Blog Archives

Free speech (at a price), Lynley Hood

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

I used to believe that only pornographers, bigots, blasphemers and show-offs needed to worry about censorship in New Zealand. But, in the course of bringing A City Possessed into the world, I discovered that we all have to worry about…

Tagged with: Issue 58, Lynley Hood, Winter 2002
Posted in Comment

The Christchurch Crucible, Greg Newbold

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case Lynley Hood Longacre Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877135623 At the end of March 1992, when I heard about the arrest of Peter Ellis on a number of charges relating to the sexual abuse…

Tagged with: Greg Newbold, Issue 52, Longacre Press, Lynley Hood, Summer 2002
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology

Publisher Profiles 5, Staying alive: the house of McIndoe, Lynley Hood

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

There’s been a subtle change in the south. Over the past month, without any fanfare, Dunedin-based John McIndoe Ltd – the South Island’s biggest publishing house – has become McIndoe Publishers. The three women who now run the firm wanted…

Tagged with: Issue 7, Lynley Hood, Summer 1992
Posted in Imprints

In praise of difficult women, Annabel Cooper

Posted on June 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Who is Sylvia? The Diary of a Biography Lynley Hood John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, $29.95 Sylvia! The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner Lynley Hood Viking, Auckland 1988, $39.95, Paper $24.95 Who is Sylvia? is a day-by-day account of Lynley Hood’s work,…

Tagged with: Annabel Cooper, Issue 2, John McIndoe, Lynley Hood, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Viking, Winter 1991
Posted in Biography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review