The Cuba Press

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If you need any other information, contact us on +64 4 471 0822 or email hello@thecubapress.nz
To see and hear some of our authors reading from their work, visit our YouTube channel.

The Cuba Press books

• • The Birds Began to Sing – Dorothy Buchanan
  • Blood Matters – Renée
  • Body Politic – Mary Cresswell
  • Both Feet in Paradise – Andy Southall
  • Breach of all Size – Michelle Elvy & Marco Sonzogni (eds)
  • A Bronze Affair – Helen Wilkins
  • Dad, You’ve Got Dementia – Kristen Phillips
  • Dancing on a Razor’s Edge – Mandy Whyte
  • The Death of Music Journalism – Simon Sweetman
  • Detritus of Empire – Robin Peace
  • Don’t Forget to Feed the Cat – Mary Bell Thornton
  • Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion – Elizabeth Kay
  • The Edge of Things – Anne Powell
  • Emergency Weather – Tim Jones
  • Enough Horizon – Carol Markwell
  • Family Instructions Upon Release – Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
  • A Feeling for Food – Lis Cowey
  • Five O’Clock Shadows – Richard Langston
  • Formica – Maggie Rainey-Smith
  • Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud – Lee Murray

• • Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue – John Tāne Christeller
  • Glass Houses and other stories – Karen Phillips
  • A Habit of Writing – Helen Jacobs
  • Hand in Hand – Ian Harris
  • Home Base – Keith Westwater
  • How Did I Get Here? – Ben Brown
  • How To Be Old – Rachel McAlpine
  • I Wish, I Wish – Zirk van den Berg
  • The Invading Sea – Neville Peat
  • Island Notes – Tim Higham
  • Isobar Precinct – Angelique Kasmara
  • Jerningham – Cristina Sanders
  • Just Looking – Peter Bland
  • The Leaning Man – Anne Harré
  • Light & Reflections – Helen Beaglehole
  • The Lockdown Diary of Uncle Squirrel and Pūhoi Pete – Ann Garry
  • Lockdown Sketch Mind – Fifi Colston
  • Michael, I thought you were dead – Michael Fitzsimons
  • More Favourable Waters – Marco Sonzogni & Timothy Smith
  • Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant – Cristina Sanders
  • Mutzig the Clown Cat – Peter Wells
  • Nowhere is too far off – Peter Bland
  • Ōkiwi Brown – Cristina Sanders

• On Elephant’s Shoulders – Sudha Rao
• Ōtari: Two hundred years of Ōtari–Wilton’s Bush – Bee Dawson
• Pasolini’s miCat – Marco Sonzogni
• Photos of the Sky – Saradha Koirala
• Polaroid Nights – Lizzie Harwood
• A Question Bigger than a Hawk – Jan FitzGerald
• Reading the Signs – Janis Freegard
• Shelter – Kirsten Le Harivel
• A Sign of Light – Jamie Trower
• A Sky of Wretched Shells – Mark Blackham
• Snorkelling the Abyss – Jan Jordan
• Social Media – Mary Macpherson
• Stones & Kisses – Peter Rawnsley
• Towards Compostela – Catharina van Bohemen
• Town – Madeleine Slavick
• True to Ireland – Peter Burke
• The Uppish Hen & other poems – Robin Hyde
• Upturned – Kay McKenzie Cooke
• Visible Cities – Marco Sonzogni, Sydney J Shep, Daniel K Brown (eds)
• We are Tiny Beneath the Light – Heidi North
• We came from Hamburg – Vivienne Ullrich
• Where We Land – Tim Jones
• The Wild Card – Renée
• Working the tang – Nicola Easthope

Wayfarer and Ahoy! books

Media and bookseller information for Wayfarer and Ahoy! titles is here

Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud – Lee Murray

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Wing Dust: Exploring the eccentric mind of the artist June Black – Sheridan Keith

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Stones & Kisses – Peter Rawnsley

