New Zealand

Introduction

2012 was a sad year for New Zealand literature with the death of beloved children’s author Margaret Mahy. Since the publication of A Lion in the Meadow in 1969 Mahy’s books have enchanted readers, young and old, around the world. Her 120 books have been translated into 15 languages and she has been the recipient of the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award as well as many local accolades. Fleur Beale, winner of the 2012 Margaret Mahy Award, paid tribute to Mahy’s influence and stature by comparing her to one of the mighty New Zealand trees: “I think we have lost a treasure. A Totara has fallen” (Dominion Post 24 July 2012). With her ability to blur the lines between the magical and the real, Mahy’s picture books, short stories, and novels transport readers to worlds of wonder and possibility. Many New Zealand children also recall Mahy’s vivid readings of her own work, her engaging delivery as mesmerising as her multi-coloured wig. Tessa Duder’s insightful, engaging biography of Mahy, Margaret Mahy: A Writer’s Life: A Literary Portrait of New Zealand’s Best-Loved Children’s Author, was republished in 2012 and is a must read for both fans and scholars. In a fitting tribute to Mahy’s unparalleled contribution to New Zealand children’s literature the nation’s top award for children’s books has been renamed the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award.

For children (and adults) with an appetite for fantasy James Norcliffe’s adventure to Arcadia in The Enchanted Flute will appeal, featuring an encounter between two modern children, Becky and Johnny, and the nymph Syrinx. The interconnection between magic and the mundane is also the leitmotif of Fleur Beale’s The Boy in the Olive Grove, with the heroine’s present day romance entangled with past lives and witch hunting. Realism gives way to science-fiction in “Purity of Ice”, one of the stories in Witi Ihimaera’s The Thrill of Falling, which is set in an apocalyptic world in which capturing icebergs for fresh water is big business. Adults can also enjoy a dose of fantasy. Lawrence Patchett’s debut collection of stories I Got His Blood on Me is rich in time travel, alternate history, and ghostly hauntings from the past. Readers with an appetite for “Mansfield upcycled as hybrid Steampunk Goth” will relish Matt and Debbie Cowens’ retelling of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories in Mansfield with Monsters (Dale Williams New Zealand Books 22[4] p12). Nalini Singh continues to charm readers of paranormal romance, with two new releases and the translation of several of her novels into German.

The versatility and diversity of New Zealand literature is showcased in Jane Stafford and Mark Williams’ The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature, which traces the development of New Zealand writing from Te Horeta encountering James Cook in the 1760s to recent publications such as Hamish Clayton’s Wulf and Dylan Horrocks’ Hicksville. While the omissions of extracts from high-profile authors such as Alan Duff, Janet Frame, and Vincent O’Sullivan has sparked controversy, the historical sweep of the collection makes it a valuable tool for readers and researchers. The aesthetic appeal of the volume led to the award of a Most Beautiful Books Australia and New Zealand Award in 2013.

An individual author who typifies literary diversity is Greg McGee, winner of the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in 2013. Well-known as a playwright and scriptwriter, McGee is also a bestselling crime novelist, writing under the pseudonym Alix Bosco. In 2012 he published the first novel to appear under his own name, Love and Money (which meditates on the 1987 stock market crash), and worked with All Black captain Richie McCaw on his autobipgraphy The Open Side. This motif of versatility is also foregrounded by the work of two of the recipients of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Awards. The fiction award went to Albert Wendt, who published both a novel, Ancestry, and a volume of poems, From Mānoa to a Ponsonby Garden, in 2012. Likewise, the winner of the non-fiction award, Gregory O’Brien, has recently published a collection of poems focusing on the Waitamata Harbour, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool.

The winner of the Prime Minister’s award for poetry, Sam Hunt, published a major retrospective collection, Knucklebones: Poems, 1962-2012. Two other acclaimed New Zealand poets likewise published significant collections: Bill Manhire’s Selected Poems and Peter Bland’s Collected Poems: 1956-2011. The New Zealand poetry of emigrant Karl Wolfskehl, sensitively translated by Andrew Paul Wood, Margot Ruben, and Dean and Renate Koch, appeared for the first time in Under New Stars: Poems of the New Zealand Exile, an exquisite limited edition publication.

One of the most talked about New Zealand novels of 2012 was Emily Perkins’ The Forrests, which was longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly, the Orange Prize) and has been touted as a Man Booker contender. The everyday epiphanies and sensory responses of the heroine Dot, who “lives her life on the inside”, lie at the heart of the novel, which is described by Louise O’Brien as a “thoughtful exploration of notions of identity, selfhood and […] the meaning of life” (Listener 2 June 2011). Questions of belonging and happiness are also central to The Invisible Rider, the debut novel of poet and short story writer Kirsten McDougal, who won the 2013 Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary. Stephanie Johnson playfully fictionalises the life of her forebear Elizabeth Horlock Smith, maid to Mary Ann Martin, in The Open World, while C.K. Stead turns his attention to the trans-national and the global in Risk, set against the backdrop of the world financial crisis and the war to oust Saddam Hussein.

