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,…
Category: People
Unexpectedly fun read
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…
Inspirational author rises above awful childhood
Ugly, by Constance Briscoe (Hachette Livre, $36.99): Told she was ugly and subjected to unimaginable abuses at the hands of her mother, Constance Briscoe survived an awful childhood to become a practising barrister and one of the first black women…
Looking back to the beginning
Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters (HarperCollins, $26.99): Proving that the rules are sometimes made to be broken, and that sometimes it isn’t always best to begin at the beginning, this book tells the life story of Stuart Shorter…
Broken but not beaten
Losing Face, by Kathy Torpie (HarperCollins, $30): In 1994, Kathy Torpie’s world changed forever. Driving home she had the misfortune to meet up with a drunk-driver and in an instant, her body was broken and the face she had seen…
Spotlight on Ron Roycroft
Up to Speed: The Roycroft Years in New Zealand Racing, by Scott Thomson (Steele Roberts): New Zealand motorsport legend Chris Amon once described Ron Roycroft leading the New Zealand Grand Prix in 1957 as one of the five most significant…
Sir Peter Blake’s message lives on
The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake, edited by Alan Sefton (Penguin, RRP $30): Genuine, true blue adventurers aren’t exactly a dime dozen but here in New Zealand we seem to have more than our fair share. There was Sir…