My favourite image in this book is of a figurehead in the shape of a woman on the front of a huge salty ship. The woman is pressing ahead through the ocean while being pelted with bugs. She is serene…

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY PRESS | PRESS RELEASE | MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 2019Victoria University Press send their warmest congratulations to the 2019 recipients of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Litera…

Tina Makereti: I’m going to start with the VUP blurb for the book, because it’s not an easy story to put into a few words: ‘In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s life in the swamp is haza…

I’m delighted to launch Rebecca’s brilliant book on the subject of why we go to Antarctica. One very deft thing that Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica does is to give its readers a sense o…

One of the enduring sources of delight in Elizabeth Knox’s work is a recurring trope. It’s a genre trope that has been stripped back to its bare walls and backfilled with nuance. It is this: an ind…