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Issue 108 Summer 2014
Volume 24 | Number 4 | Issue 108 | Summer 2014 Paul Morris: “The ordeal of civility” (Comment) Don Brash: Sharleen Forbes and Antong Victorio (eds), The New Zealand CPI at 100: History and Interpretation Ruth Nichol: Geoff Cochrane,…
Digging and delving, Tim Corballis and Ingrid Horrocks
The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739384 The protagonist of the present-day portion of Symmes Hole (1986), Ian Wedde’s canonical and underread novel about settler colonialism, is obsessed with history. He digs…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 108, Summer 2014, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
No drive-by answers, David Cohen
Sorrows of a Century: Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 1900-2000 John C Weaver Bridget Williams Books, $60.00, ISBN 9781927277232 All of us seek happiness, Pascal declared centuries ago, even at the point of a warm gun. “This is without exception,”…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Cohen, Issue 108, John C Weaver, Summer 2014
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
A poverty of compassion, Rod Oram
Child Poverty in New Zealand Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781927247860 “New Zealand has the necessary resources to reduce child poverty, and equitable and efficient ways to secure these resources are available. The question is…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 108, Jonathan Boston, Rod Oram, Simon Chapple, Summer 2014
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Sex-free romance and YA cred, Paula Morris
Bugs Whiti Hereaka Huia, $25.00, ISBN 9781775501336 When We Wake Karen Healey Allen & Unwin, $22.00, ISBN 9781742378084 Awakening Natalie King Penguin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143570790 Bugs, the eponymous protagonist of Whiti Hereaka’s first YA novel, is unimpressed with much of…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Huia, Issue 108, Karen Healey, Natalie King, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2014, Whiti Hereaka
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Explaining WWI, Steven Loveridge
The Bantam and the Soldier Jennifer Beck (Robyn Belton illus) Scholastic, $19.50, ISBN 9781775432074 The Anzac Puppy Peter Millett (Trish Bowles illus) Scholastic, $19.50, ISBN 9781775430971 Best Mates: Three Lads Who Went to War Together Philippa Werry (Bob Kerr illus)…
Tagged with: Bob Kerr, Glyn Harper, Issue 108, Jennifer Beck, Jenny Cooper, New Holland, Peter Millett, Philippa Werry, Picture Puffin, Robyn Belton, Scholastic, Steven Loveridge, Summer 2014, Trish Bowles
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, War
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, War
Yesterday today, Glyn Harper
How We Remember: New Zealanders and the First World War Charles Ferrall and Harry Ricketts (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739353 With the centenary of WWI now upon us, a flood of books on New Zealand’s role in that…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Glyn Harper, Harry Ricketts, Issue 108, Summer 2014, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sociology, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Sociology, War
War stories, Anne Else
Passing Through Coral Atkinson Dancing Tuatara, $35.00, ISBN 9780473262693 Heartland Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $37.00, ISBN 9781775535850 Tropic of Guile Sue McCauley Xlibris, $42.00, ISBN 9781483683195 All three of these novels centre on hard-won survival against the odds of poverty,…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Black Swan, Coral Atkinson, Dancing Tuatara, Issue 108, Jenny Pattrick, Sue McCauley, Summer 2014, Xlibris
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review