September 2007

An unlikely romance springs up between a young woman and the elderly man she engages as her wedding photographer. As they embark on a search for his mother, whom he had believed long dead, Edwin must face difficult memories about the mother who abandoned him and the sister he never knew.

The working methods and attitudes of fifteen artists are documented in this survey of contemporary graffiti in New Zealand.

This academic examination discusses the detailed planning, corporate and logistical battles, creative process and special effects innovations of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Thompson’s main thesis is that the films’ success was dependent on their savvy marketing, which capitalized on their potential fans’ chosen medium – the internet – in ways which have made Peter Jackson’s trilogy a benchmark. 

Following on from last year’s Fatal Frontiers, this book moves into the era of Governor Gray, Hone Heke’s rebellion, and the new capital in Auckland. Moon argues the recently signed Treaty of Waitangi meant almost nothing to contemporary Maori – many of whom had not signed it – or to the government, who mostly ignored its existence.

An overview of McCahon’s life and work during the fifties, from his job at the Auckland City Art Gallery to his transformative trip to the United States.

Doyle takes his adopted sons to hear Jesse Jackson speak, but they are much more interested in their own worlds. While arguing the relative merits of racial consciousness, Catholicism, and Ichthyology, they witness an accident which will have a profound impact on their lives.

1992: A man awakens in a South American hospital to the news that his girlfriend is dead. 1917: A fugitive from a Siberian POW camp at the end of the Great War makes his way across the frozen steppes of Russia. Both are sustained in their struggles by the power of their love.

On the brink of turning fifty, Mike looks back over his life and the armed revolutionary struggle he has spent years denying he took part in. He realises that his present day pragmatism springs from the same source his radical idealism once did.

Part biography, part social history, this reconstruction of the life of Ann Hathaway argues that she may not have been the burden she is typically depicted as, but rather the principle source of inspiration for William Shakespeare’s poems and plays.