Closed, Stranger Kate De Goldi Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130504 5 hanging on letting go Helen Beaglehole Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0 908783 47 7 The Shaman and the Droll Jack Lasenby Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 32 1…
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The flip side of adventurousness, Judith Holloway
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Elizabeth Benney, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 44, Jack Lasenby, Judith Holloway, Kate De Goldi, Mallinson Rendel, Penguin
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
The facts of lives, Bryan Gilling
Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586 Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN…
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Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Cape Catley, December 2000, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Maurice Andrew, Shirley Ferguson, Valerie Cowan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Thriller lite, Bernard Carpinter
Friendly Fire Michael Wall Penguin, $18.95 ISBN 0 14 D27768 4 Taken to the Cleaners Morgan Jones Cape Catley, $19.95 lSBN 0 908561 54 7 Mates Laurie Mantell Hazard Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 877161 33 0 Warning The identity…
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Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Cape Catley, Hazard Press, Issue 36, Laurie Mantell, Michael Wall, Morgan Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The dumbing-down of TVNZ, Bill Southworth
Stand and Deliver Ian Johnstone Cape Catley, $29.95 ISBN 0 90856170 9 A story is doing the rounds that a producer recently proposed a documentary on poverty to one of our television networks. He/she wanted to record the daily struggles…
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Tagged with: Bill Southworth, Cape Catley, Ian Johnstone, Issue 36
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Only kidding, Julie Eberly
Hark William Taylor Scholastic, $11.95 ISBN 1 86943 397 1 Uncle Trev’s Teeth Jack Lasenby Cape Catley, $24.95 ISBN 0 90856166 0 Bad grammar and quickly dated vernacular are the most significant problems in William Taylor’s use of a first…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, Issue 34, Jack Lasenby, Julie Eberly, Scholastic, William Taylor
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Drowning in psychic storms, Lawrence Jones
The Lifeboat Graham Billing Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561 68 7 “Quite the most curious of the recent crop of New Zealand fiction” (Kevin Ireland, Listener); “an intense, demanding, cryptic novel by one of our most respected but enigmatic writers”…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, Graham Billing, Issue 33, Lawrence Jones
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Rediscovery of the self, Janet Wilson
Come Rain or Shine: Women around New Zealand share their life stories Shona Jennings (ed) Viking, $34.95, ISBN 0 670 87834 0 A Family from Barra: An Adoption Story Beryl Martin Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1 86940…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Beryl Martin, Bridget Williams Books, Cape Catley, Heather Heberley, Issue 33, Janet Wilson, Longacre Press, Shona Dunlop MacTavish, Shona Jennings, Viking
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
On the side of life, David Hill
Dare, Truth or Promise Paula Boock Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771 35 08 9 The Family Album Helen Beaglehole Cape Catley, $1 6.95, ISBN 0 908561 58 X The Whole of the Moon Duncan Stuart Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Hill, Duncan Stuart, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 33, Joy Cowley, Longacre, Paula Boock, Viking
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Putting in the bits the author forgets, Lesley Moyes
Beaten by a Balloon Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Jonathan Allan Hamish Hamilton, $29.95, ISBN 0 241 13 778 0 The Bump Joy Cowley, illustrated by Linda McClelland Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1 86943 345 9 Nicketty-Nacketty Noo-Noo-Noo Joy Cowley, illustrated by…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Christiana, Hamish Hamilton, Issue 33, Jonathan Allan, Joy Cowley, Linda McClelland, Margaret Mahy, Mark Dower, Norman Bilbrough, Scholastic, Tracey Moroney
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review