from New Zealand to Poland. There he finds the truth about his past, but now he must live with it. On an island off the rocky coast of Sweden he re-connects with the love of his life.Sonata for Miriam is a heartbreaking tale of a man''s search for his past, about the exposure of secrets that have been hidden for too long, and about the importance of talking about the most vital and the most painful in life. But more than anything it is a novel about love.

Inspirational, razor-witted and funny, Can We Help It if We''re Fabulous is Peta Mathias at her wisest — and naughtiest.The irrepressible Peta Mathias is a woman who has never been afraid to embrace life with all its glorious inconsistencies, joys and heartbreaks. With ten topics relevant to all women — Fashion, Food, Relationships, Music, Travel, Beauty, Work, Sex, Happiness and, of course, Men — Peta''s sagacious, sexy and occasionally scurrilous book will encourage and inspire readers to reinvent, spice up, embrace and celebrate the lives they have. As well as recounting her own life lessons, Peta interviews a range of women — from psychologists to plastic surgeons, sex therapists to hairdressers, doctors to singers — and discovers what a woman needs to make her happy, independent and successful.

New Zealand. A great place to bring up kids? Or a darker world, where money is being made, people are being hurt, where illegal gambling and slygrogging are the norm? Eight-year-old Denis Edward is in the middle, observing events swirling around him. He doesn''t care. There are more important things on his mind. Alliances have to be made. There are persecutions to be organised. And coming straight down the calendar at him is a showdown. It''s a tough time for a Miramar Dog. In this rich, often hilarious memoir, Denis Edwards dwells with affection on the hard-case humour, the scams and the childhood intrigues that made up daily life in the Wellington suburb of Miramar in the 1950s.

Delia and Bea: sisters, but never close. Delia lives a glamorous life in New York and Bea lives thousands of miles away in New Zealand, looking after elderly parents and playing the role of dutiful daughter. Delia and Bea both long for the warmth and intimacy of sisterhood, but it always eludes them.When Delia rushes home for their father''s funeral there is an opportunity to spend some time together, but Delia and Bea move in orbit around each other, both recalling grievances and hurts, neither prepared to admit their need for each other. But as the day of the funeral passes, memories are unlocked: memories of their mother and her passion for music, memories of their father and memories of a magical summer and a man they had all loved.

In the 1830s Kororareka was known as the ''hell-hole of the Pacific''. Whalers, sealers, escaped convicts, seamen, traders and adventurers descended upon this small cove in the Bay. Grog-shops and the oldest profession in the world abounded. At one stage the town was said to be harbouring ''a greater number of rogues than any other spot of equal size in the universe''. Some whaling captains steered clear, fearing they''d lose their crews. But was Kororareka actually a hell-hole? How wild was it really? In this absorbing book on one of the most lively periods in New Zealand history, Richard Wolfe asks new questions, confronts existing myths, and comes up with some fascinating answers.

On 22 September 1960, six girls gather behind the school toilets to read Peyton Place: Caroline the leader, Heather the caregiver, Kathy the actress, Raeleen the explorer, Greer the mystic and Margie the rebel. Like the historical heroines whose stories are repeatedly held up to them as models, these girls confront in their various ways the uncertainty and fears of adolescence.On 22 September 1995 we meet them again, confronting the issues of middle age. Caroline''s on the way up, Raeleen''s now Ra, Margie climbs higher and higher. They re all relearning in the process the joy of making that vital, terrifying, thrilling leap ''out into the sun''...

This is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer.The collected edition of Patricia Grace''s stories brings together all the work contained in her first three celebrated books of short stories. Also available as an eBook

''It is very important to me to enable people to understand that there is noth­ing to fear in death. Life and love are eternal, and there is another world waiting for us when we pass on from this earthly existence.''Kelvin Cruickshank, celebrity psychic medium and bestselling author, shares incredible stories of helping people who are struggling to move on from the death of a loved one. The results have been amazing – people have had their lives changed and hearts healed by the contact. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, some are uplifting, but all are inspiring.

In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most.   Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngäpuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and served his chief as a trader and white priest. Joining Hongi Hika''s great Musket Wars campaigns against the Tamaki and Kaipara tribes, he claimed to have served as Hika''s personal war tohunga. He survived to settle in the Hokianga from 1823 and was involved in Hone Heke''s Flagstaff War of 1845.   In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmon''s life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon''s own – not always reliable – personal accounts.

''I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have been jealous of.'' —Virginia Woolf 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.

This collection of spooky stories is designed to give you chills.  With tales of mystical cabbage trees able to move from place to place, not-so-harmless house guests and music that briges the gap between the dead and the living, there''s a story here for everyone.

The New Zealand Police Armed Offenders Squads are never far from the headlines.  Called out to the wost-case scenarios in which lives are in danger, their exploits make them a media magnet.  But despite this, little is known about the people behind the masks. In conjunction with the TV documentary series Line of Fire, this book seeks to go behind the public facade of the AOS to get inside the heads of men and women who have served in the squads through the five decades of their existence.  To find out what sort of person willingly steps into the line of fire to ensure that the country we live in is a safer place.