Wellington-based Playmarket and Play Press continue to do a superb job of making New Zealand plays available to students, readers and actors. The service of the Māori Battalion in Italy in World War II is remembered by Paolo Rotondo and Rob Makaraka in Strange Resting Places, set in Cassino during World War II, while the death of the heroine’s father in war-torn Italy continues to haunt in Briar Grace-Smith’s Haruru Mai. Urbanesia brings together the work of four Pasifika playwrights: Oscar Knightley, Victor Rodger, Vela Manusaute and Courtney Sina. Scholars writing about New Zealand drama in 2012 focused attention on issues of identity and diaspora, with Elspeth Tilley exploring polycharacter performance in Jacob Ragan’s dramas of being Indian in New Zealand, Diana Looser arguing that Victor Rodger’s oeuvre enacts a simultaneous Samoan and trans-national belonging, and Marc Maufort considering “Multi-Ethnic Identities” in contemporary New Zealand drama.

Thanks to the meticulous research and sensitive editorial work of Sarah Shieff and Mary Edmond Paul fresh insights are revealed about the intimate lives of two prominent twentieth century literature figures, Frank Sargeson and Robin Hyde. Sarah Shieff has mined the Sargeson archive, reading over 6,000 letters written and received between 1927 and 1981and selecting 500 letters to 107 correspondents to publish in Letters of Frank Sargeson. Lawrence Jones pays tribute to the volume and its potential to “complicate our sense of what kind of writer [Sargeson] was and possibly to deepen our sense of what kind of complex human being he was” (Landfall 223 p181). Likewise, in Your Unselfish Kindness Mary Edmond Paul introduces readers to Robin Hyde’s previously unpublished autobiographical writings. Hyde’s incisive, critical mind and instinctual rebellion meant that she often felt like an outsider in 1920s and 1930s New Zealand and she was fuelled by a fierce determination to “succeed as a writer because I have no other plausible reason for remaining alive”. While Hyde struggled to find what she termed “a home in this world”, James McNeish has found a sense of belonging at Te Maika, near Kawhia. The acclaimed author reflects on people such as Joan Littlewood, Denis Glover, Jack Dillon, Dolci “the Sicilian Ghandi” and on places in Touchstones: A Memoir, teasing out stories of family origin and his relationship with his enigmatic father.

2012 was a significant year for New Zealand literary criticism, with considerable attention directed to literature by Māori and Pacific authors. For Alice Te Punga Somerville the ocean is a powerful symbol in Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania. Her diverse and comprehensive exploration of Māori writing focuses on the prose of Peter Buck, the poetry of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, the fiction of Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace, and the plays of Briar Grace-Smith. The book is not confined to literature on the printed page, with Te Punga Somerville discussing the vibrant Pacific performance tradition, evident in hip hop group Nesian Mystik and the performance poetry Polynation. One of the texts discussed by Te Punga Somerville, Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka, is also central to Chadwick Allen’s Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies. Allen urges critics and readers to consider indigenous literatures from global as well as local perspectives. A range of articles focus attention on: “Identity Reflection in Maori Literature”, “Indigenous Women Writers in the Pacific: Déwé Gorodé, Sia Figiel, Patricia Grace”, “Genealogy and Geography in Patricia Grace’s Tu”, and Allegorical Form and (Trans)National Communities in the Historical Fiction of Witi Ihimaera”.

Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip continued to attract significant critical attention, with four essays published in 2012. Janet Wilson and Beverley Taylor both draw parallels between Jones’s novel and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs. For Catherine Lanone it is “The Postcolonial Persistence of Dickens” that appeals, while Nil Korkut-Nayki explores “Literature and Rewriting as Performance”.

Two excellent special issues of journals turned the spotlight on poet James K. Baxter and novelist John Mulgan respectively. Baxter and Burns, a special issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature, profiled the relationship between the Scottish and New Zealand bards, with Liam McIlvanney exploring themes of bawdry, Alan Riach forms of address, and Dougal McNeill issues of biculturalism. John Denison draws comparisons between Baxter, Burns and T.S. Eliot, while Paul Millar considers poetry and memorialisation in the work of Baxter, Burns and Henry Lawson. The 2012 special issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies takes its name from John Mulgan’s 1939 novel Man Alone. However, while Mulgan receives substantial critical attention, the issue also explores the way in which the trope of the “man alone” can be found in a diverse range of New Zealand writing, with John Ross considering the heroes of Robin Hyde’s and John A. Lee’s novels, Christopher Burke examining the fiction and life writing of James Courage, and James Bennett discussing Maurice Shadbolt, and Philip Steer investigating the “Wandering Men” of Sargeson’s fiction.

