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Mingling the sacred and the profane, Martin Edmond
The Penguin Book of New Zealand War Writing Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780143573098 Oddly enough – or perhaps not – when this book arrived at my door I remembered one of the more arcane…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harry Ricketts, Issue 112, Martin Edmond, Penguin Books, Summer 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, War
Orchids in socks, Rae Varcoe
Quarantine! Protecting New Zealand at the Border Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372827 The word quarantine derives from the Italian for 40: the number of days deemed appropriate to seclude a vessel known to…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Gavin McLean, Issue 97, Otago University Press, Rae Varcoe, Tim Shoebridge
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Kip in the round, Gavin McLean
Howard Kippenberger: Dauntless Spirit Denis McLean Random House, $39.99, ISBN 978869790264 When Denis McLean (no relation) interviewed former comrades of Howard Kippenberger and asked for criticisms of the general, he was astounded that they “were not only nonplussed but shocked…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Denis McLean, Gavin McLean, Howard Kippenberger, Issue 85, Random House
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, War
Stamping one’s mark, Edmund Bohan
The Governors: New Zealand’s Governors and Governors-General Gavin McLean Otago University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877372250 Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector Donald Jackson Kerr Otago University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877372218 Gavin McLean’s book is,…
Tagged with: Donald Jackson Kerr, Edmund Bohan, Gavin McLean, Issue 79, Otago University Press, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Standing places of the heart, Harvey McQueen
Heartlands: New Zealand Historians Write about Where History Happened Kynan Gentry and Gavin McLean (eds) Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019929 History used to be about kings, queens, politicians, diplomats, generals, wars, revolutions, parliaments, laws and treaties. My early schooling followed the…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Harvey McQueen, Issue 79, Kynan Gentry, Penguin, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
It was hell, Gavin McLean
Diary of a Kiwi Soldier in World War II Cecil Coughlan (ed Garrie Coughlan) Reed, $19.99, ISBN 1007900104X No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of William G Malone ed John Crawford (with Peter Cooke) Reed, $49.99, ISBN…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 74, Winter 2006
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Letters, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, War
Frontiers of marketing, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand ed Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean TVNZ/Hodder Moa, $79.95, ISBN 1869710061 “Another damned, thick, square, book!” We’ve all heard the story about those words spoken by a doltish Duke of Gloucester upon…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Dalley, Gavin McLean, Hodder Moa, Issue 72, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Summer 2005, TVNZ
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Queering the Kiwi bloke’s pitch, Gavin McLean
The Life of Brian: Masculinities, Sexualities and Health in New Zealand ed Heather Worth, Anna Paris and Louisa Allen University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276251 Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand 1960-1986 Laurie Guy Victoria University…
Tagged with: Anna Paris, Gavin McLean, Heather Worth, Issue 59, Laurie Guy, Louisa Allen, Otago University Press, Spring 2002, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Empty vessel, Gavin McLean
Joyita: Solving the Mystery David G Wright Auckland University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1869402707 It was a recurring image in New Zealand and Pacific newspapers and magazines 40 to 50 years ago: the waterlogged hull of the old Islands trader Joyita,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David G Wright, Gavin McLean, Issue 56, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Robber barons, worker rebels, Gavin McLean
British Capital, Antipodean Labour: Working the New Zealand Waterfront 1915-1951 Anna Green Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 187713399X A few weeks ago, a retired port agency manager asked me who was “this Anna Green lady” and did I know anything…
Tagged with: Anna Green, August 2001, Autumn 2001, Gavin McLean, Issue 49, Otago University Press
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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