Volume 13 | Number 5 | Issue 61 | December 2003 Geoff Chapple: Stephen Venables, Everest – Summit of Achievement; George Band, Everest – 50 years on Top of the World; Sir Edmund Hillary, High Adventure: Our Ascent of…
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Getting by with a little help, Nelson Wattie
It Looks Better on You: New Zealand Women Writers on their Friendships ed Jane Westaway and Tessa Copland Longacre, $34.95, ISBN 1877135828 We’re unlikely to find a better definition of “friend” than the one in Lennon and McCartney’s famous lines:…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jane Westaway, Longacre, Tessa Copland
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
On the whale’s back, Miro Bilbrough
Poem – James Brown
Breastfeeding and rhododendrons, Julia Millen
In a Strange Garden: the life and times of Truby King Lloyd Chapman Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018795 A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907-2000 Linda Bryder Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869402901 Sir Truby King died…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Julia Millen, Linda Bryder, Lloyd Chapman, Penguin, Truby King
Posted in Biography, Health, History, Non-fiction
Posted in Biography, Health, History, Non-fiction
Poem – Jenny Bornholdt
Steady as she goes, Colin James
Holyoake’s Lieutenants ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 8864694369 I came across Norm Shelton a day or two after Jack Marshall sacked him in February 1972 at the end of the Holyoake era. He had a pile of complimentary…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 61, Keith Holyoake, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
In search of the “good” writer, Elspeth Sandys
Growing up, as I did, in a bookish and quietly religious household, I concluded at an early age that a “good’” book – and that meant the classics, the reading of which was assumed to make you a better person – had…
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