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SRB: Five Books About Blackball
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 9:59 pm | Scoop Review of Books
By Simon Nathan for the Scoop Review of Books Blackball is a remote and bleak West Coast mining town in the shadow of the Paparoa Range. The main mine closed over 50 years ago, but a small, fiercely loyal community remains. People with Blackball connections ... More >>
SRB: Crimes Against Nature
Monday, 4 August 2008, 7:01 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of of the Week 4 August 2008 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: Mates & Lovers Tops Unity Best Seller List
Monday, 4 August 2008, 9:56 am | Scoop Review of Books
Unity Books is a Wellington institution. Year after year it's named Wellington's best bookshop by papers and magazines that like to run such lists. It's the bookshop of choice for many of the capital's most discerning readers and so it's with great ... More >>
SRB: The Great Land Heist
Sunday, 3 August 2008, 9:07 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast Victoria University Press, $60. Review by RICHARD THOMSON for the Scoop Review of Books Between 1890 and 1920 the New Zealand government bought 4.2 million acres of Maori land, for which it paid ... More >>
SRB: On the Morality of Zionism
Monday, 28 July 2008, 8:03 am | Scoop Review of Books
A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State by Chaim Gans Oxford University Press. Reviewed by JEREMIAH HABER for the Scoop Review of Books I have in my hands -- well, next to my computer -- not only one of the most interesting books ever written ... More >>
SRB: The Face that Launched an Oil Tanker
Friday, 25 July 2008, 8:14 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 25 July 2008 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books Condoleezza Rice may not have launched a thousand ships, but she has had an oil tanker named after her and helped launch a war or two. But is the US Secretary of State, ... More >>
SRB: Drunken Escapades and a Hapless Love Life
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 5:23 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Under The Osakan Sun by Hamish Beaton Awa Press, $35. Reviewed by LYNDON HOOD for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: CHICK LIT – Braunias in Birdland
Monday, 21 July 2008, 7:11 pm | Scoop Review of Books
How to Watch a Bird by Steve Braunias Awa Press, $25. Reviewed by DAVID GEARY for the Scoop Review of Books It’s hard to write about birds without a flock of avian literary devices dive-bombing you, so stuff it, I’m going to let’em all come ... More >>
SRB: A Century Tailor-Made for Remembrance
Monday, 21 July 2008, 3:37 pm | Scoop Review of Books
The Dom: A Century of News, edited by Karl du Fresne. Wellington: The Dominion Post, 2007. Reviewed by ALAN SAMSON for the Scoop Review of Books Let's be blunt. Despite management spin and the timeline claims of this centenary publication, Wellington-based ... More >>
SRB: Enough kVeitching Already
Saturday, 19 July 2008, 8:13 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 19 July 2008 By Jeremy Rose No, I'm not going to have a kvetch about the wretched Veitch affair, I just couldn't resist the headline. A story combining three of the media's pet obsessions violence, celebrity and cover-ups was always ... More >>
SRB: The View Through the Islamic Mesh
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 4:14 pm | Scoop Review of Books
A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini Bloomsbury Paperbacks, $27.99. Reviewed by ALISON McCULLOCH for the Scoop Review of Books When she is first made to wear a burqa, Mariam, one of the two main characters in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand ... More >>
SRB: The Perkins Star Shines Again
Monday, 14 July 2008, 4:44 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Novel About My Wife, by Emily Perkins Bloomsbury, $35. Reviewed by JANE BLAIKIE for the Scoop Review of Books Kiwi celebrity writer Emily Perkins is back with a hot new story – very contemporary, on an old theme. Novel About My Wife is just ... More >>
SRB: All Aboard the Literary Express
Saturday, 12 July 2008, 11:13 am | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 12 July 2008 By Jeremy Rose for the Scoop Review of Books My childhood bedroom was about 10 metres from the Johnsonville Railway line - halfway between Simla Crescent and Boxhill Stations - and the passing trains rattled the ... More >>
SRB: Five Crime Novels that Influenced My Writing
Wednesday, 9 July 2008, 11:17 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Auckland crime writer ANDREA JUTSON - author of the just published The Darkness Looking Back nominates five crime novels that have influenced her writing. The latest in the Scoop Review of Books' Five Books Series... More >>
SRB: The Not-So-Dismal Science
Monday, 7 July 2008, 5:24 pm | Scoop Review of Books
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman W. W. Norton and Company. Reviewed by TERENCE WOOD for the The Pacific Journalism Review More >>
SRB: Pacific Elder Statesman's Reading Material
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 9:14 pm | Scoop Review of Books
SRB Picks of the Week 6 July 2008 I can't help myself from looking at people's books when I visit their houses. So last week when I went to interview Niue's former premier Young Vivian at his home in the village of Hapuku I found myself scanning the titles ... More >>
SRB: The Book that's Got the Hacks Yacking
Thursday, 3 July 2008, 9:08 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Flat Earth News by Nick Davies Chatto & Windus, $60 Few books have generated as much comment from the world's journalists as Nick Davies' Flat Earth News . The Scoop Review of Books is happy to be able to add to that commentary with reviews ... More >>
SRB: A Fair Go for Pacific Women Role Models
Monday, 30 June 2008, 8:08 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Pasifika Women: Our stories in New Zealand, by Sandra Kailahi Reed, 2007, $35. Reviewed by JULIE MIDDLETON Scoop Review of Books PASIFIKA women are the backbones of their communities in the islands and in New Zealand. But so often, in New Zealand as in ... More >>
SRB: Thoughts of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 8:14 pm | Scoop Review of Books
If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew By Mike Marqusee AK Press US$24. Reviewed by ASHER GOLDMAN for the Scoop Review of Books More >>
SRB: Words that Move Public Opinion
Saturday, 28 June 2008, 8:11 pm | Scoop Review of Books
Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear, by Frank Luntz Hyperion. REVIEWED BY HEATHER KAVAN - Scoop Review of Books FRANK LUNTZ is the propagandist who sold Republicanism and Bush to the United States. He prepares congress leaders ... More >>
