Guerilla Season Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $18.95, ISBN 1 8695 8296 9 Murder in Auckland, for book-loving New Zealanders, is much more delicious than killings in New York or Los Angeles. Aucklanders reading Paul Thomas’s crime novels can shiver with…
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 310 5 Alan Duff makes good copy: he’s a phenomenon. If he didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him. Duff, the Hemingwayesque bare-knuckle bruiser from the school…
The Spin Anonymous Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 442 2 Novelists who stray into politics often produce cardboard cutout conspiracies that treat power one-dimensionally. People knowledgeable about politics usually have too diminished an imagination and/or too distorted a comprehension…
Dexter and Friends: New Zealand’s Wonderful World of Dogs Mark Leishman and Jim Mora Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 908704 46 1 Dogs are man’s best friends. Dexter and Friends backs up this age-old saying. This book is informative, fun…
Making it all irreversibly ours, Simon Upton
On a calm summer’s evening, the view south from my conservatory takes on the enfolding calm of a pastoral idyll. In the moments before sunset all the blemishes and ragged edges that mar the rural landscape are washed out, creating an…
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