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Who’s been sleeping here? Bernard Carpinter
The Empty Bed Paul Thomas HarperCollins, $31.95, ISBN 0732271703 Killings and jokes are what readers expect from Paul Thomas, after his three wonderful thrillers Old School Tie (also known as Dirty Laundry), Inside Dope and Guerilla Season. There is a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Bernard Carpinter, Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Horizon Press, Issue 57, Paul Thomas, Tom Lewis
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Back in the frame, Elizabeth Alley
An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame Michael King, contemporary photographs by Reg Graham Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0143018388 So much has already been said. It is an irony that Janet Frame’s life, so often described as that of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Elizabeth Alley, Issue 57, Janet Frame, Michael King, Penguin Books, Reg Graham
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The poem as stretch limo, Ian Wedde
Fq Alan Brunton Bumper Books, $32.95, ISBN 0958222541 The idea of the long poem as a stretch limo glides towards me. The vehicle is at once ostentatious and stylish, excessive and sleek. Displaying privilege, it also accommodates a raucous wedding-party…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Autumn 2002, Bumper Books, Ian Wedde, Issue 57
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Myth-busting, Nicholas Reid
A Sort of Conscience – The Wakefields Philip Temple Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1869402766 Myth one about the Wakefields (enshrined in colonial textbooks of long ago). The Wakefields were a great founding family of New Zealand, and Edward Gibbon…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2002, Issue 57, Nicholas Reid, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Reading history backwards, Edmund Bohan
The Blue Lion: An historical love story Graham Billing Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 090856192X The Blue Lion was Graham Billing’s last book, for the author of Forbush and the Penguins, The Slipway and The Chambered Nautilus died last December before…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Cape Catley, Edmund Bohan, Graham Billing, Issue 57
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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