Summer Issue of NZ Books in shops tomorrow - Friday 4 December

The Summer Issue of NZ Books (Issue 112, Vol 26 No 1) will be in the shops on Friday 4 December. Here are the cover, cover text and contents, plus a bit more copy for you:

The editors, Harry Ricketts and Louise O’Brien, say: “This is a bumper issue, packed full of superb summer reading.”  For those who can’t think what to give family or friends for Christmas: how about a subscription to New Zealand Books?  Only $44 for four issues, including immediate access to each issue online as well as in print. See our website nzbooks.org,nz for how to give a gift subscription – or treat yourself to one.

2       Vincent O’Sullivan: W H (Bill) Oliver (obituary)

3       John Saker: Phil Gifford, Inside the Cup: Secrets Behind Our All Black Campaigns

4       Mark Reason: David Coventry, The Invisible Mile

5       Jane Stafford: Damian Love (ed), Blanche Baughan: Selected Writings

6       Charlotte Simmonds: Janis Freegard, The Glass Rooster; The Year of Falling

7       Michael Hulse: Vincent O’Sullivan, Being Here: Selected Poems; Judith Dell Panny, Let the Writer Stand

8       John Newton: John Weir (ed), James K Baxter: Complete Prose

10     C K Stead: Rachel Barrowman, Maurice Gee: Life and Work

12     Tim Hazledine: Jane Kelsey, The FIRE Economy

13     Dylan Horrocks: Bob Brockie, Brockie: A Memoir in Words, Cartoons and Sketches

14     Hamish Clayton: Tim Corballis, R.H.I.: Two Novellas; Ian Wedde, Trifecta

15     Louise Wareham Leonard: Hamish Clayton, The Pale North

16     Craig Cliff: Stephanie Johnson, The Writers’ Festival

17     Bernard Carpinter: Tim Clough, Running Towards Danger; Julie Thomas, Blood, Wine and Chocolate; Adam Sarafis, Something is Rotten

18     Elspeth Sandys: Jindra Tichá, Death and Forgiveness; Ann Glamuzina, Rich Man Road

19     Simon Upton: Simon Nathan, James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader

20     Jennifer Shennan: Vivien Caughley, New Zealand’s Historic Samplers – Our Stitched Stories

21     Bookshelf

22     John Horrocks: “Always an outlaw” (byline)
C K Stead: “A matter of time” (poem)

23     Felicity Barnes: Kate Hunter and Kirstie Ross,  Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War

24     Jock Phillips: Chris Pugsley and Charles Ferrall (eds),  Remembering Gallipoli: Interviews with New Zealand Gallipoli Veterans
Ross Harris: Jack Body (obituary)

25     Matthew Wright: “Reviewing the reviewers” (comment)

26     Martin Edmond: Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds), The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing

27     Leonard Lambert: “The Enamelled Box”, “Hinterland” (poems)
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