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Lady Travellers: The Tourists of Early New Zealand Bee Dawson Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0141004150 Lady Travellers is a successor to Bee Dawson’s Lady Painters, which appeared in 1999, and makes me wonder if there’s a series planned – Lady…
The Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman Grahame Anderson Te Papa Press, published in association with the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the New Zealand-Netherlands Foundation (Inc), $49.95, ISBN 0909010757 The origins of this fascinating…
Kokopu Dreams Chris Baker Huia, $24.95, ISBN 1877266310 First Hunter: Spirit Shinto Dale Elvy HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503899 The Army of Five Men, Volume One Shaun Hick HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503848 Counterpart Mike Johnson HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503856 Hollywood once…
the honey suckers Victoria McHalick HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503805 Extreme Weather Events Tim Jones HeadworX, $19.95, ISBN 0473073870 These are slight books, two debut collections of New Zealand short fiction which, sandwiched between heavier weightier tomes, would scarcely be noticed.…
Jolt Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 187713550X Tiggie Tompson All at Sea Tessa Duder Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 0141313234 The Name of the Game David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0908783639 I opened my parcel of titles for review with…
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Barbara Murison,
Bernard Beckett,
David Hill,
December 2001,
Issue 51,
Longacre Press,
Mallinson Rendel,
Penguin,
Tessa Duder
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Fiction,
Literature,
Review,
Young adults
The Fox Boy: The Story of an Abducted Child Peter Walker Bloomsbury, $29.95, ISBN 0747556466 Browsing in a Wellington bookshop, it was with delight that I picked up a copy of The Fox Boy. Here appeared to be a book…
Johanna’s World O M Andresen (trans Johan Bonnevie) HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503708 Mrs Rochester Warwick Blanchett HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503651 Consequences Carol Thomas HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503732 The uses of history are manifold and many-faceted. The literary uses of history…
The Cars We Loved John McCrystal Penguin, $36.95, ISBN 01401004517 Killing Us Softly: The Kiwi Culture of Complaint John Bluck Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877251100 Kiwiana! The Sequel Richard Wolfe and Stephen Barnett Penguin, $49.95, ISBN 0140298770 We seek…
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December 2001,
Issue 51,
John Bluck,
John McCrystal,
Penguin,
Richard Wolfe,
Shoal Bay Press,
Stephen Barnett
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History,
Non-fiction,
Review,
Sociology
Going Public: the Changing Face of New Zealand History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Jock Phillips Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940226X If I were an insecure sort of chap, I might be worried about what I actually do for a…
Three Labour Leaders: Nordmeyer, Kirk, Rowling ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469394X Mirrors on the Hill: Reflections on New Zealand’s Political Leaders Keith Eunson Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469385 To the uninitiated, looking in askance from without, politics…
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Arnold Nordmeyer,
December 2001,
Dunmore Press,
Issue 51,
Keith Eunson,
Margaret Clark,
Norman Kirk,
Tony Simpson,
Wallace (Bill) Rowling
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Non-fiction,
Politics & Law,
Review