The Sea Horse It was transparently still in the water just the kick of a stone from your foot. You said, “I’ve never seen a sea horse live before.” But it was hardly alive. It was clear glass, bones in…
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Is it worth it? David Pearson
The Rich. A New Zealand History Stevan Eldred-Grigg Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 140 25740 3 If the poor are always with us, it logically follows that the rich are their constant counterparts. Relative poverty is a companion to relative privilege.…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, David Pearson, Issue 25, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Value for money, John Henderson
Secret Power: New Zealand’s Role in the International Spy Network Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0 908802 35 8 In his sympathetic foreword to this provocative book, former Labour Prime Minister David Lange predicts that it will produce…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 25, John Henderson, Nicky Hager
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – K O Arvidson
The making of new kinds of history, J G A Pocock
Redemption Songs: a life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki Judith Binney Auckland University Press and Bridget Williams Books, $79.95, ISBN 1 86940 131 x This book is a major achievement. Not, perhaps, of the printer’s and bookbinder’s art. It may be…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1996, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 25, J G A Pocock, Judith Binney, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Undesigned revolution, David Caygill
Public Management: The New Zealand Model Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot, Pat Walsh Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 19 558325 6 Later this year the World Bank is holding a seminar here on “The New Zealand Model”. As I…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, David Caygill, Issue 25, John Martin, Jonathan Boston, June Pallot, Otago University Press, Pat Walsh
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Surprising ourselves, Lawrence Jones
Loving Ways Maurice Gee Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 140 25789 6 Little Masters Damien Wilkins VUP, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 298 8 The reader of Loving Ways will quickly recognise family resemblances to earlier Gee novels. The structure within two chapters…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Damien Wilkins, Issue 25, Lawrence Jones, Maurice Gee, Penguin Books, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reliable and comforting benchmark, David Grant
The Game of Our Lives Finlay MacDonald Viking, $39.95, IBSN 0 670 86907 4 For rugby aficionados 1996 has been a remarkable year. In the early part of the season, provincial conglomerates under names more reminiscent of those belonging to American…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, David Grant, Finlay Macdonald, Issue 25, Viking
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Myths of reason and culture, Heather Murray
The Heart’s Wild Surf Stephanie Johnson Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 278 8 A Fancy Man Sue McCauley Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 283 4 The Wedding at Bueno-Vista Shonagh Koea Vintage/Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 282…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Heather Murray, Issue 25, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Sue McCauley, Vintage/Random House
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Spying and all that, Neville Bennett
Seeing Red — undercover in 1950s New Zealand George Fraser Dunmore Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864692552 From 1953 to 1956 the Canadian authorities posted E H Norman as their high commissioner in Wellington. They were “hiding” him in an unimportant post from…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Dunmore Press, George Fraser, Issue 25, Neville Bennett
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review