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He sadly passed away last month aged 79 years old.

The Telengana Offset Printers Association (TOPA), with support from the international co-operation section, Ministry of MSME, organised the fourth edition of its international conference in Hyderabad on 18 November. The event, with the theme, Current challenges and opportunities in the printing and packaging industry, was sponsored by TechNova Imaging Systems.

MK Bhargava, a doyen of the Indian printing industry and the founder of Kumar Printers passed away on 28 July 2023. PrintWeek pays homage to the stalwart with this interview with Bhargava originally published in 10 June 2016 issue

New Zealand Fishing Flies by Robert Bragg. Published by The Caxton Press 1996. Hardcover. 160pp. 340mm x 245mm. C-photos, B&W line drawings.

Jerry Enzler’s new biography of Jim Bridger, and new histories of Lewis and Clark, the grand masters of Western art, war on the central plains and Max McCoy’s latest Western.

Treasure trove: Authors Mansfield and Baxter among rare books for sale 7 May, 2021 05:27 AM 3 minutes to read A first edition of Moses Harris The Aurelian, 1776, from the library of Lawrence Baigent and Robert Erwin, is among the books being sold through an online auction by Webbs. Photo / Supplied A first edition of Moses Harris The Aurelian, 1776, from the library of Lawrence Baigent and Robert Erwin, is among the books being sold through an online auction by Webbs. Photo / Supplied Jane Phar...

Nicolas Reid reviews Letters of Denis Glover, an archival collection published by Otago University Press 12 Dec, 2020 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read By: Nicholas Reid Denis Glovers place in New Zealand literature is assured. Along with R.A.K. Mason, A.R.D. Fairburn and Allen Curnow, he was one of those who revitalised New Zealand poetry in the 1930s. The Magpies still takes the prize as New Zealands most-often-reprinted poem. In founding the Caxton Press, Glover turned this countr...

A tunnel is the escape route north, steep hills to the south. Everything feels a long way away. We need a reason to leave town. My father thought anything south of the Bombay Hills was the South Island. His kāinga was Pakiri, north of Auckland, with its loose-metal roads and indolent river, its cowsheds and scorching beach. Now there are better roads but many more cars. I visit the cemetery at our marae just beyond Leigh: this is our ‘meeting-place past the end of the world’ where my fath...