I am an Insect Simon Pollard Reed, $19.95, ISBN 1869487400 The Life-size Guide to New Zealand Wildflowers Andrew Crowe Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0143018477 Pick Up a Pack: a guide to tramping and camping the New Zealand way Keith Olsen Reed,…
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Telling it like it is, Brent Southgate
Tagged with: Andrew Crowe, Brent Southgate, Issue 63, Janet Hunt, Keith Olsen, Mark Inglis, Penguin, Random House, Reed, Simon Pollard, Spring 2003
Posted in Biography, Children, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Children, Literature, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Cooking, droning and drowning, Robin Corney
Delicious Nicky Pellegrino Black Swan, $26.95, ISBN 1869415582 Death of a Conscience Heather Marshall HarperCollins, $21.99, ISBN 869504569 Oyster Catcher Greg Billington Reed, $29.95, ISBN 0790009013 Nicky Pellegrino’s Delicious is a debut novel that draws in her own background (Italian…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Black Swan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Heather Marshall, Issue 61, Nicky Pellegrino, Reed, Robin Corney
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Our very own grande dame, Ginette MacDonald
Davina: An Acting Life Davina Whitehouse Reed, $34.95, ISBN 0 7900 0706 1 That much bandied-about word “Icon” is used rather too often in New Zealand to deify anyone who has stuck their head over the punga pallisade, who in…
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Tagged with: Davina Whitehouse, Ginette MacDonald, Issue 43, Reed
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
NZ Pastoral, Geoff Park
Making the best of it, Paul Day
From the sin bin, Bernard Carpinter
The Cassino Legacy Michael Wall Penguin, $19.95, ISBN 0140288368 Cardinal Sins Michael Wall HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503619 Michael Wall wants to see his name on the airport bookshelves of the world. He is making serious and professional efforts to write,…
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Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, December 2000, Edmund Bohan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Michael Riddell, Michael Wall, Penguin, Reed
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
An open and, David Eggleton
Return to Sender Wira Gardiner Reed, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 25676 8 Nga Pepa a Ranginui — The Walker Papers Ranginui Walker Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 7900 0460 7 All festivals are acts of collective myth-making, chances for a nation to…
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Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 31, Penguin Books, Ranginui Walker, Reed, Spring 1997, Wira Gardiner
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Settling the matter, Bill Oliver
Maori Sovereignty: the Maori Perspective Hineani Melbourne Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 1 86958 208 x Maori Sovereignty: the Pakeha Perspective Carol Archie Hodder Moa Beckett, $24.95, ISBN 186958 209x Return to Sender: what really happened at the fiscal envelope…
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Tagged with: Bill Oliver, Carol Archie, Hineani Melbourne, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 22, Office of Treaty Settlements, Reed, Wira Gardiner
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Rampant Monetarism, Gillian Boddy
Feral City Rosie Scott, Reed, 1991, $24.95 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood‑dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned; (W B Yeats, The Second Coming) The…
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Tagged with: Gillian Boddy, Issue 6, Reed, Rosie Scott, Spring 1992
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review