New Zealand

Introduction

2013 was both a sad and a celebratory year for the novel in New Zealand. The literary community mourned the passing of award-winning novelist and short-story writer Barbara Anderson, whose 2008 memoir Getting There provided a lively, unsentimental insight into both her evolution as a writer and twentieth-century New Zealand. Damien Wilkins identifies the “great subject” of her fiction as “propriety”: “the comedy of circumscribed pleasures and trials of erupting selves” (New Zealand Books 23(2) p5).

Eleanor Catton’s second fictional venture The Luminaries won the Man Booker Prize. Set in 1860s Hokitika, this neo-Victorian pastiche provides a vivid, meticulously researched recreation of the past threaded with Gothic mystery. This is combined with evocations of Māori and Chinese perspectives and a sympathetic depiction of a heroine who is a prostitute and an opium addict, a depiction indicative of contemporary sensibilities. Catton’s characters are complex, slowly revealed to the reader but remaining ambiguous and slippery: ‘[fo]r human temperament was a volatile compound of perception and circumstance’ (392). Throughout, Catton interrogates notions of storytelling, her characters’ initial autonomy undercut by the metafictional astrological framing device and the progressive reduction in size of each of the twelve parts to half the length of the previous one. Haunting, poetic, and lush, this is a novel that lingers in the mind long after the final page has been closed.

The past was a seductive lure for other New Zealand novelists this year. Inspired by novelist Thomas Hardy, Damien Wilkins’ Max Gate is set in Dorset in 1928. Hardy lies dying, while friends and the literati argue about who should control his legacy and his remains. Narrated by Nellie Titterington, a maid at the house, the novel provides poetic fragments of Hardy’s last days that at time take liberties with the historical record. Fiona Kidman also mines the biographical in The Infinite Air, which interprets the life, love and mysteries of New Zealand aviatrix Jean Batten.

New Zealand novelists attempted a great variety of genres in 2013. Alan Duff once again demonstrated his mastery of the realist novel, Frederick’s Coat revolving around familiar themes of cycles of violence and the cost to children deprived of love. In contrast to his previous fiction, the setting here is Sydney, with protagonist Johno Ryan linked to New Zealand through his Māori blood, but struggling to find his place in Australian society. Judith White’s quirky The Elusive Language of Ducks captures the deep human need for connection and affection, particularly when we lose someone we love. This need can be met in all kinds of ways, including in the company of a Muscovy duck. In a more light-hearted vein, the interconnected themes of food and love link Sarah-Kate Lynch’s The Wedding Bees and Nicky Pellegrino’s The Food of Love Cookery School. The queen of paranormal romance, Nalini Singh, published a new guild hunter novel (Archangel’s Legion), released the next psy-changeling narrative (Heart of Obsidian), and continued to be New Zealand’s most translated author, with several of her previous titles released in German. Joan Druett published the fifth of her Wiki Coffin maritime mystery adventures, The Beckoning Ice, and Paul Cleve revisited one of his darkly disturbing villains, the Christchurch Carver, in his psychological thriller Joe Victim. Richard Melos continued his playful, satiric subversion of New Zealand literary culture in $30 Meat Pack. The delightful mercurial, original, and multi-talented Elizabeth Knox even ventured into the unfrequented zone of horror with Wake. Invisible monsters, mass insanity, and death stalk the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura. Knox knows so well that it is inner fears and ghosts, as much as outer horrors, which terrify and that an unseen predator is far more creepy than a visible threat.

Knox had a prolific year, also returning to the fantasy world of Dreamhunter and Dreamquake in Mortal Fire, which won the New Zealand Post Book Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. Set in the alternate reality of Knox’s Southland, sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie discovers the truth of her origins and her magical abilities in a mysterious, enchanted valley. Secrets, lies, and the burden of magic are also central to R.L. Stedman’s A Necklace of Souls, which won the Best First Book Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Fantasy continued to be a high profile genre in young adult fiction: in Stedman’s novel heroine Dana is tasked with saving the Kingdom of the Rose by assuming the heavy responsibility of the protective Guardian’s necklace. Tegan Oglietti, the heroine of Karen Healey futuristic fantasy When We Wake is equally troubled. Cryogenically frozen Tegan awakens to a changed world 100 years in the future and struggles to cope. Not all young adult writers focused on the fantastical and the dystopian, Mandy Hager’s sensitive Dear Vincent explored the capacity for paintings, particularly those of van Gogh, to offer solace in a time of grief, in this instance the suicide of the heroine’s sister. Hager was the 2013 recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.