The theme of isolation in relation to New Zealand literature is also central to Doreen D’Cruz and John C. Ross’s The Loneliness and the Alone. D’Cruz and Ross contend that the dominant symbol of New Zealand fiction is alienation and isolation, both geographic and internal. While the main focus is on major twentieth-century authors such as Janet Frame, Maurice Gee, Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Patricia Grace, and Witi Ihimaera, some of the early chapters provide welcome insights into colonial authors G.B. Lancaster’s, Vincent Pyke and George Chamier.

Bibliographies

General Bibliographies

The bibliography for 2012 does not normally include references for book reviews and offers a very selective listing of non-fiction. Those seeking further information in these categories should consult the following sources:

Journal of New Zealand Literature ed Sarah Shieff Annual sub $25 Overseas NZ$35, US$25. One/two issues per year <www.waikao.ac.nz/wfass/jnzl/>.

Landfall ed David Eggleton Annual sub $49.95 Australia A$45 Rest of World US$42. Two issues per year <www.otago.ac.nz/press/landfall/>.

New Zealand Books eds Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway Annual sub $24.95 (individuals) $50 (libraries). Four issues per year <www.nzbooks.org.nz/>.

New Zealand Children’s Books in Print 2011-2012 ed Crissi Blair 112pp Silvertone (Auckland) Pb $20.

New Zealand Listener ed Pamela Stirling Annual sub $155. Fifty-two issues per year <www.listener.co.nz>.

Bibliographies Published Serially

Te Puna CD-ROM: Index New Zealand (INNZ), New Zealand National Bibliography (NZNB) RMIT Publishing for the National Library of New Zealand (Wellington) semi-annual [includes Pacific area imprints and bibliography].

<www.bookcouncil.org.nz> [includes entries on New Zealand writers from The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (1998) updated].

<www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/authors.htm> [works by, and biographical and critical material on, selected New Zealand and Pacific authors, updated].

<www.nram.org.nz> [National Register of Archives and Manuscripts, updated].

Research Aids

< www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies > [Dictionary of New Zealand Biography online; includes entries on 3000 New Zealanders of note, ongoing].

<www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz> [New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre; hub for New Zealand and Pacific poetry resources, ongoing].

<www.nzetc.org> [New Zealand Electronic Text Centre; online archive of New Zealand and Pacific texts and heritage materials, ongoing].

<www.teara.govt.nz> [Te Ara: The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, ongoing].

Poetry

Argante, Jenny Working in the Cracks Between 141pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $7.95.

Barnett, Sarah Jane A Man Runs into a Woman 72pp Hue and Cry Press (Auckland) Pb $25.

Barnett, Shona-Ellen Letterboxes: Indigenous Poetry 47pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $5.95.

Baxter, James K. Poems to a Glass Woman: 1944-1945 79pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Beach, David Scenery and Agriculture 64pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Bland, Peter Collected Poems: 1956-2011 308pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $44.99.

Brown, James Warm Auditorium 78pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Bullock, Owen Breakfast with Epiphanies 83pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $19.95.

Charman, Janet At the White Coast 82pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Cochrane, Geoff The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow 64pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Colquhoun, Glenn Jumping Ship: Essays, Speeches and Incidental Poems 146pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Cunningham, Kevin Distractions 30pp Otakou Press (Dunedin) Hb $90.

Davidson, Lynn Common Land: Poems and Essays 80pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Dunsford, Cathie Survivors 68pp Global Dialogues Press (Matakana) Pb $35.

Gallas, John Fresh Air; and, The Story of Molecule 195pp Carcanet (Manchester) Pb £12.95.

Gibbs, Ivy A Golden Ship and Other Uncollected Poems for Children 28pp Original Books (Wellington) Pb $7.

— The Wind Boy and Other Uncollected Poems 42pp Original Books (Wellington) Pb $10.50.

— Young Moon: Collected and Uncollected Poems from The Bulletin (1920-1930) 42pp Original Books (Wellington) Pb $10.50.

Gregory, Brian In Nature: Poems 30pp Pear Tree Press (Auckland) Pb $45.

Gunson, Vaughan This Hill, All It’s about Is Lifting It to a Higher Level 64pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Hayward, Joel Splitting the Moon: A Collection of Islamic Poetry 108pp Kube Pub (Markfield, UK) Pb £8.95.

Heath, Helen Graft 79pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Howard, David You’re So Pretty When You’re Unfaithful To Me 28pp Holloway Press (Auckland) Hb $190.

