New Zealand Books - Spring 2011 - in bookshops this week

NEW ZEALAND BOOKS Spring 2011

2.        Obituary: Yvonne du Fresne

3.        Garth Baker: Spiro Zavos, How to Watch the Rugby World Cup 2011

4.        Dougal McNeill: Vincent O’Sullivan, The Movie May Be Slightly Different

5.        Anne Else: Frances Walsh, Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975

6.        Dale Williams: Helen Leach (ed), From Kai to Kiwi Kitchen: New Zealand Culinary Traditions and Cookbooks

7.        Jeffrey Paparoa Holman: Joan Druett, Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator

8.        Colin Morris: Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964

9.        David Hill: David Cohen, Little Criminals: The Story of a New Zealand Boys’ Home

10.     Peter McPhee: Keren M Chiaroni, The Last of the Human Freedoms: The French Civilians Who Chose to Help Kiwis during the Second World War

11.     Christine Johnson: Elizabeth Smither,  The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey through Quotations; Pat White, How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging

12.     Paula Browning: “Good manners, really” (Comment)

13.     Hamish Clayton: David Ballantyne, Sydney Bridge Upside Down

14.     Heather Roberts: Owen Marshall, The Larnachs

15.     Elspeth Sandys: Sarah Quigley, The Conductor

           Tim Upperton: “That way only” (poem)

16.     Susan Pearce: Tim Wilson, Their Faces Were Shining; Bernard Beckett, August

17.     Jill Holt: Fleur Beale, Fierce September; Karen Healey, Guardian of the Dead; Mandy Hager, Resurrection

19.     Tony Simpson: Jenny Robin Jones, No Simple Passage

           John Ridland: “Elegy in a New Zealand Country Churchyard” (poem)

20.     Stephanie de Montalk and Melissa Moon: David Carnegie, Paul Millar, David Norton and Harry Ricketts (eds), Running Writing Robinson

21.     Paul Moon: Caroline Fitzgerald (ed), Te Wiremu – Henry Williams: Early Years in the North; Olive Trotter, John Larkins Cheese Richardson: “The Gentlest, Bravest and Most Just of Men”

22.     Helen Vause: David Verran, The North Shore: An Illustrated History

23.     Rebecca Priestley: Anna Sandiford, Expert Witness: Behind the Scenes with a Real-life Forensic Scientist

24.     Mark Houlahan: Paula Green, Slip Stream; Vivienne Plumb, Crumple; David Eggleton, Time of the Icebergs; Cilla McQueen, The Radio Room

25.     Jo Aitchison: “Nihon: What God Would Make This?” (poem)

26.     Helen Watson White: Peter Siddell, The Art of Peter Siddell

27.     David Groves: Jack Ross and Marco Sonzogni (eds), Kendrick Smithyman: Campana to Montale: Versions from Italian

28.     Prize cryptic crossword

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SUMMER 2011 ISSUE

Our next issue (Summer 2011) celebrates 20 years of New Zealand Books.. Look forward to backward glances, reviewers on reviewing, writers and publishers on being reviewed, work in progress and a bumper crossword. Not to mention a swag of our usual lively reviews.