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Quality assured, Guy Somerset

Posted on March 8, 2017 by NZ Books

Annual Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris (eds) Gecko Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776570775 Would it kill Wellington children’s publisher Gecko Press to once – just once! – say “Sod it, really, who can be bothered?” and bung out some bit…

Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Gecko Press, Guy Somerset, Issue 117, Kate De Goldi, Susan Paris
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

No need for bookshelves, Guy Somerset

Posted on December 1, 2012 by NZ Books

New Zealand Listener books and culture editor Guy Somerset tries to be brave about e-books. It’s the bookmarks I’ll miss most. At least that’s what I used to think when I was a fervent advocate of the demise of the…

Tagged with: Guy Somerset, Issue 100, Summer 2012
Posted in Comment, ebooks

Bovver boys

Posted on December 1, 2011 by NZ Books

What they wrote A taste of contributor comments over our first 20 years On New Zealand Books My hope is that New Zealand Books will provide a forum for frank discussion that dares to rise above the suffocating confines…

Tagged with: Alan Duff, Alan Knowles, Barbara Else, Bernard Carpinter, Bill Manhire, Bill Sewell, Bruce Stewart, Charles Ferrall, Chris Else, Chris Knox, Christopher Tremewan, Colin James, Dale Williams, David Hill, Diane Hebley, Guy Somerset, Hamish Keith, Harry Ricketts, Heather Murray, Hilary Stace, Iain Sharp, Issue 96, Jane Bowron, Jane Stafford, Jane Westaway, John Campbell, Linda Burgess, Linley Boniface, Mark Williams, Murray Edmond, Nelson Wattie, Peter Wells, Roger Robinson, Sue McCauley, Summer 2011, Tom Beard, William Brandt
Posted in Comment

It’s barbarity! It’s New Zealand! Guy Somerset

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

From the Writer’s Notebook: Around New Zealand with 80 Authors Lydia Monin Reed, $29.99, ISBN 0790011085 George Bernard Shaw was not a man you would have wanted to be stuck in a lift with. If you were ever in any…

Tagged with: Guy Somerset, Issue 78, Lydia Monin, Reed, Winter 2007
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review

Editorial – Issue 70

Posted on June 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Review and be damned There is in Britain a financial journalist called Peter Jay, who, when he was economics editor of The Times, famously dismissed a sub-editor’s querying of his incomprehensible copy by informing him haughtily that the article was…

Tagged with: Guy Somerset, Issue 70, Winter 2005
Posted in Editorial