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Paging through, Barbara Murison

Posted on December 1, 2009 by NZ Books

All This and a Bookshop Too Dorothy Butler Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143011651 For anyone involved with books for children and young people in this country, All This and a Bookshop Too is not just a book one would like…

Tagged with: Barbara Murison, Dorothy Butler, Issue 88, Penguin Books, Summer 2009
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

Brylcreem and black bloomers, Deborah Laurs

Posted on December 26, 1999 by NZ Books

There Was a Time Dorothy Butler Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 238285 8 Ever since Janet Frame’s An Angel at my Table, it has been difficult for readers to accept “autobiography” as a genre of non-fiction quite as readily…

Tagged with: Deborah Laurs, Dorothy Butler, Issue 41, Penguin Books
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review

Removing the adult voice, Kathryn Walls

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Baker’s Dozen Tom Bradley, HarperCollins, $12.95 Saved by Ryan Kane Pauline Cartwright, Ashton Scholastic, $7.95 The Secret of Boomer Lake Ken Catran, HarperCollins, $10.95 The Breakdown Day Dorothy Butler, Ashton Scholastic, $12.95 Tom Bradley’s Baker’s Dozen is a collection of…

Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Autumn 1994, Dorothy Butler, HarperCollins, Issue 12, Ken Catran, Pauline Cartwright, Tom Bradley
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults