Summer Issue New Zealand Books out later this week

 The latest edition will be in bookshops on 5 December.

  Here’s a comment from editors Harry Ricketts and Louise O’Brien :

“The new Summer Issue (December, Issue 108) of New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa includes reviews of recent memoir, autobiography, children’s literature, fiction and the economy. Tim Corballis and Ingrid Horrocks sift the memorial clippings from Ian Wedde’s The Grass Catcher, David Cohen stares deeply into John C Weaver’s Sorrows of a Century, and Paul Morris reflects on reviewing home and away.” 

Remeber too that readers can visit them on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/nzbooks

 Contents:

2 Paul Morris: Comment

3 Don Brash: Sharleen Forbes and Antong Victorio (eds), The New Zealand CPI at 100: History and Interpretation

4 Ruth Nichol: Geoff Cochrane, Astonished Dice: Collected Short Stories; Vincent O’Sullivan, The Families; Sarah Quigley, Tenderness

6 Julia Millen: Philip Temple, The Mantis; Brian Wilkins, Among Secret Beauties: A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and the Himalayas

7 Catherine Robertson: Owen Marshall, Carnival Sky; The White Clock

8 Nick Lewis: Greg Hopkinson, Boundless; Malcolm Rands, ecoman

9 Tim Corballis and Ingrid Horrocks: Ian Wedde, The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home

10 David Cohen: John C Weaver, Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000

11 Rod Oram: Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple, Child Poverty in New Zealand

12 Christine Johnston, Gemma Bowker-Wright, The Red Queen; Breton Dukes, Empty Bones and Other Stories

13 Paula Morris: Whiti Hereaka, Bugs; Natalie King, Awakening; Karen Healey, When We Wake

14 Barbara Else: Finlay Macdonald, The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd

15 Steven Loveridge: Jennifer Beck (Robyn Belton illus), The Bantam and the Soldier; Peter Millett (Trish Bowles illus), The Anzac Puppy; Philippa Werry (Bob Kerr illus), Best Mates: Three Lads Who Went to War Together; Glyn Harper (Jenny Cooper illus), Jim’s Letters; Philippa Werry (Bob Kerr illus), Anzac Day: The New Zealand Story

16 Glyn Harper: Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds), How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War

17 Anne Else: Coral Atkinson, Passing Through; Jenny Pattrick, Heartland; Sue McCauley, Tropic of Guile

18 Edmund Bohan: Barrie Allom, Dear Tyrant: An Extraordinary Colonial Life

19 David Eggleton: Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas, Sean Mallon, Lissant Bolton, Deidre Brown, Damien Skinner (eds), assisted by Stella Ramage, Art in Oceania: A New History