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Column centimetres and sound bites, Peter Calder

Posted on September 1, 2012 by NZ Books

Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand Martin Hirst, Sean Phelan and Verica Rupar (eds) AUT Media, $39.95, ISBN 9780958299763 For an industry that spends its time holding others to account, journalism has a remarkable…

Tagged with: AUT Media, Issue 99, Martin Hirst, Peter Calder, Sean Phelan, Spring 2012, Verica Rupar
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review

Riddles and charms, Kathryn Walls

Posted on March 1, 2010 by NZ Books

The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy: The Word Witch Tessa Duder (ed), David Elliot (illustrations) HarperCollins, $44.99, ISBN 9781869507077 The Dark Blue Hundred-ride Bus Ticket Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508166 Awesome Aotearoa: Margaret Mahy’s History of New Zealand Margaret…

Tagged with: AUT Media, David Elliot, HarperCollins, Kathryn Walls, Margaret Mahy, Tessa Duder, Trace Hodgson
Posted in Children, History, Literature, Review

Treasure in Stevenson’s Pacific, Roger Robinson

Posted on December 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Robert Louis Stevenson: Sophia Scarlett and Other Pacific Writings Robert Hoskins (ed) AUT Media, $25.99, ISBN 9780958282925 “Samoa was susceptible of no ‘style’, ” complained Henry James, cantankerous about his friend Robert Louis Stevenson’s decision to live in the faraway Pacific,…

Tagged with: AUT Media, Issue 84, Robert Hoskins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roger Robinson, Summer 2008
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories