Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands Robert Peden Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781869404857 The early pastoralists of the South Island, with their huge, remote holdings, their substantial homesteads, and their apparent…
Moments of brilliance — Mary Varnham
Mary Varnham surveys the reviewing industry from behind the publisher’s desk. Save me, please. A publisher writing an article about book reviewing and reviewers is akin to a chef writing about restaurant critics: may as well stick your head in…
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