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Strange worlds, Heather Murray
Song of the Brakeman Bill Direen Titus Books, $29.95, ISBN 0958258678 The Assassin of Gleam James Norcliffe Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN1877270997 Departure Lounge Chad Taylor Jonathan Cape, $34.99, ISBN 9780224075047 Southern Style Craig Marriner Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 1869417100 It never…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Bill Direen, Chad Taylor, Craig Marriner, Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 77, James Norcliffe, Jonathan Cape, Titus Books, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Crack in the consensus, Tim Hazledine
The Democracy Sham: How Globalisation Devalues Your Vote Bryan Gould Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 1877333506 “Nobody told us we could do that!” So said the Fabian Sidney Webb in 1931 when the new National government of which he was…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Bryan Gould, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 77, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Committed and convicted, Anne Else
To Cry Inside: Love, Death and Prison Lesley Martin Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143020382 “You are best to read To Die Like a Dog first”, writes Lesley Martin, introducing To Cry Inside. So I did. Written as a film script, the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Lesley Martin, Penguin
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Ripping yarns, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Fatal Frontiers: A New History of New Zealand in the Decade Before the Treaty Paul Moon Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0143020595 “New Zealand was undergoing an identity crisis in the 1830s,” writes Paul Moon on the first page of his…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Lives of nouns and adjectives, Gordon McLauchlan
A Fish in the Swim of the World Ben Brown Longacre, $34.99, ISBN 1877361410 Family Silver Richard Shallcrass Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735332 Something for the Birds Jacqueline Fahey Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 186940355X Terra Incognito Douglas Wright…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Ben Brown, Douglas Wright, Gordon McLauchlan, Issue 77, Jacqueline Fahey, Longacre, Penguin, Richard Shallcrass, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Cautionary tale, Linda Clark; Party-going, Raymond Miller
The Hollow Men: A Study in the Politics of Deception Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $34.99, ISBN 187733362X According to the rhetoric, the author of The Hollow Men is one of two things. Either he is an outstanding investigative journalist…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 77, Linda Clark, Nicky Hager, Raymond Miller
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
An eye on Cambodia, Margot Schwass
A Certain Grace Anthony Maturin Anthony Maturin, $70.00, ISBN 109995082705, Instead of teaching in a dirt-floored classroom or hacking through the jungle, today’s VSA volunteer is just as likely to be an office-bound small-business advisor or a human resources trainer…
Tagged with: Anthony Maturin, Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Margot Schwass
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
The Jones effect, Patrick Evans
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 9780143020899 Lloyd Jones is the man who wrote a book about a child molester, and no one noticed – what better proof do we need that journalists don’t really read fiction? And yet…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Lloyd Jones, Patrick Evans, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Wild threads of imagination, Joan de Hamel
The Unquiet Carolyn McCurdie Longacre, $16.95, ISBN 1877361402 Aim High David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $17.00, ISBN 0958262624 Frog Whistle Mine Des Hunt HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869505956 Lizzie, Love Brenda Delamain Longacre, $16.99, ISBN 1877361399 Shooting the Moon V M Jones…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Brenda Delamain, Carolyn McCurdie, David Hill, Des Hunt, HarperCollins, Issue 77, Joan de Hamel, Longacre, Mallinson Rendel, V M Jones
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Letters – Issue 77
Striking back Your reviewer of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, edited by Melanie Nolan (NZB, December 2006), rightly stresses agency among workers, as I have frequently done. But this does not alter the fact that the state…