Hunt, Sam Knucklebones: Poems, 1962-2012 360pp Craig Potton Pub (Nelson) Hb $39.99.

Hutchison, Jan The Happiness of Rain 64pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Ireland, Kevin Dreamy Days & Nothing Done 73pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Jackson, Michael Being of Two Minds 63pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Jacobs, Helen Dried Figs 60pp Sudden Valley Press (Christchurch) Pb $20.

Jagger, Bryony Inside Out and Round About: Poems 48pp Heartbreak Pub. (Auckland) Pb $5.

Jones, Marion Reflections 80pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Kemp, Jan Jennett’s Poem: Wild Love 72pp Puriri Press (Auckland) Pb $60.

— Voicetracks: Poems 2002-2012 72pp Puriri Press (Auckland) Pb $30.

Kennedy, Anne The Darling North 87pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Lane, Aleksandra Birds of Clay 94pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

Loney, Alan In a Single Gesture 32pp Nawakum Press (Santa Rosa) Hb $700.

Macky, Willow Harp in the Wind: A Love Story in Verse 112pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Manhire, Bill Selected Poems 160pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

—, Anne Noble and Norman Meehan These Rough Notes 64pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $40.

McGrath, Gillian Chasing Whales in a Suburban Garden 38pp Taheke Springs Park Pub (Kaikohe) Pb $18.

Messenger, Nicholas Afar: Poems from Japan 238pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $35.

— Firelight Stories 140pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $30.

Morseth, Martha Hippopotamus in the Room 70pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Neale, Emma The Truth Garden 64pp Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) Hb $30.

O’Brien, Gregory Beauties of the Octagonal Pool 118pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $27.99.

Olds, Peter Under the Dundas Street Bridge 70pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Perkins, Jack Out of Time 51pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $34.50.

Pone, Semisi Green Earth: A Poetic Tree 56pp Rainbow Enterprises (Auckland) Pb $35.

Ricketts, Harry Just Then 63pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Robinson, Reihana Auē Rona 68pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $25.

Sharpe, Kerrin P. Three Days in a Wishing Well 71pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Taylor, Monica Under the Skin 62pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Turner, Brian Elemental: Central Otago Poems 212pp Godwit (Auckland) Hb $39.99.

Wendt, Albert From Mānoa to a Ponsonby Garden 68pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Wolfskehl, Karl Under New Stars: Poems of the New Zealand Exile 108pp Holloway Press (Auckland) Hb $290.

Young, Ashleigh Magnificent Moon 94pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Drama

Anderson, Ben The Suicidal Airplane 60pp Play Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Grace-Smith, Briar Haruru Mai 160pp Playmarket (Wellington) Pb $30.

— Purapurawhetū 93pp Huia (Wellington) Pb $25.

Knightley, Oscar, Victor Rodger, Vela Manusaute and Courtney Sina Meredith 312pp Urbanesia: Four Pasifika Plays Playmarket (Wellington) Pb $30.

Prentice, Christine and Lisa Warrington eds Playlunch: Five Short New Zealand Plays 113pp Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) Pb $30.

Rotondo, Paolo and Rob Mokoraka Strange Resting Places 160pp Playmarket (Wellington) Pb $32.

Smith, Campbell Collected Plays 470pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $39.99.

Fiction

Alterio, Maxine Lives We Leave Behind 282pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $38.

Andrew, Evan G. Shadows of Doubt 352pp Avenue Pub. (Auckland) Pb $39.90.

— Shadows in the Night 268pp Avenue Pub. (Auckland) Pb $20.

Anthony, Frank S. Me and Gus 74pp AG Books (Wanganui) Pb $12.50.

Barker, Stephen Deadwater Lane 290pp Scripta (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Barwell, Anne Shadowboxing 266pp Dreamspinner Press (Miami) Pb $16.99.

Bates, David The Making of Travis 320pp Polygraphia (Auckland) Pb $45.

Beale, Fleur I Am Not Esther 207pp Longacre Press (Dunedin) Pb $19.99.

— The Boy in the Olive Grove 302pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Benn, Ken Gutted 240pp Puffin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

— Trapped outside a Cage 237pp Puffin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Berry, K. D. Growing Disenchantments 366pp Bluewood Pub (Christchurch) Pb US$14.99.

Berwick, Patricia A Fragile Strength 358pp Read Pacific Pub. (Auckland) Pb $29.95.

Bird, Val Ghost: A Ghost Story 107pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $19.50.

Brewer, Ken The Enfield Conspiracy 502pp Seaburn (New York) Pb $29.99.

Brocker, Susan The Drover’s Quest 176pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Brown, Hugh Reach 256pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $22.99.

Catran, Ken Earth Dragon, Fire Hare 272pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Challinor, Deborah Blue Smoke 415pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

—Tamar 495pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

— White Feathers 367pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Charman, Janet At the White Coast 88pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Clarke, Ian The Bungalow at No. 2 Riverside Road 267pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $25.

