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Open letters, Tim Beaglehole
Dear Peggy: Letters to Margaret Garland from her New Zealand Friends Peter and Dianne Beatson (ed) Sociology Department, Massey University $35.00 ISBN 0 95836254 8 Peggy Garland came out to Wellington in 1947 with a young family and an unsatisfactory,…
Tagged with: Dianne Beatson, Issue 35, Margaret Garland, Massey University, Peter Beatson, Sociology Department, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
All this and Evison too, Denis Welch
Happy Days in Muckle Flugga Pat Evison HarperCollins $39.95 ISBN 1 86950 267 1 Early on in Pat Evison’s very enjoyable book, there is a recollection of a remarkable incident in London in 1947. Young Patricia Blamires, as she was…
Tagged with: Denis Welch, HarperCollins, Issue 35, Pat Evison
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Boxed in, Kathryn Walls
The Power of Place: Landscape in New Zealand Children‘s Fiction Diane Hebley University of Otago Press $39.95 ISBN 1 8771 33 47 7 Diane Hebley’s useful introduction to New Zealand writing for children, Off the SIMM was published in 1980.…
Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 35, Kathryn Walls, University of Otago Press
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Paying the price of principle, Margaret Wilson
Stick Out, Keep Left: an autobiography by Margaret Thorn Elsie Locke and Jacquie Matthews (ed) Auckland University Press/ Bridget Williams Books $29.95 ISBN 1 86940143 3 She Dared to Speak – Connie Birchfield’s Story Maureen Birchfield University of Otago Press…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Elsie Locke, Issue 35, Jacquie Matthews, Margaret Wilson, Maureen Birchfield, University of Otago Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Tertiary fees and simple minds, Alistair Shaw
Cultural Politics and the University in Aotearoa/New Zealand Michael Peters (ed) Dunmore Press $39.95 ISBN 0 864 69306 0 Investing in Minds: the Economics of Higher Education in New Zealand Sholeh A Maani VUW Institute of Policy Studies $30.00 ISBN…
Tagged with: Alistair Shaw, Dunmore Press, Issue 35, Michael Peters, Sholeh A Maani, VUW Institute of Policy Studies
Posted in Economics, Education, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Education, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Asia-specific, Steve Hoadley
Nations and States in Southeast Asia Nicholas Tarling Cambridge University Press $24.95 ISBN 0 52162564 5 Asia Pacific: New Geographies of the Pacific Rim R F Watters and T G McGee (ed) Victoria University Press $49.95 ISBN 0 86473334 8…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Issue 35, Nicholas Tarling, R F Watters, Steve Hoadley, T G McGee, Victoria University Press
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Editorial – Issue 35
Guest editorial: No longer Charing Cross Road Once upon a time New Zealand had a fortress economy and by all accounts life was good but you couldn’t actually buy much. I didn’t live here then, but know from my own…
No need to practise the steamy bits, Anne French
The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s romance writers talk to Rachel McAlpine Hazard Press $19.95 ISBN 1 87716136 5 Almost everyone thinks they can be a Mills and Boon author. The formula novel is short (55,000 words these days), the plots…
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Peter Munz
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