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Unlacing corsets, Isa Moynihan
The Girl Below Bianca Zander Penguin, $30.00, ISBN 9780143568377 The Invisible Rider Kirsten McDougall (drawings by Gerard Crewdson) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864737670 Houses of Stone David L Bateman David Bateman, $30.00, ISBN 9781869538293 All three works are first…
Poem – Jo Thorpe
This lovely hand of yours The fine warmth and pulse of it – beauty gets a sounding in the oldest skin, it takes the flutterings of veins and chimes them through. The mind slows and alters – as in…
Becoming heroic, Garth Baker
The Open Side Richie McCaw (with Greg McGee) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712761 Valerie: The Autobiography Valerie Adams (with Phil Gifford) Hodder Moa, $50.00, ISBN 9781869712624 Let’s start with the numbers, all big. The initial 60,000 print run of Richie…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Garth Baker, Greg McGee, Hodder Moa, Issue 101, Phil Gifford, Richie McCaw, Valerie Adams
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
The quality question, Chris Else
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) Auckland University Press, $75.00, ISBN 9781869405892 I have a conflict of interest here: I am one of those writers with a substantial body of published…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2013, Chris Else, Issue 101, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams
Posted in Literature, Review
Posted in Literature, Review
One in every home, Hilary Stace
The Raupo Dictionary of Modern Maori P M Ryan Raupo, $60.00, ISBN 9780143567899 Every household and office in Aotearoa New Zealand will have times when they need an easy-to-use Maori dictionary. As more te reo words and phrases drift into…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Hilary Stace, Issue 101, P M Ryan, Raupo
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Acts of God and government, Brian Easton
The Christchurch Fiasco: The Insurance Aftershock and its Implications for New Zealand and Beyond Sarah Miles Dunmore Publishing, $38.00, ISBN 9781927212035 Given New Zealand’s reputation as The Shaky Isles, together with its accompanying history of deluges, hurricanes, landslips, tsunamis and…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Brian Easton, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 101, Sarah Miles
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Nothing sacred, Christine Johnston
Risk C K Stead MacLehose Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780857052230 C K Stead is a towering figure in New Zealand writing – a distinguished novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and emeritus professor of English of the University of Auckland. He has…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, C K Stead, Christine Johnston, Issue 101, MacLehose Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A rowdy lot, Julia Millen
Convicts: New Zealand’s Hidden Criminal Past Matthew Wright Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567646 We New Zealanders have always been complacent, even smug, about our nation’s origins. Unlike our nearest, much bigger, neighbour, New Zealand was never a penal colony, having been…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Issue 101, Julia Millen, Matthew Wright, Penguin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review