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The hum of their parts, Anna Jackson

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Paperchase G Brassi Scholastic, $17.00, ISBN 1869437098 Thieves Ella West Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 1877361488 Genesis Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.99, ISBN 9781877361524 These three novels are all presented as thrillers. It is interesting to see thrillers being written especially…

Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Bernard Beckett, Ella West, G Brassi, Issue 78, Longacre Press, Scholastic, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Beautiful and organic, Christine Johnston

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Dunedin writer Christine Johnston rediscovers the still-growing pleasures of Tom’s Midnight Garden. I would have borrowed a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden from Dunedin Children’s Library, which in those days was located in two of the terraced houses in Stuart…

Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Issue 78, Winter 2007
Posted in Imprints

Keyhole history, Barry Gustafson

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

After Me Came the Berlin Wall: Lies, Spies and Journalism Mervyn Cull David Ling, $29.99, ISBN 9781877378096 Final Approaches: A Memoir Gerald Hensley Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 1869403789 Memoirs are not autobiographies intended to be comprehensive accounts of the…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Barry Gustafson, David Ling Publishing, Gerald Hensley, Issue 78, Mervyn Cull, Winter 2007
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

Dwelling poetically, Dougal McNeill

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Brainpark Anna Sanderson Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473543X After the Dance Michele Amas Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735421 Secret Heart Airini Beautrais Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735413 The Unbelievable Lightness of Eggs: Light Poems and Verse Bernard…

Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Andrew Fagan, Anna Sanderson, Bernard Gadd, Dougal McNeill, Hallard Press, HeadworX, Issue 78, Michele Amas, Victoria University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Back to the Spanish front, Keith Ovenden

Posted on June 1, 2007 by NZ Books

Defence of Madrid Geoffrey Cox Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877372382 The republication of Geoffrey Cox’s short work Defence of Madrid (1937) is a corrective to many contemporary assumptions about the Spanish Civil War. It is an eyewitness account of…

Tagged with: Geoffrey Cox, Issue 78, Keith Ovenden, Otago University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review