Sydney Bridge Upside Down David Ballantyne Text Publishing, $32.00, ISBN 9781921520020 It’s hard to think of a more spectacular re-emergence in local literature than that, last year, of David Ballantyne’s 1968 masterpiece Sydney Bridge Upside Down. Ballantyne has been…
After the Fireworks: A Life of David Ballantyne Bryan Reid Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403274 David Ballantyne’s life in many ways represents the Kiwi dream. Boy from cash-strapped, part-Maori, provincial family, with minimal schooling, through talent and hard work…