The Wastings Don Donovan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 52 7 Don Donovan’s The Wastings could be read as a savage satire on the evils of the right-wing economic theories that have bedevilled this country over the last 15…
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More spills than thrills, Bernard Carpinter
Tagged with: Andrew Grant, Bernard Carpinter, Denis Edwards, Don Donovan Hazard Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 41, Keith Stewart, Penguin, Shoal Bay Press, Tony Williams, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reeling in the recent past, John R Martin
The Whimpering of the State: Policy after MMP Brian Easton Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 218 9 Brian Easton’s continuing commentary on New Zealand public policy does not fall on deaf ears. Not all those who take note…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Easton, Issue 41, John R Martin
Posted in Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Politics & Law, Review
Brylcreem and black bloomers, Deborah Laurs
There Was a Time Dorothy Butler Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 14 238285 8 Ever since Janet Frame’s An Angel at my Table, it has been difficult for readers to accept “autobiography” as a genre of non-fiction quite as readily…
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Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Something for the summer, Susan Budd
Throwing Stones Gwenyth Perry Bookcaster Press, $20.00, ISBN 0 473 05654 2 Throwing Stones is a romantic novel for the thinking woman, or at the very least the keen member of a book club, it offers the sort of escapist…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters of the Titans, Terence O’Brien
Unofficial Channels: Letters between Alister McIntosh and Foss Shanahan, George Laking and Frank Corner, 1946-1966 ed Ian McGibbon Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 365 8 A first reaction upon reading this compilation of selected letters between the four…
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Tagged with: Ian McGibbon, Issue 41, Terence O’Brien, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Waving the flag, Heather Murray
Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows ed Roger Robinson Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 86473 367 4 It is hard not to get political when reviewing this book, so political I’ll be (it is after all…
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Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review