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It’s in the detail, Trevor Agnew

Posted on November 29, 2019 by NZ Books

The Cat From Muzzle Sally Sutton (Scott Tulloch illus) Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143773085 Bess The Brave War Horse Susan Brocker (Raymond McGrath illus) Scholastic, $28.00, ISBN 9781775435563 Home Child: A Child Migrant In New Zealand Dawn McMillan (Trish Bowles illus)…

Tagged with: Alexandra Stewart, Bloomsbury, Dawn McMillan, Edmund Hillary, Issue 128, Joe Todd-Stanton, Oratia, Puffin, Raymond McGrath, Sally Sutton, Scholastic, Scott Tulloch, Summer 2019, Susan Brocker, Tenzing Norgay, Trevor Agnew, Trish Bowles
Posted in Children, Literature, Review

To hell and gone, down there, Jane Westaway

Posted on December 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404475 Anna Kavan’s New Zealand: A Pacific Interlude in a Turbulent Life Jennifer Sturm (ed) Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869791339 Passageways: The Story of a…

Tagged with: Ann Thwaite, Auckland University Press, Bloomsbury, Christina Thompson, Issue 88, Jane Westaway, Jennifer Sturm, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Summer 2009, Vintage
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Whose story is it, anyway? Kirstie Archer

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

The Fox Boy: The Story of an Abducted Child Peter Walker Bloomsbury, $29.95, ISBN 0747556466 Browsing in a Wellington bookshop, it was with delight that I picked up a copy of The Fox Boy. Here appeared to be a book…

Tagged with: Bloomsbury, December 2001, Issue 51, Kirstie Archer, Peter Walker
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review