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Voices from the past, Jock Phillips
Remembering Gallipoli: Interviews with New Zealand Gallipoli Veterans Christopher Pugsley and Charles Ferrall (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9780864739919 Amid the flood of printed words that have marked the centenary of New Zealand’s Gallipoli experience, Remembering Gallipoli comes with,…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 112, Jock Phillips, Summer 2015, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Yesterday today, Glyn Harper
How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739353 With the centenary of WWI now upon us, a flood of books on New Zealand’s role in that…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Glyn Harper, Harry Ricketts, Issue 108, Summer 2014, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sociology, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sociology, War
To-ing and fro-ing, John O’Leary
Henry Lawson in New Zealand Charles Ferrall (ed) Steele Roberts, $29.99, ISBN 9781877577390 Who could be more Australian than Henry Lawson? He was born on a New South Wales goldfield, wandered and worked in the outback, and wrote stories…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Henry Lawson, Issue 98, John O’Leary, Steele Roberts, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Literature, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Review
After the gold rush, Elaine Clark
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination ed Charles Ferrall, Paul Millar and Keren Smith Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734913 Southeast Asia and New Zealand: A History of Regional and Bilateral Relations ed Anthony L Smith New Zealand…
Pa-men and boys, Linley Boniface
Katherine Mansfield’s Men ed Charles Ferrall and Jane Stafford Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society in association with Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 187733846X “The idea of sitting and waiting for a husband is absolutely revolting and it really is the attitude of…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 68, Jane Stafford, June 2005, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society, Linley Boniface, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Man in the dock, Lynley Hood
The Trials of Eric Mareo Charles Ferrall & Rebecca Ellis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734328 Some crimes touch a collective nerve, trigger a collective outrage. The high-pitched intensity of the debate – the foam-flecked arguments, the inflammatory media stories,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Charles Ferrall, Issue 57, Rebecca Ellis, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
A major Australasian critic, Charles Ferrall
Patrick White Mark Williams, Macmillan, 1993, $45.95 During the early 1960s Patrick White wrote an admiring letter to Janet Frame; she replied 22 years later. The Tasman is often wider than it looks, but this belies some more direct correspondences…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 11, Macmillan, Mark Williams, Summer 1993
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Travelling through fiction, Charles Ferrall
The Good Tourist and the Laughing Cadaver Michael Gifkins (ed) Vintage, 1993, $24.95 Visiting a library in Timbuktu, an actual town in the central west African country of Mali, the Australian writer Murray Bail is told by an Islamic…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 9, Michael Gifkins, Vintage, Winter 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Bovver boys
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