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Hobson’s choice, Bryan Gilling

Posted on September 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi Paul Moon David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0908990839 The Treaty of Waitangi often appears to have sprung forth, fully formed, from William Hobson’s pen on 6 February 1840. Many…

Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, David Ling Publishing, Issue 59, Paul Moon, Spring 2002
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review

Looking after the “little man”, Robert Buchanan

Posted on December 27, 1999 by NZ Books

The Ombudsman in New Zealand Bryan Gilling Dunmore Press (in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs), $29.95, ISBN 0 86469 336 2 Older readers of this journal will recall the office of Ombudsman as something of a…

Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Dunmore Press, Robert Buchanan
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

The facts of lives, Bryan Gilling

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586 Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 0908561784…

Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Cape Catley, December 2000, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Maurice Andrew, Shirley Ferguson, Valerie Cowan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review

Spreading the Word, Bryan Gilling

Posted on December 12, 1997 by NZ Books

Bible and Society: A Sesquicentennial History of the Bible Society in New Zealand Peter J Lineham Daphne Brasell Associates/Bible Society in New Zealand, $34.95, ISBN 0 908896 46 8 The production and distribution of the Bible is perhaps the quintessential…

Tagged with: Bible Society in New Zealand, Bryan Gilling, Daphne Brasell Associates, Issue 31, Peter J Lineham, Spring 1997
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review