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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
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
War stories, Anne Else
Passing Through Coral Atkinson Dancing Tuatara, $35.00, ISBN 9780473262693 Heartland Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $37.00, ISBN 9781775535850 Tropic of Guile Sue McCauley Xlibris, $42.00, ISBN 9781483683195 All three of these novels centre on hard-won survival against the odds of poverty,…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Black Swan, Coral Atkinson, Dancing Tuatara, Issue 108, Jenny Pattrick, Sue McCauley, Summer 2014, Xlibris
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Square meals, Ruth Nichol
The Colour of Food: A Memoir of Life, Love and Dinner Anne Else Awa Press, $12.00, ISBN 9781877551925 Back in the days when most New Zealanders ate the same stuff – mince, chops, sausages, a roast on Sunday – the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Awa Press, Issue 103, Ruth Nichol, Spring 2013
Posted in ebooks, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in ebooks, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
A bit of fluff, Anne Else
A Woman’s Place Redmer Yska Penguin Books, $20.00, ISBN 97840143568087 A Woman’s Place is a small book in every sense. Penguin’s web page classes it as both “humour” and “gift book”. Though it does have pages and a cover, it…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Redmer Yska, Winter 2013
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Occupation: housewife, Anne Else
Inside Stories: A History of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975 Frances Walsh Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621650 I was really looking forward to this book. As soon as I could read, I started reading my mother’s magazines. Every week she…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Frances Walsh, Godwit, Issue 95, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Trials and lessons, Anne Else
A History of the “Unfortunate Experiment” at National Women’s Hospital Linda Bryder Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 978186940435 The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, 1987-88 Joanna Manning (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $39.99, ISBN 9781877242458 July 2008 marked…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2010, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 89, Joanna Manning, Linda Bryder
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Mermaids, miners and mystics, Anne Else
Saltskin Louise Moulin Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 9781869419608 Ribbons of Grace Maxine Alterio Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 9780143006442 Acts of Love Susan Pearce Victoria University Press, $29.99, ISBN 9780864735652 Three first (or at any rate, first published) novels, all by…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Black Swan, Issue 83, Louise Moulin, Maxine Alterio, Penguin Books, Spring 2008, Susan Pearce, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Double jeopardy, Anne Else
Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Janus Women’s Convention 2005 Dale Williams (ed) The Janus Trust, price not available, ISBN 095826452X Hands up all those who immediately switch off as soon as they see those tedious, ever-so-70s words “w—n” or “f—–sm”? …
Tagged with: Anne Else, Dale Williams, Issue 80, Summer 2007, The Janus Trust
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Committed and convicted, Anne Else
To Cry Inside: Love, Death and Prison Lesley Martin Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143020382 “You are best to read To Die Like a Dog first”, writes Lesley Martin, introducing To Cry Inside. So I did. Written as a film script, the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Lesley Martin, Penguin
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
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