Cleave, Paul Collecting Copper 384pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $34.99.

— The Laughterhouse 403pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $38.

Cowens, Matt, Debbie Cowens and Katherine Mansfield Mansfield with Monsters: The Untold Stories of a New Zealand Icon 231pp Steam Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

de Bazin, Sacha The Day She Cradled Me 319pp Black Swan (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Devanny, Jean Lenore Divine ed Kirstine Moffat 249pp Otago Univ English Dept (Dunedin) Pb $25.

Duder, Tessa Alex 216pp Whitcoulls (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Dunsford, Cathie Kaitiakitanga Pasifika 233pp Global Dialogues Press (Matakana) Pb $45.

Edlin, Nicholas The Widow’s Daughter 372pp Penguin (New York) Pb $30.

Fagan, Annabel A Little Bit of Love: and Other Stories 103pp Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop (Paekakariki) Pb $20.

Falkner, Brian Task Force 355pp Walker Books (Auckland) Pb $21.99.

—The Assault 288pp Random House (New York) Pb US$17.99.

Fenster, Gigi The Intentions Book 305pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

Frame, Janet Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories 252pp Penguin (Auckland) Hb $39.99.

Glensor, Tricia Telling Lies 176pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $20.

Gunn, Kirsty The Big Music: Selected Papers 471pp Faber (London) Hb £20.

Grace, Patricia Tū 358pp Huia (Wellington) Pb $37.

Grimshaw, Charlotte Soon 310pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Hager, Mandy The Nature of Ash 361pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Hair, David Justice and Utu 320pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

— King of Lanka 264pp Puffin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

— Souls in Exile 258pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Hill, David My Brother’s War 248pp Puffin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Ihimaera, Witi Pounamu Pounamu 203pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $34.99.

—The Thrill of Falling 320pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $38.

Johnson, Stephanie The Open World 295pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Jordan, Sherryl Ransomwood 268pp Scholastic (Auckland) Pb $19.50.

King, Rachel Red Rocks 255pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Lasenby, Jack Uncle Trev and His Whistling Bull 207pp Gecko Press (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Lawless, Garth Dreamtime: Guardians of the Shimmer 287pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $24.95.

Malane, Donna Surrender 302pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Marsden, Leigh Crush 310pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Marshall, Philip The Star Children 196pp Riverstone Books (Wairoa) Pb $15.95.

Martin, Denis Marked 285pp Walker Books (Newtown, NSW) Pb $19.99.

McCarten, Anthony In the Absence of Heroes 389pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $28.99.

McDougall, Kirsten The Invisible Rider 150pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

McGee, Greg Love and Money 352pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

McGill, David The Promised Land 232pp Silver Owl Press (Paekakariki) Pb $30.

Messenger, Nicholas A Wave around the World 466pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $40.

— The Long Garden 290pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $35.

—The Upas Tree 572pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $42.

Mokha, P.S. The Last Sanctuary 409pp Tangerine Pub. (Wanganui) Pb US$9.99.

Morrissey, Michael Tropic of Skorpeo 298pp Steam Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

Muir, John My Other Stories & Formal Tales 192pp Imp (Otaki) Pb $24.

Nicolaidi, Mike A Greekish Trinity: Tales from the Book of Michael 324pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $34.99.

Norcliffe, James The Enchanted Flute 368pp Longacre (Dunedin) Pb $20.

Orman, Lorraine Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 200pp Scholastic (Auckland) Pb $18.50.

Parkyn, John Don Vicente’s Daughter & Other Stories 162pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $24.95.

Patchett, Lawrence I Got His Blood on Me: Frontier Tales 269pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

Pattrick, Jenny Skylark 329pp Black Swan (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

— The Denniston Rose 367pp Black Swan (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Perkins, Emily The Forrests: A Novel 340pp Bloomsbury (New York) Pb $36.99.

Petersen, Alice All the Voices Cry 160pp Biblioasis (Windsor ON) Pb $15.95.

Pulford, Elizabeth Broken 245pp Walker Books (Newtown) Pb $21.99.

Pulman, Michael Headline 432pp Trafford Pub. (Bloomington, Indiana) Hb US$29.86.

Quigley, Sarah The Conductor 303pp Head of Zeus (London) Hb £12.99.

Randerson, Jo Tales from the Netherworld 115pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Renowden, Gareth The Aviator 380pp Limestone Hills (Amberley) Pb US$15.

Richards, Lila Restitutions of the Blood 290pp Bluewood Pub (Christchurch) Pb US$12.99.

Robb, James The Chain 230pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $29.99.

Robitai, Bev Body on the Stage 364pp Avenue Pub. (Auckland) Pb $39.90.