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Detritus of Empire – Robin Peace

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Town – Madeleine Slavick

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A Feeling for Food – Lis Cowey

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Snorkelling the Abyss – Jan Jordan

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Publicity and Reviews

• Radio NZ (Harry Rickets)
• Radio NZ – Nine to Noon (author interview)

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Ōkiwi Brown – Cristina Sanders

• Product page
• Information sheet

Publicity and Reviews

• Interview with Ann Packer in the Eastbourne Herald (p.12)
• Review in Kete, by Sarah Ell
• Radio review by Lou Ward on Radio Hawke’s Bay (5:10m)
• Review in the NZ Herald
• Radio review by Catherine Robertson on Radio NZ (from 4:00m)
• Radio Interview with Tanya Ashcroft for Wellington City Libraries
• Radio Interview with John MacDonald on Wellington Access Radio [23:45m]
• Radio Interview on ‘Write On’ with Beverly Martin on Otago Access Radio
• Feature Book on ReadingRoom bestseller list
• Article in ReadingRoom
• Review in NZ Booklovers, by Clare Lyon

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Emergency Weather – Tim Jones

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads
• Author website

Publicity and reviews

• Lee Murray
• Oscar Sweetman (YouTube)
• SpecFic NZ

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Visible Cities – Marco Sonzogni, Sydney J Shep and Daniel K Brown

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• Information sheet
• Goodreads

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Light & Reflections – Helen Beaglehole

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Art New Zealand (PDF)
• Radio NZ – Nine to Noon (author interview)

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Dad, You’ve Got Dementia – Kristen Phillips

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads
• Author website

Reviews and Publicity

• Radio NZ – Nine to Noon
• Wellington City Library – author interview (incl. video)
• Coast Access Radio

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The Uppish Hen & other poems – Robin Hyde (ed. Juanita Deely)

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• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Bob’s Books
• The Sapling
• NZ Booklovers

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Room to Write – Linda Burgess and Maggie Rainey-Smith (eds)

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• Information sheet
• Goodreads

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We came from Hamburg – Vivienne Ullrich

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• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Radio NZ interview

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Ōtari: Two hundred years of Ōtari–Wilton’s Bush – Bee Dawson

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Radio NZ interview
• Australian Garden History Society
• Wellington City Libraries interview

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Pasolini’s miCat – Marco Sonzogni

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Blood Matters – Renée

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• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• NZ Listener (pdf)

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A Question Bigger Than a Hawk – Jan FitzGerald

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• Information sheet
• Goodreads

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On Elephant’s Shoulders – Sudha Rao

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• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

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Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant – Cristina Sanders

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Newsroom / Reading Room
• NZ Listener
• RNZ Nine to Noon
• Five Questions – NZ Herald (Canvas)
• Dominion Post (jpg)
• Kete books
• Bay Buzz – Louise Ward

• The Wonderful World of Wardini Books (audio | from 12:55)
• Radio Active interview
• Catherine Clarke review
• Don Hollander review (png)
• Bay Buzz (July/August 2023) (pdf)

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Breach of All Size – Michelle Elvy & Marco Sonzogni (eds)

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Academy of New Zealand Literature
• Landfall Online
• Wellington City Libraries

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Formica – Maggie Rainey-Smith

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads
• Author website

Reviews and Publicity

• Wednesday Busk
• ReadNZ Q&A
• NZ Listener (pdf)
• Author reading ‘Ode to My Kenwood’ via Good Books

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Island Notes – Tim Higham

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• YouTube stream of launch at Lamplight Books
• Video trailer 
• Kete Books
• Radio NZ (Kim Hill)
• NZ Geographer (PDF)
• Otago Daily Times

• NZ Herald Canvas magazine (subscription required)
• NZ Booklovers
• Radio NZ (Nine to Noon)

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A Sky of Wretched Shells – Mark Blackham

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Kete Books
• Tim Jones
• North & South (pdf)
• Otago Daily Times (pdf)
• Hooked on Books

