Slow Water Annamarie Jagose Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734506 In 1836, William Yate, clergyman and missionary, aged 3, set sail from London for his beloved Waimate North, the New Zealand mission which had been founded in 1823 by the…
Long Loop Home: A Memoir Peter Wells Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869414683 The body language in the photograph forecasts much about the story between the covers of Peter Wells’s Long Loop Home. A Memoir. Three figures pose on a deserted beach,…
A Life Set to Music, the Autobiography of Edwin Carr, New Zealand Composer Edwin Carr Blanchard Press, $42.95, ISBN 0473078511 With the recent death of Douglas Lilburn, this country was reminded that the vanguard of creative artists, those who first…
The Ambush John Parkyn Quoin Press, $19.95, ISBN 1 877163 23 6 The Diary as a Positive in Female Adult Behaviour Vivienne Plumb HeadworX, $16.95, ISBN 0 473 06342 5 baby, is this wonderland? Jeanne Bernhardt HeadworX, $24.95, ISBN 0…
Eat These Sweet Words. The New Zealand Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Poetry eds Sue Fitchett, Marewa Glover, Cary McDermott, Rhona Vickoce Publishing Giant Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 9583582 4 9 When Two Men Embrace. The New Zealand Anthology of…