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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Blog Archives
Remind me where we are now, Nicholas Reid
Secret City Vivienne Plumb Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 090856189X Shot Sarah Quigley Virago, $34.95, ISBN 1860499635 What country am I in here? Characters get ideas from watching “5.30 With Jude”, there’s a reference to “old Maori guys”, and one of…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Cape Catley, Issue 61, Nicholas Reid, Sarah Quigley, Virago, Vivienne Plumb
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
This might sting a bit, Simon Upton
Continuity Amid Chaos: Health Care Management and Delivery in New Zealand ed Robin Gauld University of Otago Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276510 Snakes and Ladders: The Pursuit of a Safety Culture in New Zealand Public Hospitals Peter R Roberts Institute of…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Health Services Research Centre, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 61, Kevin Dew, Otago University Press, Peter R Roberts, Robin Gauld, Simon Upton
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Fingerprints over everything, Lawrence Jones
Red Shoes Elizabeth Smither Godwit, $29.95, ISBN 18569621034 The Sea Between Us Elizabeth Smither Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018590 Reviewing You’re Very Seductive William Carlos Williams 25 years ago, Lauris Edmond complained that in the poems we did not “feel that…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Elizabeth Smither, Godwit, Issue 61, Lawrence Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Children’s books winners
Flashing and fizzing, David Hill
Brilliance Anthony McCarten Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415515 A man of the people David Geary Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734409 Two Kiwi lads make good. That’s if you treat noun one and adjectives two-through-three elastically enough. Both these writers “divide…
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Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Autumn 2003, David Geary, David Hill, Issue 61, Victoria University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Wish you were here, Jane Westaway
On Blue Ice – A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica Kim Griggs Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869415760 Travels with my Mother Peter Calder Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877298093 The most memorable travel books don’t merely transport you to foreign parts,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Peter Calder, Random House, Tandem
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Who are we writing for? Chris Else
“An unknown struthious bird”, Kim Griggs
Moa: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of a Giant Bird Richard Wolfe Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143018736 When in London, lovers of the footnotes to history construct unusual itineraries. Many head down to the Maritime Museum at Greenwich to marvel…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Penguin, Richard Wolfe
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Pearson biography funded
Paul Millar of Wellington has won the 2003 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writer’s Award to work on a biography of writer Bill Pearson. The $35,000 non-fiction award will allow Dr Millar to scale down his work as senior lecturer in…
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