Volume 14 | Number 4 | Issue 65 | October 2004
Tony Simpson: Ian McGibbon, New Zealand and the Second World War; Megan Hutching (ed), A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders remember the Italian Campaign; Brendan Judd, The Desert Railway; Jim Rolfe, Brothers at War: A Kiwi Family’s Story; Bee Dawson, Spreading Their Wings: New Zealand WAAFS in Wartime; Christopher Pugsley, The Anzac Experience
Guest editorial: Dark horses and wild cards
Stevan Eldred-Grigg: Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand; Gordon McLauchlan, A Short History of New Zealand
Lloyd Jones: C K Stead, Mansfield: A Novel
Simone Drichel: Witi Ihimaera, Whanau II
Jane Westaway: Douglas Wright, Ghost dance
Rosemary McLeod: Graham Hutchins, Eight Days a Week: The Beatles’ Tour of New Zealand 1964; John Daley, Big Smoke: New Zealand City People in the ‘60s and 70s
Cilla McQueen: Anne French, Wild; Heather McPherson, Travel and other compulsions; Anna Jackson, Catullus for Children
Anne French: Vincent O’Sullivan, Nice morning for it, Adam
Harry Ricketts: Vincent O’Sullivan, Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan
Jenny Robin Jones: Charlotte Randall, What Happen Then, Mr Bones?
Margaret Tennant: Ann Trotter, Mary Potter’s Little Company of Mary – The New Zealand Experience 1914-2002
Sue McCauley: Lydia Wevers, On Reading; Harry Ricketts, How to Live Elsewhere; Glenn Colquhoun, Jumping Ship
Tim Hazledine: Margaret Clark (ed), Muldoon Revisited
Harvey McQueen: Rob Jackaman, Apes Road: Poems Since 1997; John O’Connor & Eric Mould, Working Voices
Diane Brown: Graham Stewart, Auckland before the Harbour Bridge; Ian Carter, David Craig & Steve Matthewman (eds), Almighty Auckland?
Kim Griggs: Witi Ihimaera (ed), Auckland: The city in literature; Christine Johnston (ed), Dunedin: The city in literature; Anna Rogers (ed), Christchurch: The city in literature; Kate Camp (ed), Wellington: The city in literature
Michael Harlow, “Question” (poem)
Mary Macpherson, “Simple” (poem)
Elizabeth Knox: “My ideal reader” (Comment)