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Issue 69 | August 2005
Volume 15 | Number 13| Issue 69 | August 2005 Sue McCauley: Owen Marshall, Watch of Gryphons and Other Stories; Owen Marshall, Occasional: 50 Poems Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway: “Miffed, maltreated and murderous” (editorial) Philip Temple: J M…
Unpick this, Renée
Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s Rosemary McLeod HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869505093 Rosemary McLeod is an intelligent, witty and acerbic columnist who does us the favour of saying the things we’d like to say out loud, if…
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Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
At home with style, Rosemary McLeod
At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design Douglas Lloyd Jenkins Godwit, $69.95, ISBN 1869621107 How we live surely says as much about us as what we do. To students of style the choice of drapes and the shape of…
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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Cantankerous, laconic and weird, Margot Schwass
Getting Away With It Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270792 Butler’s Ringlet Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019198 A Man Who Eats The Heart Josh Greenberg Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734824 Together, these three novels suggest that the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Hazard Press, Issue 69, Josh Greenberg, Kevin Ireland, Laurence Fearnley, Margot Schwass, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Loving nature to death, Kirstie Ross
The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism Margaret McClure Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403193 Our Islands, Our Selves: A History of Conservation in New Zealand David Young University of Otago Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877276944 Tourism and conservation are the…
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Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Roar of the greasepaint, Frances Edmond
Downstage Upfront John Smythe Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734891 In Downstage’s first year, 1964, I saw the Beatles in the Wellington Town Hall and screamed and cried along with thousands of other teenagers – girls mostly. The next year…
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Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Walks on the wild side, Lynn Freeman
Grooves of Glory Alan Brunton Bumper Books, $30, ISBN 095822255X Cherish Ken Duncum Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 084673493X “This whole trip is like reading a cartoon strip, pictures you can’t understand without a caption.” Alan Brunton’s poetry is a…
Hooked on wonder and mystery, Damian Skinner
Shane Cotton ed Lara Strongman City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864734697 Jeffrey Harris Justin Paton Victoria University Press and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $69.95, ISBN 0864734867 Engravings on Wood by Leo Bensemann ed Peter Simpson Holloway…
Telling it like it was, Joan Rosier-Jones
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