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Book review: The Little Yellow Digger Treasury – Betty & Alan Gilderdale

Written for Booksellers.co.nz / https://booksellersnz.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/book-review-the-little-yellow-digger-treasury-by-betty-alan-gilderdale/ Apart from the Little Yellow Digger series Betty Gilderdale is probably best known as being a scholar of New Zealand children’s literature, including her ground-breaking study A Sea Change: 145 Years of New Zealand Junior Fiction (1982), which won the PEN Award for best first

Interview: Tim Hart – Boy & Bear

Aussie folk-popsters Boy and Bear (Dave Hosking (vocals /guitars); Killian Gavin (guitars/vocals), Tim Hart (drums/vocals), Jon Hart (keys/vocals) and Dave Symes (bass/vocals)) kicked off their Australasian tour on Friday 22 January in Tasmania, in support of their third album Limit of Love.  Tim Gruar caught up with their drummer, Tim

Review: Boy and Bear – Eden Mulholland – Luke Thompson / Wellington Opera House Sunday 7 February 2016

On a hot and sticky night the Capital’s fashionably late are still preening and showering after their day at the beach. So the Opera House remains a cavernous echo chamber when the first act Eden Mulholland and Adam Topeck open the show with a solid set from Eden’s latest release. 

In conversation with Nadia Lim

In conversation with John Psathas

An interview about the upcoming project at the NZ Festival – ‘No Man’s Land’