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More spills than thrills, Bernard Carpinter
The Wastings Don Donovan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 52 7 Don Donovan’s The Wastings could be read as a savage satire on the evils of the right-wing economic theories that have bedevilled this country over the last 15…
Tagged with: Andrew Grant, Bernard Carpinter, Denis Edwards, Don Donovan Hazard Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 41, Keith Stewart, Penguin, Shoal Bay Press, Tony Williams, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A bit of rough, Julia Millen
A Life in Loose Strides: the story of Barry Crump Colin Hogg Hodder Moa Beckett, $34.95, ISBN 1869588223 For 40 years his name has been identified with the quintessential Kiwi male: resilient, adventurous, self-sufficient, laconic, handy with rifle and…
Tagged with: Colin Hogg, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 47, Julia Millen, March 2001
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Clayton’s books? Denis Welch
America on Five Bullets a Day Raybon Kan Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 656 5 Just Walking the Dogs Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 49 7 Yin and Tonic Renée Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Hazard Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 38, Joe Bennett, Random House, Rayon Kan, Renée
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Rough justice, Malcolm MacLean
Mene Confessions: Tall Tales from Netball’s Inner Circle Bernice Mene (and Geoff Young) Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1869588282 Picture the scene: an exceptionally glum group of public servants in Wellington one Monday morning in October 1999. The reason…
Tagged with: Bernice Mene, December 2000, Geoff Young, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 46, Malcolm MacLean
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
A weakness outside the off stump, Harry Ricketts
Stirred But Not Shaken Geoff Howarth Hodder Moa Beckett $44.95 ISBN 1 86958 685 9 Lifting the Covers Glenn Turner Longacre Press $39.95 ISBN 1 877135 19 4 Mark Twain once remarked that in autobiography “it is impossible for a…
Tagged with: Geoff Howarth, Glenn Turner, Harry Ricketts, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 36, Longacre Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Being there, David Kirk
Change of Hart Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $44.95 ISBN 1 86958 571 2 John Hart’s second book in four years, Change of Hart, had a hard act to follow. His first book, Straight from the Hart, written when he…
Tagged with: David Kirk, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 33, Paul Thomas
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Traversing cultural contrasts, David Grant
Winters of Revenge: The Bitter Rivalry Between the All Blacks and the Springboks Spiro Zavos Viking, $29.95, ISBN 0 670 87574 0 Lochore: An Authorised Biography As told to Alex Veysey, Gary Caffell, Ron Palenski Hodder Moa Beckett, HB$44.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alex Veysey, Bob Howitt, Brian Lochore, David Grant, Frank Bunce, Gary Caffell, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 30, Ron Palenski, Rugby, Spiro Zavos, Viking, Walter Little, Winter 1997
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport