Mad or Bad? The Life and Exploits of Amy Bock 1859-1943 Jenny Coleman Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 9781877372711 Amy Bock is best-known as the cross-dressing confidence trickster who scandalised the nation by marrying a woman in an extravagant wedding…
When She Became He: A Change for Good John Thorp Cape Catley, $27.99, ISBN 1877340073 When I worked as a publisher a well-worn line about New Zealand autobiographies was that only All Blacks and politicians could sell enough to make…
Tracing the Arc John Saker Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237557 On Make-up and Makeover Paula Boock Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237549 Notes of a Bag Lady Margaret Mahy Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237522 Until recently, the essay…
The Skeleton Woman: A Romance Renée Huia Publishers, $29.95, ISBN 1877283169 In a review of this, Renée’s fifth novel, the New Zealand Listener used the gratuitous headline “The one about the lesbian and the baby”. Shame on them. What it…
Power and Chaos Paula Boock Random House, $14.95, ISBN 1869414357 The Wave Rider Graeme Lay Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 014139028X Red Cliff Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135429 A Whistle from the Blunder Diana Noonan Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135402 About…
Just Looking, Thanks David Hill Penguin, $14.95, ISBN 0 14 130681 5 Time Out David Hill Mallinson Rendell, $14.95, ISBN 0 908783 43 4 Boots ‘n’ All David Hill Scholastic, $11.95, ISBN 1 86943 395 5 Impact David Hill Penguin,…
Tawa Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press $19.95 ISBN 0 86473 336 4 The final in the trilogy of Elizabeth Knox’s autobiographical novellas – the other two being Paremata and Pomare – Tawa is set in 1973, when Lex Keene is…
Dare, Truth or Promise Paula Boock Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771 35 08 9 The Family Album Helen Beaglehole Cape Catley, $1 6.95, ISBN 0 908561 58 X The Whole of the Moon Duncan Stuart Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771…
Sasscat to Win Paula Boock, McIndoe Publishers, $16.95 Adoption in some form has long been a staple of story-telling for the young – especially where it concerns a goosegirl or a ploughboy who are brought up by peasants, but turn…
Courier to Times New Roman — Paula Boock
Paula Boock surveys the pros and cons of moving from the dark side of TV script writing back to the novel. Damien Wilkins accuses me of being a scriptwriter at heart. Despite my protestations that this year I am writing…
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