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The game’s up, Amy, Paula Boock
Mad or Bad? The Life and Exploits of Amy Bock 1859-1943 Jenny Coleman Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 9781877372711 Amy Bock is best-known as the cross-dressing confidence trickster who scandalised the nation by marrying a woman in an extravagant wedding…
Tagged with: Issue 91, Jenny Coleman, Otago University Press, Paula Boock, Spring 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
So far, so George, Paula Boock
When She Became He: A Change for Good John Thorp Cape Catley, $27.99, ISBN 1877340073 When I worked as a publisher a well-worn line about New Zealand autobiographies was that only All Blacks and politicians could sell enough to make…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Issue 80, John Thorp, Paula Boock, Summer 2007
Posted in Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Taking ideas for a walk, Anne French
Tracing the Arc John Saker Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237557 On Make-up and Makeover Paula Boock Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237549 Notes of a Bag Lady Margaret Mahy Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958237522 Until recently, the essay…
Tagged with: Anne French, Four Winds Press, Issue 59, John Saker, Margaret Mahy, Paula Boock, Spring 2002
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Holding the baby, Paula Boock
The Skeleton Woman: A Romance Renée Huia Publishers, $29.95, ISBN 1877283169 In a review of this, Renée’s fifth novel, the New Zealand Listener used the gratuitous headline “The one about the lesbian and the baby”. Shame on them. What it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Huia Publishers, Issue 57, Paula Boock, Renée
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Apocalypse Soon, David Hill
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…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Diana Noonan, Graeme Lay, Issue 47, Longacre, March 2001, Paula Boock, Penguin, Random House
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
“A definitive affirmative”, Paula Boock
Just Looking, Thanks David Hill Penguin, $14.95, ISBN 0 14 130681 5 Time Out David Hill Mallinson Rendell, $14.95, ISBN 0 908783 43 4 Boots ‘n’ All David Hill Scholastic, $11.95, ISBN 1 86943 395 5 Impact David Hill Penguin,…
Tagged with: Autumn 1999, David Hill, Issue 45, Mallinson Rendell, Paula Boock, Penguin, Scholastic
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Innocence into experience, Paula Boock
Tawa Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press $19.95 ISBN 0 86473 336 4 The final in the trilogy of Elizabeth Knox’s autobiographical novellas – the other two being Paremata and Pomare – Tawa is set in 1973, when Lex Keene is…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 35, Paula Boock, Victoria University Press
Posted in Autobiography, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Fiction, Literature, Review
On the side of life, David Hill
Dare, Truth or Promise Paula Boock Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771 35 08 9 The Family Album Helen Beaglehole Cape Catley, $1 6.95, ISBN 0 908561 58 X The Whole of the Moon Duncan Stuart Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1 8771…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, David Hill, Duncan Stuart, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 33, Joy Cowley, Longacre, Paula Boock, Viking
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Reinterpreting the old tales, Anne Else
Sasscat to Win Paula Boock, McIndoe Publishers, $16.95 Adoption in some form has long been a staple of story-telling for the young – especially where it concerns a goosegirl or a ploughboy who are brought up by peasants, but turn…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 10, McIndoe Publishers, Paula Boock, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Courier to Times New Roman — Paula Boock
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