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Obituary – Jack Lasenby

Jack Lasenby: 1931–2019 Barbara Larson It’s sad when our old people leave us. Losing the charming, astute, irascible, ferociously uncompromising, funny and gifted children’s writer Jack Lasenby makes this especially so. Jack Millen Lasenby was born in the small Waikato…
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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, when…
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Editorial – Issue 65

Dark horses and wild cards  In July I attended the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, held in Auckland at the Hilton. It’s the night we in the book trade celebrate writers, poets, books, reviewers, first books, sponsors, even publishers. There…
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