An Asian at my Table Raybon Kan Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143019104 I first encountered Raybon Kan across a crowded news room at The Dominion when I was just starting out as tv critic back in the early 1990s. Raybon had…
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Geek chic, Jane Bowron
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jane Bowron, Penguin, Raybon Kan, Winter 2004
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
A light yodel, Jane Bowron
The Topp Twins Book Jools and Lynda Topp Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0143018604 The Topp Twins book is an absolute must for Topp Twins’ fans and an absolute miss for those with no more than a passing acquaintance with the…
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Tagged with: Issue 59, Jane Bowron, Jools Topp, Lynda Topp, Penguin Books, Spring 2002
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Our very own “Queen of Hearts”, Jane Bowron
Holmes Paul Holmes Hodder Moa Beckett, $44.95, ISBN 1 86958 758 8 There is something to be said for writing your autobiography at the end of your innings. A life recorded by those who have lived to the fullness of…
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Tagged with: Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 41, Jane Bowron, Paul Holmes
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
I remember, I remember, Jane Bowron
The High Jump: A New Zealand Childhood Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864733372 Anyone who grew up in New Zealand in the 1960s and ’70s can bask in the nostalgia of Elizabeth Knox’s trilogy The High Jump…
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Tagged with: December 2000, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 46, Jane Bowron, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bovver boys
What they wrote A taste of contributor comments over our first 20 years On New Zealand Books My hope is that New Zealand Books will provide a forum for frank discussion that dares to rise above the suffocating confines…
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