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The challenge of being, Tatjana Schaefer
The Falconer’s Daughter N K Ashworth RSVP, $25.00 ISBN 9780987658760 Being Magdalene Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00 ISBN 9781775537670 It almost goes without saying that novels for the young adult or teen reader are about the quest for personal identity.…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, Issue 115, N K Ashworth, Random House, RSVP, Spring 2016, Tatjana Schaefer
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Consecrated ground, Ian Lochhead
Historic Churches: A Guide to Over 60 Early New Zealand Churches Linda Burgess (Robert Burgess photographer) Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775537335 Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design Bill McKay (Jane Ussher photographer) Godwit, $85.00, ISBN 9781775538363 One of…
Tagged with: Bill McKay, Godwit, Ian Lochhead, Issue 114, Jane Ussher, Linda Burgess, Random House, Robert Burgess, Winter 2016
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Distance and familiarity, Lucy Prestidge
To the Is-Land Janet Frame Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869411305 The first volume of Janet Frame’s autobiography was initially a bit daunting to me. Not only because it’s the work of one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers, but because…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Janet Frame, Lucy Prestidge, Random House
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Boys’ own adventures, Tina Shaw
Singing Home the Whale Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536574 Magic and Makutu David Hair HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509330 If these two titles are anything to go by, New Zealand young adult fiction is in good shape. These are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, David Hair, HarperCollins, Issue 109, Mandy Hager, Random House, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Dark places, Margie Michael
The Children’s Pond Tina Shaw Pointer Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473274023 The Faceless Vanda Symon Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143567202 I am Rebecca Fleur Beale Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775535492 These books form a disparate collection apparently linked only by the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Fleur Beale, Issue 109, Margie Michael, Penguin Books, Pointer Press, Random House, Tina Shaw, Vanda Symon
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Good business, Nick Lewis
Boundless Greg Hopkinson Mountford Media, $30.00, ISBN 9780473260736 ecoman Malcolm Rands Random House, $40.00, ISBN 9781775535034 Boundless and ecoman chronicle the journeys of two of New Zealand’s most colourful and successful entrepreneurs, Greg Hopkinson (founder of pet store Animates) and…
Tagged with: Greg Hopkinson, Issue 108, Malcolm Rands, Mountford Media, Nick Lewis, Random House
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Rhyming pleasures, Linda Burgess
Over the Hill to Greytown Tania Atkinson (Viv Walker illus) Wai Art Press, $20.00, ISBN 9780473252526 Bruiser and the Big Snow Gavin Bishop Random House, $21.00, ISBN 9781775534860 Toucan Can Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877467547…
Tagged with: Gavin Bishop, Gecko Press, Issue 106, Juliette MacIver, Linda Burgess, Random House, Sarah Davis, Tania Atkinson, Viv Walker, Wai Art Press, Winter 2014
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Moral force, John Campbell
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk David Grant Random House, $50.00, ISBN 9781775535799 I was 10 when Norman Kirk died. It was the first death I had ever registered. When the news came through, my parents…
Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 106, John Campbell, Norman Kirk, Random House, Winter 2014
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The best kept secret, Stuart Baker
From Earth’s End: The Best of New Zealand Comics Adrian Kinnaird Random House, $60.00, ISBN 9781869799953 I’ve read comics since I was very young. I travelled into history with Asterix and to the moon with Tintin. But it wasn’t until…
Tagged with: Adrian Kinnaird, Autumn 2014, Issue 105, Random House, Stuart Baker
Posted in Art, Graphic novel, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Graphic novel, Non-fiction, Review
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