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Issue 61 | December 2003
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…
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…
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
December Last days of December broccoli squeaking on the stove and your hair – it’s a tidal wave crashing forwards as you bend to open the envelope you sent from Fielding, in 1971, to your father – in it,…
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…
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
Editorial – Issue 61
Copycat crime A few decades ago a newspaper ran in full without permission a crucial chapter of an enthusiastically awaited political book on the eve of its publication. I remember this for the copyright dispute it provoked more than for…
Rediscovering the great white discoverer, Jock Phillips
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas Anne Salmond Allen Lane, $59.95, ISBN 0713996617 I will not forget reading Anne Salmond’s Two Worlds. I was on holiday at Tolaga Bay. Between walks to Cook’s Cove…
Tagged with: Allen Lane, Anne Salmond, Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Forging on, Roger Blackley
Good as Goldie: the amazing story of New Zealand’s most famous art forger Karl F Sim (C F Goldie) and Tim Wilson Hodder Moa Beckett, $35, ISBN 1869589076 You know me as a forger, but I’ve had more lives…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, C F Goldie, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 61, Karl F Sim, Roger Blackley, Tim Wilson
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Domestic pastoral, Harry Ricketts
Summer Jenny Bornholdt Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734522 Jenny Bornholdt’s poems could be called “domestic pastoral”. This is one of the strongest – though often undervalued – lines in New Zealand poetry. You can trace it from Ursula Bethell’s…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Harry Ricketts, Issue 61, Jenny Bornholdt, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Because it’s still there, Geoff Chapple
Everest – Summit of Achievement Stephen Venables Allen & Unwin, $79.95, ISBN 1741140668 Everest – 50 Years on Top of the World George Band Collins, $49.95, ISBN 0007147481 High Adventure: Our Ascent of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary Allen & Unwin,…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 2003, Christine Gee, Collins, Corgi Books, Garry Weare, Geoff Chapple, George Band, Issue 61, Margaret Gee, Rider, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stephen Venables
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Children, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Writers and Readers Week line-up
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