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  • Location: New Zealand

Diggers, Hatters & Whores

1800s – 1900s: The social history of New Zealand’s gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.

  • Location: New Zealand, Picton, Motueka

All Day at the Movies

1952: The story of a war widow in New Zealand’s tobacco fields

  • Location: New Zealand

Spitshine

2000s: Welcome to the seedier side of New Zealand life

  • Location: New Zealand, London, India

Fifteen Postcards

What can fifteen postcards reveal?

  • Location: Auckland

In Dark Places

2000s: The Confessions of Teina Pora and an Ex-Cop’s Fight for Justice

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

2000s: Welcome to Tenderness, Japan!

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