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Home Base – Keith Westwater

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Kete books
• NZ Herald – What I’m reading
• Newsroom
• Otago Daily Times
• Landfall online

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Polaroid Nights – Lizzie Harwood

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Kete books
• Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist

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The Birds Began to Sing – Dorothy Buchanan

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Kete books
• RNZ Concert
• NZ Booklovers
• North & South (PDF)
• Wellington Access Radio (HuttZone)
• Landfall Online

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Shelter – Kirsten Le Harivel

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• Information sheet 
• Goodreads
• Author website

Reviews and Publicity

• Academy of NZ Literature
• NZ Listener (PDF)
• Landfall online

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The Leaning Man – Anne Harré

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Interview with Dame Fiona Kidman (WCL)
• Otago Daily Times (PDF)
• NZ Listener (PDF)
• Kete (also published in the Dominion Post)

• NZ Booklovers
• NZ Herald ‘Canvas’ magazine

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Enough Horizon – Carol Markwell

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Radio NZ
• NZ Listener (PDF)
• Kete
• Caffeine and Aspirin (audio)
• Horowhenua Chronicle (subscription required)

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Isobar Precinct – Angelique Kasmara

• Product page
• Information sheet 
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• NZ Listener – Best Books of 2021 (PDF)
• Fashion Quarterly – FQ Loves
• NZ Herald
• Academy of NZ Literature
• Woman magazine (PDF)
• NZ Listener (PDF)

• Pantograph Punch
• Newsroom
• Paula Morris – What I’m Reading (Stuff)
• NZ Booklovers
• Kete
• University of Auckland
• Stuff – What I’m Reading (Lana Lopesi)
• Otago Daily Times (pdf)
• Read Close
• ns510reads (instagram)
• NZ Herald – top books of 2021
• NZ Herald – What I’m Reading (Sonya Wilson)
• Reverie of Rose (instagram)
• Landfall online
• Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist

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Both Feet in Paradise – Andy Southall

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Wellington City Libraries / Caffeine and Aspirin
• Standing Room Only (Radio NZ)
• NZ Booklovers

• Kete
• Independent Herald (PDF)
• Landfall online

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Hand in Hand – Ian Harris

• Product page
• Information sheet

Reviews and Publicity

• Touchstone (PDF)

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More Favourable Waters – Marco Sonzogni and Timothy Smith

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads
• Ordite Carte (33 for 33) – musical interludes inspired by the cantos

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall online
• NZ Listener (PDF)
• Stuff feature on Marco
• Auckland Writers Festival
• Newsroom

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Towards Compostela – Catharina van Bohemen

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• 2021 PANZ Design Awards winner
• Woman magazine (PDF)
• 2021 Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist
• Kete: New Books from Aotearoa
• ArtZone
• Landfall online

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How Did I Get Here? – Ben Brown

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Nine to Noon (Radio NZ)
• Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan (Radio NZ)
• The Sapling
• How could you not have a story? – The Spinoff
• Newsroom
• Sweetman Podcast (Simon Sweetman)

• Ben Brown delivers the 2020 Read NZ Pānui (Radio NZ with transcript)
• Sharing the ‘straight from the heart’ stories of the unheard voices of youth justice – stuff.co.nz
• Poet Ben Brown on throwing the book at young offenders – stuff.co.nz
• Simon Sweetman review

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Reading the Signs – Janis Freegard

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• NZ Poetry Shelf
• Wellington City Libraries
• NZ Listener (PDF)
• NZ Listener – best poetry of 2021 (PDF)
• Landfall online

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The Death of Music of Journalism – Simon Sweetman

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• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall online
• Tim Jones (blog)
• Otago Daily Times
• Newsroom
• Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan (Radio NZ)
• Poetry Shelf reading || Poetry Shelf review
• Off the Tracks

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I Wish, I Wish – Zirk van den Berg