— Eye for an Eye 348pp Avenue Pub. (Auckland) Pb $39.90.

— Murder in the Second Row 354pp Avenue Pub. (Auckland) Pb $39.99.

Rosier-Jones, Joan Crossing the Alps 302pp Bluewood Pub. (Christchurch) Pb US$12.99.

Rowe, James Turning Point 280pp Mackay Books (Waiuku) Pb $17.95.

Sanders, Ben By Any Means 432pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Sarkies, Duncan Two Little Boys 281pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $30.

Scott, Alex The House on Queen Anne’s Gate 271pp Mackay Books (Waiuku) Pb $25.95.

Simms, Norman Two More Tales from Boro Park 24pp Outrigger Pub. (Hamilton) Pb $10.

Sinclair, John The Phoenix Song 383pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $38.

Singh, Nalini Archangel’s Storm 352pp Berkley (New York) Pb $29.95.

—Tangle of Need 448pp Berkley (New York) Pb 29.99.

Singleton, Suzanne The Promise: Collected Stories 173pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $19.95.

Stead, C. K. Risk: A Novel 266pp MacLehose (London) Pb $23.82.

Steele, Richard Mist in the Valley 163pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Stephens, Don The Two Deaths of Pluto 227pp Eyeful Books (Christchurch) Pb $29.99.

Syman, Vanda The Faceless 324pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Theunissen, Steve Through Angel’s Eyes 194pp Strategic Book Pub. (Houston) Pb $15.50.

Thomas, Paul Death on Demand 272pp Hodder Moa (Auckland) Pb $34.99.

Thomas, Peter Forewarned 245pp Good Hope Pub. (Picton) Pb $15.

Thorpe, Leonie How to Sell Toothpaste 272pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Tipene, Tim Bullies and Warriors 99pp Libro International (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

— Patu: A Novel 236pp Libro International (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Walmsley, Correne Skye and the Lost Relic 186pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $19.95.

Wendt, Albert Ancestry 306pp Huia Publishers (Wellington) Pb $35.

Wildblood, Rosemary Pentimento 230pp Wily Pub. (Christchurch) Pb $29.99.

Wilson, Brian Moments in Time: A Collection of Short Stories 153pp Trafford (Bloomington) Pb US$11.72.

Zander, Bianca The Girl Below 324pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $30.

Translations

Frame, Janet Wenn Eulen Schrein trans into German by Ruth Malchow 286pp C. H. Beck (München) Hb €19.95.

Mansfield, Katherine Quaderno D’appunti trans into Italian by Elsa Morante 200pp Feltrinelli (Milano) Pb €9.

— Über die Liebe trans into German by Brigitte Walitzek 170pp Schöffling (Frankfurt am Main) Hb £13.95.

Robertson, Catherine Wo Bleibt Denn Nun Mein Happy End? trans into German by Bettina Seifried 495pp W. Heyne Verlag (München) Pb €8.99.

Singh, Nalini Engelskrieger trans into German Nora Lachmann 450pp LYX Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

—Dunkle Verlockung trans into German by Nora Lachmann and Cornelia Röser 407pp LYX Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Fesseln der Erinnerung trans into German by Nora Lachmann 399pp LYX Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Lockrut des Verlangens trans into German by Nora Lachmann 526pp LYX Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

Letters and Autobiography

Campbell, John Logan Poenamo Revisited 720pp Godwit (Auckland) Hb $60.

Fahey, Jacqueline Before I Forget 224pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $45.

Gilderdale, Betty My Life in Two Halves: A Memoir 160pp David Bateman (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Kassabova, Kapka Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story 336pp Portobello Books (London) Pb $39.99.

Kull, Frederick The Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to Germany from Wellington, New Zealand 1859 and 1862 144pp Awa Press (Wellington) Hb $38.

Maclean, Chris Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush 240p Craig Potton (Nelson) Hb $50.

McCaw, Ritchie with Greg McGee Ritchie McCaw: The Open Side 264pp Hodder Moa (Auckland) Hb $49.99.

McNeish, James Touchstones: A Memoir 295pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Paul, Mary Edmond ed Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings 320pp Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) Pb $40.

Shieff, Sarah ed Letters of Frank Sargeson 631pp Vintage (Auckland) Hb $49.99.

Smith, Sydney The Lost Woman 256pp Text (Melbourne) Pb $40.

Anthologies

The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature ed Jane Stafford and Mark Williams 1162pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Hb $75

Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems ed Paula Green 270pp Godwit (Auckland) Pb $36.99.

Home and Away: Award-Winning Travel Stories by New Zealand Writers ed Graeme Lay 235pp New Holland (Auckland) Pb $34.99.

Read Me Another One Please!: New Zealand Stories and Poems for Children ed Belynda Smith and Dorothy Vinicombe 156pp Whitcoulls (Auckland) Hb $29.99.

