The Last of the Human Freedoms: The French Civilians Who Chose to Help Kiwis during the Second World War Keren M Chiaroni HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869508739 In September 1942 Raymond Glensor’s Wellington bomber was shot down near the small…
The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404765 How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging Pat White Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736383 “[A] memoir is how one remembers one’s own…
Sydney Bridge Upside Down David Ballantyne Text Publishing, $32.00, ISBN 9781921520020 It’s hard to think of a more spectacular re-emergence in local literature than that, last year, of David Ballantyne’s 1968 masterpiece Sydney Bridge Upside Down. Ballantyne has been…
The Larnachs Owen Marshall Random House, $39.99, ISBN 978869794972 Meet the Larnachs: Owen Marshall’s choice of title is revealing in its use of the definite article and the plural. Generally, those who know the name Larnach know only one…
The Conductor Sarah Quigley Vintage, $39.99, ISBN 9781869795061 Any author setting out to write a novel with a man or woman of acknowledged genius at its centre is setting herself a Herculean task. When the genius is also a…
Their Faces Were Shining Tim Wilson Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736291 August Bernard Beckett Text Publishing, $30.00, ISBN 9781921758041 These days, Second Coming websites glean enough donations to post video ads on music sites, so even if you…
Fierce September Fleur Beale Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869793289 Guardian of the Dead Karen Healey Allen & Unwin, $19.99, ISBN 9781741758801 Resurrection Mandy Hager Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869795221 When do young people have the chance to engage in…
No Simple Passage Jenny Robin Jones Random House, $45.00, ISBN 9781869795108 We are all increasingly fascinated by our origins. And as recollection turns into memory and then into family anecdote, we go looking for these origins in documentation. This,…
Good manners, really, Paula Browning
Paula Browning looks at the state of copyright in this country and where it might be headed. Have you ever noticed how people’s reactions to different forms of intellectual property vary? If Fisher & Paykel takes action to enforce one…
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