Books on Saturday Morning, October 2009
This is a list of books by writers interviewed on the programme by Kim Hill, or books discussed by her and a guest. Books usually have a 2009 or 2008 publication date, except where noted. The most recent programme is at the top.
31 October
Tino Tabak: Dreams and Demons of a New Zealand Cycling Legend
by Jonathan Kennet
(Kennett Brothers, ISBN: 978-0-9582673-5-9)
Dust to Gold: the Inspiring Story of Bendigo Station, Home to Shrek
by John Perriam with photographs by Stephen Jaquiery
(Random House, ISBN: 978-1-86979-280-0)
Not Becoming My Mother
by Ruth Reichl
(Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1741757538)
NB. Ruth is also the author of three existing other of memoirs: Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples, Garlic and Sapphire, and is the editor of new book Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: 978-0618610181) - as yet unreleased in New Zealand.
Billy T: the Life and Times of Billy T James
by Matt Elliott
(HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-1-86950-705-3)
24 October
Truth
by Peter Temple
(Text, ISBN: 978-1-92520-71-6)
the sequel to his 2005 novel The Broken Shore (Text, ISBN: 9781921520716)
Children’s Books with Kate De Goldi: three new books:
Yummy: My Favourite Nursery Stories, by Lucy Cousins (Walker ISBN: 978-1-4063-1621-6)
Reflections of a Solitary Hamster, by Astrid Desbordes and Pauline Martin; Gecko ISBN: 978-1-877467-45-5)
Friends: Snake and Lizard, by Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop (Gecko, ISBN: 978-1-877467-25-7)
17 October
Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? The James Packer Story
by Paul Barry
(Allen & Unwin, ISBN: 978-1-74175-974-7)
10 October
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor
by Matt Latimer
(Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-307-46372-2)
Stephen Page is the chief executive of Faber and Faber. The British publishing house celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, with a new edition of the 1939 book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by original Faber editor T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (ISBN: 978-0-571-24061-6); the Faber Firsts ( ten republished paperbacks of Faber debut novels); Poetry Classics by Auden, Eliot, Hughes, Plath, Betjeman and Yeats; all of Samuel Beckett’s work in newly edited editions; and Faber and Faber: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design by Joseph Connolly (ISBN: 978-0-571-24001-2).
www.faber.co.uk
Kate's Klassics:
Kate Camp discussed Inferno by Dante Alighieri
(Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780140448955)
Dick Frizzell - The Painter
by Dick Frizzell
(Godwit, ISBN: 978-1-86962-174-20)
3 October
Glory Days: from Gumboots to Platforms
by Ian Chapman, aka Dr Glam
(HarperCollins, ISBN: 978-1-86950-728-2)
Peter Gordon: A Culinary Journey
by Peter Gordon with photography by Jean Cazals
(Viking, ISBN: 9780670072668 )
Marti Friedlander
by Leonard Bell
(Auckland University Press, ISBN: 978 1 86940 444 4)