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The human condition in extremis, Anna Rogers
Wake Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864737700 “We have experiences that push us out of the flow of time. We react as if the worst hasn’t already happened. We are creatures who learn, and something we learn is…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2014, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 105, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Knowing their stuff, Anna Rogers
The Phoenix Song John Sinclair Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864738257 The Secret Life of James Cook: A Novel Graeme Lay HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781775540120 “It takes a great deal of history,” wrote Henry James in 1879, “to produce a…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Graeme Lay, HarperCollins, Issue 103, John Sinclair, Spring 2013, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reading the past, Anna Rogers
Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736352 The big sheep and cattle stations of 19th-century New Zealand and books were tough, physical, practical places, where men (and a…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 92, Lydia Wevers, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Where the boys are, Anna Rogers
Native Wit Hamish Keith Random House, $44.99, ISBN 9781869418434 Daddy was a German Spy and Other Scandals: A Memoir Brian Edwards Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143009221 Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood Gavin Bishop Random House, $34.99, ISBN 9781869790103 Google “memoirs…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Brian Edwards, Gavin Bishop, Hamish Keith, Issue 86, Penguin Books, Random House, Winter 2009
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Faith and works, Anna Rogers
Shrewd Sanctity: The Story of Kathleen Hall, 1896-1970: Missionary Nurse in China Rae McGregor Polygraphia, $30.00, ISBN 1877332321 In an age of “icons” and “celebrities”, true heroes are hard to find. Kathleen Hall, however, was the real deal. This extraordinary…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 76, Kathleen Hall, Polygraphia, Rae McGregor, Summer 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Revisionist urges, Anna Rogers
The Rope of Man Witi Ihimaera Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790008947 It’s surely a disconcerting and disturbing notion: that a writer’s early books can be rewritten many years later to take account of changes in his life, or in the evolution…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 75, Reed, Spring 2006, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Over there, Anna Rogers
Foreign City Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $36.95, ISBN 1869417275 Responsibility Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734964 White Shadows: Memories of Marienbad Philip Temple Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869416996 I’m old enough to remember the days when a New Zealand novel…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 70, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
If it’s claggy, it must be Wellington, Kim Griggs
Auckland: The city in literature ed Witi Ihimaera Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988362 Dunedin: The city in literature ed Christine Johnston Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988451 Christchurch: The city in literature ed Anna Rogers Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988427 Wellington:…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Autumn 2004, Christine Johnston, Exisle Publishing, Issue 65, Kate Camp, Kim Griggs, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
Angels in the meat-grinder, Les Cleveland
While You’re Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948 Anna Rogers Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869403010 Nursing might be one of the few remaining professions not entirely driven by greed or self-interest. Anna Rogers assembles a chronicle of service…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Auckland University Press, Issue 63, Les Cleveland, Spring 2003
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Red pen pedants, Anna Rogers
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