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The rise, fall and rise of the state house, Ian Lochhead
Beyond the State: New Zealand State Houses from Modest to Modern Bill McKay and Andrea Stevens (Simon Devitt photographs) Penguin Books, $75.00, ISBN 9780143570653 In the catalogue of the exhibition, Homebuilding 1814-1954: the New Zealand tradition, held at the Auckland…
Tagged with: Andrea Stevens, Bill McKay, Ian Lochhead, Issue 106, Penguin Books, Simon Devitt, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The liberal leftie who learned maths, Matthew Hooton
Incredible Luck Don Brash Troika, $35.00, ISBN 9780473269081 The tradition, when a New Zealand political book is published, is for our small but self-absorbed political class to rush to the nearest bookshop – often Bennetts at 1 Bowen Street, now…
Tagged with: Don Brash, Issue 106, Matthew Hooton, Troika, Winter 2014
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The longings of the placid, Mary McCallum
Mary McCallum recalls the pleasures of The Wind in the Willows and traces its influence on her first children’s book The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters;…
The lonely soldier, Peter Ireland
ANZAC Laurence Aberhart (photographs) and Jock Phillips (essay) Victoria University Press with Dunedin Public Art Gallery, $60.00, ISBN 9780864739339 What to make of all the hoopla surrounding the centenary of WWI? Is it just one thing we’re commemorating – say,…
Tagged with: Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Issue 106, Jock Phillips, Laurence Aberhart, Peter Ireland, Victoria University Press, Winter 2014
Posted in Non-fiction
Posted in Non-fiction
The dangers of pre-existing narratives, Jane Stafford
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti Vintage, $38.00, ISBN 9781775535188 Twentieth- and 21st-century New Zealand literature contains two utterly different narratives, each incorporating an almost diametrically opposed world view. On the one hand, there is the Pakeha narrative of…
Tagged with: Issue 106, Jane Stafford, Tina Makereti, Vintage, Winter 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Behind the footlights, Amanda Lafoy Brown
The Royal New Zealand Ballet at 60 Jennifer Shennan and Anne Rowse (eds) Victoria University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780864738912 My parents first took me to see the New Zealand Ballet at the Opera House in Wellington in the late 1970s.…
Tagged with: Amanda Lafoy Brown, Anne Rowse, Issue 106, Jennifer Shennan, Victoria University Press, Winter 2014
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Dear familiars, Helen Curran
Creature Comforts: New Zealanders and their Pets: An Illustrated History Nancy Swarbrick Otago University Press, $55.00, ISBN 9781877578618 A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong, Deidre Brown Auckland University…
Tagged with: Annie Potts, Auckland University Press, Deidre Brown, Helen Curran, Issue 106, Nancy Swarbrick, Otago University Press, Philip Armstrong, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Dressing Wellington’s radicals, David Grant
Sewing Freedom: Philip Josephs, Transnationalism and Early New Zealand Anarchism Jared Davidson AK Press, $15.00, ISBN 9781849351324 Philip Josephs was a Latvian-born Jewish tailor who escaped religious persecution in his home country. He emigrated firstly to Glasgow – the industrial…
Tagged with: AK Press, David Grant, Issue 106, Jared Davidson, Philip Josephs, Winter 2014
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Hormones and hedges David Hill
Into the River Ted Dawe Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536048 Dappled Annie and the Tigrish Mary McCallum (Annie Hayward illus) Gecko Press, $20.00, ISBN 9781877579912 Anyone present when Into the River won the Senior Fiction and Book of the Year categories…
Tagged with: Annie Hayward, David Hill, Gecko Press, Issue 106, Longacre, Mary McCallum, Ted Dawe, Winter 2014
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
“Exporting knowledge, not nature” Patrick O’Meara
Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand’s Innovation Economy Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781869407629 New Zealand is well-known internationally for its digital visual effects expertise, underpinning the success of blockbuster films like Lord of…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 106, Patrick O’Meara, Paul Callaghan, Shaun Hendy, Winter 2014
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review