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• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Author website (Facebook)
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall online
• Tim Jones (blog)
• RadioNZ – Standing Room Only
• North & South (PDF)
• NZ Listener (PDF)
• NZ Booklovers

• NZ Herald (paywall)
• M2 magazine (subscription required)

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Five O’Clock Shadows – Richard Langston

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall online
• Radio NZ
• Poetry Shelf (review)
• Tim Jones (blog)
• Poetry Shelf

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Glass Houses and other stories – Karen Phillips

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Kete

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A Habit of Writing – Helen Jacobs

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall Online
• Otago Daily Times
• Poetry Shelf
• Plains FM (audio)
• Write into Life

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Nowhere is too far off – Peter Bland

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website (Facebook)
• Goodreads

Publicity and Marketing

• NZ Listener
• Devonport Flagstaff (PDF)
• Landfall online

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Lockdown Sketch Mind – Fifi Colston

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• Information sheet
• Author website
• Author website (Facebook)
• Goodreads

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Body Politic – Mary Cresswell

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall
• Flax Roots

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The Lockdown Diary of Uncle Squirrel and Pūhoi Pete – Ann Garry

• Product page
• Goodreads

Publicity and Marketing

• Stuff.co.nz
• RNZ ‘First Up’
• Eastbourne Herald (page 6)

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Jerningham – Cristina Sanders

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall online
• Newsroom
• Radio NZ Nights
• Stuff.co.nz – ‘Idea for a Wellington settlement thought up in prison’
• Hooked on Books

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Upturned – Kay McKenzie Cooke

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Tim Jones (blog)
• Radio Rhema
• Down in Eden magazine
• Reid’s Reader
• Otago Daily Times

• Nine to Noon – Radio NZ
• Write On with Vanda Symon (Otago Access Radio)

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How To Be Old – Rachel McAlpine

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• NZ Listener – Top poetry  2020 (PDF)
• Plains FM (direct link)
• Off the Tracks – Simon Sweetman
• Reid’s Reader

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Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue – John Tāne Christeller

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• ‘Round the Edge’ on Manawatū People’s Radio
• Reid’s Reader

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We are Tiny Beneath the Light – Heidi North

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Poetry Live! reading (YouTube)
• NZ Herald (jpg)
• Reid’s Reader
• Poetry Shelf interview
• ‘Piha Beach, two years on’ in the U2 Joshua Tree tour pre-show (YouTube)
• NZ Booklovers review
• NZ Booklovers interviews

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Family Instructions Upon Release – Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• NZ Herald (jpg)
• Newsroom: ‘How to Write About a Father’s Suicide’
• RNZ Nine to Noon: review
• Reid’s Reader
• Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
• Radio Rhema interview

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Michael, I thought you were dead – Michael Fitzsimons

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall
• Reid’s Reader
• Radio Rhema interview
• Manawatū People’s Radio (‘Round the Edge’)
• CathNews NZ
• Scoop

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Eddie Norman and 25 Battalion – Elizabeth Kay

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• NZ Listener (pdf)
• Otago Daily Times (jpg)
• Independent Herald (issuu)

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Social Media – Mary Macpherson

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall Online
• NZ Herald (jpg)
• RNZ Nine to Noon: review
• Reid’s Reader
• Off the Tracks with Simon Sweetman (podcast)
• NZ Booklovers

• Verb festival (audio of two poems)
• Poetry Shelf – Greg O’Brien’s pick
• Unity Books interview
• Unity Books afterglow

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The Wild Card – Renée

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author website
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Queer Writes Sessions (YouTube)
• Newsroom
• The Pantograph Punch
• NZ Booklovers
• Ōtaki Mail (pdf)
• Newsroom
• Nelson Mail
• Corpus (on macular degeneration)
• Write On with Vanda Symon (podcast)

