A Shipboard Diary Annie & Harold Beauchamp Holloway Press, University of Auckland $250.00 and $150.00 [no ISBN] This modest work raises the endlessly fascinating question of the relation between life and art. The title-page explains that it was written “by…
A Passion for Justice Peter Williams Shoal Bay Press $29.95 ISBN 0 90870 463 1 We are fed a constant diet of stories about crime, criminals and the criminal justice system – in news’ reports, in television dramas, in novels…
Principles of Criminal Law A P Simester and Warren Brookbanks (ed) Brookers $99.00 ISBN 0 86472 281 8 Adams on Criminal Law 2nd student edition, Brookers $67.95 ISBN 0 86472 282 6 Simester and Brookbanks note in their preface to…
Lake, mountain, tree: an anthology of writing on New Zealand nature and landscape Philip Temple (ed) Godwit $34.95 ISBN 1 86962022 4 Landscape writing – like landscape painting – is as familiar as it is inoffensive. It’s Wordsworth’s Lake District,…
The Foreign Expert: A New Zealand Journalist in China Mervyn Cull Hazard Press $24.95 ISBN 1 877161 03 9 China’s English-language press is full of the unexpected. It ranges from unlooked-for revelations (my favourite is a story which read, from…