The rugged West Coast that sparked Catton’s imagination also inspired short story writer Amy Head. Her collection of short stories, Tough, which won the New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Award for Fiction, oscillates between the region’s present and its gold-mining past. As the title indicates, this is a hard world, requiring resilience and courage from its inhabitants, many of whom exist on the fringes and whom Head depicts with unsentimental power. Emma Martin realized her early promise with her collection Two Girls in a Boat, a nuanced meditation on the fragility but resilience of human relationships, particularly those within the family.

2013 was a significant year for poetry as well as fiction, with important collections released by several high profile New Zealand poets. Kevin Ireland, C.K. Stead, Peter Bland and Ian Wedde all released collections spanning several years (or in Bland and Ireland’s case decades) of creativity. The passage of time and the need to look back in order to understand the present and move forward was a leitmotif of several collections. Wedde looks the furthest into the past, The Lifeguard reworking sections of Theocritus and Ovid. Fleur Adcock’s Glass Wings includes poems based on a selection of family wills from the seventeenth century to the present, while Vincent O’Sullivan’s lyrical Us, Then alternates between the poet’s own present and past. Marty Smith’s debut Horse with Hat, which won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry, draws on the author’s memories of growing up in the remote hill country between Pahiatua and the sea and captures the fissures and silences between her grandmother and father (who did not speak). Silence is central to this collection, with Smith also exploring the relief and solace of silence for family members returning from the traumas of World War II. If human relationships are difficult, those between humans and horses can be easier, the horses evoked by Smith providing ease of movement, friendship, and a rich, shifting symbol of speed, power, and civilisation.The power of place is a core motif in John Newton’s Family Songbook which meditates on both the internal and external geographies that shape us as individuals. Newton’s gift of honing in on the specific, such as the detail of a bird’s wing, is also to the fore in Elizabeth Smither’s The Blue Coat. Smither finds beauty and poetry in the everyday, especially objects that are full of flawed perfection, such as a chipped Limoges plate (‘a beautiful damaged thing, adored’), a drooping daffodil, or a third-rate rose.

Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Dark Sparring is an honest, painfully beautiful account of her mother’s battle with cancer and the way in which the dark and tragic in life must be combatted through poetry, ritual, and physical exertion such as Thai kick boxing. Lost or hidden family history is the subject of memoirs by Lloyd Jones and Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, who both meditate on the elusiveness and fragmentation of memory. Holman’s The Lost Pilot oscillates around an incident in his father’s past, the moment when he confronted death as a Japanese kamikaze pilot dived at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious near the island of Ishigaki. Gunfire from the ship downs the plane. Holman charts his search for the history of the pilot, a physical search mirrored by an inner journey into the difficult relationship he had with his father. A traumatic event, in this case the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, provoked Jones to piece together the hidden history of his family, one of secrets, deception and shame. For both Jones and Holman writing is painful but also redemptive, as truth exposes but also illuminates.

Although there were fewer plays than usual published in 2013 (Dean Parker’s 2012 stage success Tigers of Wrath and three of Robert Lord’s fine satiric farces did fortunately make it to print), the year was a milestone for Playmarket, which was founded in 1973 to encourage the professional production of New Zealand plays and which has just celebrated its fortieth birthday. Gary Henderson, the author of Skin Tight, Peninsula, Home Land, An Unseasonable Fall of Snow, Mo and Jess Kill Susie, and Sunset Cafe won the 2013 Playmarket Award. Henderson has a considerable international as well as local reputation; in 2013 his work was performed by professional companies in New Zealand, Canada, Britain and America. Jamie McCaskill was the 2013 recipient of the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. His one-person play Not in Our Neighbourhood was first performed in 2013, Kali Kopae playing the parts of five women struggling to put their lives back together in a Women’s Refuge safe house. Michelanne Forster and Vivienne Plumb’s Twenty New Zealand Playwrights is an invaluable resource for those interested in New Zealand drama. The lively interviews with contemporary playwrights are interspersed with excerpts from their work.

As usual, Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, Patricia Grace, Frank Sargeson, and Witi Ihimaera inspired the most critical reflection, with recent international as well as local interest in these authors continuing in 2013. Erin Mercer provides an accessible introduction to New Zealand literature for non-specialists in In Johnsonville and Geraldine, which profiles Mansfield, Frame, Bill Manhire, James K. Baxter, and the authors of the Maori Renaissance. Mercer ends with reflections on Knox’s The Vintner’s Luck, Paula Morris’ Hibiscus Coast, Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver and Jones’ Mister Pip, an interest in the contemporary which is likewise evident in Melissa Kennedy’s analysis of Hamish Clayton’s Wulf. Two beloved New Zealand children’s authors inspired biographers, Betty Gilderdale writing about the Magical Margaret Mahy and Finlay Macdonald Dodd exploring the rise to fame of the creator of Hairy Maclary, Lynley Dodd.