• Shedunnit – ‘The Lifelong Fan’ (podcast)
• Wellington City Library Q&A for the Ngaio Marsh Awards (video)
• Christchurch City Library review of Ngaio Marsh Awards finalists
• BookBound 2020 – In conversation with Lola Olufemi and Becky Manawatu (YouTube)
• Verb Wellington 2019 – A Write Thrill.  UK writer Val McDermid joins three of Aotearoa’s finest: Charity Norman, Renée, and Alix Bosco (podcast)
• Dominion Post – January 2022
• Read NZ Te Pou Muramura 2021 Pānui (YouTube stream) / PDF of Pānui

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Where We Land – Tim Jones

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author page
• Teaching notes
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Landfall online
• Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
• Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
• SpecFicNZ
• Barbara Howe
• Flash Frontier

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Just Looking – Peter Bland

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author page (Facebook)
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Unity launch ‘Afterglow’

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Don’t Forget to Feed the Cat – Mary Bell Thornton

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Otago Daily Times (jpg)
• The Book Show – Radio Southland (at 23 minutes)

• Watercolour NZ Newsletter (issuu)

“… hard to put down … a great record of [Maclennan’s] travels and thoughts … generously illustrated with monochrome and coloured sketches” – Geoff Adams, Otago Daily Times

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True to Ireland – Peter Burke

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Media release
• Author’s website
• Goodreads

Reviews and publicity

• Irish Echo (PDF)
• Manawatu Standard
• Taranaki Daily News
• Radio NZ Nights (audio)

• The Volunteers magazine (jpg)
• St Patrick’s College Foundation Magazine (PDF – page 5)

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A Bronze Affair – Ken Kendall with Helen Wilkins

• Product page
• Information sheet

Reviews and publicity

• Wairarapa Times-Age

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Mutzig the Clown Cat – Peter Wells

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Goodreads

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The Edge of Things – Anne Powell

• Product page
• Information sheet
• About the author (Cenacle Sisters website)
• Goodreads

Reviews and publicity

• Tui Motu InterIslands
• WelCom launch coverage

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A Sign of Light – Jamie Trower

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author facebook
• Author instagram (@jamie_birdboy)
• Goodreads

Reviews and publicity

• Jamie in conversation with Max Porter and Will Harris (BookBound Festival 2020 – YouTube)
• Takahē
• M2 magazine

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Working the tang – Nicola Easthope

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author webpage 
• Goodreads

Reviews and publicity

• Takahē
• Landfall online
• New Zealand Poetry Society / Te Hunga Tito Ruri o Aotearoa
• The Afterglow (Unity Books)

• Nicola reading ‘Kitesurfing’
• Christine White
• The Reader

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Photos of the Sky – Saradha Koirala

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Author webpage
• Author facebook
• Author YouTube
• Goodreads

Reviews and publicity

• Saradha reading ‘March 20’ on RNZ
• Takahē
• The Reader (Booksellers)
• The Afterglow (Unity Books)

• Unity Books author Q&A
• Saradha reading ‘Snapshot’
• ‘In Praise of Teaching Poetry’ (NZ Poetry Shelf)

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The Invading Sea – Neville Peat

• Product page
• Media release
• Author webpage
• Goodreads

Reviews and publicity

• Journal of NZ Studies (PDF)
• New Zealand Listener
• Radio Live interview
• Radio NZ news
• Radio NZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan (audio)
• Radio Rhema interview

• Otago Daily Times (1)
• Otago Daily Times (2)
• GrownUps
• Otago Access Radio with Marvin Hubbard
• McGuinness Institute PM’s summer reading list

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Dancing on a Razor’s Edge – Mandy Whyte

• Product page
• Information sheet
• Media release
• Author facebook page
• Author webpage
• Goodreads

Reviews and Publicity

• Adelaide Festival Writers’ Week 2020: Keeping It Together & Being Human
• Radio NZ interview with Kim Hill

• NZ Listener
• Taranaki Daily News
• Interview with Andrew Jobling (YouTube)
• Sweet Talk interview on Access Radio Taranaki

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