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The uses of memory, Louise O’Brien

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Little Moon Emma Neale Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414756 Little Moon, Emma Neale’s second novel, following the success of Night Swimming in 1998, is an account of the troubled childhood and adolescence of a young woman growing up in New Zealand.…

Tagged with: December 2001, Emma Neale, Issue 51, Louise O’Brien, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Elliptical documentaries, Paola Bilbrough

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

A Stone Seat and a Shadow Tree Adrienne Jansen Inkweed, $19.95, ISBN 0473072556 The best poems in Adrienne Jansen’s A Stone Seat and a Shadow Tree have a lucid simplicity to them. The most compelling are those about beginnings and…

Tagged with: Adrienne Jansen, December 2001, Inkweed, Issue 51
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review

Mytho-history, Les Cleveland

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

A Near-Run Affair: New Zealanders in the battle for Crete, 1941 Matthew Wright Reed Books, $30.95, ISBN 0790007320 A Unique Sort of Battle: New Zealanders Remember Crete ed Megan Hutching HarperCollins in association with the History Group, Ministry for Culture…

Tagged with: December 2001, HarperCollins, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Reed Books
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War