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Carnival anarchists, Martin Edmond
Goneville: A Memoir Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $39.00, ISBN 9781927249543 This Explains Everything Richard von Sturmer Atuanui Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780994137609 The authors of these two books have a few things in common: they were both born in late 1950s…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Autumn 2017, Awa Press, Issue 117, Martin Edmond, Nick Bollinger, Richard von Sturmer
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Discovery on the great southern continent, Julia Millen
Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science Rebecca Priestley (ed) Awa Press, $55.00, ISBN 9781927249055 New Zealand’s connection with Antarctica began with early explorers. Abel Janszoon Tasman and Captain James Cook sailed south seeking Terra Australis Incognita and…
Fizz with zip, Wystan Curnow
Zizz! The Life and Art of Len Lye In his own words with Roger Horrocks Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781927249215 Back in 1965, aged 26, I walked into the Howard Wise Gallery in New York and saw the best kinetic…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Awa Press, Issue 113, Len Lye, Roger Horrocks, Wystan Curnow
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Telling our stories to ourselves, Chris Else
Jerome Kaino: My Story Jerome Kaino Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143573562 Wildboy Brando Yelavich Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 9780143573159 The Good Doctor Lance O’Sullivan Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143572510 How Bizarre Simon Grigg Awa Press, $38.00, ISBN 9781927249222 Lydia Bradey: Going Up is…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Awa Press, Brando Yelavich, Chris Else, Issue 113, Lance O’Sullivan, Laurence Fearnley, Lydia Bradey, Penguin Books, Simon Grigg
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Lifting the lid, Colin Peacock
Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s Political Environment Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 9781927213360 The Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans Michael Field Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249024 “Laws are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Colin Peacock, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 109, Michael Field, Nicky Hager
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Lucky to survive, Nicholas Butler
Greece Crete Stalag Dachau: A New Zealand Soldier’s Encounters with Hitler’s Army Jack Elworthy Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249123 The Lost Pilot: A Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143568766 There is a void at the heart of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Issue 109, Jack Elworthy, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Butler, Penguin Books
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Investigation: “The health and safety event of a generation”, Jane Westaway
Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died Rebecca Macfie Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781877551901 Every New Zealander of voting age should read this book. It recounts the decades-long lead-up to an afternoon, nearly three years ago,…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 106, Jane Westaway, Rebecca Macfie, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Opening the ears, Ross Somerville
How to Hear Classical Music Davinia Caddy Awa Press, $26.00, ISBN 9781877551000 At the end of June this year in Wellington, Michael Houstoun presented the centrepiece of his Beethoven Recycled series of piano recitals, in which he was playing the…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Davinia Caddy, Issue 104, Ross Somerville, Summer 2013
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Square meals, Ruth Nichol
The Colour of Food: A Memoir of Life, Love and Dinner Anne Else Awa Press, $12.00, ISBN 9781877551925 Back in the days when most New Zealanders ate the same stuff – mince, chops, sausages, a roast on Sunday – the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Awa Press, Issue 103, Ruth Nichol, Spring 2013
Posted in ebooks, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in ebooks, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A taste of the salt, Anne French
How to Sail a Boat Matt Vance Awa Press, $26.00, ISBN 9781877551857 “We were about five hundred miles off the coast of California … .” That’s how Mid’s best stories start. I haven’t seen him for years now, but I…
Tagged with: Anne French, Awa Press, Issue 103, Matt Vance, Spring 2013
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport