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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, Geoff Young, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 46, Malcolm MacLean, Winter 1999
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in 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
(Not) to the consumer’s taste, Paul White
Wines & Vineyards of New Zealand (1996—fifth edition) Michael Cooper, photos John McDermott Hodder Moa Beckett, $89.95, ISBN 1 86958 297 7 Michael Cooper’s 1997 Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wine Michael Cooper Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958…
Tagged with: Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 27, John McDermott, Michael Cooper, Penguin Books, Vic Williams, Winter 1997
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Just about everything, Bernard Carpinter
Guerilla Season Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $18.95, ISBN 1 8695 8296 9 Murder in Auckland, for book-loving New Zealanders, is much more delicious than killings in New York or Los Angeles. Aucklanders reading Paul Thomas’s crime novels can shiver…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 26, Paul Thomas, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not top spinning, Colin James
The Spin Anonymous Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 442 2 Novelists who stray into politics often produce cardboard cutout conspiracies that treat power one-dimensionally. People knowledgeable about politics usually have too diminished an imagination and/or too distorted a…
Tagged with: Colin James, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 26, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Settling the matter, Bill Oliver
Maori Sovereignty: the Maori Perspective Hineani Melbourne Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1 86958 208 x Maori Sovereignty: the Pakeha Perspective Carol Archie Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 186958 209x Return to Sender: what really happened at the fiscal envelope…
Tagged with: Bill Oliver, Carol Archie, Hineani Melbourne, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Office of Treaty Settlements, Reed, Wira Gardiner
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Doing it our way, Bill Southworth
Mass Media in the Pacific ‑ Nuis Bilong Pasifik David Robie (ed) University of Papua New Guinea Press, $29.95 ISBN 9980840528 Foreign Correspondents Liam Jeory and Cameron Bennett Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1869582101 As the technological means for gathering…
Tagged with: Bill Southworth, Cameron Bennett, David Robie, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Liam Jeory, University of Papua New Guinea Press
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review