New Zealand Books - Autumn 2012

The next issue of New Zealand Books will be in bookstores next Monday. Meantime here is a list of contents to whet your appetite. Order your copy now or even better take out a subscription - subs@nzbooks.org.nz

2         Letters

3         Jane Westaway: Kapka Kassabova, Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story

4         Rose Lovell-Smith: Anna Jackson, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Tatjana Schaefer and Kathryn Walls, A Made-Up Place: New Zealand and Young Adult Fiction

5         Geoffrey Miles: James Norcliffe, The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer; Joanna Orwin, Sacrifice

6         Tristan Clark: Pippin Barr, How to Play a Video Game

7         Nicholas Reid: Paula Morris, Rangatira

8         Jane Stafford: Witi Ihimaera, The Parihaka Woman

9         Tom Elliott: Peter Black, I Loved You the Moment I Saw You

10      Nepia Mahuika: Mason Durie, Nga Tini Whetu: Navigating Maori Futures

11      Tom Brooking: Stevan Eldred-Grigg, People, People, People: A Brief History of New Zealand

12      Paul Wolffram: Diane Pivac (ed) with Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald, New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History

13      Stephen Harris: Ian Wedde, The Catastrophe

14      Bronwyn Dalley: Anne Salmond, Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas

15      Martin Edmond: Peter Wells, The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso; Ian St George (ed), Give Your Thoughts Life: William Colenso’s Letters to the Editor

17      Stella Ramage: Martin Edmond, Dark Night: Walking with McCahon

18      Louise O’Brien: Fiona Farrell, The Broken Book

19      Liam McIlvanney: Geoffrey Miles, John Davidson and Paul Millar, The Snake-Haired Muse: James K Baxter and Classical Myth

20      Bookshelf

22      Ann Beaglehole: “Footmen and gout” (imprints)

23      Peter Russell: Laurie Bauer, Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes and Paul Warren, Q and Eh: Questions and Answers on Language with a Kiwi Twist

24      Ian J Graham: Bruce W Hayward, Graeme Murdock and Gordon Maitland, Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential Guide

25      Samantha Owens: Douglas Lilburn, A Search for Tradition and a Search for Language

26      Rae Varcoe: Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge, Quarantine! Protecting New Zealand at the Border

27      Camille Guy: “How to read when you can’t see” (byline)

28      Prize cryptic crossword

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