Human Remains Denis Welch David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0 908990 65 0 I know, I know – Andrea Porter would never have got through to Allen Terrill on his cellphone. It would have been switched off or out of range, just…
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Secrets and lies, Fleur Beale
Love and Other Excuses Jane Westaway Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 28 3 Hostel Girl Maurice Gee Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0 14 130653 X Jerome William Taylor Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 877135 29 1 I started reading Love and Other…
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Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Hard acts to follow, Richard Smith
Mechanical Harry and the Flying Bicycle Bob Kerr Mallinson Rendel, $14.95, ISBN 0 908783 38 8 The Little Yellow Digger at the Zoo Betty Gilderdale and Alan Gilderdale Scholastic, $14.95, ISBN 1 86943 448 X Grandma McGarvey Goes to School…
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Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Obituary – Lauris Edmond
NZ Pastoral, Geoff Park
New twists for old, Harry Ricketts
An eye on the ball, Graham Mourie
Rights of Passage: Beyond the New Zealand Identity Crisis Chris Laidlaw Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 723 5 Chris Laidlaw was a quality All Black in the late 1960s, who achieved prominence by firing a Parthian shot at…
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Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
A colourful life, Belinda Cullinan
Shona McFarlane, A Memoir Shona McFarlane Penguin, $49.95, ISBN 0 14 028481 8 Shona McFarlane follows in the tradition of 19th-century New Zealand women artists who sketched and painted their families, friends and immediate surroundings. This charming memoir, her sixth…
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Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Take one, Alistair Paterson
Shoot Mark Pirie Sudden Valley Press, $16.95, ISBN 0 9583684 4 9 Poetry has become increasingly a difficult art form: it demands something more than the tossing off of a few casual thoughts and feelings and putting them onto paper.…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review