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Secrets of the All Blacks not all that secret, Spiro Zavos
The Jersey: The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Team Peter Bills Pan Macmillan, $38.00, ISBN 9781509856688 Murdoch: The All Black Who Never Returned Ron Palenski Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516127 The cultural historian E H McCormick once noted that…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Pan Macmillan, Peter Bills, Ron Palenski, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2018, Upstart Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Fifty years on, Spiro Zavos
The Team that Changed Rugby Forever: The 1967 All Blacks Alex McKay New Holland Publishers, $35.00, ISBN 9781869664725 On the afternoon of the first test between New Zealand and the British and Irish Lions, the 1967 All Blacks held…
Tagged with: Alex McKay, Issue 120, New Holland Publishers, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2017
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
The Richie McCaw of golf caddies, Spiro Zavos
Out of the Rough Steve Williams with Michael Donaldson Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143573555 Here is Adam Scott, the languid Australian golfer, on the second playoff hole of the 2013 Masters. He has hit his second shot to the green.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Michael Donaldson, Penguin, Spiro Zavos, Steve Williams
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
It’s a knockout, Spiro Zavos
Fighting Talk: Boxing and the Modern Lexicon Bob Jones Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781775534389 Bob Jones – aka Sir Robert – has written an engrossing book on the fight game. It is satisfying intellectually and emotionally. It involves an original…
Tagged with: Bob Jones, Issue 104, Random House, Spiro Zavos, Summer 2013
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Magnificent obsession, Spiro Zavos
Graham Henry: Final Word Bob Howitt HarperCollins, $50.00, ISBN 9781869509736 Here is an heroic assertion. Graham Henry is the greatest coach in the history of rugby. His rivals for this title include Danie Craven, Carwyn James, Fred Allen and, possibly,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Bob Howitt, Graham Henry, HarperCollins, Issue 101, Spiro Zavos
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
How the ball will bounce, Garth Baker
How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011 Spiro Zavos Awa Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877551093 How timely – a book to help desperate All Black fans get through that most harrowing of experiences, the Rugby World Cup. Despite being…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Garth Baker, Issue 95, Spiro Zavos, Spring 2011
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Never the whole truth, Spiro Zavos
Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Paper Redmer Yska Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517303 During most of 1979 I lived with my family in Menton, in the south of France, trying to write the Great New…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 93, Redmer Yska, Spiro Zavos
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
A straight left to the nose, Spiro Zavos
From Poverty Bay to Broadway: The Story Of Tom Heeney Lydia Monin Hodder Moa, $39.99, ISBN 9781869711252 You play rugby and a host of other sports that have a greater or lesser degree of body contact in them. But you…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Hodder Moa, Issue 85, Lydia Monin, Spiro Zavos, Tom Heeney
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Warrior courage, Spiro Zavos
Against the Odds: Matt Te Pou and Maori Rugby Matt Te Pou and Matt McIlraith Huia, $40.00, ISBN 1869692519 In the early winter of 1952 a frisson spread around the campus of St Patrick’s College, Silverstream: a brilliant young Maori…
Tagged with: Huia, Issue 78, Matt McIlraith, Matt Te Pou, Spiro Zavos, Winter 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
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