Nine to Noon Best Books of 2009
Our reviewers selections:
Monday 25 January
Graham Beattie
Containment by Vanda Symon
Penguin
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Orion
Spring in Sicily Food from an ancient island by Manuela Darling-Gansser
Hardie Grant Books
Tender Volume 1 - A cook and his vegetable patch
Harper Collins
The Mind & Times of Reg Mombassa by Murray Waldren
Harper Collins
Beloved - Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Tuesday 26 January
Laura Krotesch
Leviathan, or the Whale by Philip Hoare
4th Estate/HarperCollins
One Last Look by Susanna Moore
Vintage/Random House
Zone of the Marvellous by Martin Edmond
Auckland University Press
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doonlan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
Bloomsbury/Allen & Unwin
One D.O.A. One on the Way by Mary Robison
Counterpoint
Wednesday 27 January
Harry Ricketts
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulkes
Hutchinson
Pistache by Sebastian Faulkes
Hutchinson
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
Faber & Faber, 2006
Just This by Brian Turner
Victoria University Press
Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
Jonathan Cape
Thursday 28 January
Louise O’Brien
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Chatto & Windus
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Text publishing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Maclehose Press
The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt
Huia
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Penguin
Friday 29 January
John McIntyre – Children’s Books
The Chicken Thief by Beatrice Rodriguez
Published by Gecko Press ISBN 978-1-877467-31-8
Gone by Michael Grant
Published by Egmont Books ISBN 978-1-4052-4235-6
Stephen Fry Presents Oscar Wilde's Stories For All Ages
Illustrated by Nicole Stewart
Published by Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-00-734245-7