Volume 14 | Number 4 | Issue 65 | October 2004 Tony Simpson: Ian McGibbon, New Zealand and the Second World War; Megan Hutching (ed), A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders remember the Italian Campaign; Brendan Judd, The…
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Over there, Tony Simpson
New Zealand and the Second World War Ian McGibbon Hodder Moa Beckett, $40.00, ISBN 1869589548 A Fair Sort of Battering: New Zealanders remember the Italian Campaign ed Megan Hutching HarperCollins, $40.00, ISBN 1869505050 The Desert Railway Brendan Judd Penguin, $29.95,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Bee Dawson, Brendan Judd, Christopher Pugsley, HarperCollins, Hodder Moa Beckett, Ian McGibbon, Issue 65, Jim Rolfe, Megan Hutching, Penguin, Reed, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Poem – Michael Harlow
Ludwig and God slug it out, Anne French
Nice morning for it, Adam Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864734735 Vincent O’Sullivan’s poetry falls into three broad periods. The early books are not only forgotten, they are also impossible to find, though I once came across a…
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Tagged with: Anne French, Autumn 2004, Issue 65, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Mansfield parked, Lloyd Jones
Mansfield: A Novel C K Stead Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1843431769 The short life of Katherine Mansfield has been well picked over. We have the biographies, the critical studies, her own journals and letters. Hardly a year goes by without the…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2004, C K Stead, Issue 65, Katherine Mansfield, Lloyd Jones, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Absolutely positive it’s dead? Tim Hazledine
Muldoon Revisited ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864694652 What were you doing the day Robert Muldoon died? I was in Auckland, very recently returned to this country after 20 years overseas. I watched the coverage of the death…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 65, Margaret Clark, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Changing habits, Margaret Tennant
Mary Potter’s Little Company of Mary – The New Zealand Experience 1914-2002 Ann Trotter Bridget Williams Books/Little Company of Mary, $39.95, ISBN 1877242314 It may be a sign of the times that sisterhood – of the religious community, rather…
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Tagged with: Ann Trotter, Autumn 2004, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 65, Little Company of Mary, Margaret Tennant
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Behind the grin, Harry Ricketts
Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan Vincent O’Sullivan Penguin, $49.95, 014301871X He grins out from the front cover of Vincent O’Sullivan’s engrossing biography Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan. It’s that famous…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Harry Ricketts, Issue 65, John Mulgan, Penguin, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
My ideal reader, Elizabeth Knox
My ideal reader reads constantly, avidly, and personally. My ideal reader adds something to the domestic scene, looks as comfortable as a cat and as fine as a flower arrangement with a book in one hand and a cup of…
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