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City of Literature books 2018
 
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Happy 4th Anniversary!!

Dunedin Public Libraries —

Dunedin officially became a UNESCO City of Literature in December 2014. To mark this special occasion we wanted to share the books that have been added to our City of Literature collection over the past year.

Children's and young adult's

Bruce finds a home - Kathryn Van Beek

Go girl : a storybook of epic NZ women - Barbara Else

Hāpata : te kurī māia o te moana - Robyn Belton

Oink - David Elliot

St Clair splash - Rachel McCoubrey

Rain fall - Ella West

Fiction

All this by chance - Vincent O'Sullivan

Gone to Pegasus -Tess Redgrave

The Kingfisher's debt - Kura Carpenter

The Quaker - Liam McIlvanney

Ruled by shadows : an epic fantasy romance - Jayne Castel

Poetry

A brand new face and other poems - Sheila Charles

Anytime you're passing - Sheila Charles

Edgeland : and other poems - David Eggleton

Remembering a place I've never been : the past in three voices - Heather Bauchop

Walking to Jutland Street -Michael Steven

Whisper of a crow's wing - Majella Cullinane

Non-fiction

A shattered life - Darryl Smith

A very human ending : how suicide haunts our species - Jesse Bering

An educated man : 100 years of John McGlashan College, 1918-2018 - Neal Wallace

Being Piglet : a children's book about mental health -Regan Gilchrist, Samantha Lobb & Amy Logie

Charles Brasch : journals, 1958-1973

Delicious Dunedin : recipes and stories from Ōtepoti - Christian Kasper

Experiencing Alice Cooper : a listener's companion - Ian Chapman

Godley : the man behind the myth - Terry Kinloch

Hardwicke Knight : through the lens

How to be a lawyer : things they don't teach you at law school - Garth Cameron

Hudson & Halls : the food of love  - Joanne Drayton

Joe Scott : the amazing story of New Zealand's first world champion - Ron Palenski

Landscapes of today and tomorrow - Gilles Marciniak

Life as a novel : a biography of Maurice Shadbolt. Volume one, 1932-1973 - Philip Temple

New Zealand's great walks : the complete guide - Paul & Shelley Hersey

Niue and the Great War - Margaret Pointer

Paradise lost : a memoir - John Van Turnhout

Poeta : selected and new poems - Cilla McQueen

Pulpit radical : the story of New Zealand social campaigner Rutherford Waddell - Ian Dougherty

Rails to Cromwell : the Otago Central Railway in stories and pictures - W J Cowan

Renew your mind : how to rewire your brain for a happier, healthier life - Chantal Hofstee

Te kōparapara : an introduction to the Māori world 

The Invading sea : coastal hazards and climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand - Neville Peat

The Lace girl - Stephen McCormack

The Story of White Hall Centre : outdoor education across the decades - Pete McDonald

To the mountains : a collection of New Zealand alpine writing 

Tony Williams : goldsmith 

Trial of strength : adventures and misadventures on the wild and remote subantarctic Islands - Shona Riddell

Word to the wise : untangling the mix-ups, misuse and myths of language - Mark Broatch