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Travelling to New Zealand ed Lydia Wevers Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0195584112 It was literally the sort of pub where the conversation stops when a stranger walks in. Only there were just three customers, plus the proprietor, in…
Floating Lines Denis Baker David Ling, $24.95, ISBN 0908990685 Four Ways to be a Woman Sue Reidy Black Swan, $24.95, ISBN 0552996971 Denis Baker’s first collection of short stories and Sue Reidy’s second novel both examine the roles into…
Voice and Vision: A History of Broadcasting in New Zealand, Volume Two Patrick Day Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1869402332 If you think this book will illuminate what you imagine goes on behind the screens when the show’s over…
Valuing writers One of the many reasons New Zealand Books exists is for the sake of writers. Of course, we exist for readers too. Without our readers, both the specialist ones and those who have a general interest in New…
Worlds for Jenny Yesterday in the street a young girl stopped me to ask if I’d caught a ball from the new stadium yet. And I smiled back at her knowing that was her world. I thought about Dunedin,…
The basic premise of your editorial in the December 2000 issue (“Publishers behaving badly”) was quite reasonable. Publishers should indeed accept or reject submissions, or discuss a continuation of consideration with authors within three months. Unfortunately, the editorial tends to…
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New Zealand Love Poems ed Lauris Edmond Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 0195583981 Posthumous volumes invite a certain kind of reading, a feeling that, as this is the last time we will speak to the author, they are addressing us…
After the War Bob Kerr Mallinson Rendel, $22.95, ISBN 0908783515 Hedgehog Howdedo Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $22.95, ISBN 0908783558 Mouse Hotel Pamela and Richard Wolf Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869414497 I Heard a Blackbird Singing Mayne Thompson (illustrations by Barbara…
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Power and Chaos Paula Boock Random House, $14.95, ISBN 1869414357 The Wave Rider Graeme Lay Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 014139028X Red Cliff Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135429 A Whistle from the Blunder Diana Noonan Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135402 About…
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A Spider-Web Season and The Transfer Station Russell Haley Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161799 Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold …” This line from Yeats is the epigraph to Russell Haley’s first book, The Walled Garden (1972). It…
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