Yearly Archives: 2001
A bob each way, Jon Gadsby
The Other Side Of The Ditch: A cartoon century in the New Zealand-Australia relationship Ian F Grant Tandem Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958232008 Thoroughbreds, Trainers, Toffs and Tic Tac Men: A Cartoon History of Horse Racing in New Zealand David Grant…
Tagged with: David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Ian F Grant, Issue 56, Jon Gadsby, Summer 2001, Tandem Press
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Meet the monsters, Tony Simpson
Three Labour Leaders: Nordmeyer, Kirk, Rowling ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469394X Mirrors on the Hill: Reflections on New Zealand’s Political Leaders Keith Eunson Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469385 To the uninitiated, looking in askance from without, politics…
Tagged with: Arnold Nordmeyer, December 2001, Dunmore Press, Issue 51, Keith Eunson, Margaret Clark, Norman Kirk, Tony Simpson, Wallace (Bill) Rowling
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Screw on the loose, Greg Newbold
The Journey to Prison: Who Goes and Why Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950433X Over the last few years, Celia (“Ces”) Lashlie, through her outspoken and sometimes controversial rhetoric, has become a well-known and popular speaker on criminal justice issues…
Tagged with: Celia Lashlie, Greg Newbold, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Summer 2001
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Pulling no punches, Sue Court
Music in New Zealand: A Reader from the 1940s ed Allan Thomas University of Canterbury School of Music, $25, ISBN 090871808X What does an anthology of source readings, soberly titled Music in New Zealand: A Reader from the 1940s have…
Tagged with: Allan Thomas, December 2001, Issue 51, Sue Court, University of Canterbury School of Music
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Running away to sea, Redmer Yska
Swirly World: the solo voyages Andrew Fagan HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 186590402X Wet Behind the Ears: adventures of a runaway sailor Peter Taylor HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869504003 With the sea breathing down their necks, New Zealanders are drawn more than most…
Tagged with: Andrew Fagan, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Peter Taylor, Redmer Yska, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Mating rituals, Jock Phillips
Mates text by Jim Hopkins, photos by Julie Riley HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1869503678 Telephone rings. S.Nag: Hullo. Sam here. B.Loke: Gidday, mate. Brucey here. How about coming down to the pub to watch the footie on the big screen?…
Tagged with: December 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 51, Jim Hopkins, Jock Phillips, Julie Riley
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Paradise preserved? Simon Upton
Pavlova Paradise Revisited Austin Mitchell Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018264 For those old enough to remember it, The Half-Gallon Quarter-Acre Pavlova Paradise was a funny, disrespectful but good-natured account of what it felt like to be a clever, progressive Left Brit…
Tagged with: Austin Mitchell, Issue 56, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Words for music perhaps, Nick Bollinger
Love This Life: Lyrics 1978-2001 Neil Finn Allen & Unwin, $35.00, ISBN 1865085081 Lyrics without melody Mahinarangi Tocker Street Women Press, $19.95, ISBN 0473074427 I have always been a passionate pop fan, but never a great lover of the printed…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, December 2001, Issue 51, Mahinarangi Tocker, Neil Finn, Nick Bollinger, Street Women Press
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Memory and practice, James Ritchie
Ko Tahu, Ko Au: Kai Tahu Tribal Identity Hana O’Regan Horomaka Publishing, $29.95, ISBN 0473079518 In their long journeys into time, the cultures of Polynesia were refined, renewed and developed in their contents and characters not by conscious effort but…
Tagged with: Hana O’Regan, Horomaka Publishing, Issue 56, James Ritchie, Summer 2001
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review
The courtyard jungle, Kerry Carman
Life (and death) in a Small City Garden Philippa Swan Godwit, $24.95, ISBN 1869620798 In the vast and varied field of literature, gardens and writing are a classic pairing. Well-told stories of personal experience are few and far between, grist…
Tagged with: December 2001, Godwit, Issue 51, Kerry Carman, Philippa Swan
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review