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Tickling the ivories, Edmund Bohan
Piano Forte: Stories and Soundscapes from Colonial New Zealand Kirstine Moffat Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 978187737797 What a welcome book this is. Music has been neglected shamefully for far too long in our historiography, either because most of our…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 100, Kirstine Moffat, Otago University Press, Summer 2012
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Green thoughts in green shades, Hugh Roberts
The Truth Garden Emma Neale Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578250 The Bengal Engine’s Mango Afterglow Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864737618 Warm Auditorium James Brown Victoria University Press, $28.00, ISBN 9780864737649 From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Emma Neale, Geoff Cochrane, Hugh Roberts, Issue 100, James Brown, Otago University Press, Summer 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The hand of fear, Mandy Hager
Telling Lies Tricia Glensor HarperCollins, $20.00, ISBN 9781869509347 Earth Dragon, Fire Hare Ken Catran HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509415 There seems to have been a rash of books recently about our involvement in the two world wars, and both these YA…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 100, Ken Catran, Mandy Hager, Summer 2012, Tricia Glensor
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
The truth or else, Bernard Carpinter
Collecting Cooper Paul Cleave Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 9780143568025 The Laughterhouse Paul Cleave Penguin Books, $38.00, ISBN 9780143568292 The Faceless Vanda Symon Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143567202 By Any Means Ben Sanders HarperCollins, $24.99, ISBN 9781869508777 New Zealand crime fiction…
Tagged with: Ben Sanders, Bernard Carpinter, HarperCollins, Issue 100, Paul Cleave, Penguin Books, Summer 2012, Vanda Symon
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Superheroic coping, Tatjana Schaefer
Reach Hugh Brown HarperCollins, $23.00, ISBN 9781869509569 Broken Elizabeth Pulford Walker Books, $22.00, ISBN 9781921529887 Both Reach and Broken feature episodes of the superhero genre, and in each case this element of the story functions as an exploration into the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Pulford, HarperCollins, Hugh Brown, Issue 100, Summer 2012, Tatjana Schaefer, Walker Books
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review, Young adults
Between dream and dread, Peter Russell
Under New Stars: Poems of the New Zealand Exile: German and English, Friedrich Voit (ed), Andrew Paul Wood, Margot Ruben, Dean and Renate Koch (trans) Karl Wolfskehl The Holloway Press, $290.00, ISBN 978086461828 This book will be welcomed by those…
Tagged with: Andrew Paul Wood, Dean Koch, Friedrich Voit, Holloway Press, Issue 100, Karl Wolfskehl, Margot Ruben, Peter Russell, Renate Koch, Summer 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Getting it covered, Jenny Nicholls
North & South magazine art director Jenny Nicholls looks into the future of book design. Recently I was sent a photography book published by Taschen – Mario Testino: Private View – to review. I had been looking forward to the…
What we make of it, Penelope Todd
Posted in Comment, ebooks