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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

On message, Isa Moynihan

Posted on December 1, 2008 by NZ Books

Is She Still Alive? Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $34.99, ISBN 9781869507107 Alternative Medicine Laura Solomon Flame Books, $30.00 (approx), ISBN 978095562514 Transported Tim Jones Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781864919844 In her introduction to Is She Still Alive? Tessa Duder says the stories…

Tagged with: Flame Books, HarperCollins, Isa Moynihan, Issue 84, Laura Solomon, Summer 2008, Tessa Duder, Tim Jones, Vintage
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

Cracks in the world, Kathryn Walls

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Margaret Mahy: A Writer’s Life Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1869504852 Margaret Mahy’s 1995 novel The Other Side of Silence presents itself as the autobiography of its female hero (whose name, too, is “Hero”). At the end, however, the first…

Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 70, Kathryn Walls, Tessa Duder, Winter 2005
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Journeys and sympathies, Anna Jackson

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Home Boys Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135887 Lin and the Red Stranger Ken Catran Random House, $16.95, ISBN 1869415779 Tiggie Tompson’s Longest Journey Tessa Duder Penguin, $16.95, ISBN 0143318128 Finding myself questioning the whole genre of young…

Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Bernard Beckett, Issue 63, Ken Catran, Longacre Press, Penguin, Random House, Spring 2003, Tessa Duder
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Adventures in the waiting room, Garth Baker

Posted on September 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Going the Distance – Women Outdoors in New Zealand Tess Redgrave Tandem Press, $34.95, ISBN 1877298018 Seduced by the Sea ed Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869504461 Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail Geoff Chapple Random House, $34.95, ISBN 186941537X…

Tagged with: Geoff Chapple, HarperCollins, Issue 59, Random House, Spring 2002, Tandem Press, Tess Redgrave, Tessa Duder
Posted in Awards, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review

Truth vs the good story, Laura Kroetsch

Posted on September 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Barbed Wire Between Us: A story of love and war Derek Round Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869415248 Last of the Whalers: Charlie Heberley’s Story Heather Heberley Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561903 In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer’s Search for…

Tagged with: Cape Catley, Derek Round, Gondwanaland Press, Heather Heberley, Issue 59, Laura Kroetsch, Penguin, Random House, Robin Allardyce, Spring 2002, Susan Price, Tessa Duder
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review

On the open shelves, Barbara Murison

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Jolt   Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 187713550X Tiggie Tompson All at Sea   Tessa Duder Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0141313234 The Name of the Game David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0908783639 I opened my parcel of titles for…

Tagged with: Barbara Murison, Bernard Beckett, David Hill, December 2001, Issue 51, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penguin, Tessa Duder
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Jib-booms and bobstays, Anne French

Posted on August 7, 2000 by NZ Books

Southern Breeze: a history of yachting in New Zealand Harold Kidd, Robin Elliott, and David Pardon Viking, $74.95, ISBN 0 670 88650 5 Salt beneath the skin: Seafaring Kiwis tell their stories ed Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1 86950…

Tagged with: Anne French, David Pardon, Harold Kidd, HarperCollins, Issue 44, Robin Elliott, Tessa Duder, Viking
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review

Guts and gonads, David Hill

Posted on October 27, 1999 by NZ Books

Playing to Win Fleur Beale Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1 86943 410 2 Lester Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 21 6 The Tiggie Tompson Show Tessa Duder Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130503 7 Compulsion Tania Kelly Roxborogh Scholastic,…

Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Fleur Beale, Issue 40, Longacre Press, Puffin, Scholastic, Tania Kelly Roxborogh, Tessa Duder
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults

Challenges, Marny Bradley

Posted on September 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Nearly Seventeen: New Zealand Stories Tessa Duder (ed), Penguin, $19.95 These seventeen stories by New Zealand writers and one short play by Tessa Duder clearly focus on teenage girls. Each of the stories has girls as central to the story…

Tagged with: Issue 10, Marny Bradley, Penguin, Spring 1993, Tessa Duder
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults