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Quiet successes, Elizabeth Caffin
Good at Geography Jane Westaway Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 029142 3 The Company of a Daughter Paddy Richardson Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 0 95 837128 8 Across the Dreaming Night Judith White Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 412 8…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Wrongs and remedies, Lorna Dyall
Maori Health and Government Policy 1840-1940 Derek Dow Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 86473 366 6 May the People Live: A History of Maori Health Development 1900-1920 Raeburn Lange Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 214 6 Whaiora:…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Derek Dow, Issue 44, Lorna Dyall, Mason Durie, Oxford University Press, Raeburn Lange, Victoria University Press
Posted in Health, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Victims of the times, Les Cleveland
Massacre at Passchendaele: The New Zealand Story Glyn Harper HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1 86950 342 2 Dear Lizzie: A Kiwi Soldier Writes from the Battlefields of World War One ed Chrissie Ward HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 1 86950 340 6 Private…
Tagged with: Chrissie Ward, Glyn Harper, Greg Kerr, HarperCollins, Issue 44, John Crawford, Les Cleveland, Ngaio Press, Oxford University Press, Roger Smith
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Genre-blending, Janet Hughes
Russian Dolls Bronwyn Tate Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877133 77 9 Spirit Writing Adrienne Jansen HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1 86950 317 1 Genre can be a tool or a trap. By the time a particular predicament has been…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Jib-booms and bobstays, Anne French
Southern Breeze: a history of yachting in New Zealand Harold Kidd, Robin Elliott, and David Pardon Viking, $74.95, ISBN 0 670 88650 5 Salt beneath the skin: Seafaring Kiwis tell their stories ed Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1 86950…
Tagged with: Anne French, David Pardon, Harold Kidd, HarperCollins, Issue 44, Robin Elliott, Tessa Duder, Viking
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Dynamic Māori plays, David O’Donnell
Ta Matou Mangai: Three Plays of the 1990s. ed Hone Kouka Victoria University Press, $ 24.95, ISBN 0 86473 348 8 The publication of He Reo Hou, the first anthology of Maori plays, in 1990 was a landmark event, acknowledging…
Tagged with: David O’Donnell, Hone Kouka, Issue 44, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Objects in a landscape, Bill Sewell
The Art of Grahame Sydney Grahame Sydney and contributors Longacre Press, $99.95, ISBN 1 877135 31 3 The Central Otago I know does not figure much in Grahame Sydney’s art. The particular area I remember best is the Strath Taieri,…
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Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Martin Sutton
The Fox’s Wedding In memory of Richard Dadd, painter, d.1886 1 It’s the light at the end of a certain kind of day Just when the sun’s gone down The cloud clears from the far horizon But overhead it hangs…
Dancing in time, Alison Gray
The Gendered Kiwi ed Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 219 7 Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930 Caroline Daley Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 211 1 “Will…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 44
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review