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Volume 24 | Number 4 | Issue 108 | Summer 2014 Paul Morris: “The ordeal of civility” (Comment) Don Brash: Sharleen Forbes and Antong Victorio (eds), The New Zealand CPI at 100: History and Interpretation Ruth Nichol: Geoff Cochrane,…
The Mantis Philip Temple $8.00, Vertebrate Publishing e-book, ISBN 9781906148881 Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas Brian Wilkins Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578489 Old climbers and bold climbers, but no old bold…
Boundless Greg Hopkinson Mountford Media, $30.00, ISBN 9780473260736 ecoman Malcolm Rands Random House, $40.00, ISBN 9781775535034 Boundless and ecoman chronicle the journeys of two of New Zealand’s most colourful and successful entrepreneurs, Greg Hopkinson (founder of pet store Animates) and…
The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739384 The protagonist of the present-day portion of Symmes Hole (1986), Ian Wedde’s canonical and underread novel about settler colonialism, is obsessed with history. He digs…
Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000 John C Weaver Bridget Williams Books, $60.00, ISBN 9781927277232 All of us seek happiness, Pascal declared centuries ago, even at the point of a warm gun. “This is without exception,”…
Child Poverty in New Zealand Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781927247860 “New Zealand has the necessary resources to reduce child poverty, and equitable and efficient ways to secure these resources are available. The question is…
The Red Queen Gemma Bowker-Wright Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739209 Empty Bones and Other Stories Breton Dukes Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864739186 The Red Queen and Empty Bones, two short story collections by new writers, while having much…
Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 When We Wake Karen Healey Allen & Unwin, $22.00, ISBN 9781742378084 Awakening Natalie King Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143570790 Bugs, the eponymous protagonist of Whiti Hereaka’s first YA novel, is unimpressed with much of…
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The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd Finlay Macdonald Penguin, $50.00, ISBN 9780143567967 A tousle on spindly legs has conquered the world. How did it happen? Finlay Macdonald’s biography of Lynley Dodd describes her journey from childhood in the Kaingaroa…
The Bantam and the Soldier Jennifer Beck (Robyn Belton illus) Scholastic, $19.50, ISBN 9781775432074 The Anzac Puppy Peter Millett (Trish Bowles illus) Scholastic, $19.50, ISBN 9781775430971 Best Mates: Three Lads Who Went to War Together Philippa Werry (Bob Kerr illus)…
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