The power of books and stories was a central motif across genres in 2013 and it seems fitting to end with these narratives which celebrate the act of writing and reading themselves. Not only is the protagonist of Stephanie Johnson’s The Writing Class a lecturer in creative writing, but the novel includes vignettes of her classes, providing a “how-to” writing manual of sorts. Anne Kennedy also reflects on the allure of the literary in The Last Days of the National Costume, a novel rich in allusions, although the protagonist Megan progresses from the study of literature to the acquisition of the skill of invisible mending, itself an art form and a portal to the rich stories of Megan’s customers. Allusion is also key to Kate Camp’s Snow White’s Coffin, in which the fairy tale influence is very definitely from the Grimm Brothers’ dark end of the spectrum. Paula Green also revels in intertexts in her playful The Baker’s Thumbprint, in which Socrates, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Einstein and Jane Austen (among others) drop in for a bite to eat and some conversation and dancing. Ranging widely through literature, philosophy and folktale Bernadette Hall’s latest collection of poetry, Life and Customs, bears the imprint of William Carlos Williams, Celtic mythology, and Aeschylus’s Oresteia, all deftly adapted and reimagined by Hall. One of my favourite New Zealand books of 2013 is Jenny Bornholdt’s charming A Book is a Book. Told from a child’s perspective, this small, brief treasure speaks for readers everywhere. The tactile pleasure of the book, its glorious transportability, its guarantee against boredom, and its varied form (‘Some books are small because some writers are very tired’) are all celebrated by Bornholdt’s text and Sarah Wilkins’ whimsical drawings. ‘A story belongs where a story belongs’, but especially in a book which, thankfully, ‘can never run out of power’.

Bibliography

Bibliographies

General Bibliographies

The bibliography for 2013 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 Louise O’Brien Annual sub $24.95 (individuals) $50 (libraries). Four issues per year <www.nzbooks.org.nz/>.

New Zealand Children’s Books in Print 2012-2013 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

Adcock, Fleur Glass Wings 80pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Beyer, Tony Great South Road and; South Side 45pp Puriri Press (Auckland) Pb $25.

Bland, Peter Breath Dances 66pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

— Collected Poems: 1956-2011 308pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $45.00.

Brailsford, Barry Only a Hut in the Mountains 176pp Stoneprint Press (Wellington) Pb $40.

Broom, Sarah Gleam 64pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Brown, Amy The Odour of Sanctity 240pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

Brunton, Alan Beyond the Ohlala Mountains: Poems 1968-2002 ed Michel Leggott and Martin Edmond 314pp Titus Books (Pokeno) Pb $38.

Camp, Kate Snow White’s Coffin 64pp Victoria Univeristy Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Cave, Shane The Sound of Words 58pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $20.

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

Davidson, John Presence in Absence 75pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Deuchrass, Shirley River Calls Me Home 63pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Dornauf, Peter Metaphysical Midnight Cowboy Blues 122pp Handmade Press (Hamilton) Pb $19.99.

Gallas, John Forty Lies 84pp Carcanet (Manchester) £12.95.

Green, Paula The Baker’s Thumbprint 98pp Seraph Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Guthrie, Neville Hobnails in the Tussock: A Collection of Poems from Times Gone by, about People and Places of the South Canterbury Back Country 56pp Brown Kea Publishing (Timaru) Pb $19.99.

Hall, Bernadette Life and Customs 88pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Ireland, Kevin Selected Poems 1963-2013 312pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $49.99.

Jones, Marion Reflections 80p Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $20.

Koirala, Saradha Tearwater Tea 66pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

La Follette, Cameron Salmon Guardian: 45 Poems 49pp Original Books (Wellington) Pb $25.

Lambert, Leonard Remnants 62pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Leibrich, Julie A Little Book of Sonnets 64pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Lloyd, Therese Other Animals 62pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Lyon, Bruce Harrowing Hell 29pp White Stone Publishing (Wellington) Pb $10.

Marsh, Selina Tusitala Dark Sparring: Poems 98pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $27.99.

McLachlan, Juliet A Door to the North 64pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

McMillan, Maria The Rope Walk 34pp Seraph Press (Wellington) Pb $20.

Messenger, Nicholas Snapshots: 700 Instamatics 164pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $30.

Miller, Alice The Limits 64pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Nannestad, Elizabeth Wild Like Me 78pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Newton, John Family Songbook 158pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Norcliffe, James Packing a Bag for Mars: Selected Poems 70pp Clerestory (Christchurch) Pb $27.

Oliver, Stephen Intercolonial 61pp Puriri Press (Auckland) Pb $28.50.

O’Niell, Rachel One Human in Height 60pp Hue & Cry Press (Auckland) Pb $25.

