Nearly three years ago, I went to the funeral of Hugh Llewellyn Price who died after many months of living with cancer. And “living with” is the operative phrase here, as even during his last years, he was still having…
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Obituaries – Hugh Price, Bub Bridger and Louise St John White
Hugh Price 1929–2009 Being born with club feet was good luck, Hugh Price said – during remedial massage his mother read to him, getting him hooked on books. He came to champion access to literature as a fundamental human right.…
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Tagged with: Ann Mallinson, Bub Bridger, Gregory O’Brien, Hugh Price, Louise St John White, Louise White, Roger Steele
Posted in Obituaries
Posted in Obituaries
Carry on conspiring, Redmer Yska
The Plot to Subvert Wartime New Zealand Hugh Price Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735383 One Sunday morning at the end of March 1942, a safe-breaker fresh out of Waikeria Prison rang Cabinet Minister Bob Semple at home from a phone…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Hugh Price, Issue 77, Redmer Yska, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
P is for Price, Kay Hancock
Ready to Read and the PM Books: A Memoir Hugh Price Gondwanaland Press, $5.00, ISBN 0958208395 This memoir follows on from Price’s earlier publication o! I am on an ox: Teaching reading in New Zealand 1877 to 2000 (2000). Ready…
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Tagged with: Gondwanaland Press, Hugh Price, Issue 67, Kay Hancock, Spring 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review