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Finding herself, Heather Murray
Motherland Yvonne du Fresne Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26038 2 For a nation which has for so long depended upon a steady stream of new migrants, New Zealand has a very poor record of making them feel welcome. Our…
Tagged with: Heather Murray, Issue 26, Penguin Books, Winter 1996, Yvonne du Fresne
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Issue 26 | December 1996
Volume 6 | Number 5 | Issue 26 | December 1996 Simon Upton: Making our cultures Lydia Wevers tests Manhire’s safe, sidelong postmodernism David Eggleton: Duff’s exaggerated but truthful prose Paul Dyer: The economic revolution Harry Ricketts on Kipling’s…
Imperfect sex, seamless Fat Janet Hughes
Leaving Carol Sinclair Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908790 89 9 Fat Raewyn Alexander Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26037 4 Sailing Through the Amber Susan Hancock Black Pepper, $19.95, ISBN 1 876044 02 0 A first novel reflects not…
Tagged with: Black Pepper, Carol Sinclair, Hazard Press, Issue 26, Janet Hughes, Penguin, Raewyn Alexander, Susan Hancock, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Postcolonial flowering, Alistair Fox
The Essential Old Rose: Growing and Using Old Roses in New Zealand Trevor Griffiths Viking, $34.95, ISBN 0 670 87187 7 The New Zealand Book of Roses: The best 150 Varieties, 2ed John Martin and Colin Hutchinson Viking, $34.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Colin Hutchinson, Issue 26, John Martin, Margaret Hayward, Trevor Griffiths, Viking, Winter 1996
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Frozen contemplation, Bill Sewell
South: An Antarctic Journey Chris Orsman Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 86473 312 7 Recently, I flew across the North Atlantic from Frankfurt to Los Angeles. Our route took us north over Iceland, Greenland and the frozen wastes of…
Did we do right? Paul Dyer
The New Zealand Macroeconomy, A Briefing on the Reforms Paul Dalziel and Ralph Lattimore Oxford University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 19 558330 2 Prosperity Mislaid Len Bayliss GP Print, $19.95, ISBN 1 86956 107 4 Rebuilding New Zealand John Robinson…
Tagged with: GP Print, Issue 26, John Robinson, Len Bayliss, Oxford University Press, Paul Dalziel, Paul Dyer, Ralph Lattimore, Technology Monitoring Association, Winter 1996
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Binding successors, Gary Hawke
The Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector Murray J Horn Cambridge University Press, $54.95, ISBN 0 521 48436 7 New Zealand has had several secretaries to the Treasury with high levels of intelligence. It has…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Gary Hawke, Issue 26, Murray J Horn, Winter 1996
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – Bernadette Hall
The Stories Once upon a time there was a little girl in a flannel petticoat who kicked up her heels in her auntie’s pub where there was a well in the middle of the bar and you had to be…
Was Kipling gay? (Does it matter?), Harry Ricketts
Posted in Comment