Join us as we celebrate Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day 2024! Limited goodie bags will be available for in store customers.

Visit the bookshops of Auckland between the 4th and 12th of October for your chance to win $300 in bookshop tokens! (2 prizes to be won).

Visit at least two stores and collect a stamp with your purchase at each store (no minimum spend). Every additional stamp gives you another entry into our grand prize draw.

Leave your collected stamps with the last store you visit on Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day.

Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day on 12th October 2024 is a day aimed at celebrating all the amazing bookshops across Aotearoa and is an initiative created by the good people at Booksellers Aotearoa NZ.

Booksellers NZ have created this limited-edition tote bag, with amazing artwork from Māori Mermaid, especially for Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day 2024. 

Pre-order now for instore collection on October 12th 2024.

About the book: https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/in-the-half...

Come celebrate the launch of Sally Rooney's latest book, Intermezzo, with us!

We will open the doors at 10pm Monday, 23 September so you can be the first in the world to buy when the clock strikes midnight.

We will have wine from our friends By The Bottle and goody bags for the first 30 people thanks to the lovely Crushes. Plus lots of other treats and prizes in-store!

When Sarah Catherall's marriage fell apart, it felt like a car crash. Grief, uncertainty and shame swallowed her whole. Shared friendships and extended family connections dissolved: it was a break-up of her entire world.

What she wishes she could tell herself now is that the worst thing that could ever happen to her became undeniably the best thing. Fifteen years on from her separation and stronger and happier than she has ever been, this is Sarah's guide to breaking up well, so that you can rise from the ashes as powerful and authentic as you can be.

With stories of her own, from dating 'sad dads' to holidaying as a solo parent with kids, Sarah shares her mistakes so you don't have to make the same ones. She gathers wisdom from relationship psychologists, sociologists, lawyers and divorce coaches; and advice from many others who've been through messy break-ups on such things as 'bird-nesting' adjustments, co-parenting well, and when to introduce new partners to your kids.

How to Break Up Well teaches you how to grow in strength by: finding your support network, regaining your confidence, practising self-care and identifying what you want and need from singledom. You will also read about how to leave a difficult relationship, the most effective ways of fighting for your kids and your assets, how to blend families with a new partner, and how to learn from your break-up so you can charge into the next chapter of your life fully healed.

How to be calm and content in a chaotic world

With 50 practical and easy-to-follow life hacks, this book will make you a calmer, happier and more chilled-out version of yourself.

The Buddha worked out how best to deal with the challenges we face today over 2000 years ago. His teachings show us that human stress, anxiety and suffering are nothing new.

Life Hacks from the Buddha will help you to quieten your mind, create more peaceful environments to live in, and find the calm and contentment you need to help you function at your very best, which will leave a lasting impression on everyone around you.

'Full of great tips for your mental wellbeing' - Sir John Kirwan

'Brilliant, relevant, practical. Ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern science' - Art Green

All Tomorrow's Poets is back for its 10th year with an electrifying line-up of poets!

Anuja Mitra
Arielle Walker
Dan Goodwin
Jiaqiao Liu
Weichu Huang
Zephyr Zhang

We warmly welcome you back to one of our most celebrated events of the year, featuring snacks, a dearth of talent from Tāmaki Makaurau and a zine to commemorate our special anniversary.

Koha will be distributed amongst the poets. BYO drinks.

Join At the Bay | I te Kokoru and Time Out Books to celebrate the launch of One to Many and other experiments by Sharni Wilson. Launched by Ellie Kivinen of the Writers' Café Auckland, the event will feature wine, cheese, a very short reading and book signing. Books will be available for purchase on the night, downstairs at Time Out.

One to Many delves into relationships and their beginnings, middles and ends; how one person relates to another or to many others in circles of intimacy and exclusion.

An obsession with an internet stranger or with the one who got away. Asserting ownership over a lover or watching, helpless, as they recede on a mysterious tide. Relationships that stagnate or explode, that fail to launch or simmer with jealousy, desire or unrequited longing. Workplace and family skeletons. Explorations of artificial procreation and motherhood.

