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Truths both bald and stretched, Eirlys Hunter

Posted on May 28, 2017 by NZ Books

The Diamond Horse Stacy Gregg HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9780008124397 Grandad’s Wheelies Jack Lasenby Penguin Random House, $17.00, ISBN 9780143507338 Rona Chris Szekely Huia, $15.00, ISBN 9781775501985 The Impossible Boy Leonie Agnew Penguin Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9780143309062 Reading fiction allows…

Tagged with: Chris Szekely, Eirlys Hunter, HarperCollins, Huia, Issue 118, Jack Lasenby, Leonie Agnew, Penguin Random House, Stacy Gregg, Winter 2017
Posted in Children, Literature, Review

Foreign countries, Kathryn Walls

Posted on March 13, 2016 by NZ Books

The Bakehouse Joy Cowley Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 978177650072 The Knot Impossible: A Tale of Fontania Barbara Else Gecko Press, $25.00, ISBN 978177650041 The Girl Who Rode the Wind Stacy Gregg HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9780008124304 Joy Cowley’s The Bakehouse…

Tagged with: Autumn 2016, Barbara Else, Gecko Press, HarperCollins, Issue 113, Joy Cowley, Kathryn Walls, Stacy Gregg
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review

The body beautiful, Rosemary McLeod

Posted on September 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Leisure and Pleasure: Reshaping and Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960 Caroline Daley Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 186940291X Undressed: New Zealand fashion designers tell their stories Stacy Gregg Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 014301899X It may be only recently that firemen…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Issue 63, Penguin, Rosemary McLeod, Spring 2003, Stacy Gregg
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology