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Public work, private life, Grace Millar
Looking For Answers: A Life of Elsie Locke Maureen Birchfield Canterbury University Press, $69.95, ISBN 9781877257803 Writing a biography of someone with broad interests and a long and well-documented life is a real challenge. Lives are messy and sprawl without…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Elsie Locke, Grace Millar, Issue 90, Maureen Birchfield, Winter 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Violence – physical, psychological, geological, Raymond Huber
Land of Milk and Honey William Taylor HarperCollins, $16.99, ISBN 1869505492 Out on the Edge Anna Mackenzie Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877361038 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ken Catran Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 186943546X A Canoe in the Mist Elsie Locke…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Elsie Locke, HarperCollins, Issue 70, Ken Catran, Longacre Press, Raymond Huber, Scholastic, William Taylor, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Paying the price of principle, Margaret Wilson
Stick Out, Keep Left: an autobiography by Margaret Thorn Elsie Locke and Jacquie Matthews (ed) Auckland University Press/ Bridget Williams Books $29.95 ISBN 1 86940143 3 She Dared to Speak – Connie Birchfield’s Story Maureen Birchfield University of Otago Press…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Elsie Locke, Issue 35, Jacquie Matthews, Margaret Wilson, Maureen Birchfield, University of Otago Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Vivid pictures of 19th century New Zealand, Kay Harrison
Swag and Tucker Margaret Hall, McIndoe Publishers, $18.95 The Runaway Settlers Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, $16.95 These delightful books, set in New Zealand’s colonial days, bring to life the harsh and tender experiences of families in the New Zealand of…
Tagged with: Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, Issue 10, Kay Harrison, Margaret Hall, McIndoe Publishers, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
True to principle, David Young
Peace People Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, $34.95 At the age of 80, Elsie Locke can look back on a life as a sometime communist (till 1956), environmentalist, peace campaigner, feminist and writer, and, contemplating a world so different from the…
Tagged with: David Young, Elsie Locke, Hazard Press, Issue 7, Summer 1992
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, War
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Elsie Locke, Hugh Laracy
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