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Lucky to be alive, Ann Beaglehole

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

A Strange Outcome – The Remarkable Survival Story of a Polish Child John Roy-Wojciechowski and Allan Parker Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 014301904X About 800 Polish refugees, 733 of them children and Most of them orphans, sailed into Wellington harbour in…

Tagged with: Allan Parker, Issue 64, John Roy-Wojciechowski, Penguin Books, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

The (naive) Kiwi abroad, Tina Shaw

Posted on March 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Allons Enfants Linda Burgess Longacre Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877135 43 7 Seasons in Tuscany Allan Parker Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 029441 4 Travel writing’s a fairly new genre for New Zealanders. James MeNeish did well with Sicily; Jean…

Tagged with: Allan Parker, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Linda Burgess, Longacre Press, Penguin, Tina Shaw
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review