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Rich and disturbing detail, Lydia Wevers

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

The Sky People and Other Stories Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, $24.95 The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, $19.95 The Foreign Woman Fiona Kidman, Vintage, $19.95 All the Tenderness Left in the World Stephanie Johnson,…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Fiona Kidman, Issue 12, John McIndoe, Kate Flannery, Lydia Wevers, Otago University Press, Owen Marshall, Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, Stephanie Johnson, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

Letters – Issue 12

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Dear Editor I am sorry that Roger Hall was upset by a review of Maurice Gee’s Going West which let the cat out of the bag, but pleased, for him, that he had already read the book and was not…

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Posted in Letters

Punditry and punchups: Writers and Readers Week at the Wellington Festival, Jane Stafford

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Get out your travelling rug and air cushion, fill the thermos, select a light paperback in case things should flag. Sharpen your wit – for question time, and your elbows – for the queues beforehand. It’s Writers and Readers Week…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Issue 12, Jane Stafford
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Editorial – Issue 12

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Colin James: Short and suite “The association of short stories with New Zealand writing is as axiomatic and as much of a cultural cliché as pavlova with kiwifruit.” So Lydia Wevers begins a discussion of “The short New Zealand story”…

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Noticeboard, March 1994: Mahy Lecture award

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Betty Gilderdale has won the 1994 Margaret Mahy lecture award, offered annually by the New Zealand Children’s Book Foundation for a distinguished and significant contribution to children’s literature, publishing or literacy. Betty Gilderdale is a foundation member of the Children’s…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Betty Gilderdale, Issue 12
Posted in Awards

Issue 12 | March 1994

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Volume 3 | Number 4 | Issue 12 | March 1994 Editorial Colin James: “Short and suite” Letters Lydia Wevers: Patricia Grace, The Sky People and Other Stories; Owen Marshall, The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories; Fiona Kidman,…

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Right up there with Frame and McCahon, John Roberts

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Jane Campion (dir), The Piano At irregular, generally long, intervals, works of great force emerge from the ruck of creative aspiration. They mark a new manifestation of the power inherent in different forms of art. They challenge comfortable assumptions…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Colin McCahon, Issue 12, Jane Campion, Janet Frame, John Roberts
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Ships that can sink without trace, Roger Robinson

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories C K Stead (ed), Faber & Faber, distributed in New Zealand by Penguin, $39.95 This is the riskiest review I’ve done since I got stuck with The Satanic Verses. Worse, really; I’d…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, C K Stead, Faber & Faber, Issue 12, Penguin, Roger Robinson
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Short stories

Objects that look like books, Brian Easton

Posted on March 1, 1994 by NZ Books

Performance Without Profit: The Voluntary Welfare Sector in New Zealand Gary Hawke and David Robinson (eds), Institute of Policy Studies, $25.00 Women and Taxation Claudia Scott (ed), Institute of Policy Studies, $25.00 From Birth to Death III Judith Davey, Institute…

Tagged with: Autumn 1994, Brian Easton, Claudia Scott, David Robinson, Gary Hawke, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 12, Judith Davey
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review