Orr, Bob Odysseus in Woolloomooloo 60pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

O’Sullivan, Vincent Us, Then 112pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

Piahana-Wong, Kiri Night Swimming 50pp Anahera Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Pillay, Sugu Flaubert’s Drum 105pp Interactive Publications (Carindale) Pb $19.04.

Pope, Robert J. King Willow: Selected Poems 192pp HeadworX (Wellington) Pb $30.

Richardson, Paddy Cross Fingers 288pp Hodder Moa (Auckland) Pb $34.99.

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

Rodgers, Bernadette We’ve Seen the Glory: Prayer Poetry for Trampers 74pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

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

Ruth, Paul Hedgehog’s Magic Tricks 32pp Walker Books (Newtown) Hb $27.99.

Smither, Elizabeth The Blue Coat 68pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Stead, C. K. The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012 138pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $27.99.

Tasew, Yilma Tafere Broken Wings 64pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Thomson, Stuart Trifles and Truffles 72pp (Unfound) Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Trevella, Charlotte Close to the Bone 68pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Trussell, Denys The Blue Marvel: Shorter Poems 1993-2012 96pp Brick Row (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

von Sturmer, Richard Book of Equanimity Verses 57pp Puriri Press (Auckland) Pb 28.50.

Wallace, Louise Enough 63pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Webb-Pullman, Mercedes Food 4 Thought 31pp Bench Press (Paekakariki) Pb $20.

Wedde, Ian The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013 104pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $27.99.

Drama

Lord, Robert Three Plays 287pp Playmarket (Wellington) Pb $30.

Parker, Dean The Tigers of Wrath 130pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $29.99.

Fiction

Adam, Pip I’m Working on a Building 200pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

Adams, J. G. The Elbow Stories 114pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $29.99.

Beale, Fleur Speed Freak 240pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Bennett, Joe Fish Like a Drink 158pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

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.

Blum, V. O. DownMind 212pp Stream Press (Wellington) Pb $20.

Bornholdt, Jenny A Book is a Book 24pp Gecko Press (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Brewer, Ken The Enfield Conspiracy 502pp Seaburn (New York) $24.95.

Brown, Justin Shot, Boom, Score! 179pp Allen & Unwin (Sydney) Pb AUS$14.99

Buckley, Paul Sticks and Stones Won’t Break My Bones 566pp Purrbooks (Palmerston North) Pb $30.

Catton, Eleanor The Luminaries 848pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Hb $45, Pb $35.

Champion, Francie Duanuku Pulse 89pp Peach Jam Books (Auckland) Pb $10.

Clark, Suzanne Mrs Lacy 177pp Copy Press Books (Nelson) Pb $24.95.

Clarke, Ivan Alveridgea and the Legend of the Lonely Dog 267pp Atlantic Books (London) Hb £16.99

Cleave, Paul Joe Victim 448pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $38.

Cliff, Craig The Mannequin Makers 336pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Cowley, Joy Dunger 155pp Gecko Press (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Cunnane, Elizabeth After 70pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Duff, Alan Frederick’s Coat 288pp Vintage (Auckland) Hb $37.99.

Duffin, Harry Birth of the Mall Rats 418pp Cumulus Pub. (Martinborough) Pb $24.

Druett, Joan The Beckoning Ice: A Wiki Coffin Mystery 294pp (New Jersey) Pb $25.

Eldred-Grigg, Steven Bangs 304pp Penguin (Auckland) $30.

Espe, Anton Ice Slide 281pp Triple V Publishing (Palmerston North) Pb US$15.99.

Falkner, Brian Task Force 355pp Walker Books (London) Pb $9.99.

— The Assault 288pp Random House (New York) Pb $8.99.

Fletcher, Beryl Juno and Hannah 173pp Spinefex Press (Melbourne) Pb $39.99.

Ford, Holly Blackpeak Station 312pp Bantam (Auckland) Pb $36.99.

Frame, Janet Gorse Is Not People 252pp Counterpoint (Berkeley) Hb $40.

— In the Memorial Room 202pp Text Publishing (Melbourne) Hb $24.50.

— The Mijo Tree 101pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $25.

Giles, Olivia Heart of the Tapu Stone 304pp Dusky Productions (Porirua) Pb $24.99.

Gnanalingam, Brannavan You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here 157pp Lawrence & Gibson (Wellington) Pb $25.

Hager, Mandy Dear Vincent 277pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Hair, David Ghosts of Parihaka 303pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

— Mage’s Blood 671pp Jo Fletcher Books (London) Pb $8.99.

Head, Amy Tough 132pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

Healey, Karen When We Wake 296pp Little, Brown and Company (New York) Pb US$17.99

Hereaka, Whiti Bugs 242pp Huia Publishers (Wellington) Pb $25.

Hill, David Brave Company 224pp Puffin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Hunt, Des Crown Park 160pp Oceanbooks (Mount Maunganui) Pb $12.50.

— Phantom of Terawhiti 256pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Hurdle, Carmel Husbandry for the Single Woman 352pp Tangerine (Whanganui) Pb $30.

Ihimaera, Witi and Dana Rotberg White Lies 336pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $36.99.

Jansen, Adrienne The Score 272pp Escalator Press (Porirua) Pb $28.

Johnson, Stephanie The Writing Class 243pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Kennedy, Anne The Last Days of the National Costume 386pp Allen and Unwin (Sydney) Pb $37.

Kennedy, Darryl The Last Act 333pp Raider Publishing International (New York) Pb US$12.59.

Kidman, Fiona The Infinite Air 351pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Knox, Elizabeth Mortal Fire 448pp Gecko Press (Wellington) Pb $29.99.

— Wake 445pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35

Knox, Johanna The Sundew Stalks 173pp Hinterlands (Greytown) Pb $23.

Koirala, Saradha Tear Water Tea 66pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $19.99.

Laidlaw, Tannis Bye Baby Bunting 307pp Fourth Estate (Auckland) Pb $9.99.

Laing, Sarah Fall of Light 344pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Langford, Gary Lies, Truth and Blasphemy 162pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Lawless, Garth Dreamtime 287pp Oceanbooks (Mt Maunganui) Pb $10.99.

Lay, Graeme The Secret Life of James Cook 368pp Fourth Estate (Auckland) Pb $36.99.

Lerner, Sidney K. Low Light 238pp Triple V (Palmerston North) Pb US$10.99.

Leunens, Christine A Can of Sunshine 260pp RSVP Publishing (Auckland) Pb $29.95

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

Lynch, Sarah-Kate The Wedding Bees 346pp HarperCollins (Sydney) Pb $14.99.

Mackenzie, Anna Cattra’s Legacy 348pp Longacre (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Malane, Donna My Brother’s Keeper 260pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Mann, Philip The Disestablishment of Paradise 516pp Gollancz (London) Pb $15.95.

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

Martin, Emma Two Girls in a Boat 192pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $28.

McDonell, Anne The Mob and the Robbers 118pp Oceanbooks (Mt Maunganui) Pb $19.99.

McLauchlan, Danyl Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley 400pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

Messenger, Nicholas Paved with Gold 42pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $25.

— The Water: and More Fables to Grow Into 109pp Konuoi Imprint (Hokitika) Pb $30.

McKay, Sandy When Our Jack Went to War 192pp Longacre Press (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

McLeod, Aorewa Who Was That Woman, Anyway? 222pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $35.

Meros, Richard $30 Meat Pack: The Complete Corrospondance between Richard Meros and Creative New Zealand, Volume Two 146pp Lawrence & Gibson (Wellington) Pb $23.

Moir, Tanya Anticipation 256pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Monaghan, Sean Jacob’s Naked Aquarium and Other Stories 36pp Triple V Publishing (Palmerston North) Pb $4.74.

— Short Stories. Selections 29pp Triple V Publishing (Palmerston North) Pb US$4.99.

Morris, Paula Hene and the Burning Harbour 96pp Puffin (Auckland) Pb $14.99.

Nissen, Wendyl The Road from Midnight 259pp Paul Little Books (Auckland) Pb $29.95.

Nixon, Carl The Virgin and the Whale 264pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Norcliffe, James Felix and the Red Rats 247pp Longacre (Auckland) Ob $19.99.

O’Connor, Frank My Dad Is a Taniwha 215pp Moa Resources (Wellington) Hb $35.

Otto, John Galaxy Rising 363pp Vanguard Press (Cambridge) Pb £10.99.

Paulette Rae The Silver Lining 213pp Bluewood Publishing (Christchurch) Pb $12.99.

Pellegrino, Nicky The Food of Love Cookery School 282pp Orion Books (London) Hb $36.99.

Petersen, Alice All the Voices Cry 158pp Biblioasis (Emeryville) Pb $19.95.

Ponder, Mike Four Kings 373pp Tangerine (Whanganui) Pb $34.99.

Pule, Semisi The Children of the Gods 95pp Rainbow Enterprises (Auckland) Pb $35.

Pulman, Michael Headline 432pp Trafford Publishing (Bloomington) Pb $20.86.

Quilter, Rose The Slice 93pp Walker Books (Newtown) $15.99.

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

Richardson, Paddy Cross Fingers 288pp Hachette (Auckland) Pb $34.99.

Robertson, Catherine The Misplaced Affections of Charlotte Ffforbes 352pp Black Swan (Auckland) Pb $36.99.

Robitai, Bev Sunstrike 264pp Avenue Publishing (Auckland) Pb $29.90.

Roome, Debbie Embracing Change 234pp Rose & Crown (UK) £6.99

Rosier-Jones, Joan Waiting for Elizabeth 294pp Tangerine (Whanganui) Pb $30.

Rowlands, Murray Innocents into War 279pp M. C. Rowlands (Surrey) Pb $18.

Roxborogh, Tania Kelly Birthright 301pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $35.

Ryan, Joseph Edward The Factory World 296pp Steam Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

Sanders, Ben Only the Dead 432pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Sarkies, Duncan The Demolition of the Century 408pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $30.

Shuker, Carl Anti Lebanon 265pp Counterpoint (Berkeley) Pb $16.95.

Singh, Nalini Archangel’s Legion 374pp Jove Books (New York) Pb $35.

— Heart of Obsidian 360pp Jove Books (New York) Pb $35.

Starrenburg, Hasko The Queen’s Orb 137pp RoseDog Books (Pittsburgh) Pb $8.

Stedman, R. L A Necklace of Souls 367p Harper Voyager (Auckland) Pb $24.99.

Steele, Richard Mist in the Valley 163pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Pb $25.

Stone, Len 5am, Serpent Cave 109pp Triple V Publishing (Palmerston North) Pb US$6.99.

Stone, Mick The Last Newspaper in the World 142pp BMS Books (Rotorua) Pb $29.95.

Suddian, M. Theatre of the Gods 640pp Jonathan Cape (London) Hb$45.

Sutcliffe, Kathy When Romeo Kissed Mercutio 228pp Glass House Books (Brisbane) £10.67

— Write My Face 217pp Glass House Books (Brisbane) Pb $38.85.

Taylor, L. D Motive Games 183pp Wombat Books (Capalaba) $25.50.

Tipene, Tim Patu: A Novel 236pp Libro International (Auckland) Pb $29.99.

Vasil, Latika Rising to the Surface 128pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $24.99.

Wainwright, Robert Talisman of Vim 160pp Submarine (Wellington) Pb $25.

Wallace, Louise Enough 64pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Wehinger, Brandy Blue 272pp Random House (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

Weston, Vicky The View from Here 200pp Austin & Macauley Publishers (London) Pb £6.99

White, Judith The Elusive Language of Ducks 376pp Vintage (Auckland) Pb $37.99.

Wilkins, Damien Max Gate 216pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

Wilkinson, Chris J. Next Year in Jerusalem 472pp Strategic Book Publishing & Right Co. (Houston) Pb $29.77.

Wigmore, Summer The Wind City 328pp Steam Press (Wellington) Pb $30.

Wood, Glenn The Brain Sucker 248pp Walker Books (Newtown) Pb $18.99.

Translations

Hicken, Roger Retrato del Artista Como Gallo Adolescente and Otros Poemas trans of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rooster and Other Poems (2013) into Spanish by Sergio Badilla Castillo 37pp Cold Hub Press (Lyttelton) Pb $19.50.

Mansfield, Katherine Il Libro Degli Appunti trans of The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield (1939) into Italian by Elsa Morante 200pp Feltrinelli (Milano) Pb €12.80.

Singh, Nalini Einsame Spur trans of Tangle of Need (2012) into German by Nora Lachmann 543pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Engelsblut trans of Angel’s Blood (2009) into German by Cornelia Röser 411pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Engelsdunkel trans of Angel’s Legion (2013) into German by Cornelia Röser 414pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Engelskrieger trans of Angel’s Blade (2009) into German by Cornelia Röser 429pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Fesseln der Erinnerung trans of Bonds of Justice (2010) into German by Nora Lachmann 399pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Geheimnisvolle Berührung trans of Heart of Obsidian (2013) into German by Nora Lachmann 433pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

— Lockruf des Verlangens trans of Kiss of Snow (2011) into German by Nora Lachmann 526pp Lyx Egmont (Köln) Pb €9.99.

Letters and Autobiography

Beaglehole, Tim ed ‘I think I am becoming a New Zealander’: Letters of J.C. Beaglehole 502pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Hb $80.

Brasch, Charles Journals 1938-1945 648pp Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) Hb $60.

Farrell, Peter The Lie That Settles 240pp Ocean Books (Mount Maunganui) Pb $35.

Friedlander, Marti with Hugo Manson Self-Portrait 264pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Hb $60.

Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa The Lost Pilot: A Memoir 319pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $40.

Jones, Clive Mortimer A Strong Sense of Duty: The First World War Letters of Chaplain the Reverend Clive Mortimer Jones 1917-1920 ed Herbert H Farrant, Elizabeth Morey and Delysse Storey 166pp New Zealand Military Society (Auckland) Pb $40.

