This month we preview some of the books we have coming out in 2015.In April we release Bridget van der Zijpp's second novel, In the Neighbourhood of Fame. The trappings of fame, the power of social media and dysfunctional relationships play out in this vivid contemporary story. A launch will be held on Wednesday 8 April at Portland Public House in Kingland, Auckland, 6.30pm on.
We will also launch current Poet Laureate Vincent O'Sullivan's Being Here: Selected Poems at the National Library on Wednesday 15 April, 5.30pm on. Bring Here is the first book to survey O'Sullivan's poetry from 1973 through to new poems first published in this book. The launch at National Library will also include a book of essays about Vincent's work edited by Dell Panny and published by Steele Roberts.
Baxter and Gee
Some of the publishing highlights in 2015 include two mammoth
books due out later in the year, Complete
Prose: James K Baxter, edited by John Weir, and Rachel Barrowman's
biography, Maurice Gee: Life
and Work.
Weighing in at over a million words, the Complete Prose will be a the four-volume boxed set. It will include reviews, essays, lectures, stories, interviews, and diary entries and more, and covers Baxter’s entire career. This comprehensive work is a testament to Baxter’s huge contribution to New Zealand culture and society.
Rachel Barrowman has been at work on Maurice Gee: Life and Work for almost ten years and the result is a compelling story which interweaves the literature and life of the much-loved New Zealand writer. Barrowman says that from the start Gee stated that there was no point doing a biography unless it was 'warts and all'. The result is a biography which gives an engaging and sometimes surprising narrative of Gee's life.
Weighing in at over a million words, the Complete Prose will be a the four-volume boxed set. It will include reviews, essays, lectures, stories, interviews, and diary entries and more, and covers Baxter’s entire career. This comprehensive work is a testament to Baxter’s huge contribution to New Zealand culture and society.
Rachel Barrowman has been at work on Maurice Gee: Life and Work for almost ten years and the result is a compelling story which interweaves the literature and life of the much-loved New Zealand writer. Barrowman says that from the start Gee stated that there was no point doing a biography unless it was 'warts and all'. The result is a biography which gives an engaging and sometimes surprising narrative of Gee's life.
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