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"In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2's most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experience shaped his leftist politics in critical ways, but with the Cold War climate taking over, Mulgan's allegiance was torn between the andartes he fought alongside and the British command he served under. Found dead in his Cairo hotel room shortly after leaving Greece, Mulgan left many questions about his tragically shortened life unanswered-. Drawing on extensive new research, including much Greek scholarship, as well as close readings of Mulgan's own writings, this detailed investigation revises the political canvas of wartime and post-war Greece and provides new insight into Mulgan's activities and contacts - including the identity of the mysterious woman he was with on the night he died - bringing us a much fuller understanding of Mulgan, one in which his 'intimate acquaintance' with the Greek left is proved to have been profound and enduring."--

"[This book] tells the story of the development of Samoa's unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Såamoa, from first settlement through German colonisation and New Zealand's administration, to indigenous governance, including the hard-fought 2021 General Election and its dramatic outcome."--

Te Kaihau The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize. These 20 stories were written over more than a decade and range from widely anthologised classics like the novella-length ' Te Kaihau' itself, ' Hooks and Feelers' and ' One Whale, Singing', to stories seldom encountered outside these pages. One, ' A Drift in Dream', offers a pre-bone people glimpse of Simon and his family.

In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ' Never apologise, never explain', Kate's mother used to say, and whether visiting her boyfriend in prison, canvassing door-to-door for Greenpeace, in a corporate toilet with sodden underwear, or facing the doctor at an IVF clinic, she doesn' t. The result is a memoir brimming with hard-won wisdom and generous humour; a story that, above all, rings true.