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Boring murder to death, Michael Pearson
Off With His Head Ngaio Marsh HarperCollins, $15.95, ISBN 000 6169198 Sounds Easy — a New Zealand mystery Carol Dawber River Press, $16.95, ISBN 0959804129 Inside Dope Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $17.95, ISBN 186958 1598 “Who cares?” has replaced…
Tagged with: Carol Dawber, HarperCollins, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 21, Michael Pearson, Ngaio Marsh, Paul Thomas, River Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Culturally inappropriate, Hamish Keith
Gauguin and Maori Art Bronwen Nicholson, with contributions by Roger Blackley, Jonathan Mane‑Wheoki, Roger Neich, Richard Wolfe Godwit (with Auckland City Art Gallery), $29.95, ISBN 0 908877692 This is a small book, 80 pages in all, which is entirely appropriate…
Tagged with: Auckland City Art Gallery, Bronwen Nicholson, Godwit, Hamish Keith, Issue 21, Jonathan Mane‑Wheoki, Richard Wolfe, Roger Blackley, Roger Neich
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Self-reliant in Victorian New Zealand, Erik Olssen
Nearly Out of Heart and Hope: The puzzle of a colonial labourer’s diary Miles Fairburn Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1869401182 Anybody familiar with New Zealand history is likely to feel a sense of excitement at the prospect of reading…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Erik Olssen, Issue 21, Miles Fairburn
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The boundaries have been reset, Steve Maharey
Trade, Employment and Welfare: A comparative study of trade and labour market policies in Sweden and New Zealand. 1880‑1980 Deborah Mabbett Clarendon Press, no price available ISBN 019828379 2 A Home of One’s Own: Housing policy in Sweden and New…
Tagged with: Alexander Davidson, Almqvist and Wiksell International, Clarendon Press, Deborah Mabbett, Issue 21, Steve Maharey
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Vietnam more goyishe, Adam Levy
Far from the Promised Land? Ann Beaglehole and Hal Levine GP Publications, $39.95 ISBN 0958341742 There were more synagogues in New Zealand last century than there are today. Hokitika had a synagogue and so did Timaru and Nelson. Many South…
Tagged with: Adam Levy, Ann Beaglehole, GP Publications, Hal Levine, Issue 21
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
But what about all the others, Paul Spoonley
Immigration and National Identity in New Zealand: One People, Two Peoples, Many Peoples? Stuart W Greif (ed) Dunmore Press, $39.95 ISBN 0864602382 Some things endure. One is the hostility towards those from Asia who have chosen to emigrate to New…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Issue 21, Paul Spoonley, Stuart W Greif
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Lomu-isation, Piet de Jong
Please forgive me. In common with such canny marketing organisations as the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, shoe giant Reebok, beer mogul Steinlager, a cheese company, the ASB Bank and others, I have just invoked the name of Jonah Lomu…
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Getting facts on your side, Bill Oliver
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