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A travelling life, Tony Mackle
Don’t Forget To Feed The Cat: The Travel Letters And Sketches Of Stewart Bell Maclennan Mary Bell Thornton (ed) The Cuba Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988595009 This delightful and beautifully produced book is a worthwhile read on several levels. It is…
Tagged with: Issue 128, Mary Bell Thornton, Stewart Bell Maclennan, Summer 2019, The Cuba Press, Tony Mackle
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
At large and at small, Helen Watson White
In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections Otago Students of Letters Department of English, University of Otago, $22.00, ISBN 9780473249818 R A Lawson: Victorian Architect of Dunedin Norman Ledgerwood (Graham Warman photographs) Historic Cemeteries…
Reconsidering a juvenile critique, Jock Phillips
“I think I am becoming a New Zealander”: Letters of J C Beaglehole Tim Beaglehole (ed) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9780864739025 For someone such as myself, this is an engrossing book. I had met J C Beaglehole (his preferred…
Tagged with: Autumn 2014, Issue 105, J C Beaglehole, Jock Phillips, Tim Beaglehole, Victoria University Press
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
A pleasing oddness, Dougal McNeill
Letters of Frank Sargeson Sarah Shieff (ed) Vintage, $50.00, ISBN 9781869793333 Karatani Kojin, announcing the “end of modern Japanese literature” in 2004, caused some alarm amongst readers, despite Japan’s (for us, and comparatively) philosophically open-minded and expansive literary culture. Weren’t…
Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Issue 103, Sarah Shieff, Spring 2013, Vintage
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Curiosa and curiosa, Dale Williams
The Owl That Fell from the Sky: Stories of a Museum Curator Brian Gill Awa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877551130 Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush Chris Maclean Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517686 The Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Gill, Chris Maclean, Craig Potton Publishing, Dale Williams, Debbie Cowens, Friedrich Krull, Issue 100, Katherine Mansfield, Matt Cowens, Summer 2012
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Fiction, History, Letters, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Torn up and homesick, Joanne Drayton
A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736932 Journey to Oxford John Mulgan (Peter Whiteford ed) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864738196 The end of John Mulgan’s life in Cairo,…
Tagged with: Issue 99, Joanne Drayton, John Mulgan, Peter Whiteford, Spring 2012, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
What we call the past, Martin Edmond
The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso Peter Wells Vintage, $49.99, ISBN 9781869794743 Give Your Thoughts Life: William Colenso’s Letters to the Editor Ian St George (ed) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781877578144 The Greek word historia, from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Ian St George, Issue 97, Martin Edmond, Otago University Press, Peter Wells, Vintage, William Colenso
Posted in Biography, History, Letters
Posted in Biography, History, Letters
Good old immortal artists, Vincent O’Sullivan
Dear Charles Dear Janet: Frame and Brasch in Correspondence Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold (eds) Holloway Press, $250.00, ISBN 9780986461804 As I’ve thought before about the Holloway Press, it’s a tricky business to bring out works of deliberately…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Charles Brasch, Denis Harold, Holloway Press, Issue 93, Janet Frame, Pamela Gordon, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Doing what she pleased, Jill Trevelyan
Letters on the Go: The Correspondence of Suzanne Aubert Jessie Munro (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $69.99, ISBN 9781877242427 In 1922, 87-year-old Suzanne Aubert wrote to a Raetihi farmer: Dear Mr Punch Your valuable present of another truck-load of firewood arrived…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 89, Jessie Munro, Jill Trevelyan, Suzanne Aubert
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
It was hell, Gavin McLean
Diary of a Kiwi Soldier in World War II Cecil Coughlan (ed Garrie Coughlan) Reed, $19.99, ISBN 1007900104X No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G Malone ed John Crawford (with Peter Cooke) Reed, $49.99, ISBN…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 74, Winter 2006
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War