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How We Remember
This collection of writings stands as an important reflection on the ways in which New Zealanders remember their past - be it through a poem, a waiata, a family photograph, a …
Rudyard Kipling
This absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks …
How to Catch a Cricket Match: Ginger Series Volume 9
Rudyard Kipling called cricketers 'flannelled fools'. Groucho Marx asked halfway through a cricket match when it would start, and Alfred Hitchcock put two cricket fans into a …
Awa Book Of New Zealand Sports Writing, The
Strange Meetings
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's …
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming …
Unforgiving Minute
The stories of Rudyard Kipling are read all over the world, by people of all ages, yet no biography has fully explored the complex link between his fascinating life and his …
Winter Eyes
Poetry as comfort, poetry as confrontation. In Winter Eyes Harry Ricketts reaches into past and future, with other writers and artists - from Kipling to Dylan, Austen to Frame - in …
First Things
In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of 'firsts': those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong …
Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes
'An epic contest superbly retold . . . a fascinating slice of social history, it is a spellbinding read' Vic Marks 'A scrupulous and subtle evocation of one's of cricket's …