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Dazzling, dizzying cornucopias Stella Ramage
Marcus King: Painting New Zealand for the World Peter Alsop and Warren Feeney Potton & Burton, $80.00, ISBN 9781927213704 Vivid: The Paul Hartigan Story Don Abbott RF Books, $65.00, ISBN 9780473337117 Marcus King and Paul Hartigan belong to that interesting…
Tagged with: Don Abbott, Issue 114, Peter Alsop, Potton & Burton, RF Books, Stella Ramage, Warren Feeney, Winter 2016
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem
Ulex europaeus, gorse A hedge right here he spades a hole, digs me in. Such a fine view of the sea across to a peninsula, a marae, the blue smoke and steam curling from the ground. I put down roots…
Chalk and cheese William Brandt
The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie: Murder, Politics and Revenge in Nineteenth-century New Zealand David Hastings Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408374 The Scene of the Crime: Twelve Extraordinary True Stories of Crime and Punishment Steve Braunias HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Hastings, HarperCollins, Issue 114, Steve Braunias, William Brandt, Winter 2016
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Rescuing an heroic figure, Jane Westaway
Petals & Bullets: Dorothy Morris, New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War Mark Derby Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9781927213766 In the preface to Mark Derby’s new book, Spanish War historian Angela Jackson writes of the challenge in recounting…
Tagged with: Dorothy Morris, Issue 114, Jane Westaway, Mark Derby, Potton and Burton, Winter 2016
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Brutal love, Rachael Imlay
The Bone People Keri Hulme Picador, $25.00, ISBN 9780330485418 The Bone People (originally published in 1984) is a beautiful, complex, and astounding novel of healing, loss, and love. Keri Hulme utilises an unusual style; switching between viewpoints, first and third…
Tagged with: Issue 114, Keri Hulme, Picador, Rachael Imlay, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Air-brushed, Nicholas Reid
Helen Clark: Inside Stories Claudia Pond Eyley and Dan Salmon (eds) Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978186940 8381 She led the parliamentary Labour Party for 15 years and served for nine years as New Zealand’s first elected woman prime minister.…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Claudia Pond Eyley, Dan Salmon, Helen Clark, Issue 114, Nicholas Reid, Winter 2016
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Bringing the front line home, Sarah Dickson
Evie’s War Anna MacKenzie Longacre, $20.00, ISBN 9781775537656 Anna Mackenzie’s book gives the reader an insight into WWI through the perspective of Evie, an 18-year-old New Zealander living in England. Shortly after her family arrives there for their tour of…
Tagged with: Anna Mackenzie, Issue 114, Longacre, Sarah Dickson, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, YA Reviewers, Young adults
What’s a New Zealand novel? Sue Esterman
Enemy Camp David Hill Puffin, $20.00, ISBN 9780143309123 Lullaby Bernard Beckett Text, $26.00, ISBN 9781922182753 Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder Rudy Castaneda Lopez Escalator Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780473295691 It has been interesting to read three such different but compelling books.…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Escalator Press, Issue 114, Puffin, Rudy Castaneda Lopez, Sue Esterman, Text, Winter 2016
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Poem – Fiona Roberton
Dad When I go to visit him at 4:30 on a Friday he thinks Sunday and looks into my eyes as if I might know. I don’t. I don’t even know when his dinner time is. We occupy different worlds…