Hastings This is not just a

This is not just a book for people who care about journalism

He breathes life into rangatira and the formidable movements they led

and how far we have yet to go

from the formal emails between a teacher and parent to the hype of an Instagram post from a musician to texts between pre-teen characters talking about their band

Hastings This is not just aA loving memoir set in small town New Zealand If Id been asked to vote on it I wouldve said Id landed at the centre of the universe. Standing on our corner of Sylvan Road and Victoria Street, with Te Mata Peak, the Tukituki River and the mad wilderness of Windsor Park to the back of me and the distinctly non wilderness of Cornwall Park and the misty vista of the Ruahines in front of me, I was the master of all I could barely survey. So writes the much