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Apology to C K Stead

Posted on March 1, 1995 by NZ Books

C K Stead has taken exception to two aspects of a review of The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories in our issue of March 1994. If Roger Robinson’s review gave readers the impression that the absence of four…

Tagged with: Autumn 1995, C K Stead, Issue 12, Issue 17, Roger Robinson, Winter 1995
Posted in Comment

Here and now, Tom Beard

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Scenes from a Small City Lauris Edmond, Daphne Brassell Associates, $24.95 Lauris Edmond’s poems have always conveyed a strong sense of time and place, so it is no surprise that in a volume based around life in Wellington the…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Daphne Brassell Associates, Issue 12, Lauris Edmond, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Making women’s past accessible, Barbara Brookes

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Standing in the Sunshine: A history of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote Sandra Coney, Penguin Books, $59.95 Women’s history, once a marginal pursuit and still not entirely integrated into the academy, is popular. Each year, and particularly…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Barbara Brookes, Issue 12, Penguin Books, Sandra Coney
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

A quite atypical farm, Tom Brooking

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Imperial Patriot: Charles Alma Baker and the History of Limestone Downs Barrie Macdonald, Bridget Williams Books, $59.95 One of the strangest features of New Zealand’s written history is that the rural sector has been relatively neglected. Even though farming, apart…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Barrie Macdonald, Bridget Williams Books, Charles Alma Baker, Issue 12, Tom Brooking
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

Removing the adult voice, Kathryn Walls

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Baker’s Dozen Tom Bradley, HarperCollins, $12.95 Saved by Ryan Kane Pauline Cartwright, Ashton Scholastic, $7.95 The Secret of Boomer Lake Ken Catran, HarperCollins, $10.95 The Breakdown Day Dorothy Butler, Ashton Scholastic, $12.95 Tom Bradley’s Baker’s Dozen is a collection of…

Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Autumn 1994, Dorothy Butler, HarperCollins, Issue 12, Ken Catran, Pauline Cartwright, Tom Bradley
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults

Composed of small moments, Rod McGregor

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

The Miserables Damien Wilkins, Victoria University Press, 1993, $24.95 This, Damien Wilkins’s first novel, seems a natural extension of his earlier stories and poems. It is a bildungsroman of a very modernistic sort, tightly written, concise in scope but large…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Damien Wilkins, Issue 12, Rod McGregor, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

The same old plot, Colleen Reilly

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Like You, Really Kate Flannery, Penguin Books, $24.95 The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Sleep Vivienne Plumb, Otago University Press, $24.95 Best Friends Elspeth Sandys, David Ling, $19.95 All the Tenderness Left in the World Stephanie Johnson, Otago University…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Issue 12, Kate Flannery, Otago University Press, Penguin Books, Stephanie Johnson, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Rich and disturbing detail, Lydia Wevers

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

The Sky People and Other Stories Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, $24.95 The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, $19.95 The Foreign Woman Fiona Kidman, Vintage, $19.95 All the Tenderness Left in the World Stephanie Johnson,…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Fiona Kidman, Issue 12, John McIndoe, Kate Flannery, Lydia Wevers, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, Stephanie Johnson, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

Letters – Issue 12

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Dear Editor I am sorry that Roger Hall was upset by a review of Maurice Gee’s Going West which let the cat out of the bag, but pleased, for him, that he had already read the book and was not…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Issue 12
Posted in Letters

Punditry and punchups: Writers and Readers Week at the Wellington Festival, Jane Stafford

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Get out your travelling rug and air cushion, fill the thermos, select a light paperback in case things should flag. Sharpen your wit – for question time, and your elbows – for the queues beforehand. It’s Writers and Readers Week…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Issue 12, Jane Stafford
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