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Hormones and hedges David Hill

Posted on May 29, 2014 by NZ Books

Into the River Ted Dawe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536048 Dappled Annie and the Tigrish Mary McCallum (Annie Hayward illus) Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877579912 Anyone present when Into the River won the Senior Fiction and Book of the Year categories…

Tagged with: Annie Hayward, David Hill, Gecko Press, Issue 106, Longacre, Mary McCallum, Ted Dawe, Winter 2014
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults

From trenches to terrorism, Barbara Else

Posted on March 1, 2013 by NZ Books

Marked Denis Martin Walker Books, $20.00, ISBN 9781921977541 My Brother’s War David Hill Puffin, $15.00, ISBN 9781742532653 Into the River Ted Dawe Mangakino University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780473205089 The Nature of Ash Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781869799038 Two…

Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Barbara Else, David Hill, Denis Martin, Issue 101, Mandy Hager, Mangakino University Press, Puffin, Random House, Ted Dawe, Walker Books
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Boyznbooks, Rose Lovell-Smith

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

And Did Those Feet Ted Dawe Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361494 Single Fin Aaron Topp Random House, $18.99, ISBN 1869417844 Castaway: The Diary of Samuel Abraham Clark, Disappointment Island, 1907 Bill O’Brien Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869437500 Boyznbikes Vince Ford Scholastic,…

Tagged with: Aaron Topp, Bill O’Brien, Issue 78, Longacre Press, Random House, Rose Lovell-Smith, Scholastic, Ted Dawe, Vince Ford, Winter 2007
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults

Lost love, Catharina van Bohemen

Posted on September 1, 2006 by NZ Books

Come Yesterday Sue Emms Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270768 The Lie of the Land Rhonda Bartle Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270814 K Road Ted Dawe Longacre Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877361194 Three second novels by literary latecomers, or writers “d’un certain…

Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Hazard Press, Issue 75, Longacre Press, Rhonda Bartle, Spring 2006, Sue Emms, Ted Dawe
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Torch under the duvet, Eirlys Hunter

Posted on June 1, 2003 by NZ Books

Red Dog in Bandit Country – A true story Bill Redding (as told to Fleur Beale) Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 187713581X Watermark Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877135836 Thunder Road Ted Dawe Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135879 Two of…

Tagged with: Bill Redding, Eirlys Hunter, Fleur Beale, Issue 62, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Ted Dawe, Winter 2003
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults