Joanna Margaret Paul Drawing, by Jill Trevelyan and Sarah Treadwell (Auckland University Press, $49.99): Over nearly four decades, the late Joanna Paul accumulated a body of work brimming with graphic invention and poetic observation. An artist, film-maker, poet and writer, she died in 2003 in tragic circumstances that most will remember from the news....
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture, edited by Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn and Mary Paul (Otago University Press, RRP $39.95): When thinking about gothic, most people imagine intense black-clad teenagers, pale and interesting with smudged mascara and a never-ending supply of depressing music. However, there’s more to gothic that that. New Zealand’s...
The Accidental Renovator, by Barbara Biggs (Sly Ink, $29.95): Aussie author Barbara Biggs continues to recount the story of her life in this latest book. While she had a truly awful start to life, being sold to a paedophile at the age of 14 and being admitted to a psychiatric hospital two years later,...
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