Harlequin Rex Owen Marshall Random House/Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 395 4 Y2K is past, the computer and the fridge are still working, but in Owen Marshall’s new novel Harlequin Rex the millennium has unexpectedly tossed up another problem, an…
Jump Start Virginia Were Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 358 5 Rapunzel Rapunzel Janet Charman Auckland University Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 86940 208 1 Hearing the word “narrative” on the lips of a psychologist and an economist within…
On the Way to an Ambush Bruce Connew Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 376 3 So far there have been about 150 wars this century. Some are big-budget affairs like the recent imbroglio in the Balkans, others are…
Out of the Shadow of War: The German Connection with New Zealand in the Twentieth Century ed James Bade Oxford University Press, $39.95, ISBN 019 558363 9 This book is a companion volume to The German Connection: New Zealand and…
Queen Salote of Tonga Elizabeth Wood-Ellem Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1 86940 205 7 Tonga-watchers will know that there is a fairytale aspect to Tonga: this miniature kingdom by the sea containing a whole society in microcosm is a…
Sidetracks Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $24.95 ISBN I 86940 194 8 Salamanca Vivienne Plumb HeadworX, $16.95, ISBN 0 473 05155 9 Sweet Banana Wax Peppers Jenny Powell-Chalmers HeadworX, $16.95, ISBN 0 473 05460 4 Alan Loney is New Zealand’s…
Like lambs … Tony Simpson
In The Instability of a Dependent Economy, arguably the most important book so far written on the realities of New Zealand politics, C G F Simkin concludes that the successful management of our economy depends on the relative balance between…
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