Criticism

General Studies

“The Antimodern Manifesto of the Rural Flaneur: When D’Arcy and John Go For a Wander” Mike Grimshaw Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp144-153.

“From Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior? Constructions of a Maori Tradition of Warfare” Michaela Moura-Koçoglu pp369-382 in Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century ed Bill Ashcroft, Ranjini Mendis, Julie McGonegal and Arun Mukherjee 665pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) Hb US$189.99.

“Hidden Gods-Religion, Spirituality and Recent New Zealand Cinema” Ann Hardy Studies in Australasian Cinema 6(1) pp11-27.

“Identity Reflection in Maori Literature” Rahma Al-Mahrooqi and Adrian Roscoe pp124-135 in Literacy, Literature and Identity: Multiple Perspectives ed Adrian Roscoe and Rahma Al-Mahrooqi 239pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne) Hb £44.99.

“‘Like Strychnine in Its Bones’? Puritanism, Literary Culture, and New Zealand History” John Stenhouse Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp150-176.

The Loneliness and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction Doreen D’Cruz and John C. Ross 428pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) Hb €85.

“Maori Identity by Way of New Zealand Film or Why ‘I Don’t Have to Be a Particular Skin Colour to Feel Beige’” Davinia Thornley Studies in Australasian Cinema 6(2) pp203-215.

“‘Men Alone’ as Outlaws? Hyde’s ‘Starkie’, Lee and Lee’s Porcello, and Mulgan’s Johnson” John Ross Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp128-143.

Once Were Pacific: Maori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 265pp Minnesota Univ Press (Minneapolis) Pb US$22.50.

“Positioning Alterity: Multi-Ethnic Identities in Contemporary New Zealand Drama” Marc Maufort pp257-277 in Engaging with Literature of Commitment, Volume 2: The Worldly Scholar ed Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Anne Fuchs and Bénédicte Ledent 446pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) Hb US$121.50.

Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 336pp Minnesota Univ Press (Minneapolis) Pb US$25.

Wednesday’s Women: (Women Writers in New Zealand 1945-1970) Michael O’Leary 176pp Silver Owl Press (Paekakariki) Pb $30.

Studies on Individual Writers

Baxter, James K. “A Game of Two Halves: Baxter, Burns, and Biculturalism” Dougal McNeill Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp115-131.

—“Heemi Tūtūā and Me: A Whakapapa of Influence” Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp177-188.

—“James K. Baxter and Robert Burns: The Form of Address” Alan Riach Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp52-73.

— “National Bards and Folk Poets” Ian Wedde Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp12-13.

—“Old Masters and Violent Moderns’: Baxter, Burns and T.S. Eliot” John Dennison Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp98-114.

—“Poems to Statues: Robert Burns, Henry Lawson, James K. Baxter, and the Matter of Memorials” Paul Millar Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp132-149.

—“Poets Like Hand Grenades: Baxter, Burns, and Bawdry” Liam McIlvanney Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp29-51.

—“Ramfreezed Hizzies and Arachnoid Hags: Baxter, Burns, and the Muse” Geoffrey Miles Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 pp74-97.

Bland, Peter “Ut Pictura Poiesis: Paintings and Painters in the Poetry of Peter Bland” pp279-292 in Engaging with Literature of Commitment, Volume 2: The Worldly Scholar ed Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Anne Fuchs and Bénédicte Ledent 446pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US$121.50.

Campion, Jane “Translating Place; The Piano from Screen to Tourist Brochure” Alfio Leotta pp176-193 in Words, Images and Performances in Translation ed Rita Wilson and Brigid Maher Brigid 220pp Continuum (London) Pb £24.99.

Caro, Niki “‘100% Pure New Zealand’: The Tourist Gaze in Niki Caro’s Memory and Desire” Alfio Leotta Quarterly Review of Film and Video 29(5) pp440-449.

Courage, James “‘And So He Died As He Had Lived, in Exile and Alone’: Friendship, Narrative and the Politics of Remembering” Christopher Burke Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp89-104.

D’Ath, Justin “Between the Ice Floes: Imagining Gender, Fear, and Safety in Antarctic Literature for Young Adults” Caroline Campbell International Research in Children’s Literature 5(2) pp151-166.

Frame, Janet “Melancholia in Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water” Sylvie Gambaudo Literature and Medicine 30(1) pp42-60.

Grace, Patricia “Genealogy and Geography in Patricia Grace’s Tu” Erin Suzuki MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 58(1) pp112-127.

—“Indigenous Women Writers in the Pacific: Déwé Gorodé, Sia Figiel, Patricia Grace” Raylene Ramsay Postcolonial Text 7(1) electronic pub.

