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Internationally lauded New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey, whose latest novel Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2022, returns with The Axeman’s Carnival. Comic, profound, poetic and true, it is Chidgey at her finest. A fast-paced novel, its building sense of menace will keep readers gripped and guessing right to the end.

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You and most people around you are likely to be in the wealthiest 1% who have ever lived.

Life is great, so why doesn’t it feel that way?

Comparonomics explains why life is much better than you think it is. It offers some unexpected reasons why many of us feel bad about our lives, and the state of the world, and introduces some surprisingly simple tools to make us feel a lot better.

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Shortly after 28 February 2020, when New Zealand reported its first case of COVID-19, Dr Johal received a call from the Government’s National Emergency Management Agency: “We need your help.”

An expert in emergency management and disaster psychology, Dr Johal’s expertise, accumulated over a 30-year career, was central in our world-leading response that saw COVID-19 stamped out in our communities.

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Nineteen projects, located at sites from Great Barrier Island in the north to Dunedin in the south, won New Zealand Architecture Awards at a ceremony in Queenstown on Saturday 9 November.

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