Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story Kapka Kassabova Portobello Books, $39.99, ISBN 9781846272844 Tango is just a dance in the sense that rugby is just a ball game. You live and breathe it. Or you don’t. Fans –…
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Heart to heart, Jane Westaway
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Issue 97, Jane Westaway, Kapka Kassabova, Portobello Books
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Fruit bats to faith, Stella Ramage
Dark Night: Walking with McCahon Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $37.99, ISBN 9781869404833 A meander through Sydney in the possible footsteps of artist Colin McCahon, who once spent 28 amnesiac hours lost in the unfamiliar city, seems a flimsy…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2012, Colin McCahon, Issue 97, Martin Edmond, Stella Ramage
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Putting yourself on the line, Christine Johnson
The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404765 How the Land Lies: Of Longing and Belonging Pat White Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864736383 “[A] memoir is how one remembers one’s own…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Christine Johnston, Elizabeth Smither, Issue 95, Pat White, Spring 2011, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Withholding and unfolding, Ashleigh Young
Mune: An Autobiography Ian Mune Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517334 Navigation: A Memoir Joy Cowley Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143205715 Searching for Grace: A Woman’s Quest for her True Identity Carol Henderson and Heather Tovey Steele Roberts, $39.99,…
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Tagged with: Ashleigh Young, Carol Henderson, Cath Tizard, Craig Potton Publishing, Heather Tovey, Ian Mune, Issue 94, Joy Cowley, Penguin Books, Random House, Steele Roberts, Winter 2011
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
In plain sight, Martin Edmond
Report on Experience: John Mulgan Peter Whiteford (ed) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736192 In Keats’s last letter, sent from Rome to his friend Charles Brown in England three months before he died, he writes of his “habitual feeling of…
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Tagged with: Issue 92, John Mulgan, Martin Edmond, Peter Whiteford, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Through the unknown, remembered gate, Murray Bramwell
South-West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 C K Stead Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404543 It was T S Eliot in “East Coker” who wrote: “In my beginning is my end.” In a quite different, earlier poem, he produced the…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Issue 91, Murray Bramwell, Spring 2010
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Big schtick, Garth Baker
Antipodes Mark Price Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781877460364 Twisting Throttle America Mike Hyde HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507473 Sleeping with the Dead Marko Cunningham Random House, $37.99, ISBN 9781869792701 These books cover three different kinds of travel experience – a focus…
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Tagged with: Garth Baker, HarperCollins, Issue 90, Longacre Press, Mark Price, Marko Cunningham, Mike Hyde, Random House, Winter 2010
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Days in the sun, Helena Brow
Man alone with his words, Ashleigh Young
Deeds not dolls, Bill Hastings
In the Footsteps of Ethel Benjamin: New Zealand’s First Woman Lawyer Janet November Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736079 The title is important. Janet November has not, in fact, written a biography of Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand’s first woman lawyer.…
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Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Ethel Benjamin, Issue 88, Janet November, Summer 2009, Victoria University Press
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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review