Books

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    Towards the light

    Joy Cowley launched a new book of rhymes and nonsense in Dunedin at the weekend. The renowned children’s author gives Bruce Munro some revealing words of wisdom about living in shadow and light.

    Sold into slavery

    In 1863, 144 men, women and children were kidnapped from ’Ata, a tiny island in the wild seas...

    Sold into slavery

    A treacherous affair during the little-known 19th-century Pacific Island slave trade has a southern New Zealand link, historian Dr Scott Hamilton tells Bruce Munro.