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Posted on December 1, 2011 by NZ Books

What they wrote A taste of contributor comments over our first 20 years On New Zealand Books My hope is that New Zealand Books will provide a forum for frank discussion that dares to rise above the suffocating confines…

Tagged with: Alan Duff, Alan Knowles, Barbara Else, Bernard Carpinter, Bill Manhire, Bill Sewell, Bruce Stewart, Charles Ferrall, Chris Else, Chris Knox, Christopher Tremewan, Colin James, Dale Williams, David Hill, Diane Hebley, Guy Somerset, Hamish Keith, Harry Ricketts, Heather Murray, Hilary Stace, Iain Sharp, Issue 96, Jane Bowron, Jane Stafford, Jane Westaway, John Campbell, Linda Burgess, Linley Boniface, Mark Williams, Murray Edmond, Nelson Wattie, Peter Wells, Roger Robinson, Sue McCauley, Summer 2011, Tom Beard, William Brandt
Posted in Comment

Where the boys are, Anna Rogers

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Native Wit Hamish Keith Random House, $44.99, ISBN 9781869418434 Daddy was a German Spy and Other Scandals: A Memoir Brian Edwards Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143009221 Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood Gavin Bishop Random House, $34.99, ISBN 9781869790103 Google “memoirs…

Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Brian Edwards, Gavin Bishop, Hamish Keith, Issue 86, Penguin Books, Random House, Winter 2009
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

Not getting it, Christina Barton

Posted on September 1, 2008 by NZ Books

The Big Picture: A History of New Zealand Art from 1642 Hamish Keith Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621322 I have thought for a long time that a series on the history of art in New Zealand would make for good television…

Tagged with: Christina Barton, Godwit, Hamish Keith, Issue 83, Spring 2008
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Built-in anodyne, Hamish Keith

Posted on October 12, 1997 by NZ Books

Architects at Home — 30 New Zealand Architects and their Houses Adrienne Rewi & Euan Sarginson Shoal Bay Press, $49.95, ISBN 0 908704 32 1 The Bungalow in New Zealand Jeremy Ashford Viking, $34.95, ISBN 0-670-85673-8 Wellington’s Old Buildings David…

Tagged with: Adrienne Rewi, David Kernohan, Dunmore Press, Euan Sarginson, Hamish Keith, Issue 30, Jeremy Ashford, Lewis E Martin, Shoal Bay Press, Tony Kellaway, Victoria University Press, Viking, Winter 1997
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review

Accounting for the culture, Hamish Keith

Posted on August 8, 1996 by NZ Books

New Zealand Cultural Statistics 1995 Statistics Department and Ministry of Cultural Affairs, $39.95 Some years ago rugby commentator John Macbeth, in full flight during an encounter between Maori All Blacks and British Lions, declared a particularly elegant Black rush to…

Tagged with: Hamish Keith, Issue 24, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Statistics Department
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Culturally inappropriate, Hamish Keith

Posted on December 17, 1995 by NZ Books

Gauguin and Maori Art Bronwen Nicholson, with contributions by Roger Blackley, Jonathan Mane‑Wheoki, Roger Neich, Richard Wolfe Godwit (with Auckland City Art Gallery), $29.95, ISBN 0 908877692 This is a small book, 80 pages in all, which is entirely appropriate…

Tagged with: Auckland City Art Gallery, Bronwen Nicholson, Godwit, Hamish Keith, Issue 21, Jonathan Mane‑Wheoki, Richard Wolfe, Roger Blackley, Roger Neich
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review

The blinds drawn, Hamish Keith

Posted on March 1, 1995 by NZ Books

Painted Histories: Early Maori figurative painting Roger Neich, Auckland University Press, $79.95 One April morning in 1920 the Maori King Te Rata, his kaumatua, a greeting party and 1000 or so Waikato, gathered on the platform at Ngaruawahia railway station…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 1995, Hamish Keith, Issue 17, Roger Neich, Winter 1995
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review