Whare Korero: best of Reed writing. This item is unavailable.Whare Korero: best of Reed writing

316 pages. Structured by decade, this anthology showcases some of the most memorable and well-loved books produced by the country's oldest publishing house, Reed Publis hing. Historian Gavin McLean has poured over national archives, private collecti ons and company documents to bring together extracts from nearly 100 publication s - pamphlets, pictorials, fiction, general history, Maoritanga, poetry, sport, cookery, reference, the outdoors and more - to celebrate the diversity and pheno menal output of new New Zealand books by Reed, a tradition that continues into t he twenty-first century. Barry Crump, Mona Anderson and James K. Baxter are now household names and they are joined in the anthology by other New Zealand writer s for Reed such as Dennis Glover, Janet Frame, James Cowan, David McGill, Anne S almond, Frank Sargeson, Mona Anderson, Witi Ihimaera, Bill Manhire, Allen Curnow , Fleur Adcock, Philip Holden, Peter Wells, Margaret Orbell, Bob Jones, Chris Pu gsley, Paul Tapsell and many more. Each extract is contextualised with a biograp hical reference and most also feature the original cover jacket. Many other icon ic book jackets are reproduced in black and white and colour.…