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New BWB Texts in Print

Two BWB Texts by Tracey Barnett and Lloyd Geering will publish in paperback in May 2014, coinciding with Traceys session at the Auckland Writers Festival. BWB Texts are short books on big subjects. Published as snappy Penguin-style paperbacks, this new series unlocks exciting opportunities for New Zealand non-ction. The launch of BWB Texts in print with works by Kirsty Gunn, Maurice Gee, Paul Callaghan and Max Rashbrooke has been met with wide acclaim. More BWB Texts in print are scheduled for release through 2014 and beyond. KEY SALES POINTS

B R I D G ET WILLIAMS B OO K S

Short books on big subjects from some of New Zealands best writers. Includes works that have been published first as e-books, seeding a ready market. Tracey Barnett connects the Beehive and the refugee camps of Burma in this sweeping account of changes to New Zealands asylum policy. Lloyd Geerings Text captures the events that propelled him toward being a major figure of modern New Zealand.

The Quiet War on Asylum

Tracey Barnett
Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern history suddenly legislate for mass detention? Treading across the refugee camps of Burma and Thailand, to Australias detention centres and back to New Zealand, Tracey Barnett looks hard at this controversial new policy. She speaks to asylum seekers, refugees, NGO workers and migrants people on the move and on the ground. Their lives and stories reveal a reality more complex than the political rhetoric, and one that questions how fair and ethical New Zealand really is on the world stage today. Tracey Barnett is a columnist, media commentator and advocate on asylum policy issues.

RRP: $14.99 paperback | $4.99 e-book 136 pages ISBN 9781927277584 (Paperback) Publication: May 2014

Geering and God: 196571

The Heresy Trial that Divided New Zealand Lloyd Geering
The events surrounding the trial of Lloyd Geering for heresy in the late 1960s were unprecedented in New Zealand. Charged with doctrinal error and disturbing the peace and unity of the church, Geering was thrust into the heat of public debate. Sourced from his autobiography Wrestling With God, these dramatic events reveal a country provoked into considering the big questions of life, death and identity in a modern world. Lloyd Geering is a ground-breaking and controversial commentator on theological issues.
RRP: $14.99 paperback | $4.99 e-book 96 pages ISBN 9781927277591 (Paperback) Publication: May 2014 Available from all good bookstores and as an e-book from www.bwb.co.nz
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Praise for BWB Texts A great, perceptive piece of publishing. Tilly Lloyd, Unity Books When I nish it, the book seems bigger than the 119 pages I held when it rst arrived. The reading has expanded it ... . the book spreads and pushes at the boundaries of the way we think we are. Pip Adams reviewing Kirsty Gunns Thorndon Luminous Moments is both genuinely enlightening and personally moving. BookieMonster reviewing Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments BWB supplies a forum for our best writers to contribute not as practitioners of their especial genre, but as citizens, voicing a point of view about life in this country at this point in its history. Fiona Farrell A frank and indispensable account Lawrence Jones reviewing Maurice Gees Creeks and Kitchens The Inequality Debate is both fascinating and horrifying. So short that youve got no excuse, this is the best book you can read if you want to be informed on an issue that will dominate the rhetoric of all major political parties this election year. David Williams, Salient

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