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The Alternative Commentary Collective Almanack
Lean into the unhinged world of The Alternative Commentary Collective, where a decade of New Zealand sporting conquest and catastrophe is captured and celebrated in irreverent ACC style. From their ‘dangerously sexual’ beginnings in an abandoned mobile P-lab to the media colossus that bestrides Aotearoa today, here is the ACC in full colour, and in their own, inimitable words. Relive the ecstasy of the 2021 World Test Championship Final, the heartbreak of rugby shockers and cricket calamities, and the countless examples of punishing and heroic behaviour off the field: The Cake Tin helicopter landing. Manginagate. The stadium bans. Amsterdam. The Beige Brigade. More content about Mike Lan...
Brendon McCullum
Twenty20 cricket has quickly become the most popular form of the game and paralleling this popularity surge has been New Zealand's wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum. He is now regarded as New Zealand's best T20 player and one of the world's foremost exponents of the shortened game. Allied to his great cricketing skills, Brendon's outgoing disposition have endeared him to all followers of the game. The thrust of the book would be an insider's look into the high octane world of Twenty20 cricket. There would obviously be a huge focus on the IPL - including that remarkable innings of Brendon's, which laid the perfect foundation for the opening tournament in 2008. As well, there would be a large section of the book devoted to the 2009 T20 World Cup, being played in England. Given the popularity of both Brendon and the game itself, a skills section would be a valuable inclusion. There would also be an opportunity for Brendon to give his views on the three forms of the world game and analyse where he thinks cricket should be heading.
The Age of Evangelicalism
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so powerful and pervasive that political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote of -a sense in which we are all evangelicals now.- Steven P. Miller offers a dramatically different perspective: the Bush years, he argues, did not mark the pinnacle of evangelical influence, but rather the beginning of its decline. The Age of Evangelicalism chronicles the place and meaning of evangelical Christianity in America since 1970, a period Miller defines as America's -born-again years.- This was a time of evangelical scares,...
Hard Men Fight Back
It is well known that Kiwi sportsmen punch well above their weight in many different sporting arenas. What is perhaps less known is that some of them have had to battle extreme adversity to come back and live out their sporting dreams. Hard Men Fight Back is a collection of 17 remarkable stories of New Zealanders who have suffered severely, either through horrendous accidents, life-threatening illnesses or dire misfortune, yet have fought their way back to succeed in their chosen sport. Their courage, determination and tenacity make compelling reading.
EDGE OF NOWHERE
A chilling and gripping tale, portraying the life of a lonely teenager tossed in a turbulent sea of drugs, sex, and violence, Katie Brown grows up in a destructive environment and spends most of her brief life searching for an elusive love. She pays the ultimate price for her misspent youth and proves that there are no winners in the drug scene, and the destructive road downhill finally leads her to the edge of nowhere. BY THE SAME AUTHOR: Dark Shores-Return to Serendib Wild Poppies-stories and Verse An Eternal Summer Is this your Caruso? Biography of Tenor Luigi Campeotto Catsville Serendib-Isle of Dreams Return to Enchantment
Tell You What
‘With the arrival of the second volume of Tell You What, the sum total of New Zealand non-fiction anthologies damn near doubles,’ noted the Sunday Star-Times when they picked up last year’s edition. Well, we thought, let’s damn near triple it. Because we’ve discovered that New Zealanders love their true stories. Last year’s Tell You What was ‘quite a ride . . . a gripping, thought provoking and inspiring reminder of how much talent is out there’ (KiaOra), featuring ‘some of New Zealand’s best writers, covering subjects like bullies, Barbies, girl bands and grandads’ (The Australian Women’s Weekly). ‘Take it and read it, as, one by one, each writer tells us their what’ wrote John Campbell in the foreword. And this year? Third time lucky we say. The talent is assembling. The stories are rolling in. The 2017 edition of Tell You What once again promises an intellectually stimulating summer for New Zealanders up and down the country.
Jerome Kaino: My Story
The revealing autobiography of New Zealand rugby legend Jerome Kaino. As the Rugby World Cup approaches, All Black legend and World Cup champion Jerome Kaino reflects on what it takes to be the best. At just 21 years old Jerome Kaino was touted as the next big thing in world rugby. In his first year of professional rugby, he made spectacular debuts for Auckland, the Blues and the All Blacks. It was a dream beginning for this quiet Samoan kid from South Auckland. But just as quickly as it all began, his career took a sharp turn for the worse, his life spiralling out of control. With over 50 All Black caps, 100 matches for the Blues and a Rugby World Cup victory to his name, Jerome Kaino is one of New Zealand's true sporting heroes. Now for the very first time, Kaino lays bare his greatest triumphs and adversities, with rare insights ahead of perhaps his greatest test of all - winning back-to-back world cups for New Zealand.
Shane Bond - Looking Back
Shane Bond — Looking Back is the remarkable story of one of New Zealand's greatest fast bowlers; a bowler who in his heyday was so ruthlessly efficient at his art, that he was feared by cricketers the world over. In November, 2001, a 26-year-old Christchurch policeman took the field for New Zealand in a test match against Australia. He did so without the weight of expectation. Less than a decade later, Bond retired as one of New Zealand's finest cricketers. In this fascinating account of his career, Bond relives those early days as a raw international cricketer with a terrible dress sense to his emotional retirement in May, 2010. Bond showed courage in coming back from several career-threatening injuries, though it was not his body that robbed him of two years of his international career. After signing for the fledgling Indian Cricket League, Bond was effectively banned from playing for New Zealand in one of this country's most controversial sporting episodes. Bond takes you through the political quagmire that enveloped him during those dark days, through to his unlikely return in 2009. Bond's is a remarkable story which he tells with typical honesty and frankness.
The Little Book of New Zealand Rugby
The story of the world's most formidable rugby team. The record of the All Blacks in world rugby is unmatched. From the famous pre match challenge of the haka to the scintillating brand of rugby they play, the team draws thousands around the world to stadiums and TVs to watch them play. Over the years, some of the greatest players to ever pick up a rugby ball have worn the iconic black jersey – names like Lomu, Meads, Carter and Barrett. From the first ever tours to the modern World Cups, the All Blacks embody a legacy of excellence that strikes fear into the heart of their opponents. 'Son, you've got to be prepared to piss blood to wear this jersey.' - All Black flanker Mark Shaw to debutant Mike Brewer, 1986. The 1924/5 All Black side won an astonishing 31 games in a row on their tour to the United Kingdom, France and North America. When they arrived back in New Zealand they were dubbed 'The Invincibles'.
Swans and Pistols
Fashion icon, Broadway and Hollywood insider, mob mistress, confidante to notorious gang members of both Crips and Bloods, wife, mother, award-winning journalist, Léon Bing has not followed the typical path through life. From her formative relationship with her mother to her days as a star model to her sisterly relationship with Mama Cass Elliot and ultimate reinvention as the author of the bestselling gang exposé, Do or Die, Swans and Pistols details Bing's always exciting and sometimes dangerous life. In a series of riveting stories of unconventionality, Bing wrestles with the themes of mothers, daughters, and reinvention-a concept inseparable from the experience of her early adult life in the 1960s and the city she called home.
