Volume 16 | Number 2 | Issue 73 | June 2006 Deborah Montgomerie: Pamela Wood, Dirt: Filth and Decay in a New World Arcadia Guest editorial: Rosemary Wildblood, “Against complacency” Letters Hugh Roberts: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, The Dark…
Accusation: A Wife’s Story Mary Fielding (with Jane Westaway) Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877361151 ”J’accuse!” (I accuse!). Just over 100 years ago Emile Zola’s article in Le Figaro on the Dreyfus Affair appeared beneath this bold headline, and helped to…
Healthy Money Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainability Through New Money Systems Deirdre Kent Craig Potton Publishing, $34.99, ISBN 1877333298 This book is a serious critique of orthodox economic writing and attempts to set out an alternative interpretation of the role of…
Dirt: Filth and Decay in a New World Arcadia Pamela Wood Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403487 Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but dirt is so much more interesting. Pamela Wood’s smart and insightful history of the varieties of…
Peter Blake Sailor, Adventurer: The Story of a New Zealand Hero Alan Sefton Puffin, $16.95, ISBN 0143318306 Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli Leon Davidson Black Dog Books, $19.95, ISBN 1876372605 Blue New Zealand: Plants, Animals, Environments: A Visual Guide…
Mahy wins “Little Nobel”
Margaret Mahy has won the world’s premier prize for children’s writing, the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Dubbed the “Little Nobel”, it has been given biennially since 1956 to an author who has made a lasting contribution to international children’s literature. She…
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