First Past the Post: An Anthology of New Zealand Racing Stories ed Brian Phillips Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869414152 I’m more amused than seriously persuaded of Phar Lap’s place on National Radio’s Golden Kiwis series. At the risk of…
Strawberries with the Führer Helga Tiscenko Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251038 The first chapters of Helga Tiscenko’s memoir of her life are in large part a tale of the ordinary. Her childhood with her younger sister Sigrid in…
From the Author of Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733887 Animals Indoors Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733895 A close-up of a bat’s face and prehensile paws adorn the cover of Nick Ascroft’s first collection…
Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586 Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN…
Full Circle: A Modern Morality Tale Bob Jones Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161764 Modern Morality Tale.” Let’s begin with those words. And of those words, there’s one in particular I really want you to think about: ”Modern”. “Modern” is a…
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Helen Smyth Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228168 Women will recognise the subtext of Helen Smyth’s history as a record of their own families; not the families posing stiffly in…