Volume 13 | Number 1 | Issue 57 | March 2003 Joan de Hamel: Sandy McKay, Recycled and My Dad the All Black; Vince Ford, The Dare Club; Jan Thorburn, Stranded; Jack Lasenby, Aunt Effie Editorial A farewell Letters…
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Reading history backwards, Edmund Bohan
The Blue Lion: An historical love story Graham Billing Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 090856192X The Blue Lion was Graham Billing’s last book, for the author of Forbush and the Penguins, The Slipway and The Chambered Nautilus died last December before…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Cape Catley, Edmund Bohan, Graham Billing, Issue 57
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
One of Alf’s, Jack Lasenby
Somebodies and Nobodies Brian Turner Vintage, $34.95 ISBN 1869415078 Few autobiographies return us to scrutinising our own lives. I’ve just had – suffered – that experience reading Brian Turner’s Somebodies and Nobodies. It covers his first 25 years, from birth…
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Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The parent problem, Joan de Hamel
Recycled Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1887135496 My Dad the All Black Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1887135690 The Dare Club Vince Ford Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135682 Stranded Jan Thorburn Mallinson Rendel, $17.95, ISBN 0908783671 Aunt Effie…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Jack Lasenby, Jan Thorburn, Joan de Hamel, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Sandy McKay, Vince Ford
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Art as survival, David Eggleton
Pacific Art Niu Sila: the Pacific Dimension of Contemporary New Zealand Arts ed Sean Mallon and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira Te Papa Press,$49.95, ISBN 0909010838 Robert Louis Stevenson, writing about Samoan culture over a century ago, expressed it thus: No occasion…
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Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Capitalists or cavaliers, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
No Idle Rich; The Wealthy in Canterbury & Otago 1840-1918 Jim McAloon University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276235 Rich and poor have always fought a war of words – turning at times to fists, batons and cavalry charges –…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Jim McAloon, Otago University Press, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Bad girls and bright boys, Raymond Huber
No Alarms Bernard Beckett Longacre, $16.95, ISBN 1877135755 Spider William Taylor Longacre, $16.95, ISBN 1877135607 These two young adult novels are character studies that reveal both the desperation and the potential of the teenage years. No Alarms is a fast-paced,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Bernard Beckett, Issue 57, Longacre, Raymond Huber, William Taylor
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Nudging the unsuitable, Cilla McQueen
How To Make A Million Emma Neale Godwit, $22.95, ISBN 18692100X The Unfortunate Singer Rachel Bush Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734360 My reading’s re-creation, via language, of another poet’s perceptions, thoughts, aural sensibility and verbal skill, allows me a…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Cilla McQueen, Emma Neale, Godwit, Issue 57, Rachel Bush, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Against cupidity, Ian Johnstone
Five Holocausts Derek J Wilson Steele Roberts, $59.95, ISBN 1877228419 It’s been a drawn-out business preparing this review. For the first week after the great volume (472 pages long) bumped through the letterbox, it sat on the window sill, glowering…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Derek J Wilson, Ian Johnstone, Issue 57, Steele Roberts
Posted in Non-fiction
Posted in Non-fiction
Wicketkeeping religion, Neville Emslie
Spirit in a Strange Land (2002), edited by Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts, and Mike Grimshaw, is, apparently, the first anthology of New Zealand poetry to focus on “our spiritual experience”. The collection is a delight and a surprise. The appearance…
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