Prose, poetry and translation hybridise at unexpected intersections and dance in surreal meta-landscapes.

Cover art Mallory Morrison

Addictive. The best kind of experiment; an ambitiously hybrid and surreal work – Jen Calleja, author of Vehicle and I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For

Fiction at its most inventive – Ellie Kivinen, Writers’ Café Auckland

Wilson merges original work with translations, poetry with prose, social realism with science fiction and futuristic narratives. This collection showcases the strange and beautiful things that can happen when genre boundaries are crossed and narrative conventions are pushed to their limits. Familiar becomes unfamiliar; ordinary activities take on extraordinary or even terrifying qualities. The biological realities of parenthood are examined from many angles: at times poignant, at other times deeply creepy. There is an unrelenting interrogation of stories, of language itself, and of human relationships. This is a wide-ranging and consistently fascinating work. – Airini Beautrais, author of Bug Week & Other Stories and The Beautiful Afternoon

An arresting, exhilarating, unstable bricolage – sometimes dystopic, sometimes chick lit-ish, sometimes futuristic, sometimes topically issue-driven and sometimes socially realistic: its deft zigzagging between genres offers true hybridity – David Eggleton & Harry Ricketts, At the Bay | I te Kokoru competition convenors

About the author
Born and raised in Kirikiriroa, Sharni Wilson is an award-winning writer of fiction and a Japanese-to-English literary translator. She is the translator of Swan Knight by Fumio Takano (Luna Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Landfall, World Literature Today and the Malahat Review, among others. One to Many and other experiments is her first book.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty, by Avril Bell.

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6pm
Wednesday 7 August

Mt Eden Village Centre
449 Mt Eden Road
Auckland

Thanks to Time Out Bookstore for bookselling on the night and Mt Eden Village Centre for hosting us!

RSVP to pressmarketing@auckland.ac.nz

SEE LISTEN PLAY by Anna Kuk is a transformative guide that orchestrates a new way of viewing teamwork and leadership.

Drawing from the compelling dynamics of an orchestra, Anna Kuk offers a unique perspective for those feeling disconnected in their professional and personal collectives. This book isn’t just about finding harmony in teamwork; it’s a deeper journey into self-awareness and the poetic rhythm of life. For leaders, team members, musicians, and anyone who has lost their spark, SEE LISTEN PLAY presents a path to rediscover passion and purpose in working together.

Through the lens of orchestral wisdom and rich metaphors, Kuk reveals how the change we seek in society begins within us and echoes through our interactions with others. Immerse yourself in this melody of insights and reignite the symphony of your life and work.

Finance was at the centre of every stage of the colonisation of Aotearoa, from the
sale of Māori lands and the emigration of early colonists to the founding of settler
nationhood and the enforcement of colonial governance.

Join us in Time Out’s cosy upstairs space for a talk by Catherine Comyn on her
Ockham-longlisted book, The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa (ESRA, 2023).
This book tells the story of the financial instruments and imperatives that drove the
British colonial project in the nineteenth century. This is a history of the joint stock
company, a speculative London property market that romanticised the distant lands
of indigenous peoples, and the calculated use of credit and taxation by the British to
dispossess Māori of their land and subject them to colonial rule.

By illuminating the centrality of finance in the colonisation of Aotearoa, Comyn not
only reframes the understanding of this country’s history, but also the stakes of anti-
colonial struggle today.

Catherine Comyn (Ngāti Ranginui, Pākehā) is a PhD candidate in International
Political Economy at King’s College London. Her research focuses on finance capital
and colonisation, and possibilities for their overcoming.

Praise for The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa:

“The most stimulating book I have read on the colonisation of Aotearoa from the
exciting new generation of scholars”
- Jane Kelsey

“entirely novel, and desperately needed”
- Arama Rata

“Theoretically sophisticated, historically precise, and politically urgent”
- Max Haiven

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Wilbur Sargunaraj is a musician, speaker, and Cultural Intelligence Facilitator based in Treaty 6 Territory, Canada and India.  His years of cross-cultural experience, combined with his genuine love for connecting with people from diverse backgrounds, have given him a unique voice in the field of CQ.  Wilbur has pioneered a series of interactive and ground-breaking CQ concert events, exhibitions and workshops.  His focus is on helping individuals and organizations navigate today’s multicultural complexities by sharing valuable knowledge and fascinating anecdotes from his journeys.  Wilbur was born in a small prairie town on Treaty 7 Territory, Alberta, Canada; grew up in sweltering Tamil Nadu, India; and now resides in the freezing Canadian Prairies.  

Claire Lacey is an award-winning Canadian poet who currently resides in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Their poetry explores the embodied experience of living with brain injury, politics, the environment, and the absurdity of it all.

Claire is the author of Twin Tongues and Selkie. Their poetry has appeared in publications including Landfall, 1964 and takahē. Claire's work has also been included in the anthologies Impact! Women Writing After Concussion, and Cumulus: An Anthology of Skies.

Claire has performed across Canada, in England, and all over the South Island. Join them for their first Auckland appearance!

Free entry. Event is upstairs.
Books for sale at Time Out Bookstore.

Please note this event is upstairs.

Acclaimed Canadian author Norman Nawrocki launches his two new books of fiction, Red Squared Montreal and Isabelle Walks With Angels, A Montreal Urban Legend, Saturday September 30, 2023 @ Time Out Bookstore, 432 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden Village, Auckland, 7pm. For this multi-media double launch he will read book excerpts, play his treated violin and screen a new short film, Isabelle Walks With Angels.

Red Squared Montreal book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL3LJcPM1Pc      
Isabelle film & book teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1THJQ4cbEBk

BOOK & FILM DESCRIPTIONS:

Isabelle Walks With Angels, A Montreal Urban Legend (Les Pages Noires, 2023), is an extraordinary magical realist short story (embedded in an artbook) about a despairing woman who meets an all-women biker gang. Nawrocki says he wrote the story “for all the Isabelles of the world, shunted aside, marginalized and ignored.”

Isabelle Walks With Angels, the film, was created by the Montreal multi-disciplinary artist collective Isabelle’s Angels. It blends theatre, dance, animation, visual art and music (by one of Nawrocki’s bands, DaZoque!) and interprets his short story of the same name. 

Red Squared Montreal (Black Rose Books, 2023) revisits and reframes the historic and bloody student strike and mass social rebellion of 2012 that rocked Quebec, especially Montreal. It was the largest and longest civil disobedience movement in Canadian history involving hundreds of thousands. 

Norman Nawrocki is the author of sixteen books of fiction and poetry (with translations in French & Italian), two dozen plays, cabarets and musicals, and can be found on 68 albums of music. He tours the world and sometimes teaches.

A memoir of medicine, meanderings and the marginalised.

This eclectic memoir spans nearly 70 years, including over 50 years of medical experiences, and describes the intriguing journey of an individual doctor in a changing world.

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Perhaps the most distinctive attribute of the GP is a commitment to people, more than to a body of knowledge or a branch of technology. This is perfectly exemplified by the Maori proverb: “He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata!” (What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people!). GPs are the first medical “port of call” for patients, irrespective of their age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, or the type of illness they have or believe they have. They deal with common diseases and problems, some self-limiting, others chronic, many initially presenting in
early and undifferentiated forms. Although very few are serious in a life-threatening sense, many can cause much disability and great unhappiness.....
 

This task requires doctors who are masters of the scientific and humanitarian aspects of medicine, because both the science and art of medicine play essential parts in the care of every patient. The challenge involves balancing their role as guide, philosopher and friend with that of medical adviser. This unique skill is epitomised in Maya Angelou's words: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Chapter 1. “The road less travelled.”

From working class roots in Glasgow, the author includes student adventures and travels, the rigours of postgraduate training, and the richness and variety of a peripatetic medical life.

The story encompasses five continents, 12 general practices, 11 Universities and two marriages - a rollercoaster ride of joy, disappointments, serenity, turbulence, poignancy, adventures, mishaps, serendipity and discovery.

