Books featured on Saturday Morning, September 2008
(most recent programme at the top)
27 September 2008
Fleurs Place
by
Paul Sorrell with photos by Graham Warman
(Penguin,
ISBN: 978-0-1-4-300860-6)
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi:
Dear
Genius; the letters of Ursula Nordstrom
edited by Leonard S Marcus
(HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780064462358)
The
novels of Meindert DeJong, illustrated by Maurice Sendak:
The
Wheel on the School (1954)
The House of Sixty Fathers (1956)
Shadrach (1957
Journey from Peppermint Street
(1968)
NB.. Kate De Goldi’s new novel has just been published: The 10pm Question (Longacre, ISBN: 9781877460203)
20 September 2008
Other
People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America
by Nomi Prins
(New
Press, ISBN: 9781595580634)
Jacked: How "Conservatives" are Picking your Pocket (Whether
You Voted For Them Or Not)
by Nomi Prins
(PoliPoint Press, ISBN: 9780976062189)
Kate's
Klassic:
The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
(Penguin
Modern Classics, ISBN: 978-0-14-118142-4)
Seasick:
the Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean
by
Alanna Mitchell
(Pier
9, ISBN: 9781741962307).
also the author of the 2004 book, Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots
(Transworld)
13 Things That Don't Make Sense
by Michael Brooks
(to be published in New Zealand in early 2009)
13 September 2008
Beyond the
Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Ask and Tell:
Self-advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum
Understanding
Autism for Dummies
all by Stephen Shore
Native Wit
by Hamish
Keith
(Godwit, ISBN
978-1-86941-843-4)
The Big
Picture: a history of New Zealand art from 1642
by Hamish
Keith
(Godwit, ISBN:
978-1-96962-132-2)
The Awa Book
of New Zealand
Science
edited by Rebecca
Priestley
(Awa Science,
ISBN: 978-0-9582629-9-6)
Atoms,
Dinosaurs & DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists
by Rebecca
Priestley and Veronika Meduna
(Random House,
ISBN: 978-1-86941-954-7)
A Distant
Feast: a History of New Zealand's Cuisine
by Tony
Simpson
(Random House,
ISBN978-1-86962-152-0)
republication of 1999 book
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi:
Bubble
Trouble, by Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar (Frances Lincoln, ISBN:
978-1-84507-758-7)
Who's Hiding,
by Satoru Onishi (Gecko, ISBN: 978-1-877467-12-7)
Special Kev,
by Chris McKimmie (Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-174175-550-3)
The Baby in
the Hat (An Early Romance), by Allan Ahlberg and Andre Amstutz (Walker Books, ISBN:
978-0-7445-8136-2)
6 September 2008
Bomb, Book
& Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
by Simon
Winchester
(Penguin,
ISBN: 978-0-670-91379-4)
When Will
There Be Good News?
by Kate
Atkinson
(Doubleday,
ISBN: 9780385608015)