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Issue 121 | Autumn 2018
Volume 28 | Number 1 | Issue 121 | Autumn 2018 Letters Mark Broatch: Paula Morris, False River Maggie Trapp: Catherine Chidgey, The Beat of the Pendulum: A Found Novel; Kirsten McDougall, Tess; Catherine Robertson, Gabriel’s Bay Craig Cliff:…
Darkening and deepening, Catherine Robertson
Through the Lonesome Dark Paddy Richardson Upstart Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781927262986 Paddy Richardson takes a risk with her latest novel. By setting it in Blackball, a mining town on the West Coast in the early 1900s, she raises expectations of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Catherine Robertson, Issue 121, Paddy Richardson, Upstart Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Biting wit, with an undertow of melancholy, Jim Mora
Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir Tom Scott Allen and Unwin, $45.00, ISBN 9781877505911 We all store trivial moments that hang around in the hippocampus for some sort of reason. I remember the late Kenny Everett on Capitol Radio…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Autumn 2018, Issue 121, Jim Mora, Tom Scott
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
At a crossroads, Max Harris
Unquiet Time: Aotearoa/New Zealand in a Fast-changing World Colin James Fraser Books, $39.50, ISBN 9780994136015 Last year, Colin James published his final weekly column with the Otago Daily Times, after over 50 years of work as a journalist. In a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Colin James, Fraser Books, Issue 121, Max Harris
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Poem – Peter Olds
‘The Clear’: Prospect Park to Charles Brasch Here, I can own you. Here, on this seat they’ve placed in your honour, there’s nobody to move me on. There’s nobody to tell me my poems are good or bad. There’s only…
The dangers of absolutism, John Larkindale
Balancing Acts: Reflections of a New Zealand Diplomat Gerald McGhie Dunmore, $35.00 ISBN 978927212318 Friends and relations often suggest to diplomats following their retirement that they should write a book about their experiences. Not so, in my view; the world…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Dunmore, Gerald McGhie, Issue 121, John Larkindale
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posthumous vindication, David V Williams
After the Treaty: The Settler State, Race Relations and Power in Colonial New Zealand Brad Patterson, Richard S Hill and Kathryn Patterson (eds) Steele Roberts, $40.00, ISBN 9780947493158 There was a time in New Zealand when university historians took umbrage…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Brad Patterson, David V Williams, Issue 121, Kathryn Patterson, Richard S Hill, Steele Roberts
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Colliding pasts, Lydia Wevers
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds Anne Salmond Auckland University Press, $65.00, ISBN 9781869408657 The cover blurb suggests Tears of Rangi is Anne Salmond’s “most ambitious book to date”, and in many respects this is the case, since in…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction
Grudging nationalist, Mark Williams
Charles Brasch: Journals 1945-1957 Peter Simpson (ed) Otago University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781927322284 I approached this book rather in the spirit of someone visiting a civic monument to a figure august and admired, but obscurely known. In the late 1980s,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Charles Brasch, Issue 121, Mark Williams, Otago University Press, Peter Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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