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Women’s histories, Elizabeth Crayford
The Ventricle of Memory Shelagh Duckham Cox, Shelagh Duckham Cox Co, $35.00, ISBN 9780473363864 Casting Off Elspeth Sandys Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780947522551 Shelagh Duckham Cox’s memoir, The Ventricle of Memory, begins in June 1940. Aged five, Shelagh and…
Biting wit, with an undertow of melancholy, Jim Mora
Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir Tom Scott Allen and Unwin, $45.00, ISBN 9781877505911 We all store trivial moments that hang around in the hippocampus for some sort of reason. I remember the late Kenny Everett on Capitol Radio…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Jim Mora, Tom Scott
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The dangers of absolutism, John Larkindale
Balancing Acts: Reflections of a New Zealand Diplomat Gerald McGhie Dunmore, $35.00 ISBN 978927212318 Friends and relations often suggest to diplomats following their retirement that they should write a book about their experiences. Not so, in my view; the world…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Dunmore, Gerald McGhie, Issue 121, John Larkindale
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A bizarre, but very New Zealand, world, Jonathan Lane
Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult Lilia Tarawa Allen and Unwin, $37.00, ISBN 9781760631499 Lilia Tarawa’s memoir, Daughter of Gloriavale, paints her childhood somewhere between an idyllic summer camp in the country and the winged bonnets and…
Art about sadness, Dylan Horrocks
Out of the Woods: A Journey Through Depression and Anxiety Brent Williams (Korkut Öztekin illus) Educational Resources, $40.00, ISBN 9780473390068 American cartoonist Keiler Roberts, whose comics have eloquently documented her own struggles with mental illness, recently wondered on Facebook about…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Brent Williams, Dylan Horrocks, Educational Resources, Issue 121, Korkut Öztekin
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Peacetime at last, Helen Watson White
Astride a Fierce Wind Huberta Hellendoorn Submarine, $38.00, ISBN 9780473395216 Writing in retirement in the small Dunedin apartment she shares with her husband Bart, Huberta Hellendoorn characteristically uses a domestic metaphor to describe her ever-changing experience: The revolving dryer reminds…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Helen Watson White, Huberta Hellendoorn, Issue 121, Submarine
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Brave writing, Charlotte Simmonds
The Walking Stick Tree Trish Harris Escalator Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994118646 A Small Blue Thing Julie Hanify Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780994123770 The Case of the Missing Body Jenny Powell Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578311 What Does the Sea Sound…
Tagged with: Charlotte Simmonds, Escalator Press, Evie Mahoney, Issue 119, Jenny Powell, Julie Hanify, Mary Egan Publishing, Otago University Press, Spring 2017, Submarine, Trish Harris
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Making friends with Mansfield, Ashlee Nelson
Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir Sarah Laing Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781776560691 The graphic form is in some ways a more complex undertaking than straightforward prose, for a graphic text must concern itself not only with the words…
Tagged with: Ashlee Nelson, Issue 118, Katherine Mansfield, Sarah Laing, Victoria University Press, Winter 2017
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The scars remain; the story must be told, Helena Wiśniewska Brow
Budapest Girl: An Immigrant Confronts the Past Panni Palásti Matai River Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780473343712 “Who wants to talk about the past anymore? And who wants to hear?” It’s a challenge to the author from a former Budapest schoolmate, one…
Tagged with: Issue 118, Matai River Press, Panni Palásti, Winter 2017
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Writing about writing, Anne Else
Talk of Treasure Jane Carswell Submarine, $35.00, ISBN 9780994137913 How do you depict the process of writing? Very few of the many films about writers try to show their protagonist actually doing it. Doctor Zhivago demonstrates why: Omar Sharif sits…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2017, Issue 117, Jane Carswell, Submarine
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