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Walking upon ashes, Harry Ricketts

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books
The Search for Anne Perry Joanne Drayton HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781869508883 So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World Peter Graham Awa Press, $42.00, ISBN 9781877651123 On 22 June 1954, in Victoria Park, Christchurch, 16-year-old Pauline…
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Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review

Torn up and homesick, Joanne Drayton

Posted on September 1, 2012 by NZ Books
A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736932   Journey to Oxford  John Mulgan (Peter Whiteford ed) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738196   The end of John Mulgan’s life in Cairo,…
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Stabs of recognition, Joanne Drayton

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books
Getting There: An Autobiography Barbara Anderson Victoria University Press, $50.00,  ISBN 9780864735904 Each weekday morning Barbara Anderson sets off for the office. Her routine is ritualised.  She buys lunch, drinks a cup of coffee while she casts an eye over…
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The mystery writer, Murray Bramwell

Posted on December 1, 2008 by NZ Books
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime Joanne Drayton HarperCollins, $59.99, ISBN 9781869506353   Whatever it was that impelled Ngaio Marsh, at the age of 36, to purchase six exercise books and a handful of pencils and go back to her cold…
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Shifting the ground rules, Aaron Lister

Posted on September 1, 2006 by NZ Books
Leo Bensemann: Portraits, Masks and Fantasy Figures Caroline Otto Nikau Press, $44.95, ISBN 0958224242 Frances Hodgkins: A Private Viewing Joanne Drayton Random, $59.95, ISBN 1869621174 The Expatriates: Barrie Bates and Frances Hodgkins Christina Barton Adam Art Gallery, $25.00, ISBN 1877309044…
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Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Collier reclaimed, Jane Clendon

Posted on June 25, 2000 by NZ Books
Edith Collier: Her Life and Work 1885-1964 Joanne Drayton, Canterbury University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 908812 90 6 Edith Collier left New Zealand in 1913 in order to study art in London. (Ironically, she arrived there just in time to…
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