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Reds under the bed, Redmer Yska
The Sixth Man: The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello James McNeish Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869418915 James McNeish’s masterly life of Paddy Costello tells how, in the summer of 1953, this Paris-based New Zealand diplomat escorted National PM Sid Holland around…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Issue 81, James McNeish, Paddy Costello, Redmer Yska, Vintage
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Cubist McCahon, Roger Blackley
Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years, 1953-1959 Peter Simpson Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 9781869403898 A half-century ago, the literature of New Zealand art fitted on a single shelf, or – with a full collection of the periodical Art in New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Peter Simpson, Roger Blackley
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Fertile ground, Alison Gray
The New Zealand Family From 1840: A Demographic History Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam and Janet Sceats (eds) Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869403577 A demographic history of the New Zealand family? Well, that’ll be a short, sad story. Everyone knows…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Ian Pool, Issue 81, Janet Sceats
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Renavigating the past, Bernie Kernot
Maori Peoples of New Zealand: Nga Iwi O Aotearoa Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand David Bateman, $49.99, ISBN 9781869536220 National encyclopedias bear some resemblance to national exhibitions in the way they sum up and present knowledge relevant to…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Bernie Kernot, David Bateman, Issue 81
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Obituary — Meg Campbell
Meg (Aline Margaret) Campbell (1937-2007) Meg Campbell died at home in Pukerua Bay on November 17 2007, 24 hours before the launch of her sixth collection, Poems Adrift (Te Kotare Press). Meg Campbell’s poems have typically reflected on her often…
Faith and works, Linda Burgess
Women with a Mission: Rediscovering Missionary Wives in Early New Zealand Cathy Ross Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0143020501 Be careful what you leave behind you. That unflattering photo could well be the one chosen for your obituary (should you be…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Cathy Ross, Issue 81, Linda Burgess, Penguin Books
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Invaluable taonga, Paul Wolffram
Nga Moteatea: The Songs, Part 4: Collected by Apirana Ngata, translated by Hirini Moko Mead Jenifer Curnow and Jane McRae (eds) Auckland University Press, $22.50, ISBN 9781869403867 This is the final instalment in the series of Nga Moteatea: The Songs,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Hirini Moko Mead, Issue 81, Jane McRae, Jenifer Curnow, Paul Wolffram
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction
Absolutely commercially, Jenny Robin Jones
Logan Campbell’s Auckland: Tales from the Early Years R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403935 Wellington: Biography of a City Redmer Yska Reed, $44.99, ISBN 0790011077 Auckland illuminated through stories of the past; Wellington reconstructed through careful…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Jenny Robin Jones, John Logan Campbell, R C J Stone, Redmer Yska, Reed
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Spot on the sun, David Hill
The Transit of Venus Marilyn Head (ed) Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 978095826972 A few years back, I had to review a self-published New Zealand novel. It was seriously rotten, and I wrote that it “tried to be bad, bold and…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Autumn 2008, Awa Press, David Hill, Duncan Steel, Hamish Campbell, Issue 81, Marilyn Head, Paul Callaghan, Peter Adds, Richard Hall
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
No ordinary son, Janet Hunt and Michael Morrissey
Posted in Comment