Jones, Lloyd A History of Silence: A Memoir 288pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $38.

Lowe, George Letters from Everest: A New Zealander’s Account of the Epic First Ascent ed Huw Lewis-Jones 174pp HarperCollins (Auckland) Hb $60.

Palmer, Geoffrey Reform: A Memoir 800pp Victoria Univ press (Wellington) Hb $80.

Panny, Rolf Open Roads Ahead: Memoirs, Part Two – From 1945 270pp Steele Roberts (Wellington) Pb $34.99.

Twiss, Greer Greer Twiss: Sculptor 387pp Ran Song (Auckland) Hb $135.

Wilkins, Brian Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas 215pp Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) Pb $45.

Anthologies

Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror ed Dan Rabarts, Lee Murray 146pp Paper Road Press (Wellington) Pb $25.

Faction. 2: Kiwi Comic Anthology ed Damon Keen and Amie Maxwell 86pp 3 Bad Monkeys (Auckland) Pb $25.

Katherine Mansfield’s New Zealand Vincent O’Sullivan 93pp Steele Roberts Aotearoa (Wellington) Hb $39.99.

Pseudonym: A Collection of Works ed Judith Goodyear, John Nash, Charlotte Bell 40pp 222 Press (Auckland) Free.

The Puffin New Zealand Children’s Treasury 255pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $45.

Regeneration: New Zealand Speculative Fiction II ed Anna Caro, Juliet Buchanan 302pp Random Static (Wellington) Pb $24.95.

Sport: New Zealand Writing 2013 ed Fergus Barrowman 280pp Creative New Zealand (Wellington) Pb $30.

Touchlines: An Anthology of Rugby Poetry ed Ron Palenski 137pp New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame (Dunedin) Pb $22.

Criticism

General Studies

“Anglosphericism” Stephen Turner Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp15-34.

“The Call of the West Coast and the Reality of Rain” Melissa Kennedy Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp74-94.

“A History of Indigenous New Zealand Books in European Translation” Oliver Haag Journal of New Zealand Studies 16 pp79-99.

In Johnsonville or Geraldine: An Introduction to New Zealand Literature Erin Mercer 196pp Pearson (Auckland) Pb $75.99.

“Psychological Trauma: Representations of Gay Male Sexuality in Māori and Pākehā New Zealand Literature” Alistair Fox pp147-167 in Sexuality and Contemporary Literature ed Joel Gwynne and Angelia Poon 198pp Cambria (Amherst) Hb $104.99.

“Reading Our Heritage: Some Early New Zealand Poets of Value” Mark Pirie Poetry New Zealand 46 pp95-104.

“Revisiting ‘Fiction and the Social Pattern’ in the Era of Social Death” Jennifer Lawn Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp95-121.

“The Shaking of New Zealanders” Chris Prentice Journal of New Zealand Literature 31:2 53-73.

“‘The Signs, the traces of my feeling’: Editing The Auckland Univ Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature” Jane Stafford Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp145-162.

“Trans/locating Pacific Identities: From the Small Island to the Largest Polynesian City in the World” Paloma Fresno-Calleja pp203-217 in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking ed Mark Stein and Silke Stroh 414pp Rodopi (Amersterdam) Hb US$140.

Twenty New Zealand Playwrights Michelanne Forster and Vivienne Plumb 256pp Playmarket (Wellington) Pb $40.

“The Work of Culture” Anna Boswell Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp35-52.

Studies On Individual Writers

Baxter, James K. “The Archetypal Character as ‘Transformational Object’ in James K. Baxter’s The Devil and Mr Mulcahy” Sharon Matthews Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp107-129.

Clayton, Hamish “All Our Pasts before Us: Hamish Clayton’s Wulf” Melissa Kennedy Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp150-172.

Direy, Louis “A French Wordsmith in Colonial New Zealand” Peter Low New Zealand Journal of French Studies 33(2) pp5-20.

Dodd, Lynley The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd Finlay Macdonald 192pp Penguin (Auckland) Hb $50.

Frame, Janet “The Ethics of the Melancholic Witness: Janet Frame and W.G. Sebald” Josephine Carter A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 46(1) pp.1-18.

— “Janet Frame in East-West Encounters: A Buddhist Exploration” Cindy Gabrielle Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49(3) pp328-339.

— “When Strangers Are Never at Home: A Communitarian Study of Janet Frame’s The Carpathians” Gerardo Rodriguez Salas pp159-176 in Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction ed Paula Maryin Salvan, Gerardo Rodriguez Salas and Julian Jimenez Heffernan 278pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) Hb £55.

Glover, Dennis “Surviving the War” John Newton Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp84-106.

Golder, William “Poets in the News: John Milton and William Golder in Early Wellington” Brian Opie Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp11-43.

