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Marking time, Maggie Trapp
When It All Went To Custard Danielle Hawkins HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775541417 The Julian Calendar William Henry Marsilio Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780958235556 What a difference a year can make. The plots of Danielle Hawkins’s When It All Went To Custard…
Tagged with: Danielle Hawkins, HarperCollins, Issue 127, Maggie Trapp, Marsilio Press, Spring 2019, William Henry
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“Lashings of empathy”, Tina Shaw
From the Ashes Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781460754122 What You Wish For Catherine Robertson Black Swan, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772811 Discovering that From the Ashes is a sequel to Fire, Challinor’s 2006 novel, makes sense of this novel’s title. Fire…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Black Swan, Catherine Robertson, Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins, Issue 125
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Undercooked, Paul Moon
The Pacific in the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill Meaghan Wilson Anastasios HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781460756393 Is there anything new to say about Captain James Cook’s expeditions to the Pacific? Edited accounts of his voyages appeared from 1773…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 124, Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, Paul Moon, Sam Neill, Summer 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Bearing witness, again, Louise Wareham Leonard
That F word: Growing Up Feminist in Aotearoa Lizzie Marvelly HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775541127 There was an Empress of Austria named Elisabeth – many called her Sissi – a beauty and horsewoman and wife of Franz Joseph, and she was…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 124, Lizzie Marvelly, Louise Wareham Leonard, Summer 2018
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Getting the news out, James Norcliffe
Surviving 7.8: New Zealanders Respond to the Earthquakes of November 2016 Phil Pennington and Radio New Zealand HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775541103 New Zealanders, Cantabrians in particular, have, over the last half-dozen years, become reluctant experts in earthquakes. We have…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 120, James Norcliffe, Phil Pennington, Radio New Zealand, Summer 2017
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Nosing out the story, Lawrence Patchett
Breaking Ranks: Three Interrupted Lives James McNeish HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775540908 Partway through Breaking Ranks: Three Interrupted Lives, James McNeish stops his narrative to admit his own bias. “At this point,” he writes, “I had better come clean and declare…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 120, James McNeish, Lawrence Patchett, Summer 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Truths both bald and stretched, Eirlys Hunter
The Diamond Horse Stacy Gregg HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9780008124397 Grandad’s Wheelies Jack Lasenby Penguin Random House, $17.00, ISBN 9780143507338 Rona Chris Szekely Huia, $15.00, ISBN 9781775501985 The Impossible Boy Leonie Agnew Penguin Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9780143309062 Reading fiction allows…
Tagged with: Chris Szekely, Eirlys Hunter, HarperCollins, Huia, Issue 118, Jack Lasenby, Leonie Agnew, Penguin Random House, Stacy Gregg, Winter 2017
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Filling historical gaps, Claire Mabey
Daylight Second Kelly Ana Morey HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781775540526 I am certain that I’ve seen Phar Lap. Somewhere, in the back of my memory, is a child’s-eye view of a very large horse in a glass case in a museum,…
Tagged with: Claire Mabey, HarperCollins, Issue 118, Kelly Ana Morey, Winter 2017
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
National anthems, Andrew Schmidt
In Love with these Times: My Life with Flying Nun Records Roger Shepherd HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN 9781775540892 A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis Karl Du Fresne Bateman, $40.00, ISBN 9781869359382 Flying Nun Records, the small…
Tagged with: Andrew Schmidt, Autumn 2017, Bateman, HarperCollins, Issue 117, Karl Du Fresne, Roger Shepherd
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
War games, Ron Palenski
War Blacks: The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand’s World War 1 All Blacks Matt Elliott HarperCollins, $45.00, ISBN 9781775540366 Tom Ellison has a lot to answer for. One of the early All Blacks of erudition and original thought, he wrote…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, HarperCollins, Issue 117, Matt Elliott, Ron Palenski
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
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