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Telling stories Catharina van Bohemen
Singing Historian: A Memoir Edmund Bohan Canterbury University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781927145319 Sarah Vaughan Is not my Mother: A Memoir of Madness Maryjane Thomson Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551802 Where the Rainbow Fell Down: A New Zealand Memoir Lynette Robinson…
Tagged with: Awa Press, B J and L M Coker Family Trust, Canterbury University Press, Catharina van Bohemen, Edmund Bohan, Issue 102, Lynette Robinson, Maryjane Thomson, Winter 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Walking upon ashes, Harry Ricketts
The Search for Anne Perry Joanne Drayton HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781869508883 So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World Peter Graham Awa Press, $42.00, ISBN 9781877651123 On 22 June 1954, in Victoria Park, Christchurch, 16-year-old Pauline…
Tagged with: Anne Perry, Autumn 2013, Awa Press, HarperCollins, Harry Ricketts, Issue 101, Joanne Drayton, Juliet Hulme, Pauline Parker, Peter Graham
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
No getting away from the man, Linda Burgess
Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World Steve Braunias Awa Press, $36.00, ISBN 9781877551352 Steve Braunias is one of our very best writers. How does he do it, wonders the reviewer, as within a sentence Braunias moves from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Awa Press, Issue 101, Linda Burgess, Steve Braunias
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Captaining your soul, David Hill
The Ant and the Ferrari Kerry Spackman HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 9781869509590 Fate and Philosophy Jim Flynn Awa Press, $33.00, ISBN 9781877551321 Half a century ago, C P Snow famously fulminated in The Two Cultures against arty-farty types condescending to physicists…
Tagged with: Awa Press, David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 100, Jim Flynn, Kerry Spackman, Summer 2012
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Curiosa and curiosa, Dale Williams
The Owl That Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator Brian Gill Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551130 Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517686 The Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Gill, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Dale Williams, Debbie Cowens, Friedrich Krull, Issue 100, Katherine Mansfield, Matt Cowens, Summer 2012
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
How the ball will bounce, Garth Baker
How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011 Spiro Zavos Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877551093 How timely – a book to help desperate All Black fans get through that most harrowing of experiences, the Rugby World Cup. Despite being…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Garth Baker, Issue 95, Spiro Zavos, Spring 2011
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Why read? Chris Else
The Torchlight List Jim Flynn Awa Press, $33.00, ISBN 9780958291699 The world is going to hell in a handcart in so many ways that if you are over 55, you’re inclined to throw up your hands in despair, hide…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Chris Else, Issue 94, Jim Flynn, Winter 2011
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Science ε = –dø/dt, Peter Calder
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism Gillian Turner Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780958275002 Consider this passage about magnetism: Cooling basalts, it turns out, contain small crystals of iron-oxide compounds ……
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Awa Press, Gillian Turner, Issue 93, Peter Calder
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Nothing to do with fair play, Don Aimer
Somebody Stole My Game Chris Laidlaw HodderMoa, $39.99, ISBN 9781869711924 The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing Harry Ricketts (ed) Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780958291620 These two books complement each other, and their paths criss-cross. In Somebody Stole My…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Chris Laidlaw, Don Aimer, Harry Ricketts, HodderMoa, Issue 91, Spring 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport