This edition of Books & Beyond pays tribute to the city of Auckland by choosing books of historical recollections, novelistic descriptions and poetic odes.
Books mentioned in this episode can be requested from our catalogue:
Dove on the waters by Maurice Shadbolt: https://bit.ly/3IgRffP
The new animals by Pip Adam: https://bit.ly/3uuCnEJ
Te Atatu me: photographs of an urban New Zealand village by John B. Turner; historical essay by Grant Cole: https://bit.ly/3ONwvPd
A fine prospect: a history of Remuera, Meadowbank and St Johns by Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow: https://bit.ly/3upwZD1
Urban village: the story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary’s Bay by Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow: https://bit.ly/3Awwtac
Auckland by the sea: 100 years of work and play by David Johnson: https://bit.ly/3AE7Kk2
Flowers after the sun: poems by John Pule: https://bit.ly/3RaAwyV
Sonnets to Van Gogh & providence by John Pule: https://bit.ly/3InyszA
Love as a stranger by Owen Marshall: https://bit.ly/3IzfINH
One hundred poems and a year by Bob Orr: https://bit.ly/3agbP3u
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman: https://bit.ly/3ahH9P6