The Elusive Language of Ducks Judith White Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9781775532798 Judith White’s themes are the big ones – old-age, decline and death; sex, love and the betrayal of love. Her characters have an inner life but they also…
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Ducking for cover, Christine Johnston
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Issue 103, Judith White, Random House, Spring 2013
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Browsing, squawking and squabbling, Janet Hunt
Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird Quinn Berentson Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781877517846 It’s only 10 years since Richard Wolfe’s paperback Moa: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of a Giant Bird (2003) hit the…
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Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 103, Janet Hunt, Quinn Berentson, Spring 2013
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
A taste of the salt, Anne French
How to Sail a Boat Matt Vance Awa Press, $26.00, ISBN 9781877551857 “We were about five hundred miles off the coast of California … .” That’s how Mid’s best stories start. I haven’t seen him for years now, but I still…
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Tagged with: Anne French, Awa Press, Issue 103, Matt Vance, Spring 2013
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Poem – Jennifer Compton
Auckland’s newspaper wars, Grant Hannis
Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News David Hastings Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407384 Histories of New Zealand newspapers are usually boring. I’m sure anyone who’s tried to read Guy Scholefield’s 1958 history of New Zealand newspapers has…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Hastings, Grant Hannis, Issue 103, Spring 2013
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Bending over backwards, Nicky Hager
Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics and the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984-1987 Gerald Hensley Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869407414 Gerald Hensley is an intelligent man, a good researcher and a pleasing and witty writer. Friendly Fire is his third book, and…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Gerald Hensley, Issue 103, Nicky Hager, Spring 2013
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A pleasing oddness, Dougal McNeill
Letters of Frank Sargeson Sarah Shieff (ed) Vintage, $50.00, ISBN 9781869793333 Karatani Kojin, announcing the “end of modern Japanese literature” in 2004, caused some alarm amongst readers, despite Japan’s (for us, and comparatively) philosophically open-minded and expansive literary culture. Weren’t…
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Tagged with: Dougal McNeill, Frank Sargeson, Issue 103, Sarah Shieff, Spring 2013, Vintage
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review