The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky, Pocket Books ($28) Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book as startling as it is affecting. It‘s the story…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky, Pocket Books ($28) Stephen Chbosky’s Perks of Being a Wallflower is a book as startling as it is affecting. It‘s the story…
I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen, Walker Books, $19 Sometimes when I really love a book, I like to read the negative reviews on Amazon, which usually only serve…
When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead, Text Publishing, $21 When You Reach Me (recent winner of the Newberry Medal) is a cross genre children’s book set in New York in…
The Book of Everything Guus Kuijer, Allen & Unwin $22 The Book of Everything is the story of Thomas growing up in post-war Amsterdam in a strict religious household. This…
Wake Of Forgiveness Bruce Machart, Houghton Mifflin $30 On a moonless Texas night in 1895, an ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of “the only woman he’s ever been fond…
Are You My Mother? Alison Bechdel, Jonathan Cape ($40) I reviewed this book at the Rainbow Wellington Book Review evening late last year, and since then I have spoken with…
The Invisible Rider Kirsten McDougall, Victoria University Press ($30) The Invisible Rider is a novel about a lawyer, father and husband residing docilely in his local community who begins to…
Washday at the Pa Ans Westra & Mark Amery, Suite Publishing ($25) Washday at the Pa is a central text of New Zealand photographic history and one whose reputation has…
Mad On Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age Rebecca Priestley, Auckland University Press ($45) Recorded history has a peculiar inertia. Its status as a record often makes it seem…
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs & New Zealand’s Anti-Militarist Tradition David Grant & Bob Kerr, Steele Roberts ($35) Sometimes the stories we hear most often are those…