Jonah: My Story Warren Adler Hodder Moa Beckett, $35.50, ISBN 1869589793 How to Watch a Game of Rugby Spiro Zavos Awa Press, $19.00, ISBN 0958250936 First sentence: “The booing and the jeering of the Wellington crowd rang in my ears.”…
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All credit to the team, Garth Baker
Century in Black: 100 Years of All Black Test Rugby Ron Palenski Hodder Moa Beckett, $69.99, ISBN 1869589378 Heritage: Golden Years of All Black Rugby Paul Verdon Hill-Verdon Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0958238707 All Black Magic; 100 years of New Zealand…
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Tagged with: Bob Howitt, Diane Haworth, Garth Baker, HarperSports, Hill-Verdon Publishing, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 62, John Matheson, Lindsay Knight, Paul Thomas, Paul Verdon, Penguin Books, Ron Palenski, Winter 2003
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Speed reading, Bernard Carpinter
50 Years on Track Sandy Myhre Hodder Moa Beckett, $79.99, ISBN 186958936X Classic Racers – New Zealand’s Grand Prix Greats Eoin Young HarperSports, $34.99, ISBN 1869504607 If you noticed that McLaren cars won the first two Formula One Grands Prix…
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Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Eoin Young, HarperSports, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 59, Sandy Myhre, Spring 2002
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
“Who’s this Pinetree?” Chris Laidlaw
The Judas Game: The Betrayal of New Zealand rugby Joseph Romanos Darius Press, $29.95, ISBN 0958240906 Meads Brian Turner Hodder Moa Beckett $49.95, ISBN 1869589173 A little anecdote buried in Joseph Romanos’ latest book The Judas Game: The Betrayal of…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, Chris Laidlaw, Darius Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 58, Joseph Romanos, Winter 2002
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Gloves off, Harry Ricketts
Adam Parore: The Wicked Keeper Angus Gillies Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 014301837X A friend and I used to have a favourite game. The game had several different permutations, but in its simplest form it involved imagining writers as cricketers and selecting…
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Tagged with: Adam Parore, Angus Gillies, Harry Ricketts, Issue 56, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Reeling them in Jim Greeks
Spinning A Line: New Zealand Writing About Fishing ed Owen Marshall Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414675 In the kaleidoscope of influences and events that has made me whatever I am today, fishing has a lot to answer for. Without doubt, it…
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Tagged with: Issue 54, Jim Greeks, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2001
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Surf’s up … and down, Glenn Wood
Gone Surfing: The Golden Years of Surfing in New Zealand, 1950-1970 Luke Williamson Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140298908 Over the past few years I’ve spent a considerable amount of surfing time sitting on various beaches, board beside me, wondering why I’d…
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Tagged with: Glenn Wood, Issue 48, June 2001, Luke Williamson, Penguin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sport
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sport
Like great sex only better, Robert Burgess
Gladiator: The Norm Hewitt Story Michael Laws Darius Press, $29.95, ISBN 0473078252 Loyal: The Todd Blackadder Story Phil Gifford Hodder Moa Beckett, $44.95, ISBN 1869588924 Head tilted back, eye-balling you. Norm on the front cover, bold and proud. And so…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Darius Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 53, Michael Laws, Norm Hewitt, Phil Gifford, Todd Blackadder
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Not yet outflanked, David Grant
On the Loose Josh Kronfeld with Brian Turner Longacre Press, $44.95, ISBN 1 877135 30 5 Josh Kronfeld, All Black openside flanker, has always impressed me as an “aw shucks” kind of bloke. There are smiling eyes, a silly grin,…
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Tagged with: Brian Turner, David Grant, Issue 43, Josh Kronfeld, Longacre Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
For love and money, Chris Laidlaw
Sport If sport is indeed the opium of the masses then New Zealand has been on an awfully long trip. For more than a century sport has filled the Kiwi consciousness almost to bursting point, giving pride, pleasure and pain…
Posted in Comment, Essays, Sport