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Issue 03 Spring 1991
Volume 1 | Number 3 | Issue 3 | Autumn 1991 J M Thomson: “Looking forward” Les Cleveland: Paul Freyberg, Bernard Freyberg VC, Soldier of Two Nations Juliet Rowe: Pauline O’Regan, Aunts and Windmills; May Davis, May Elric Hooper: …
Myth-busting, Harry Ricketts
The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature Penguin Books Auckland, 1990, $24.95 ‘The story of New Zealand literature is a chapter of accidents,’ declares Patrick Evans in the introduction to his History of New Zealand Literature. ‘It is the provisional…
On the road, Kevin Ireland
The Car in New Zealand Graham Hawkes G P Books, Wellington, 1990, $49.95 Cars in particular, and machinery in general, have not featured in New Zealand novels in the way that they have so importantly served American, Australian and English…
Tagged with: Autumn 1991, G P Books, Graham Hawkes, Issue 1, Kevin Ireland
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Waves and ripples, Melanie Nolan
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand Keith Sinclair (ed), Oxford University Press, 1990, $59.95 The People and The Land. Te Tangata Me Te Whenua Judith Bassett, Judith Binney, Erik Olssen Allen and Unwin/ Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1990, $59.95…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, Erik Olssen, Issue 1, Judith Bassett, Judith Binney, Keith Sinclair, Melanie Nolan, Oxford University Press, Port Nicholson Press
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
What about the workers? A historical view, John Roberts
The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Worker in Nineteenth Century New Zealand John E Martin, Allen and Unwin/Trade Union History Project, Wellington, 1990, $35.95 New Zealand Working People 1890-1990 Stevan Eldred-Grigg Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1990, $34.95 Nuclear Free:…
Editorial — Issue 1
J M Thomson: Books in society Over the past decade New Zealand books have increasingly won international renown. Books are one of our chief cultural assets however undervalued they may be by economic policy makers. This publication appears at…
Issue 01 Autumn 1991
Volume 1 | Number 1 | Issue 1 | Autumn 1991 Editorial, J M Thomson: “Books in society” John Roberts: John E Martin, The Forgotten Worker – The Rural Wage Worker in Nineteenth Century New Zealand; Stevan Eldred-Grigg, New…
Disillusionment and disapprobation, Rod Alley
Changes? The 1990 Election Colin James and Alan McRobie Allen and Unwin, Wellington, 1990, $24.95 Publication of one of the first books on the 1990 election gives Rod Alley an opportunity to question what he calls our ‘system of electoral…
Tagged with: Alan McRobie, Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, Colin James, Issue 1, Roderic Alley
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Moments of recognition, Lauris Edmond
Speaking to Miranda Caroline Macdonald Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1990, $19.95 Even in the present increasingly sophisticated field of writing for young adults, Caroline Macdonald is something of a phenomenon. Her first book won the prestigious Esther Glen Medal, and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1991, Caroline Macdonald, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 1, Lauris Edmond
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults