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Full lives and f words, William Taylor

Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Malcolm and Juliet Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135941 Out of Tune Joanna Orwin Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135909 Coming Back David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783868 Dark Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135968 On a Good…

Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Deborah Burnside, Issue 66, Joanna Orwin, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Penguin, William Taylor, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

History to mystery, Barbara Murison

Posted on December 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Juggling with Mandarins V M Jones HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869504623 The Serpents of Arakesh V M Jones HarperCollins, $14.99, ISBN 1869504771 My Story – Journey to Tangiwai David Hill Scholastic New Zealand, $15.95, ISBN 1869434994 Aunt Effie’s Ark Jack Lasenby Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877135844 Evil…

Tagged with: Barbara Murison, David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 64, Jack Lasenby, Jacob Leaf, Kylie Begg, Longacre Press, Murray Ball, Scholastic New Zealand, Summer 2003, V M Jones
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Flashing and fizzing, David Hill

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Brilliance Anthony McCarten Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415515 A man of the people David Geary Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734409 Two Kiwi lads make good. That’s if you treat noun one and adjectives two-through-three elastically enough. Both these writers “divide…

Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Autumn 2003, David Geary, David Hill, Issue 61, Victoria University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Not in Wonderland now, Rosemary Lovell-Smith

Posted on December 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Harry Wakatipu Comes the Mong Jack Lasenby Puffin Books, $15.95, ISBN 014331808X No Safe Harbour David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783760 Boy Next Door Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877135763 Buddy V M Jones HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869504313…

Tagged with: David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 60, Jack Lasenby, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Puffin Books, Rosemary Lovell-Smith, Summer 2002, V M Jones
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Why bother, Anna Jackson

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Tomorrow the Dark Ken Catran Lothian, $17.95, ISBN 0734404174 The Thin Line V K Joseph Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 090878371X Right Where It Hurts David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0908783701 Alchemy Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $14.99, ISBN 0007131356 I’ve been…

Tagged with: Anna Jackson, David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 58, Ken Catran, Lothian, Mallinson Rendel, Margaret Mahy, V K Joseph, Winter 2002
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

On the open shelves, Barbara Murison

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Jolt   Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 187713550X Tiggie Tompson All at Sea   Tessa Duder Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0141313234 The Name of the Game David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0908783639 I opened my parcel of titles for…

Tagged with: Barbara Murison, Bernard Beckett, David Hill, December 2001, Issue 51, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penguin, Tessa Duder
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Whizzbangs and big bangs, Fleur Beale

Posted on September 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Follow the blue Brigid Lowry Allen & Unwin, $19.95, ISBN 186508400X Letters from the Coffin Trenches Ken Catran Random House, $16.95, ISBN 1869415094 The Sleeper Wakes David Hill Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0141313242 The High Wind Blows David Hill Puffin, $15.95,…

Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Brigid Lowry, David Hill, Fleur Beale, Issue 55, Ken Catran, Puffin, Random House, Spring 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

A slimming diet, Rose Lovell-Smith

Posted on August 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Scarface and the Angel William Taylor Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135445 Afterwards David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 090878354X Twenty-Four Hours Margaret Mahy Collins, $16.95, ISBN 0007113722 Leon Frances Cherry Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0908783582 Here’s a batch of four…

Tagged with: August 2001, Autumn 2001, Collins, David Hill, Frances Cherry, Issue 49, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Margaret Mahy, Rose Lovell-Smith, William Taylor
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Some Content May Disturb, David Hill

Posted on June 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Kalik Jack Lasenby Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 01877135593 Why should I have to review Lasenby? After all, the guy’s beaten me far too often in far too many Children’s Book Awards. I’ll review him because his Travellers quartet of Young Adult…

Tagged with: David Hill, Issue 54, Jack Lasenby, Longacre, Winter 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Guts and gonads, David Hill

Posted on October 27, 1999 by NZ Books

Playing to Win Fleur Beale Scholastic, $12.95, ISBN 1 86943 410 2 Lester Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 21 6 The Tiggie Tompson Show Tessa Duder Puffin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130503 7 Compulsion Tania Kelly Roxborogh Scholastic,…

Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Fleur Beale, Issue 40, Longacre Press, Puffin, Scholastic, Tania Kelly Roxborogh, Tessa Duder
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults