Tread Softly For You Tread On My Life: New & Collected Writings Michael King Cape Catley, $34.95, ISBN 0908561881 “This is the sort of letter that doesn’t look well in a Biography,” Rupert Brooke wrote Eddie Marsh in September 1913. Brooke…
Pakeha Maori Trevor Bentley Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 0285540 7 Being Pakeha Now Michael King Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 028438 9 These two books share much – same price, same publisher, about the same length, and…
Wrestling with the Angel: a life of Janet Frame Michael King Viking, $49.95, ISBN 0 670 89371 4 Penguin Books knew they were onto what commerce knows as “a good thing” when they took on the publication they now advertise…
God‘s Farthest Outpost: A History of Catholics in New Zealand Michael King Viking, $49.95 ISBN 0 67087 652 6 Church in the World: Statements on Social issues 1979-1997 by New Zealand Catholic Bishops, compiled by Chris Orsman and Peter Zwart…
Frank Sargeson: A Life Michael King Penguin, $49.95 hardback (paper to come) ISBN 0 670 83847 0 It is easy to appreciate the view that impartial biography ‑ if such a thing ever really exists ‑ is not likely to…
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
Hidden Places: a memoir in journalism Michael King, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992, $27.95 Rachel Lawson reviews Michael King’s new book and discusses his work with him. Michael King has established his reputation through exploring what it means to be a…
Pakeha: The Quest For Identity in New Zealand Michael King (ed), Penguin Books, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 I came to this book already blooded from a remarkably bad-tempered review by Maurice Shadbolt, in which he variously described the contributors as numb…