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Who makes the news? Who decides what's reported? In Extra! Extra!: How the People Made the News, David Hastings delves into these questions by investigating Auckland's ruthless early newspaper wars, in which ‘no trick was too dirty and no insult was too scurrilous if they thought it would win them an advantage.'
And at last, the book many of you have been ringing and emailing about – Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand. Catch Jarrod Gilbert on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on 23 March, when he'll discuss this violent, sometimes horrifying, inside story of a tough but revealing part of Kiwi life. |
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Posters for our March books Extra! Extra! and Patched are available in A3 and A4 sizes. Contact your HarperCollins reps about your in-store display needs.
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Look out for Patched news and features running from Friday 22 March, including Saturday Mornings with Kim Hill, TV One, Sunday Star-Times and provincial papers and news programmes.
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It’s time to order your 2013 Auckland University Press catalogues. Tell your HarperCollins rep how many you’ll need for key customers – available late April. In the meantime, browse our forthcoming titles online.
Also now due into the warehouse in late April, the tenth imprint of The Complete English–Maori Dictionary, which has been re-set and will be on the water shortly. |
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The printers’ proofs for Ian Wedde’s laureate collection The Lifeguard have arrived back and we reckon the yellow foil type on the atmospheric blue cover photographs (courtesy designer Philip Kelly) is going to look great. Words looking pretty sharp as well.
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The Lifeguard will be launched at an Auckland Writers and Readers Festival fringe event in May. We’re on the edge of our seats to see the full 2013 AWRF programme on Wednesday next week.
The paging of our massive Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide (August) continues too – we’re figuring out our albatrosses and whipping the Procellariidae into shape. While it’s marvellous the authors have identified yet another species, we're hoping for no more stop-press updates!
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We’re also madly commissioning covers, juggling book schedules and putting the final touches on the Auckland University Press 2013 catalogue – watch this space for the year’s line-up of books, out soon. |
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Media has started for Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News with a feature in the New Zealand Herald (‘the scoop on the papers that kick-started the Queen City’) and the first review on Nine to Noon:
‘Tells the story of the drama and excitement of newspapers over that time in Auckland . . . it’s really engaging about our most important city, a really interesting slice of social life’ – John King
Home in the Howling Wilderness by Peter Holland is ‘Scholarly, well researched, and jargon-free’, says Gavin McLean in the Otago Daily Times.
‘[A] fascinating book, full of illuminating local detail about the experiences of the first generations of settlers’ – Ron Johnston, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
‘[A] valuable addition to the repository of literature and knowledge relating to New Zealand’s environmental history . . . should appeal to a wide audience’ – Envirohistory New Zealand
Last month, C. K. Stead answered the NZ Herald’s ‘12 Questions’ and talked to Arts on Sunday about his new book The Yellow Buoy. Critics comment:
‘It’s a beautiful production, I have to say; I think you’d agree, it’s rather lovely.’ – Mary McCallum, Nine to Noon
‘His practised fluency shows in the controlled nature of The Yellow Buoy’s poems . . . a cup of bright European sunshine.’ – Sarah Dunn, Nelson Mail
‘Stead is an expert and sometimes playful craftsman. He can do the alexandrines of his prizewinning poem “Ischaemia” and write a “double sonnet” . . . But most often he writes in syllabics, that art concealing art which can sound like casual conversation to the unwary.’ – Nicholas Reid, Metro |
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14 March, 5.30–7pm, Auckland: launch of Extra! Extra! featuring David Hastings and Iain Sharp in conversation about Auckland’s early newspaper wars. Free event. Whare Wananga, Auckland Central Library, 44–46 Lorne Street.
26 March, all day, Auckland: Call in during the day to hear readings from The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Join us on the second floor of the library at 5pm for a glass of wine and a session with Auckland authors featured in the book of books. Free event. Whare Wananga, Auckland Central Library, 44–46 Lorne St.
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27 March, 12–1pm, Albany: The Albany Writers Read series kicks off for 2013 with C. K. Stead (The Yellow Buoy) in a lunchtime reading and discussion. Free event. Round Room, Atrium Building (Ground Floor), Massey Albany.
27 March, 5.30–7pm, Auckland: LOUNGE 30 features readings from Ross Brighton, Katea Duff, Adam Fresco, Ya-Wen Ho, Courtney Meredith, Hala Nasr, John Newton, Lisa Samuels, Michael Steven and David Taylor. MC: Michele Leggott. Old Government House, Cnr Waterloo Quadrant and Princes St. |
About the Press
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The lovely people at our University’s Student Information & Marketing Services have made a small movie about us and it's now online.
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COMPETITION! Watch the video and tell us by Wednesday 3 April the name of the building we lived in in Grafton Road (pictured above) and go in the draw to win a copy of Dennis McEldowney’s A Press Achieved The Emergence of Auckland University Press, 1927–1972 together with a lucky dip of Press titles.
You can post your answers on Facebook or Twitter, PM us on social media or email your answers to press@auckland.ac.nz. (Don’t forget to include your postal address with your answer so we can quickly post the prizes to the lucky winner.) |
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Christine O’Brien
Sales and Marketing Manager
Auckland University Press
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 373 7528
Fax: +64 9 373 7465
Email: press@auckland.ac.nz |
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