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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At home with style, Rosemary McLeod
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Godwit, Issue 69, Rosemary McLeod
Posted in History, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction and 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…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Hazard Press, Issue 69, Josh Greenberg, Kevin Ireland, Laurence Fearnley, Margot Schwass, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature and Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature and 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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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2005, David Young, Issue 69, Kirstie Ross, Margaret McClure, Otago University Press
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction and Review
Walks on the wild side, Lynn Freeman
Facing off, Norman Bilbrough
This Thing in the Mirror: Self Portraits by New Zealand Artists Claire Finlayson Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333182 This Thing in the Mirror has a foreword by television presenter John Campbell, and the opening statement, “This is a book…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Claire Finlayson, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 69, Norman Bilbrough
Posted in Art, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction and Review
Hooked on wonder and mystery, Damian Skinner
In the beginning was the word, Nelson Wattie
The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ed Tony Deverson and Graeme Kennedy Oxford University Press, $130, ISBN 0195584511 Lexicographers are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication, on 15 April 1755, of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, the book that made their profession…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Graeme Kennedy, Issue 69, Nelson Wattie, Oxford University Press, Tony Deverson
Posted in Language, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Language, Non-fiction and Review
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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Tagged with: Autumn 2005, HarperCollins, Issue 69, Renée, Rosemary McLeod
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction and Review
Down by the river, Charlotte Yates
How to Listen to Pop Music Nick Bollinger Awa Press, $24.95, ISBN 0958250960 Nick Bollinger is well known as a music reviewer or, perhaps the weightier epithet, rock journalist. He has worked in print media since 1988 for, among others,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Awa Press, Charlotte Yates, Issue 69, Nick Bollinger
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction and Review
Posted in Essays, Music, Non-fiction and Review
Telling it like it was, Joan Rosier-Jones
Joan Rosier-Jones examines the craze for family history In 1996 Bob Ross at Tandem Press asked me to write a book based on the courses I had been running for Continuing Education at the University of Auckland. Writing Your Family…
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