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Lucky to survive, Nicholas Butler
Greece Crete Stalag Dachau: A New Zealand Soldier’s Encounters with Hitler’s Army Jack Elworthy Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249123 The Lost Pilot: A Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143568766 There is a void at the heart of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Issue 109, Jack Elworthy, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Butler, Penguin Books
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Chimes of conviction, David Hill
How Does it Hurt? Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739698 What Lies Beneath: A Memoir Elspeth Sandys Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578892 Give Us This Day: A Memoir of Family and Exile Helena Wiśniewska Brow Victoria…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, David Hill, Elspeth Sandys, Helena Wiśniewska Brow, Issue 109, Otago University Press, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Jan FitzGerald
The joy gatherers (more…)…
At the whim of larger, terrifying forces, Angelina Sbroma
The Deadly Sky David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143308157 The Red Suitcase Jill Harris Mākaro Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780994106902 Spark Rachael Craw Walker, $22.00, ISBN 9781922179623 David Hill’s The Deadly Sky is set in 1974, when the nuclear proliferation of…
Tagged with: Angelina Sbroma, Autumn 2015, David Hill, Issue 109, Jill Harris, Mākaro Press, Puffin, Rachael Craw, Walker
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Boys’ own adventures, Tina Shaw
Singing Home the Whale Mandy Hager Random House, $20.00, ISBN 9781775536574 Magic and Makutu David Hair HarperCollins, $25.00, ISBN 9781869509330 If these two titles are anything to go by, New Zealand young adult fiction is in good shape. These are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, David Hair, HarperCollins, Issue 109, Mandy Hager, Random House, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Gee-whizz, Roger Robinson
Maurice Gee: A Literary Companion: Fiction for Young Readers Elizabeth Hale (ed) Otago University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781877578847 Maurice Gee published Under the Mountain in 1979. It was a success in print and on TV, but for some years it…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Elizabeth Hale, Issue 109, Maurice Gee, Otago University Press, Roger Robinson
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Town and country, Brian Easton
Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand Shamubeel Eaqub Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9781927277614 When the Farm Gates Opened: The Impact of Rogernomics on Rural New Zealand Neal Wallace Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578724 In the last hundred…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Brian Easton, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 109, Neal Wallace, Otago University Press, Shamubeel Eaqub
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Brave new worlds, Ian Lochhead
Vertical Living: The Architectural Centre and the Remaking of Wellington Julia Gatley and Paul Walker Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9781869408152 The very notion of so rapid and wholesale a change to a city’s fabric … is a high-risk undertaking,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2015, Ian Lochhead, Issue 109, Julia Gatley, Paul Walker
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Architecture, Non-fiction, Review
New waters, Emma Martin
Reach Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143571728 Novels about art sometimes also seem to be novels about novels. Laurence Fearnley’s latest work, Reach, not only explores the relationship between life and creative expression but also, in a sense, enacts it.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Emma Martin, Issue 109, Laurence Fearnley, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Beyond beige, John Newton
A Rainbow Reader Tessa Laird Clouds, $25.00, ISBN 9780987659378 Plato, I learned recently from the wonderful Maggie Nelson (Bluets, 2009), wanted to banish not just the poets from his republic but also the painters. They were “mixers and grinders of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Clouds, Issue 109, John Newton, Tessa Laird
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
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