''Those of you with a sense of humour, a love of hunting and a liking for yarns about the characters that roam the New Zealand mountains, this book is for you.'' With Off the Track, ''Big Al'' once again revisits his beloved terrain: yarns of off-road New Zealand. With his characteristic humour and love for the land - and larrikin mates firmly by his side - Al recounts numerous trials and tribulations from recent hunting expeditions, including such things as cooking dinner with a flame thrower, knocking off plenty of pig and deer (and plenty more making a lucky escape), rats in lunchboxes, accidentally blowing up bridges, snow avalanches, a suicidal Canadian goose, and a burial at sea! Also available as an eBook

David Lange ushered in a revolution in New Zealand when he came to power in 1984, aged just 41. His Labour government introduced sweeping new legislation that unchained the country from its old conservative bonds, established the world''s first nuclear free state and let loose a free market economic agenda that radically transformed the country. It was a rapid climb to the very top for the overweight doctor''s son from working class South Auckland. As leader during the final years of the Cold War he confronted the agendas of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and lived through the political upheavals of the fall of the Soviet Union, post-apartheid South Africa and Rajiv Ghandi''s India. Along the way he memorably defeated the Reverend Jerry Falwell in a famous Oxford Union debate about the morality and sanity of the nuclear arms race, and negotiated the aftermath of the tragic bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in Auckland harbour.

Hai Long is a teenager living in the Chinese city of Dalian. It''s the year of the SARS epidemic in China. This is a modern China that''s eye-catchingly contemporary. Hai Long and his mates drink Coca-Cola and eat American fast food. They watch American NBA basketball on television and argue whether Michael Jordan is the greatest player ever. They go to English language lessons and hilariously mock Karl, their hopelessly naïve Canadian teacher, who drinks too much beer and is just dying to get away to Thai beaches to hang out with German babes. This is also the year in which Hai Long leaves school to learn the unlikely trade of his uncle. ''Uncle'' has many books, but he''s actually a highly successful professional pick-pocket who specialises in robbing dazed foreigners - Koreans and Japanese as well as Europeans - and makes special trips to Beijing for the purpose. As we meet a series of colourful characters in Hai Long''s life and hang out with him and his mates, we also watch the teenager being trained in the ways of the pick-pocket. This is a sophisticated story of China''s new generation severing ties with their cultural past, and rich with a fascinating array of colourful characters who frequent their inner-city apartment block - from Gambler Dang, a high stakes Ma Jiang player, to Fish, a peasant from the countryside and an unlikely friend, and finally Uncle, whose shadowy occupation exerts an irresistible pull on Hai Long''s life . . . An accessible yet deceptively clever novel from an electric new voice.

''Tangled with darkness like its lush, decaying setting, Villa Pacifica had me gripped to the very end.''—Emily Perkins   A couple arrive in a dead-end coastal village somewhere in South America. The only place to stay is Villa Pacifica, part hotel and part animal sanctuary run by eccentric ex-pats. Travel guide-writer Ute and her husband Jerry are joined by an assortment of travellers: in-your-face American Max; sporty flight attendants from Australia; musicians Luis and Helga – all looking for something out of the ordinary. Ute begins to meet the locals and explore the villa''s surrounds. She senses that the place taps into her most intimate fears. Its disturbances may well be beyond the rational mind. Soon, personalities and relationships begin to crack.  When a huge storm descends on the coast, travellers and locals are thrown back on their own devices. The hot-house world that prowls below the surface of Villa Pacifica rises to engulf everyone. Madness begins to take hold.   An ever-present air of sensuality and danger haunts Kapka Kassabova''s new novel. Villa Pacifica is an exotic romp through a place where the primal, spiritual and cerebral collide. This is a visceral, gripping story from one of New Zealand''s most talented writers.

Creating lasting love is as popular as it ever was, and yet it often seems hard to achieve in a world of constant change. This is a book which faces the real issues of everyday living and provides a hopeful message for couples who want to make their love last and face life together.Overcoming jealousy, coping with major loss, surviving the effects of overwork or of losing a job, being a parent and a couple at the same time – this book provides thoughtful and practical ideas on these and many other issues.

THE DETECTIVES OF THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH (CIB) ARE CHARGED WITH INVESTIGATING AND SOLVING SERIOUS CRIME.To outsmart and defeat New Zealand''s hardened organised crime rings, the CIB employ the most sophisticated techniques and technologies available.  But at the end of the day, fighting crime demands an unflinching commitment to the case and an old-fashioned nose for the truth.In conjunction with the television documentary series NZ Detectives, this book goes behind closed doors to meet former and current detectives dedicated to the pursuit of the truth – men and women whose grit and dedication cracked some of the country''s biggest criminal cases.

''I always been a coin boy . . .''   Hokitika, 1865, at the height of the Gold Rush. In a town with a hundred pubs, young Halfie – aka Harvey, Thumbsucker, Bedwetter, Cocoa and Pipsqueak – gets by as best he can.   Most of the time he hangs around the Bathsheba pub, washing dishes, running errands and making the odd coin – and observing from close quarters the parade of miners, dancing girls, petty crims and plain drunks that passes through the doors.   When you''re a coin boy you see a lot of life, and from low down. But how much do you really understand? What''s going on in young Halfie''s world?   In this beguiling new novel by the author of The Curative, a rattling good yarn reveals that life is rarely what it seems.   ''Among our contemporary writers of adult fiction, only Elizabeth Knox can match Charlotte Randall for the sheer scope of her imagination.''—New Zealand Listener

Another collection of outrageous hunting yarns from the master of the genre, ''Big Al'' Lester.   A jetboat trip gone disastrously wrong, kamikaze deer, the Hermit of Fiordland, a pigeon called Tegal, the sacred eel – these are just some of the rollicking stories told by ''Big Al'' and his mates.   Plenty of laughs for the hunting mad, hard case and hare-brained among us! Also available as an eBook