Roy Colbert – The Spinoff

Book of the Week: Roy Colbert on Women Of The Catlins

22 September 201622 September 2016 by Roy Colbert

Roy Colbert reviews Women of the Catlins: Life In The Deep South Women have always done it hard in the Catlins, a, I was going to say a remote and difficult area on the South Island’s south-east coast, but the people who live there would have none of that. For townies, it would be remote, harsh, … Read more

Books: Book of the Week – Roy Colbert Reviews Colin Hogg

21 November 201520 November 2015 by Roy Colbert

The sombre tale of two Southern Men facing up to the fact – or doing their best to ignore the fact – that one of them has a year left to live. Media veterans and lifelong friends, Colin Hogg and Gordon McBride, are chatting in the embers of a Hogg birthday afternoon, sun sinking slowly. McBride’s … Read more