Firmly rooted in reality, the narrative includes unique insights into the human condition: the challenges of inner-city general practice in Glasgow, Melbourne and Auckland, the rhythms of life and death in English rural practice, the dramas of medical care on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the tumult and rewards of addiction medicine in the Antipodes, the highs and lows of life in Universities and Royal Colleges.

A key moment in my traineeship was the day I made my first unaccompanied house call. I was conflicted between pride and apprehension as I drove into the unfortunately named Nitshill estate, one of the new housing schemes constructed as part of the 1960s slum clearance program. Unfortunately, the ravages of social deprivation and neglected maintenance had created what were later to be known as “sink estates.” The housing was poor, with very limited social and recreational facilities; wheel less cars stood on piles of bricks, and gangs patrolled their patches.
 

Carefully locking my car, I knock on the front door and am ushered through to a cold bedroom, where a fevered, spotty six-year-old lies propped up on grubby pillows. I take a full history from the anxious parents, snap open my shiny new medical bag, remove my stethoscope and make a thorough examination of skin, ears, nose, throat, chest and heart, noting temperature and pulse rate. I am aware of the growing audience, as members of the extended family gather, peering around the bedroom door. To my great relief, this seems to be a classical case of measles. Confident in my diagnosis, I stand up from my bedside crouch and proceed towards the small crowd, ready to deliver my diagnosis and management advice.  Suddenly, I realise there is something adhering to the sole of my right shoe. It's a “jeely piece” (a jam sandwich), which had been lurking under the bed. I have to make an instant decision. Do I ignore it, pretending it's not there, or do I stop and remove it, disrupting the solemnity of the consultation? I continue walking, transferring my weight to my heel, maintaining my gravitas. Everyone politely ignores the pedal appendage. I conclude the consultation satisfactorily and discreetly remove the “jeely piece” at the kerbside. Another lesson not contained in any of the textbooks!
 

Chapter 8. The “Jeely Piece.”

The narrative of the author's life is set within the context of the events and locations of the time. The reader is transported from post-World War II Glasgow and London, through the “swinging sixties” to Yugoslavia during the Prague Spring, America embroiled in the Vietnam War, South Africa at the height of apartheid and Thatcherite Britain, then to nuclear-free New Zealand, John Howard's xenophobic Australia, Myanmar's brief honeymoon with democracy, the dark history and quirkiness of Tasmania to today's cognitively dissonant world of disinformation and the COVID pandemic. The sweep of history is leavened with personal anecdotes, intimate descriptions of moving, dramatic and amusing clinical encounters.

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“Zoom” doctors and practices are springing up, offering cut-price instant consultations, extended hours and prescriptions without registration. This is another manifestation of our cultural transformation to consumerism and instant gratification. Being busy has become a badge of honour. In the UK, the proportion of people who say they work at “very high speed” or “almost all the time” nearly doubled between 1992 and 2017 from 17 to 31%.

This hyperactive, beehive-minded state of mind, galvanised and amplified by social media, has become a self-sustaining frenzy. As growing inequalities have intensified, social hierarchies, a money-rich, time-poor elite has emerged, who view medical care as a commodity. Some exceedingly biddable, customer-friendly practitioners have responded to this need, providing concierge services pandering to the privileged. A recent development in Australia and New Zealand is an online service that provides GP consultations, medical certificates and prescriptions, enabling patients to “conveniently manage your health from home.” Their tantalising slogan of “Keep a doctor in your pocket” prompted me to reflect on my six years of medical school education, four years of postgraduate training and over 40 years of continuing professional development. Would I have undertaken this if I knew the outcome was to be marketed as a device or fashion accessory for the “busy” digital generations? Some doctors are at risk of becoming vending machines.
 

Chapter 20. "What lies ahead?"

This book is unique in encompassing clinical practice in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, combining scholarship with the authenticity of the moment, and providing the perspectives of a general practitioner, an addiction medicine specialist and an academic. It is topical because it offers an historical context and insights into medicine and society at a time of seismic change in the world. As its title and subtitle suggest, this memoir encapsulates the challenges of medicine, health and the complexities of the human condition.

It puts into perspective the political, social, economic, cultural and medical events and personal experiences over the author's lifetime, offering thought-provoking reflections on the past and future of medical practice.

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