Grossmann, Edith Searle “Four Novels of George Gissing’s by Edith Searle Grossmann” Matthew Woollard Gissing Journal 48(2) pp29-36.

Ihimaera, Witi “The Continuum of the World Corrected: Allegorical Form and (Trans)National Communities in the Historical Fiction of Witi Ihimaera” Hamish Dalley CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 41(2) pp221-244.

Jones, Lloyd “Antipodean Rewritings of Great Expectations: Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997) and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip (2007)” Janet Wilson pp220-235 in The Shadow of the Precursor ed Diana Glenn, Md Rezaul Haque, Ben Kooyman and Nena Bierbaum 317pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne) Pb £44.99.

—”Discovering New Pasts: Victorian Legacies in the Postcolonial Worlds of Jack Maggs and Mister Pip” Beverly Taylor pp525-535 in A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens: Dickens Adapted ed John Glavin Ashgate (Farnham) 547pp Hb US$300.

—”How to Do Things with Words and Texts: Literature and Rewriting as Performance in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip” Nil Korkut-Nayki English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 93(1) pp43-56.

— “Revisiting Great Expectations: The Postcolonial Persistence of Dickens” Catherine Lanone Etudes Anglaises: Revue du Monde Anglophone 65(1) pp19-29.

Mahy, Margaret Margaret Mahy: A Writer’s Life: A Literary Portrait of New Zealand’s Best-Loved Children’s Author Tessa Duder 352pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $39.99

Mansfield, Katherine “Mansfield as ‘Man Alone?’ Katherine Mansfield’s Reading Experiences in Wartime Britain and France” Perrine Gilkison and Sydney Shep Journal of New Zealand Studies pp105-114.

Marsh, Ngaio “Whodunit? And Where? Crime Fiction Down Under” Margaret Lewis pp75-81 in Investigating Arthur Upfield: A Centenary Collection of Critical Essay ed Kees Hoog and Carol Hetherington Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne) 278pp Pb £39.99.

Mulgan, John “Man Alone/Mulgan/Marxism” Dougal McNeill Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp2-10.

— “War, Homecoming and Genre: John Mulgan’s Man Alone and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road” Erin Mercer Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp77-88.

Perry, Anne The Search for Anne Perry Joanne Drayton 250pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $45.

Ragan, Jacob “Staging a ‘Plurality of Vision’: Diasporic Performance in Polycharacter Monodrama” Elspeth Tilley Modern Drama 55(3) pp304-328.

Rodger, Victor “Moving Islands: Mapping the Samoan Diaspora in Contemporary Transnational Theatre from the South Pacific” Diana Looser Contemporary Theatre Review 22(4) pp451-466.

Sargeson, Frank “Figures from the Past: Sargeson’s Wandering Men and the Limits of Nationalism” Philip Steer Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp34-45.

Shadbolt, Maurice “Man Alone and Men Together: Maurice Shadbolt, William Malone and Chunuk Bair” James Bennett Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 pp46-61.

Non-fiction

Art in Oceania: A New History ed Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas 536pp Thames and Hudson (London) Hb $130.

Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World Steve Braunias 288pp Awa Press (Wellington) Pb $36.

In Love and War: Kiwi Soldiers’ Romantic Encounters in Wartime Italy Susan Jacobs 256pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $40.

Jewish Lives in New Zealand: A History ed Leonard Bell and Diana Morrow 472pp Godwit (Auckland) Pb $55.

New Zealand Film and Television: Institution, Industry, and Cultural Change Trisha Dunleavy and Hester Joyce 291pp Intellect (Bristol) Pb £29.99.

The Owl That Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator Brian Gill 176pp Awa Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

The Passionless People Revisited Gordon McLauchlan 224pp David Bateman (Auckland) Pb $30.

The Place of Stones Martin Edmond 62pp Holloway Press (Auckland) Hb $275.

Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand ed Martin Hirst, Sean Phelan and Verica Rupar 232pp AUT Media (Auckland) Pb $39.95.

Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting Gil Docking 280pp David Bateman (Auckland) Hb $100.

Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific Laurence Simmons Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) 346pp Hb $60.

Journals

Special Issues

Baxter and Burns: Journal of New Zealand Literature 30 ed Liam McIlvanney and Dougal McNeil 188pp Pb $25.

Fantastic: Landfall 223 ed David Eggleton 208pp Pb $29.95.

Home and Building: Landfall 224 ed David Eggleton 208pp Pb $29.95.

Ika: Journal of Creative Writing 1 ed Robert Sullivan and Anne Kennedy 100pp Pb $20.

Man Alone: Journal of New Zealand Studies 13 ed Lydia Wevers and Richard Hall 176pp Pb $10.

Ora Nui: Maori Literary Journal 1 ed Anton Blank Anton Black Ltd (Auckland) 141pp Pb $25.