Mates text by Jim Hopkins, photos by Julie Riley HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869503678 Telephone rings. S.Nag: Hullo. Sam here. B.Loke: Gidday, mate. Brucey here. How about coming down to the pub to watch the footie on the big screen?…
Mates text by Jim Hopkins, photos by Julie Riley HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869503678 Telephone rings. S.Nag: Hullo. Sam here. B.Loke: Gidday, mate. Brucey here. How about coming down to the pub to watch the footie on the big screen?…
Below Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734131 Let me say at the outset that this is a remarkable novel; subtle, complex, delicately wrought. It is the kind of work that leaves you thinking not just about the material…
Love This Life: Lyrics 1978-2001 Neil Finn Allen & Unwin, $35.00, ISBN 1865085081 Lyrics without melody Mahinarangi Tocker Street Women Press, $19.95, ISBN 0473074427 I have always been a passionate pop fan, but never a great lover of the printed…
Little Moon Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414756 Little Moon, Emma Neale’s second novel, following the success of Night Swimming in 1998, is an account of the troubled childhood and adolescence of a young woman growing up in New Zealand.…
World Famous in New Zealand: How New Zealand’s Leading Firms Became World-Class Competitors Colin Campbell-Hunt et al Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402499 The reforms initiated by Sir Roger Douglas in 1984 gave New Zealand businesspeople a wonderful opportunity to take…
Life (and death) in a Small City Garden Philippa Swan Godwit, $24.95, ISBN 1869620798 In the vast and varied field of literature, gardens and writing are a classic pairing. Well-told stories of personal experience are few and far between, grist to…