The Printing of a Masterpiece Alan Loney Black Pepper, $AUD25.95, ISBN 9781876044589 With so much reading now done on the computer screen, Alan Loney’s new publication arrives to remind us of some of the other qualities we encounter when we…
The Printing of a Masterpiece Alan Loney Black Pepper, $AUD25.95, ISBN 9781876044589 With so much reading now done on the computer screen, Alan Loney’s new publication arrives to remind us of some of the other qualities we encounter when we…
White Silence: Grahame Sydney’s Antarctica Grahame Sydney Viking, $115.00, ISBN 9780670072538 How does the sustained gaze of the landscape painter, obsessively re-imagining the sun-scorched expanses of Central Otago in a million meticulous brushstrokes, adjust to the mechanical snap of a…
The Bolger Years 1990-1997 Margaret Clark (ed) Dunmore Publishing, $37.95, ISBN 9781877399336 I have to confess to having taunted Margaret Clark in the past for her incuriosity. A few years ago she demanded in a newspaper answers and explanations from…
Magnetic South Sue Wootton Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448232 Spark Emma Neale Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448195 The Propaganda Poster Girl Amy Brown Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735744 The World’s Fastest Flower Charlotte Simmonds Victoria…
From Poverty Bay to Broadway: The Story Of Tom Heeney Lydia Monin Hodder Moa, $39.99, ISBN 9781869711252 You play rugby and a host of other sports that have a greater or lesser degree of body contact in them. But you…
Collected Poems 1951-2006 C K Stead Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 9781869404185 The American critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the early 1960s of his experience teaching what we would now call modernist literature, felt unsettled by the ease with which…
The Gunners: A History of New Zealand Artillery Alan Henderson, David Green and Peter Cooke Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780790011417 Specialists and artillery buffs will find much in this 528-page detailed treatment of weaponry, military organisation, administrative entanglements, the problems…
Whale Pot Bay Des Hunt HarperCollins, $18.99, ISBN 978869507305 The River Runs David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $18.00, ISBN 9781877423222 Violence 101 Denis Wright Penguin Books, $18.95, ISBN 9780143304036 These three books with male protagonists each cover, to varying extent, bullying,…