Geography for the Lost Kapka Kassabova Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869403874 Made for Weather Kay McKenzie Cooke University of Otago Press, $29.95, ISBN 9781877372490 84-484 Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864735584 Cold Snack Janet Charman Auckland University…
Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display Conal McCarthy Te Papa Press, $69.95, ISBN 9781877385339 Mana taonga mana tangata. Exhibiting Maori is primarily an academic book. Originally published by Berg, an imprint of Oxford International Publishers, its style…
Rats! Gavin Bishop Random House, $30.00, ISBN 978869419028 Tahi: One Lucky Kiwi Melanie Drewery, illustrations Ali Teo and John O’Reilly Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9781869419301 To the Harbour Stanley Palmer Lopdell House Gallery, $35.00, ISBN 9780958228442 Snake and Lizard Joy…
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful Brigid Lowry Allen and Unwin, $19.99, ISBN 9781741751604 The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves Fleur Beale Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869418366 Duet David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $17.00, ISBN 9781877423062 Full marks to the three well-established authors…
Collected Poems Charles Spear (Peter Simpson ed) Holloway Press, $200.00, ISBN 0958231370 Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): there’s an undeniable fascination about one-book wonders. Those were novelists,…
Ghost in the machine, John McCrystal
John McCrystal explores the practice and ethics of ghost-writing. Everyone has a book inside them, as the saying goes. But not everyone can bring their inner book into the world without intervention. And as with childbirth, varying degrees of intervention…
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