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These boxes sold out within days last time, and once again we have a fantastic selection of new season heirloom tomatoes on offer to our community. You get to enjoy tomatoes only restaurants can order. and at a fantastic price (spotted around town at $23.99 p/kilo) Limited availability, so place

With Chinese, Muslim, Central Thai regional and royal influences, the city has spawned a distinctive cuisine. Fragrant, spicy, sweet and salty - Bangkoks flavours are a revelation. With so much great food on offer you need a culinary guide and happily, weve published one

Party Like a Pro - whether it's a few mates over for afternoon drinks, or hosting a full-on celebration, this book has your back Think recipes for clever (but no-fuss) food designed for stress-free entertaining were talking juicy, fluffy Chinese duck bao, the pimped-up hummus of your wildest dre

ISBN: 978-1-877441-58-5 White City is a collection of short stories set mostly in and around Aucklands Albert Park, but even those stories that travel far away from the park seem subtly inhabited by its breezes, colours, shadows and sounds. Brown treats his characters with clear-eyed generosity, but

ISBN 978-1-877441-12-7 The drawings that comprise Wall allude to trauma and institutionalisation. They do not form a straightforward narrative or make some simplistic statement. They have the urgency of improvisations, yet they are carefully organised and almost painfully detailed with naked walls a

Graphic Art by Darren Sheehan ISBN 978-1-877441-13-4 In a neglected corner of Travesty, in an apartment building called the rathouse, five marginals take on the universe. Drunk Len takes a gamble on salvation, but can he find the ticket Nisa Michelangelo reconstructs his David with a vital differenc

ISBN 978-1-877441-03-5 Medieval Chinese poet Li He lived in the last brief flowering of the Tang dynasty from 790-816, his evocations of the heavenly and the netherworlds are unique, possibly in the whole of the Chinese canon, and are the source of his honorific title, the demon talented one. Workin

ISBN: 978-1-877441-45-5 Never Get Taken to the Second Location. This book abducts you. It takes you to unfamiliar places. Using the doomed love affair of painter Rita Angus and musician Douglas Lilburn as a backdrop, Bronwyn Lloyds first collection of stories is a leap into the surrealist dark. From

ISBN 978-1-877441-14-1 A novel of text-talk, musomania, mix tapes, student bars and library intrigues, The Constant Losers starts with a google search for boykrew fan club and ends in a zine war. The books heroes are two students whose strange relationship begins in print and develops through a seri

ISBN: 978-1-877441-51-6 Taking the reader from inner-city Auckland to fairy-tale clearings and finally into the burnt hotel itself, these lyrical poems chart the terrain where the ordinary meets the fantastical, a vivid world of other peoples lives" populated by lovers and rent-boys, sleep-walkers a

Issue 48 of brief magazine ISSN 1175-9313 Occupying a complete issue of Auckland based writing journal brief, Bill Direens The Ballad of Rue Belliard celebrates the subtleties of language and the humour of life in a peripheral sector of Paris. His inventive use of English is a function of his lingui

ISBN: 978-1-877441-60-8 The Waihorotiu Stream Queen Street River used to run down the centre of Aucklands main road before it was first turned into a canal, and then later diverted into a sewer, where it now flows beneath Queen street. The Tales of the Waihorotiu tell the story of another Auckland,

ISBN: 978-1-877441-17-2 Kendrick Smithyman was regarded as one of New Zealands most important poets. For decades, though, the uncompromisingly intellectual, relentlessly experimental Smithyman had to endure marginalisation and even ridicule at the hands of conservative editors and critics. Some of S

ISBN: 978-1-877441-62-2 Postcard Stories reproduces in full colour 100 remarkable and evocative postcards from around the world, grouped by theme and accompanied by brief narratives that link them into magical stories. A high-quality art production printed on 140gsm Woodstock card, this book is a de

ISBN 978-1-877441-09-7 Gregory OBrien described Richard von Sturmers last published work, Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose, as a book of almost hallucinogenic clarity". In his new prose collection, On the Eve of Never Departing, von Sturmer shines his clear, poetic light on a number of subjects, rangi

ISBN: 978-1-877441-57-8 Moonshine Eggs is the third novel in a trilogy of works based around the whimsical and comedic character of Harry Rejekt. Inseparable from his dog and his inherited crumbling farmhouse, Harry dreams of worldly travel whilst rarely venturing out from the Waikato country town w

ISBN 978-1-877441-15-8 Is writing about staying on the sidelines, or getting involved marginal observation, or skyline operations" (Auden) This book offers a series of takes on the possibility of a truly engaged literature. Not all the conclusions it comes to are entirely pessimistic. Kingdom of Alt

Photos by Kendrick Smithyman ISBN: 978-1-877441-44-8 Scott Hamiltons second book of poetry takes us back to the strange yet strangely familiar territory he began to map in his acclaimed debut. In these poems the tyrannies of linear time, Cartesian logic, and geometric space are overthrown, so that a

ISBN: 978-1-877441-50-9 When the British natural philosophers of the 17th century founded modern natural history, they proposed finding a poet to compile a poetic account of everything that existed in nature, very broadly defined. Four hundred years later, the work is ongoing, made modern and rigoro

ISBN: 978-1-877441-61-5 Everythings Something in Place publishes a selection from the lifetimes work of editor, critic and poet John Geraets. It includes influential essays first published in the Listener, Landfall, Poetry NZ, the Journal of Literature, as well as other journals and publications. It

ISBN 978-1-877441-07-3 In the third volume of his REM trilogy, after the urban inferno of Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000) and the purgatorial stasis of The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis (2006), Jack Ross explores the closest thing to a paradise his cast of crazies can conceive of, let alone aspire

ISBN: 978-1- 877441-52-3 Adventurous, curious and moving, Christies work braves abstraction and socio-political insights. After Luce Cannon (Titus Books, 2007) and The Facts of Light (Vagabond Press, 2014), Carbon Shapes and Dark Matter is Christies third collection of poetry. Time after time lines

ISBN: 978-1-877441-56-1 A series of murders breaks the dusty silence of a small rural town. Butades, the towns resident artist, is given the job of drawing lines around the bodies. Without motive or suspect, and with the death count mounting, the Police Chief becomes unhinged, and events lead to a K

ISBN: 978-1-877441-47-9 Alan Brunton played a crucial role in developing a platform for New Zealand poetry and theatre. Brunton was the founding editor of poetry and arts publication Freed and co-editor of Spleen, he also established with partner Sally Rodwell the experimental theatre group Red Mole