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Where the boys are, Anna Rogers

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Native Wit Hamish Keith Random House, $44.99, ISBN 9781869418434 Daddy was a German Spy and Other Scandals: A Memoir Brian Edwards Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143009221 Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood Gavin Bishop Random House, $34.99, ISBN 9781869790103 Google “memoirs…

Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Brian Edwards, Gavin Bishop, Hamish Keith, Issue 86, Penguin Books, Random House, Winter 2009
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

The perils of proximity, Michael Laws

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister Brian Edwards Exisle Publishing, $44.95, ISBN 0908988206 Biography is a fraught art. If the subject is dead, then the Author is reliant upon a myriad of sources, often contradictory, to capture the essence of…

Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Exisle Publishing, Helen Clarke, Issue 52, Michael Laws, Summer 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Fiction, history and art of displacement, Brian Edwards

Posted on December 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Let the River Stand Vincent O’Sullivan, Penguin, $24.95 Amongst conceptions of history, at least in its articulations with fiction and with postmodernism as perception of a contemporary cultural movement, grand narratives of human progress give way to local detail, to…

Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Issue 11, Penguin, Summer 1993, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review