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The resilience of children, Ann Beaglehole

Posted on December 5, 2013 by NZ Books

Frederick’s Coat Alan Duff Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781869415662 Bangs Stevan Eldred-Grigg Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143568063 Waiting for Elizabeth Joan Rosier-Jones Tangerine Publications, $30.00, ISBN 9780987664617 Alan Duff is one of our most esteemed writers. His best-known novel Once Were Warriors…

Tagged with: Alan Duff, Ann Beaglehole, Issue 104, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Summer 2013, Tangerine Publications, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

What a bind! Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on March 1, 2011 by NZ Books

Joan Rosier-Jones agonises over Coptic bookbinding. A student of mine once wrote a delightful story called “The Capsicum Conspiracy” for his daughter’s ninth birthday. His wife went on the internet and learned how to bind it into a book, and…

Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Issue 93, Joan Rosier-Jones
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Invasion of the strange, Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on December 1, 2010 by NZ Books

Villa Pacifica Kapka Kassabova Penguin Books, $39.00, ISBN 9780143205029 All That We Remember Zoë Adams HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 9781869508821 The Graphologist’s Apprentice Whiti Hereaka Huia, $35.00, ISBN 97811869694227 Many years ago television director Peter Sharpe asked for…

Tagged with: HarperCollins, Huia, Issue 92, Joan Rosier-Jones, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin Books, Summer 2010, Whiti Hereaka, Zoë Adams
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Moments of triumph, Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Transit of Venus Rowan Metcalfe Huia, $31.95, ISBN 1869690834 Love in Shades of Grey Glynne MacLean Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019309 Like Small Bones Ruth Pettis Hazard Press, $24.99, ISBN 1877270784 A first novel does not just appear. It is usually…

Tagged with: Glynne MacLean, Hazard Press, Huia, Issue 66, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Rowan Metcalfe, Ruth Pettis, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Regeneration, Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Grand Stands ed Barbara Else Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414144 Grandparenting with Love and Laughter Trish Gribben Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877178683 Baby boomers are heading into the golden age. Well-educated, fit and lively, they are exchanging the will to be perfect…

Tagged with: Barbara Else, December 2000, Issue 46, Joan Rosier-Jones, Tandem, Trish Gribben, Vintage
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology