Peter Blake Sailor, Adventurer: The Story of a New Zealand Hero Alan Sefton Puffin, $16.95, ISBN 0143318306 Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli Leon Davidson Black Dog Books, $19.95, ISBN 1876372605 Blue New Zealand: Plants, Animals, Environments: A Visual Guide…
Body, Mind and Spirit: YMCA Auckland Celebrating 150 Years 1855-2005 Colin Taylor Reed Publishing, $69.99, ISBN 0790009862 Auckland’s reputation has been assessed too long in terms of its founding father’s claim that “the whole and entire object of every one…
He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 156950528X Like cooped-up teenage boys, three stories jostle and elbow each other inside this book. Though the biggest wins, it gets badly knocked about in the…
High noon, Barbara Larson
In our ongoing debate on literary funding, Barbara Larson of Longacre Press looks at the issue from a publisher’s point of view. Reading Tim Hazledine’s “Slow Readers” (NZB, Dec 2005) made me think of a time in another life,…
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