Dead Man’s Head Jack Lasenby McIndoe, $18.95 There is a special category of books written about the world of children which are, on the whole, written for children to read (or to have read to them) but whose themes, originality…
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Tall tales and truths from an underrated writer, Judith Holloway
Tagged with: Issue 16, Jack Lasenby, Judith Holloway, McIndoe, Summer 1994
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
An aberrant strain, Denis Welch
Top of the Greasy Pole Neale McMillan, McIndoe, $29.95 The record of political leadership in New Zealand is not inspiring. Out of 37 Premiers and Prime Ministers since 1854 only two could be called outstanding, rather than merely memorable. There…
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Tagged with: Denis Welch, Issue 11, McIndoe, Neale McMillan, Summer 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Surveying, sketching and painting, Nola Easdale
John Turnbull Thomson: First Surveyor-General of NZ John Hall-Jones, McIndoe, $59.95 With trained professional eyes, New Zealand’s early surveyor/explorers sketched and mapped their way up the rivers and through the mountains of our country. Their journals and art works form…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Issue 8, John Hall-Jones, John Turnbull Thomson, McIndoe, Nola Easdale
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction