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Obscuring the prominent, Miles Fairburn
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; Volume Four; 1921-1940 ed Claudia Orange Auckland University Press and Dept of Internal Affairs, $130.00, ISBN 8694 203 0 The dictionary of biography project has been a boon for academic historians working in New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Claudia Orange, Dept of Internal Affairs, Issue 38, Miles Fairburn
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Good keen women, Ginette McDonald
Stroppy Sheilas and Gutsy Girls Sandra Coney Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 87717 829 2 In a memorable scene in the 1973 BBC TV drama series Shoulder to Shoulder, an evocation of the suffrage move-ment in Great Britain, Lady Constance’s…
Tagged with: Ginette McDonald, Issue 38, Sandra Coney, Tandem Press
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Endurance and beyond, Chris Orsman
Shackleton’s Captain: a Biography of Frank Worsley John Bell Thomson Hazard Press, $49.95, ISBN 1 877161 40 3 In April this year a major exhibition, entitled “The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition”, opened at the American Museum of Natural History…
Tagged with: Chris Orsman, Hazard Press, Issue 38, John Bell Thomson
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Leonard Lambert
One Man Drowning Tony once your world was Nugget-bright and new but not far out from the Fifties you ran aground (and funnily enough it’s rust that most recalls you) and the gulls, your girls, began to crap all over…
Editorial – Issue 38
Salute to Lauris Edmond On behalf of New Zealand Books, we’d like to offer Lauris Edmond our very best wishes on her 75th birthday, which she celebrated in April. At the same time, we’d like to express our appreciation of…
A rebore with the engine running, Harvey McQueen
Reforming Education: The New Zealand Experience 1984-1996 Graham and Susan Butterworth Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86469 334 6 The book’s cover shows five scowling youngsters – not a good introduction to an account of the most far-reaching structural change…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Graham Butterworth, Harvey McQueen, Issue 38, Susan Butterworth
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
New flames, Helen Rickerby
Poetry NZ 18 ed Alistair Paterson Brick Row, $17.95, ISSN 0114 5770 The Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology ed Cyril Childs New Zealand Poetry Society, $18.95,
ISBN 0 473 05374 8 climbing the flame tree ed Vivienne Jepsen New Zealand…
Tagged with: Alistair Paterson, Brick Row, Helen Rickerby, Issue 38, New Zealand Poetry Society, Noel Ginn, Steele Roberts, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Part character study, part thriller, Michael Morrissey
Believers to the Bright Coast Vincent O’Sullivan Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0 14 028027 8 Like such men of letters as C K Stead and Ian Wedde, Vincent O’Sullivan has been fruitfully exploring all the major literary genres – poetry, short…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Back to the 30s, Vincent O’Sullivan
Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930s Stuart Murray Victoria University Press, $44.95, ISBN 0 86473 341 0 An Englishman, teaching in Dublin, who takes our most carefully constructed decade, insinuates himself into one of…
Tagged with: Issue 38, Stuart Murray, Victoria University Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Literary dream team, Susan Paris
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