Amundsen’s Way: The Race To The South Pole
Joanna Grochowicz
Allen and Unwin, $19.00,
ISBN 9781760637668
The Telegram
Philippa Werry
Pipi Press, $23.00,
ISBN 9780473462826
Amundsen’s Way delivers exactly what it promises on the cover: the story of Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole, and the manner in which it was shaped by his single-minded determination to lead the first polar exploration team to reach it.
Twice Upon a Time
James Norcliffe
Puffin NZ, $17.00,
ISBN 9780143770671
Into the White
Joanna Grochowicz
Allen and Unwin, $19.00,
ISBN 9781760293659
Taupo Blows!
Doug Wilson
Bateman, $19.00,
ISBN 9781869539672
Those accusations from a few months back – the ones which told us New Zealand literature is a cliquey little club, rampant with mutual back-scratching and buttock-wiping, with the Book Council and New Zealand Books among its most self-serving cliquettes: am I the only one who found them a tad same-old, same-old?