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Posted on June 1, 2013 by NZ Books

Non-fiction Diplomatic Ladies: New Zealand’s Unsung Envoys, Joanna Woods, Otago University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781877578304 Using private letters and interviews, the author of Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield (2001) writes about the wives and daughters who have…

Tagged with: Bookshelf, Issue 102, Winter 2013
Posted in Imprints

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Posted on December 1, 2012 by NZ Books

Non-fiction Children of Rogernomics: A Neoliberal Generation Leaves School, Karen Nairn, Jane Higgins and Judith Sligo, Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578182 A four-year study of 93 young people reaching adulthood in the wake of Rogernomics. What they have to…

Tagged with: Bookshelf, Issue 100, Summer 2012
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction

Bookshelf

Posted on March 1, 2012 by NZ Books

Non-fiction Ray Columbus: The Modfather, Ray Columbus with Margie Thompson, Penguin Books, $42.00, ISBN 9780143206576 The 1960s pop-singer who might have been a priest tells his story, with pictures. Eat, Drink and be Wary: A New Zealand Diplomat Looks Back,…

Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Bookshelf, Issue 97
Posted in Children, Literature, Non-fiction, Young adults