Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age Rebecca Priestley Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407278 In April 1960, thousands of Aucklanders and Wellingtonians flocked to their ports to welcome the USS Halibut. For the New Zealand Herald, the…
Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas David Grant Random House, $45.00, ISBN 9781869793890 In Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas we have as the central character a trade unionist…
Spies and Revolutionaries: A History of New Zealand Subversion Graeme Hunt Reed Publishing in association with Waddington Press, $29.99, ISBN 9780790011400 Rutherford split the atom, Hillary climbed Everest and Kate Sheppard and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union ensured New Zealand…
New Zealand Abroad – The story of VSA’s work in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Trevor Richards, Jeremy Rose, Margot Schwass (photographs: Bruce Connew, Nicola Dove, Bryn Evans, David Gurr, Gil Hanly, Louise Hyatt, Glenn Jowitt, Terry O’Connor) Bridget Williams…