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We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge.
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge.
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
Cover: Dudley Benson
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
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Also in February 2026 new Breton Dukes!!
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Party Boy
Marco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos. Every...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Also in February 2026 new Breton Dukes!!
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Ghosts of New Zealand share.google/9HTGlQZHUG4x...
There used to be ghosts in New Zealand
An essay by Wairarapa author John Summers on our faded belief that the dead come back to haunt us.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Ghosts of New Zealand share.google/9HTGlQZHUG4x...
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'Gee's O Trilogy was so important to me when I was 10. I met the guy in my late 30s and didn't tell him this of course. We are supposed to look back and regret such cowardly moments but I don't. There's an honour in not bothering people.' —Nick Ascroft. www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...
September 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
'Gee's O Trilogy was so important to me when I was 10. I met the guy in my late 30s and didn't tell him this of course. We are supposed to look back and regret such cowardly moments but I don't. There's an honour in not bothering people.' —Nick Ascroft. www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...
Don't believe anyone really likes peppermint.
September 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Don't believe anyone really likes peppermint.
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Fred Tucker's Billiard Room, Helensville, 1915
Photo: Auckland Museum; www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/col...
Photo: Auckland Museum; www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/col...
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Fred Tucker's Billiard Room, Helensville, 1915
Photo: Auckland Museum; www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/col...
Photo: Auckland Museum; www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/col...
Come along and see Nick Ascroft get shot out of a cannon! Or so I assume, I didn't really read the details
Join us at Unity Books Wellington on 3 September to celebrate a new book from Nick Ascroft! The book will be launched by Always Becominging.
🌞 Wednesday 3 September, 6pm
🌞 Unity Books Wellington
🌞 All welcome!
More here: www.facebook.com/share/16nk5S...
🌞 Wednesday 3 September, 6pm
🌞 Unity Books Wellington
🌞 All welcome!
More here: www.facebook.com/share/16nk5S...
September 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Come along and see Nick Ascroft get shot out of a cannon! Or so I assume, I didn't really read the details
Also...
I Got His Blood on Me - Lawrence Patchett
A Mistake - Carl Shuker
Selected Poems - Jenny Bornholdt
I Got His Blood on Me - Lawrence Patchett
A Mistake - Carl Shuker
Selected Poems - Jenny Bornholdt
Small sample of books on sale today:
What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes
Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam
Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young
The Commercial Hotel - some guy?
Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft
What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes
Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam
Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young
The Commercial Hotel - some guy?
Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft
Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website.
✨ Smooth website experience
📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier
🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last
The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.
✨ Smooth website experience
📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier
🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last
The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.
August 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also...
I Got His Blood on Me - Lawrence Patchett
A Mistake - Carl Shuker
Selected Poems - Jenny Bornholdt
I Got His Blood on Me - Lawrence Patchett
A Mistake - Carl Shuker
Selected Poems - Jenny Bornholdt
Small sample of books on sale today:
What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes
Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam
Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young
The Commercial Hotel - some guy?
Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft
What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes
Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam
Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young
The Commercial Hotel - some guy?
Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft
Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website.
✨ Smooth website experience
📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier
🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last
The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.
✨ Smooth website experience
📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier
🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last
The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.
August 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Small sample of books on sale today:
What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes
Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam
Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young
The Commercial Hotel - some guy?
Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft
What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes
Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam
Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson
Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane
Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young
The Commercial Hotel - some guy?
Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft
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Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...
The Commercial Hotel
When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ...
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August 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...
Stuck on this exercise-hotdog cycle
August 25, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Stuck on this exercise-hotdog cycle
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Get 50% off my #pukapuka Home Theatre and heaps of other titles in this @thwupbooks.bsky.social sale 📚💚
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Home Theatre
Winner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction, 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Welcome to the Repertory Apartments—where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play ...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Get 50% off my #pukapuka Home Theatre and heaps of other titles in this @thwupbooks.bsky.social sale 📚💚
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Fantastic creative nonfiction on sale!
Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...
The Commercial Hotel
When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Fantastic creative nonfiction on sale!
Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...
The Commercial Hotel
When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ...
share.google
August 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...
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Great article on Raymond Ching and the huia…
My piece in the latest issue of @nzgeo.bsky.social about artist Ray Ching and huia, taxidermy and obsession www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-bi...
A bird in the hand
Huia were last seen alive in 1907, according to official records. But the New Zealand bird artist Raymond Ching tells another story. A Wellington taxidermist killed a trio of the birds in 1912, Ching ...
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March 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Great article on Raymond Ching and the huia…
New Breton Dukes story!
Probably the best short story of 2025
Short story: Trina and Cat, by Breton Dukes
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August 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
New Breton Dukes story!
RIP Connie Francis youtu.be/gfoBKJf0wLQ?...
Siboney
YouTube video by Connie Francis - Topic
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July 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
RIP Connie Francis youtu.be/gfoBKJf0wLQ?...
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I wrote about billionaire space dreams, interstellar inequality, and Pip Adam's extraordinary new novel, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space
In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.
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June 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I wrote about billionaire space dreams, interstellar inequality, and Pip Adam's extraordinary new novel, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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A new book by Nick Ascroft! This truly terrific collection is about lost friends, new frailties, new braveries, and being stuck in an organ pipe during recital and not wanting to bother anyone about it. It's What He Would've Wanted is out in September. 🧨
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May 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A new book by Nick Ascroft! This truly terrific collection is about lost friends, new frailties, new braveries, and being stuck in an organ pipe during recital and not wanting to bother anyone about it. It's What He Would've Wanted is out in September. 🧨
teherengawakapress.co.nz/it-s-what-he...
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Spent a pleasant morning at Pick-a-Part, Taita
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Spent a pleasant morning at Pick-a-Part, Taita
Incredible poem by @erikkennedy.com www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/2024-content...
Erik Kennedy 2024 – ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS
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April 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Incredible poem by @erikkennedy.com www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/2024-content...
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I'm reading some poems tonight in Christchurch with the excellent Joan Fleming and Zoë Deans if anyone is around. It'll be great!
canterburypoets.org.nz/coming-up/
canterburypoets.org.nz/coming-up/
Coming Up
Autumn 2025 SeasonThursdays, 6 – 27 March6.30 pm to 8.30 pm Deans, Fitchett, Fleming, Gray, Green, Morgan, Morton, Nelson, Pickens, Taylor … and maybe YOU? Download your own pdf copy of the poster …
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March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm reading some poems tonight in Christchurch with the excellent Joan Fleming and Zoë Deans if anyone is around. It'll be great!
canterburypoets.org.nz/coming-up/
canterburypoets.org.nz/coming-up/
My piece in the latest issue of @nzgeo.bsky.social about artist Ray Ching and huia, taxidermy and obsession www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-bi...
A bird in the hand
Huia were last seen alive in 1907, according to official records. But the New Zealand bird artist Raymond Ching tells another story. A Wellington taxidermist killed a trio of the birds in 1912, Ching ...
www.nzgeo.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My piece in the latest issue of @nzgeo.bsky.social about artist Ray Ching and huia, taxidermy and obsession www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-bi...
I reviewed Simon Burt's Route 52 for Newsroom, a book about caravans and small towns newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/27/b...
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I reviewed Simon Burt's Route 52 for Newsroom, a book about caravans and small towns newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/27/b...