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Trail-blazing, Harvey McQueen
Helen Clark: A Political Life Denis Welch Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143202417 I admire Helen Clark, and I was pleased to be asked to review this book. Unlike David Lange, who flashed meteor-like across the parliamentary firmament, Clark became a…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Harvey McQueen, Helen Clark, Issue 88, Penguin Books, Summer 2009
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Standing to reason, Denis Welch
To Build a Nation: Collected Writings 1975-1999 Bruce Jesson (ed Andrew Sharp) Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143020528 New Rights New Zealand: Myths, Moralities and Markets Dolores Janiewski and Paul Morris Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 1869403452 I first saw Bruce Jesson…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Bruce Jesson, Denis Welch, Dolores Janiewski, Issue 72, Paul Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Once upon a time in West Auckland, Denis Welch
Black and White John Tamihere (with Helen Bain) Reed, $29.95, ISBN 0790009641 Few politicians these days have lives interesting enough to write about, let alone turn into saleable books. No one is going to queue up at Whitcoulls for Steve…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Helen Bain, Issue 66, John Tamihere, Reed, Winter 2004
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Too many toppings, Ruth Nichol
Human Remains Denis Welch David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0 908990 65 0 I know, I know – Andrea Porter would never have got through to Allen Terrill on his cellphone. It would have been switched off or out of range,…
Clayton’s books? Denis Welch
America on Five Bullets a Day Raybon Kan Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 656 5 Just Walking the Dogs Joe Bennett Hazard Press, $16.95, ISBN 1 877161 49 7 Yin and Tonic Renée Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Hazard Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 38, Joe Bennett, Random House, Rayon Kan, Renée
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
All this and Evison too, Denis Welch
Happy Days in Muckle Flugga Pat Evison HarperCollins $39.95 ISBN 1 86950 267 1 Early on in Pat Evison’s very enjoyable book, there is a recollection of a remarkable incident in London in 1947. Young Patricia Blamires, as she was…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, HarperCollins, Issue 35, Pat Evison
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Denis Welch
The Life Before the famous efflorescence, Much of note occurred. Here are the fumblings of adolescence, Word for groping word, And the English teacher ‑ that excrescence ‑ The one who wounded the bird, The shifting addresses, the Christmas presents, …
An aberrant strain, Denis Welch
Top of the Greasy Pole Neale McMillan, McIndoe, $29.95 The record of political leadership in New Zealand is not inspiring. Out of 37 Premiers and Prime Ministers since 1854 only two could be called outstanding, rather than merely memorable. There…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, Issue 11, McIndoe, Neale McMillan, Summer 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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