Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Random House declared New Zealand Publisher of the Year

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On Sunday night at the Booksellers New Zealand industry dinner and awards, Random House won the Best NZ Publisher award for the fourth yea...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Researching at the National Archives, Kew

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The National Archives at Kew is one of the world's great treasures.  It's huge holdings, comprising over a billion documents coverin...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

DEATH OF A GENERAL

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I made an amusing blunder at a convivial dinner party with a few good friends (luckily good friends), demonstrating that I am incurably fix...

NZ Post Book Awards

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Congratulations to Judith Binney, Brian Turner, Al Brown, and Alison Wong, who all feature in the New Zealand Post Book Awards . Dame Judi...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

CRIME WAVE HITS NEW ZEALAND

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In yesterday's DomPost magazine, "your weekend," there was a long story by Philip Matthews about the inaugural Ngaio Marsh ...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

INTIMATE MEMENTOES FROM SHIPWRECK

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While in Whitby (North Yorkshire) last month, my good friend Martin Evans noticed and bought a copy of Stephen Baines ' recent book: Th...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

WRITE AN OVER-WRITTEN BLURB

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Alison Flood , in a post to the Guardian Books Blog , is having a lot of fun with what must be the most over-written book blurb ever compose...
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

CENTRAL COAST WRITERS STAGE A HAPPY HOUR

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The CENTRAL COAST WRITERS, a branch of the California Writers Organization   (100 years old and founded by a group that included Jack Londo...
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Friday, July 2, 2010

Bulwer-Lytton contest "won"

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The winner of the 21010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for seriously bad writing is won by a Seattle woman, Molly Ringle .  As she wryly conf...
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HAWAII-BASED POET 17TH U.S. LAUREATE

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Two-times Pulitzer winner William S. Merwin , one of the country's most distinguished and productive poets, has been named Poet Laureate...