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Feathers and fins, Janet Hunt
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction Alison Ballance Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517273 The Tasman: Biography of an Ocean Neville Peat Penguin Books, $62.00, ISBN 9780143011385 Time was when “non-fiction” meant staid, largely black-and-white books on a…
Tagged with: Alison Ballance, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 94, Janet Hunt, Neville Peat, Penguin Books, Winter 2011
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Map of a vision, Liv Macassey
The Past Awaits: People, Film, Images Vincent Ward Craig Potton Publishing, $69.99, ISBN 9781877517310 The Past Awaits joins a number of recent pictorial books on aspects of Aotearoa New Zealand cinema, such as Ian Brodie’s A Journey Through New…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 94, Liv Macassey, Vincent Ward, Winter 2011
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Withholding and unfolding, Ashleigh Young
Mune: An Autobiography Ian Mune Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517334 Navigation: A Memoir Joy Cowley Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143205715 Searching for Grace: A Woman’s Quest for her True Identity Carol Henderson and Heather Tovey Steele Roberts, $39.99, ISBN…
Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Carol Henderson, Cath Tizard, Craig Potton Publishing, Heather Tovey, Ian Mune, Issue 94, Joy Cowley, Penguin Books, Random House, Steele Roberts, Winter 2011
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Never the whole truth, Spiro Zavos
Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Paper Redmer Yska Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517303 During most of 1979 I lived with my family in Menton, in the south of France, trying to write the Great New…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 93, Redmer Yska, Spiro Zavos
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Cons and rebels, Paul Morris
The Prophet and the Policeman Mark Derby Craig Potton, $39.99, ISBN 9781877517112 The English word “prophet” can mislead us, even if its Maori version emphasises the biblical legacy of seers and seekers of justice who spoke in the name of…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 91, Mark Derby, Paul Morris, Spring 2010
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Building on bones, Eric Medcalf
No Other Home Than This John Andrews Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517082 John Andrews must be a very curious man. This is a book that reflects a life of curiosity, of love for his profession, his humanity and his…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Eric Medcalf, Issue 90, John Andrews, Winter 2010
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Man alone with his words, Ashleigh Young
Backroads: Charting a Poet’s Life Sam Hunt Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517051 Hunt didn’t sit down at his typewriter to write this book. He sat down with his publisher and started rambling. Presented here is a one-sided transcript of…
Poets for the ear, Hugh Roberts
James K Baxter: Poems Sam Hunt (ed) Auckland University Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781869404345 Doubtless: New and Selected Poems Sam Hunt Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 9781877333811 Googling the phrase “New Zealand’s greatest poet” finds hits evenly divided between James K…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Craig Potton Publishing, Hugh Roberts, Issue 87, James K Baxter, Sam Hunt, Spring 2009
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Assessing the New Zealand experiment, Allan Catt
Rescuing the New Zealand Economy: What Went Wrong and How We Can Fix it Bryan Gould Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 9781877333798 Rescuing the New Zealand Economy describes, in a very readable way, the why and how of the New…
Tagged with: Allan Catt, Bryan Gould, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 86, Winter 2009
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Slow exposure, Alan Knowles
Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $59.99, ISBN 1877333549 A history of New Zealand through photography: at long last the poor cousin of art and literature has crawled out from the black…
Tagged with: Alan Knowles, Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 80, Summer 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review