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Becoming heroic, Garth Baker
The Open Side Richie McCaw (with Greg McGee) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712761 Valerie: The Autobiography Valerie Adams (with Phil Gifford) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712624 Let’s start with the numbers, all big. The initial 60,000 print run of Richie…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Garth Baker, Greg McGee, Hodder Moa, Issue 101, Phil Gifford, Richie McCaw, Valerie Adams
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Ongoing investigations, Bernard Carpinter
Death on Demand Paul Thomas Hodder Moa, $36.99, ISBN 9781869712334 Traces of Red Paddy Richardson Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143565765 Bound Vanda Symon Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143565277 Ihaka is back – and about time, too. It’s around 15…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Hodder Moa, Issue 98, Paddy Richardson, Paul Thomas, Penguin, Vanda Symon, Winter 2012
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature
A straight left to the nose, Spiro Zavos
From Poverty Bay to Broadway: The Story Of Tom Heeney Lydia Monin Hodder Moa, $39.99, ISBN 9781869711252 You play rugby and a host of other sports that have a greater or lesser degree of body contact in them. But you…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Hodder Moa, Issue 85, Lydia Monin, Spiro Zavos, Tom Heeney
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Despatches from the rugby jungle, Paul Thomas
Inside Anton Oliver with Brian Turner Hodder Moa, $49.99, ISBN 1869589912 The Winter Game: Rediscovering the Passion of Rugby Todd R Nicholls Mainstream Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1840189150 The New Zealand book trade has long had a vested interest in demythologising…
Tagged with: Anton Oliver, Brian Turner, Hodder Moa, Issue 72, Mainstream Publishing, Paul Thomas, Summer 2005, Todd R Nicholls
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Frontiers of marketing, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand ed Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean TVNZ/Hodder Moa, $79.95, ISBN 1869710061 “Another damned, thick, square, book!” We’ve all heard the story about those words spoken by a doltish Duke of Gloucester upon…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Dalley, Gavin McLean, Hodder Moa, Issue 72, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Summer 2005, TVNZ
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review