In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought new knowledge, useful goods and technologies, and a mutually benefi cial relationship with the people they knew as Pākehā.

This book traces Maori engagement with handwriting from 1769 to 1826. Through beautifully reproduced written documents, it describes the first encounters Maori had with paper and writing and the first relationships between Maori and Europeans in the earliest school. The book tells an image-led story about the earliest relationships between Maori and Pakeha based around the written word and sheds light on a larger story of the first attempts of Maori and Europeans to live together in the ea...

A not-so-epic story between a father and daughter embarking on a parlous adventure to figure out what’s for dinner.What is a father to do when time's running out, and the fate of the family's dinner is in the hands of a little girl who has her sights set on leg and thighs?!...Can you guess what’s on the menu tonite?

Many lives. One storm.A connection none of them asked for.When lightning tears across the skies above Elderbush Township, it leaves behind more than scorched earth. It leaves connections. Visions. Secrets.Quinn, a cybersecurity analyst rebuilding her life, suddenly glimpses moments she was never meant to see. Griffin, a mechanic burdened by more than engines, finds his reality bleeding into someone else's. Caleb, a photographer, struggles to make sense of moments th...