THE GROOVE BOOK REPORT

We are sharing a press release from the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of The Arts (22 June 2022) Kia ora, To celebrate  Matariki: Te Tau Hou Māori 2022  we are thrilled to be re-releasing five very special digital events by leading Māori writers and artists (available to stream now until up until 3 July).   Experience an incredible concert which blends taonga pūoro with string quartet and hear from some of Aotearoa’s most prominent thought leaders on topics ranging from Mātauranga Māori to female villains. Thanks to Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori the following sessions are available to stream  for free  with Te Reo Māori translation.   With the long weekend coming up, it is the perfect opportunity to sit back with a cuppa and indulge in this rich offering from the comfort of your own home. All events are available to view direct from the event page links below.   We hope you enjoy them and please do share with your friends and whānau!...

Crime is in the news, it seems everyday.  Ram raids, robberies.  Shootings.  Attacks.  Chaos! Always. Really? But what is 'crime'.  Who commits a crime?  Why do they do it?  What are the factors that contribute?  How is it reported and how is it weaponized for political gain?  Is crime on the increase?  Or is it reducing?  How do we know?  This is the first handbook of New Zealand criminology, especially designed for students and practitioners but still accessible to casual readers.  With chapters by leading scholars of criminology from across the country, it's both an academic reference and a touchstone. It contains deftly edited chapters that provide a state-of-the-art account of crime and criminal justice in Aotearoa New Zealand right now.  This provides the background and reference to the changes currently being debated.  Te Ao Marama, Te Pae Oranga and Matariki panels and various other approaches t...

This might just be the best Bond book Fleming never wrote! This is bestselling Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond novel - previously 'Forever and a Day' (2018) and 'Trigger Mortis'.  It picks up after Ian Fleming's final Bond novel, 'The Man with the Golden Gun'.  In that book you may remember, the Russians have captured Bond, then brainwashed him, and re-programmed him to kill M (head of the British secret service).  However, not all is as it seems. The book opens with M's funeral service, staged to fool the Russians into believing Bond is still on point.  They want to imbed Bond as a double agaent.  The funeral leads to a trial, hijacked by a Northern Irish hit squad, hired by the Russionas to recapture Bonsd and bring him back to the USSR.   He ends up back in Leningrad, under the “care” of his old arch enemy Colonel Boris, an expert at mind control expert and his offsider, the beautiful but deadly Katya Leonova, the icy technocrat, who has “someth...

From Twitter 8/06/022 / www.vicbooks.co.nz

An adventurous young man called Mitai lives with his seven handsome brothers in the village of Maketu. He watches his brothers become bewitched by seven beautiful women, and under their spell, the brothers no longer eat, look after themselves, work in their gardens or hunt. Realising the women are patupaiarehe, fairy women, he knows they must be cast far away. They are given to Urutengangana, the god of the stars, and he places the patupaiarehe in the heavens farthest from the earth.  Yet once a year, at winter solstice, he allows their beauty to shine in the eastern sky. A Māori-language edition is also available,  Te Huihui o Matariki . Find more at Huia Books