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Story-telling for all, Bruce Morris
Uncle Trev Jack Lasenby, Cape Catley, Whatamongo Bay, 1991, $14.95 Jack Lasenby has for some time now been delighting young New Zealanders (and those adults fortunate to have come across them) with his stories about Uncle Trev. Based firmly in…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Bruce Morris, Cape Catley, Issue 4, Jack Lasenby
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Honest and substantial, W S Broughton
Barbed Wire and Mirrors: Essays on New Zealand prose Lawrence Jones, Second edition, University of Otago Press (distrib John McIndoe Ltd, Dunedin), 1991, $39.95 Lawrence Jones has been writing about New Zealand fiction for at least twenty-five years now, and…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Issue 4, Lawrence Jones, Otago University Press, W S Broughton
Posted in Literature
Posted in Literature
Gavin McLean: Diverse and shorter reviews
The Great New Zealand Fossil Book: Pictures of Ancient Life in an Evolving Land Ron Brazier, Ian Keyes and Graeme Stevens, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Wellington, 1990, $49.95 On Shaky Ground: a Geological Guide to the Wellington Metropolitan Region Graeme…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Cape Catley, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Gavin McLean, Graeme Stevens, Graham Hutchins, Hodder & Stoughton, Ian Keyes, Issue 4, John McIndoe, Ken Moore, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Paul Bensemann, Ron Brazier
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Sidewinder as demon, Bernie Steeds
Sidewinder Alistair Campbell, Reed Books, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Readers first meet Sidewinder about half way through Alistair Campbell’s 1989 novel The Frigate Bird. The novel’s narrator — a Cook Islands-born writer prone to rather extreme flights of fancy — is…
Tagged with: Alistair Campbell, Autumn 1992, Bernie Steeds, Issue 4, Reed Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Changing women’s lives, Rosemary du Plessis
Springs in My Heels: Stories About Women and Change Alison Gray, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991, $27.95 Ladies a Plate: Change and Continuity in the Lives of New Zealand Women Julie Park (ed), Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 Both…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1992, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 4, Julie Park, Rosemary du Plessis
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Two sisters and a witch, Rebekah Palmer
The Word Burners Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates, Wellington, 1991, $19.95 Finding Out Elspeth Sandys, Vintage New Zealand, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 The night-witch is invoked early in The Word Burners. The main character, Julia, tells her children of a lonely…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Beryl Fletcher, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 4, Rebekah Palmer, Vintage New Zealand
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Catherine Healy: Giving sex workers a voice
Working Girls Jan Jordan, Penguin, Auckland, 1991, $29.95 In 1987 when the Prostitutes Collective was established largely in response to the AIDS pandemic, it was necessary to turn to overseas experience for guidance. It was all very interesting reading about…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Catherine Healy, Issue 4, Jan Jordan, Penguin
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Lighthouses illuminated, J H Sutherland
Leading Lights: Lighthouses of New Zealand Anna Gibbons, photographs by Grant Sheehan, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $44.95 Just after Easter 1990, the keepers were withdrawn from The Brothers Lighthouse in Cook Strait, the last New Zealand light to be de-manned…
Tagged with: Anna Gibbons, Autumn 1992, Grant Sheehan, Hazard Press, Issue 4, J H Sutherland
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Acceptance of diversity, Claire-Louise McCurdy
Parker and Hulme: A Lesbian View Julie Glamuzina and Alison J Laurie, New Womens Press, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Does anyone in New Zealand at the time not remember Parker and Hulme, the two Christchurch girls who murdered the mother of…
Tagged with: Alison J Laurie, Autumn 1992, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Issue 4, Julie Glamuzina, Juliet Hulme, New Women's Press, Pauline Parker
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
From the marae to modernism: the buildings in which we live, Pam Wilson
New Zealand Architecture from Polynesian Beginnings to 1990 Peter Shaw, photographs by Robin Morrison, Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 ‘New Zealand’s European-derived architectural history may be short but it should be accorded the same respect we now give as…
Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 4, Pam Wilson, Peter Shaw, Robin Morrison
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Architecture, History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review