Shaken, Not Stirred: Family Survival in a Quake Zone, by Amanda Cropp (Wily Publications, RRP $30): For those of us who do not live there, it’s hard to imagine the fear and uncertainty that has swamped Canterbury since the quakes. On September 4, 2010, I was at home when the first biggie struck: before...
Scholar, critic, writer and activist Betty Gilderdale has her memoir (My Life in Two Halves) coming out next month. She became a household name for her Little Yellow Digger books, which have sold more than 350,000 copies, and was also The New Zealand Herald’s children’s book reviewer for 25 years, a lecturer in English at Colleges of...
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