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Bring on the gothic, Jane Stafford

Posted on September 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Fire Deborah Challinor Harper Collins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869506001 Wild Latitudes Barbara Else Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418670 A Secret Mind Kaye Kelly Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 978869417819 Sylvia lay awake listening to the mournful cry of a morepork. Another noise, a…

Tagged with: Barbara Else, Black Swan, Deborah Challinor, Harper Collins, Issue 79, Jane Stafford, Kaye Kelly, Spring 2007, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Sizing up sizing down, Rosemary McLeod

Posted on August 4, 1998 by NZ Books

Stuff It! A Wicked Approach to Dieting Sarah-Kate Lynch Harper Collins, $19.95 ISBN 1 86950258 2 One day, who knows? We may live in a world in which women are not obsessed by their weight. The time may come, even,…

Tagged with: Harper Collins, Issue 34, Rosemary McLeod, Sarah-Kate Lynch
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

An assiduous industry Les Cleveland

Posted on June 8, 1997 by NZ Books

Scars on the Heart: Two Centuries of New Zealand at War Chris Pugsley with Laurie Barber, Buddy Mikaere, Nigel Prickett, Rose Young David Bateman in association with the Auckland Museum, $69.95, ISBN 1 86953 301 1 New Zealand and the…

Tagged with: Auckland Museum, Buddy Mikaere, Chris Pugsley, Claude Thompson, David Bateman, Harper Collins, Ian McGibbon, Issue 28, Laurie Barber, Lawrence Watt, Les Cleveland, Nigel Prickett, Oxford University Press, Rose Young, Summer 1997
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, War

A kiwi space drama, Trevor Agnew

Posted on September 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Deepwater Landing Ken Catran, Harper Collins (Tui), $14.95 Ken Catran is the unsung artisan of young adult writing in this country. He has been writing television scripts (Children of the Dog Star), novels (Steel riders) and film scripts (Alex) for…

Tagged with: Harper Collins, Issue 10, Ken Catran, Spring 1993, Trevor Agnew
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

A new frame of reference, Tony Simpson

Posted on March 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Frontier New Zealand: The Search for Eldorado 1800-1920 Duncan Mackay, Harper Collins, $34.95 The besetting sin of historical writing is hindsightism. That is to say, the creation of the illusion that because we have arrived at today’s destination then…

Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Duncan Mackay, Harper Collins, Issue 8, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Women detecting, Margaret Scott

Posted on March 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Murder at the Brian Boru Joan Druett, Harper Collins, $19.95 Backtrack Carol Dawber, River Press, $16.95 These two books have some similarities but more, and greater, differences. Both are murder mysteries set in New Zealand with a woman observer/ solver.…

Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Carol Dawber, Harper Collins, Issue 8, Joan Druett, Margaret Scott, River Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review