The Plot to Subvert Wartime New Zealand Hugh Price Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735383 One Sunday morning at the end of March 1942, a safe-breaker fresh out of Waikeria Prison rang Cabinet Minister Bob Semple at home from a phone…
Spy C H Kit Bennetts Random House, $37.00, ISBN 186941831X Spy is about the claim that Bill Sutch spied for the KGB. I was well-acquainted with Sutch, and we met from time to time in the 70s to talk about…
Down Boy Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $20.00, ISBN 1877393258 Hillsides: The Best of David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $25.00, ISBN 0958262608 The American sportswriter Red Smith, who produced a daily column for 22 consecutive years, reckoned being a columnist was easy:…
Black Saturday: New Zealand’s Tragic Blunders in Samoa Michael Field Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790011034 Samoa-New Zealand relations are nothing if not complex. Michael Field in Black Saturday, while presenting an overview of Samoan history, focuses on a not only complex…
Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973-2002 John Singleton (with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes) Auckland University Press (in association with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage), $49.99, ISBN 1869403649 This history of the Reserve…
Cup Alison Wong Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 1877338761 The Joy of a Ming Vase Ruth Dallas Otago University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877372307 Brief Lives Chris Price Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403630 The Word Went Round David Howard Otago University…
Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-government, Computer Failure and Information Systems Development Robin Gauld and Shaun Goldfinch Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 18773723X Anyone who follows IT news knows that many large-scale projects end up as catastrophic failures. Even when the projects do…
Dear Miss Williams, Mark Williams
Critic and literary historian Mark Williams describes how he learnt to love his feminine side Adolescents commonly write poetry, but they write poems to themselves rather than for an audience. If they write for others, it is usually to interest…
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