Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?...
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Thanks @clairemabey.bsky.social for this careful and close reading of both my book and the subject of lostness over at the Spinoff share.google/wzv3orXBCwso...
Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?
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Claire Mabey on John Summers’s ‘spooky, compelling, strangely gentle book’ thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-09-...
Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewed
What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?
thespinoff.co.nz
Launching soon in Otautahi Christchurch!
Te Herenga Waka University Press@thwupbooks.bsky.social · last mo.Not long now! Join WORD Christchurch, Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press to launch Green Sea by John Summers. 🌳 Wednesday 2 September, 5:30pm 🌳 Scorpio Books, Christchurch 🌳 Free event – all welcome! RSVP at tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooks...
John Summers’ worst nightmare is getting lost in the bush. Death lurks at the edge of his fear, as well as cold, hunger, loneliness and humiliation. But what is the experience of being lost in the New Zealand bush actually like? Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand Bush is out on 10 September 2026.
We're looking forward to sharing this with you on 14 May! Have This Heart by Lawrence Patchett is a compulsively readable story collection about men at work, men trying to do better, and what happens when your life doesn't let you hide. Tightly coiled, tender, and unforgettable.
Thinking how Dracula must have whipped around with a broom before Jonathan Harker arrived
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...
Also in February 2026 new Breton Dukes!! teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...
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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'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...
Fred Tucker's Billiard Room, Helensville, 1915 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
Te Herenga Waka University Press@thwupbooks.bsky.social · last yr.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...
Also... I Got His Blood on Me - Lawrence Patchett A Mistake - Carl Shuker Selected Poems - Jenny Bornholdt
@johnhsummers.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
Te Herenga Waka University Press@thwupbooks.bsky.social · last yr.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.
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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Get 50% off my #pukapuka Home Theatre and heaps of other titles in this @thwupbooks.bsky.social sale 📚💚 teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/hom...
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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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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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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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...
