Mune: An Autobiography Ian Mune Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517334 Navigation: A Memoir Joy Cowley Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143205715 Searching for Grace: A Woman’s Quest for her True Identity Carol Henderson and Heather Tovey Steele Roberts, $39.99,…
Gravel Roads Peter Butler David Ling, $29.99, ISBN 9781877378461 The Widow’s Daughter Nicholas Edlin Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143204091 Settlers’ Creek Carl Nixon Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869794033 Quinine Kelly Ana Morey Huia, $35.00, ISBN 9781869694319 Peter Butler…
The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter, Holocaust Survivor Sarah Gaitanos Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736451 This book is gripping, valuable and humbling. Gripping, because although it adds to a mountain of reports and memoirs of survivors of Auschwitz, it…
Home: Civilian New Zealanders Remember the Second World War Alison Parr Penguin, $50.00, ISBN 9780143203541 Paradoxically, New Zealand was at its best during WWII. Driven by the integrative imagery of the “War Effort”, most of us felt we were…
Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture Julia Gatley (ed) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869404666 Home Work: Leading New Zealand Architects’ Own Houses John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 9781869621667 Sixty years ago The Group…
Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980 Margaret Sparrow Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736321 It was estimated in the early 20th century that a quarter of all maternal deaths in New Zealand were…