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Playing the game, Garth Baker

Posted on March 1, 2011 by NZ Books

The Legend of Beau Baxter Ivan Dunn HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869508234 A Perfect Gentleman: The Sir Wilson Whineray Story Bob Howitt HarperCollins, $49.99, ISBN 9781869508173 All Blacks Don’t Cry: A Story of Hope John Kirwan Penguin Books,…

Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Beau Baxter, Bob Howitt, Garth Baker, HarperCollins, Issue 93, Ivan Dunn, John Kirwan, Penguin Books, Sir Wilson Whineray
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport

On a lee shore, Anne French

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Blue Water: Salt-encrusted Stories of a Life at Sea Lindsay Wright HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781869509002 “ ‘Let’s sail to the Arctic next spring,’ I suggested to Sarah … She gave me a long, cool look … ‘Okay, if you really…

Tagged with: Anne French, HarperCollins, Issue 92, Lindsay Wright, Summer 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport

Invasion of the strange, Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Villa Pacifica Kapka Kassabova Penguin Books, $39.00, ISBN 9780143205029 All That We Remember Zoë Adams HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 9781869508821 The Graphologist’s Apprentice Whiti Hereaka Huia, $35.00, ISBN 97811869694227 Many years ago television director Peter Sharpe asked for…

Tagged with: HarperCollins, Huia, Issue 92, Joan Rosier-Jones, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin Books, Summer 2010, Whiti Hereaka, Zoë Adams
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Enchanted hunting, Barbara Else

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Tussock Elizabeth Pulford Walker Books, $17.99, ISBN 9781921529450 The Ghosts of Iron Bottom Sound Sandy Nelson HarperCollins, $20.50, ISBN 9781869508678 The Sheep on the Fourth Floor Leonie Thorpe HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508159 Shadow of the Boyd Diana…

Tagged with: Barbara Else, Diana Menefy, Elizabeth Pulford, HarperCollins, Issue 92, Leonie Thorpe, Sandy Nelson, Summer 2010, Walker Books
Posted in Children, Literature, Review

Brave or innocent, Bernard Carpinter

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Slaughter Falls Alix Bosco Penguin Books, $39.00, ISBN 9780143203995 The Crime of Huey Dunstan James McNeish Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869793159 The Fallen Ben Sanders HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 9781869508760 The field of crime writing is an expansive one,…

Tagged with: Alix Bosco, Ben Sanders, Bernard Carpinter, HarperCollins, Issue 92, James McNeish, Penguin Books, Summer 2010, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Heroines needed, Dale Williams

Posted on September 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Leading the Way: How New Zealand Women Won the Vote Megan Hutching HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507923 “Tis the glory of New Zealand that her sons were first to see/That there never was a free land where the women were not…

Tagged with: Dale Williams, HarperCollins, Issue 91, Megan Hutching, Spring 2010
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review

A reasonable idea at the time, Barbara Murison

Posted on September 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Telling Tales: A Life in Writing William Taylor HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 1869508378 According to his siblings William Taylor was called after his father’s dog. And here, among an endearing collection of sepia, black and white, and coloured photos in his…

Tagged with: Barbara Murison, HarperCollins, Issue 91, Spring 2010, William Taylor
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review

No holds barred, Joan de Hamel

Posted on September 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Too Many Secrets Adele Broadbent HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508562 Smiling Jack Ken Catran HarperCollins, $22.99, ISBN 9781 869508128 The Haystack Jack Lasenby HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508524 Into the Wilderness Mandy Hager Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869793296 Adele Broadbent is an…

Tagged with: Adele Broadbent, HarperCollins, Issue 91, Jack Lasenby, Joan de Hamel, Ken Catran, Mandy Hager, Random House
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults

Stirring times, Edmund Bohan

Posted on June 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Collision Joanna Orwin HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 9781869507787 Banquo’s Son T K Roxborogh Penguin Books, $37.00, ISBN 9780143202493 The historical novel worldwide has possibly never enjoyed such a golden age as at present, with such remarkably diverse writers of quality as…

Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Joanna Orwin, Penguin Books, T K Roxborogh, Winter 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Big schtick, Garth Baker

Posted on June 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Antipodes Mark Price Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781877460364 Twisting Throttle America Mike Hyde HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507473 Sleeping with the Dead Marko Cunningham Random House, $37.99, ISBN 9781869792701 These books cover three different kinds of travel experience – a focus…

Tagged with: Garth Baker, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Longacre Press, Mark Price, Marko Cunningham, Mike Hyde, Random House, Winter 2010
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review