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Whose story is it, anyway? Kirstie Archer
The Fox Boy: The Story of an Abducted Child Peter Walker Bloomsbury, $29.95, ISBN 0747556466 Browsing in a Wellington bookshop, it was with delight that I picked up a copy of The Fox Boy. Here appeared to be a book…
Tagged with: Bloomsbury, December 2001, Issue 51, Kirstie Archer, Peter Walker
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Romancing the colonial, Jane Stafford
Johanna’s World O M Andresen (trans Johan Bonnevie) HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503708 Mrs Rochester Warwick Blanchett HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503651 Consequences Carol Thomas HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503732 The uses of history are manifold and many-faceted. The literary uses of history…
Tagged with: Carol Thomas, December 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 51, Jane Stafford, Johan Bonnevie, O M Andresen, Warwick Blanchett
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Historians for hire, David Grant
Going Public: the Changing Face of New Zealand History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Jock Phillips Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940226X If I were an insecure sort of chap, I might be worried about what I actually do for a…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bronwyn Dalley, December 2001, Issue 51, Jock Phillips
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Meet the monsters, Tony Simpson
Three Labour Leaders: Nordmeyer, Kirk, Rowling ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469394X Mirrors on the Hill: Reflections on New Zealand’s Political Leaders Keith Eunson Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469385 To the uninitiated, looking in askance from without, politics…
Tagged with: Arnold Nordmeyer, December 2001, Dunmore Press, Issue 51, Keith Eunson, Margaret Clark, Norman Kirk, Tony Simpson, Wallace (Bill) Rowling
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Fragments of possible worlds, David Gregory
Fourteen Reasons for Writing Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 18877270080 It may not possess the weight of historical significance of The Kennedy Question, but I asked myself, “where were you when Kevin Ireland’s first book of poetry (Face to…
Tagged with: David Gregory, December 2001, Hazard Press, Issue 51, Kevin Ireland
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The amazonian element, Diane Hebley
The Apple Tree and other stories Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $29.95, ISBN 0908783469 Scarface Claw Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783620 Baby Bumble and the Sock Pirates Vivienne Joseph, illustrated by Ruth Paul Mallinson Rendel, $24.95, ISBN 0908783507 Nanny…
Tagged with: December 2001, Diane Hebley, Issue 51, John Walsh, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Ruth Paul, Te Papa Press, Vivienne Joseph
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 51
All in the same nest The Germans have a word for it: Nestbeschmutzung. It literally means “fouling the nest”, but it has a more general meaning of “putting down your own kind”. This is in effect what Rosemary McLeod did…
“Bugger the dragonflies”, Bernard Carpinter
Shirker Chad Taylor Allen & Unwin, $35, ISBN 0862419026 A defenestration (nice word, eh?) makes an arresting beginning to Chad Taylor’s third novel. Especially as the defenestree is the narrator. Just how Ellerslie Penrose came to be flying out of…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Bernard Carpinter, Cape Catley, Chad Taylor, December 2001, Gian Bordin, Graeme Lay, Issue 51, REA
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review