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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Blog Archives
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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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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Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 65
A walk on the wild side, Cilla McQueen
Wild Anne French Auckland University Press, $31.95, ISBN 186940310X Travel and other compulsions Heather McPherson Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $18.00, ISBN 1869420349 Catullus for Children Anna Jackson Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869403088 Bluff’s main street was recently relieved…
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Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne French, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2004, Cilla McQueen, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Heather McPherson, Issue 65
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Dancing to his own tune, Jane Westaway
Ghost dance Douglas Wright Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019031 It’s tempting, when looking to praise a good book from someone who has made their mark in another sphere, to damn them with the feint praise of “natural writer”. As if their…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Douglas Wright, Issue 65, Jane Westaway, Penguin
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The unexpected past, Jenny Robin Jones
What Happen Then, Mr Bones? Charlotte Randall Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019171 With her three previous novels, Dead Sea Fruit, The Curative and Within the Kiss, Charlotte Randall has developed a voice clearly identifiable in New Zealand literature. In What Happen…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Charlotte Randall, Issue 65, Jenny Robin Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review