Grace, Patricia “Community Resilience and the Cosmopolitan Role in the Environmental Challenge-Response Novels of Ghosh, Grace, and Sinha” Patrick D. Murphy Comparative Literature Studies 50(1) pp148-168.

— “‘Sheddings of Light’: Patricia Grace and Maori Short Fiction” Michelle Keown pp33-48 in the Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays ed Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell 227pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York) Hb £58.

Hulme, Keri “The (Handi)Craft of Fiction: Raranga and Whatu in the bone people” Rehab Hosny Abdelghany Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp183-207.

Hyde, Robin “Robin Hyde and the Long Shadows in the Ladies’ Gallery” Nikki Hessell Journal of New Zealand Studies 16 pp2-18.

Ihimaera, Witi “Classical References in the Work of Witi Ihimaera: An Annotated Commentary” Simon Perris Journal of New Zealand Studies 16 pp19-51.

— Comparative Study of Shen Congwen and Witi Ihimaera as Indigenous Writers Haifeng Zhang 387pp Lambert Academic Publishing (Saarbrücken) Pb $100.

— Walking backwards into the Future: A Study of Witi Ihimaera Camille Norman 82pp Lambert Academic Publishing (Saarbrücken) Pb $93.65

Knox, Elizabeth “‘Slumming among the Gravestones’: Elizabeth Knox’s Daylight and the New Zealand Canon” Journal of New Zealand Literature Erin Mercer 31 pp130-149.

Mahy, Margaret Magical Margaret Mahy Betty Gilderdale 120pp Penguin (Auckland) Pb $19.99.

— 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.

Maning, F.E. “Maning’s Little Tale” Anna Boswell Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp44-65.

Mansfield, Katherine “Consuming Art: Katherine Mansfield’s Literary Snack” Aimee Gasston Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp163-182.

— Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism ed Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Susan Reid 216pp Continuum (London) Hb £60.

— “Reconfiguring the National Canon: The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield” Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson Journal of New Zealand Literature 31(2) pp122-144.

— “‘Why haven’t I got a real “home”’?: Katherine Mansfield’s Divided Self” W. Todd Martin Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp66-83.

Sargeson, Frank “Gender, Hybridity and the Transcultural ‘Man Alone’ in the Short Fiction of Frank Sargeson and Doris Lessing” Joel Gwynne pp136-146 in Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age: Interdisciplinary Essays ed Om Prakash Dwivedi and Martin Kich 206pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $45.

— “Surviving the War” John Newton Journal of New Zealand Literature 31 pp84-106.

Wedde, Ian “‘From Whaling to Armaments to Food’: Melville’s, Pynchon’s and Wedde’s Economics of the Pacific” Richard Hardack Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 54(2) pp161-180.

Non-fiction

Ambiguity and Innocence: The New Zealand Division and the Occupation of Trieste, May 1945 Tony Simpson 228pp Silver Owl Press (Auckland) Pb $35.

The Battle of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and its Consequences Glyn Harper and John Tonkin-Covell 312pp Allen and Unwin (Sydney) Pb $35.

Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand Angela Wanhalla 316pp Auckland Univ Press (Auckland) Pb $50.

New Zealand and the First World War: 1914-1919 Damien Fenton 112pp Penguin (Auckland) Hb $75.

Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer Jill Trevelyan 493pp Te papa Press (Wellington) Pb $64.99.

The Place of Stones Martin Edmond 59pp The Holloway Press (Auckland) Hb $275.

Speeches That Shaped New Zealand: 1814-1956 eds Hugh Templeton, Ian Templeton and Josh Easby 384pp Hurricane Press (Cambridge) Pb $49.99.

The Royal New Zealand Ballet at 60 Jennifer Shennan and Anne Rowse 344pp Victoria Univ Press (Wellington) Hb $60.

Tragedy at Pike River Mine Rebecca Macfie 324pp Awa Press (Wellington) Pb $40.

Unpacking the Kists: The Scots in New Zealand Brad Patterson, Tom Brooking and Jim McAloon 412pp Otago Univ Press (Dunedin) Hb $70.

Journals

Special Issues

Considering Performance in Colonial Culture: Journal of New Zealand Studies 15 ed Barbara Brookes 115pp Pb $10.

Heaven and Hell: Landfall 226 ed David Eggleton 208pp Pb $29.95.

Intimacy, Race and Colonial Histories: Journal of New Zealand Studies 14 ed Angela Wanhalla and Rani Kerin 176pp Pb $10.

My Auckland: Landfall 225 ed David Eggleton 208pp Pb $29.95.

Writing Cultures in Colonial New Zealand: Journal of New Zealand Literature eds Tony Ballantyne, Lachlan Paterson and Angela Wanhalla New Zealand Culture 31(2) 188pp Pb $25.