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Trial By Tasman
Trial by Tasman is the history of the singlehanded trans-Tasman yacht races that have been held every few years since 1970.
Sailing from New Plymouth to Mooloolaba near Brisbane it has spawned a rich harvest of great stories from the athletes, eccentrics, daredevils, sportspeople and visionaries who have competed. Every race is covered and most chapters include race participants’ own accounts of their race. The races have been both exhilarating and terrifying. There have been a number of dramatic rescues, a stranding on Middleton Reef and several boats have been lost.
978-1-877378-85-0 $39.99
Surviving Centrepoint
Shortly before she turned 13, the author’s life changed forever when her family moved to the Centrepoint Community on Auckland’s North Shore.
During her four years there the author was pressured and manipulated into inappropriate and at times frightening situations by many of its adult members including its counsellors. Free sexuality was strongly encouraged, including between different age groups, and to resist was actively discouraged. There was no way to escape.
978-1-877378-83-6 $29.99
Launching Dreams
A sumptuous, large format pictorial and historical account of the life of businessman and boat builder Percy Vos, his boatyard at Westhaven, the boats he built and the people he worked with. Established in 1922 P.Vos Ltd built a wide range of boats from simple dinghies and runabouts to large luxury launches, yachts, fishing boats and the car ferry Korea. The author Baden Pascoe is a well-known writer on maritime subjects and has a long-standing family connection to the Vos family and Percy’s boats.
978-1-877378-84-3 $59.99
Fit to Fight Compulsory Military Training and National Service in New Zealand 1949 - 1972
In this groundbreaking study, military historian Peter Cooke follows the young men through the process of being given a number, called up and regimented. Along with over 600 photographs, the voices of over 830 trainees are heard as they fill out Labour Department forms, try for a postponement and shuffle into barracks. We witness them getting shouted at, broken, and begrudging the discipline, discomfort and NCOs. In almost a quarter century, around 100,000 young New Zealand men were trained in CMT and National Service. This was felt to be essential at the time and, thankfully, the men were never sent to war. Instead, they came out of it with something unexpected, something they’ve harboured for life - and were keen to reveal.
978-1-877378-79-9 $74.99
Singing With Both Throats
Maris’s poetry has been published in Takahē, Poetry New Zealand, Bravado, ‘a fine line’, Shot Glass Journal (USA), Otago Daily Times, International Literary Quarterly (UK), Side Stream, Tyneside Poets (UK), The Fib Review (USA), Flash Frontier and Landfall.
She has been well placed in a number of competitions and has performed her poetry at Lounge, Poetry Live, In Voice and Music, Rhythm and Verse and been featured on Radio NZ’s Nine to Noon, and will appear at the forthcoming Auckland Readers and Writers Festival and the Fringe Festival in Auckland. This is her first poetry collection.
978-1-877378-85-5 $24.99
Memé
The three worlds of an Italian-Chinese New Zealander
Memé is half-Italian and half-Chinese and this unusual combination has coloured her personality and the course of her life. Her memoir is brilliantly written, vivid and fast-moving, and has a breath-taking reach and depth. With an unforgettable personality, Memé is vivacious, charismatic, and frank in her opinions - and she has a unique perspective enriched by her inside knowledge of three cultures. She is a great storyteller with a wealth of absorbing stories to tell.
978-1-877378-70-6 $39.99
Galloping Ghosts: Australasian 18-Footers 1890-1965
With every scrap aloft, carrying more sail than many larger keel yachts, and the crew driving her as fast as possible on the edge of control, no other yacht captures the attention quite like an 18-footer in full flight. This is as true today as it was 100 years ago.
From its origins in the 1890s as an over-canvassed, over-crewed 18-foot dinghy to the 7-man skiff types of the 1930s, and from the trapeze-driven moulded veneer creations of the 1950s, to the carbon fibre flying machines of today, the 18-footer has retained its appeal for both sailor and spectator.
Galloping Ghosts is the history of the 18-footer as it has never been told before.
978-1-877378-57-7 $49.99
Helen: The Helen Meads Tragedy
On the morning of 23 September 2009 Helen Meads was murdered by her husband Greg at the stables on their Matamata farm. It was the final chapter in years of control and abuse.
Here, Helen's father David White describes the events of that day, and what led to it, and tells of the ordeals that a family is subjected to when one of their own is murdered. It is a poignant and compelling story. There are issues of custody, access and bail, and looming court appearances. And often, as in this case, there is the killer's family to deal with. Finally, there is also the bureaucracy and the media that have to be faced and accepted as inevitable intrusions on the private lives of the victim's families. Families who would prefer to be left alone to grieve.
Now that the trial and sentencing have been completed, much more can be told and the wider issues can be tackled.
978- 1- 877378- 50- 8 $34.99