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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
From the sin bin, Bernard Carpinter
The Cassino Legacy Michael Wall Penguin, $19.95, ISBN 0140288368 Cardinal Sins Michael Wall HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503619 Michael Wall wants to see his name on the airport bookshelves of the world. He is making serious and professional efforts to write,…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, December 2000, Edmund Bohan, Greg Billington, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Michael Riddell, Michael Wall, Penguin, Reed
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
1905: A Sports Odyssey, Adrienne Simpson
The Book of Fame Lloyd Jones Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140296948 New Zealanders love sport. The truth of this frequently-heard comment is daily demonstrated by the amount of space our newspapers allocate to sporting activities. Success on the cricket pitch, putting…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, December 2000, Issue 46, Lloyd Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 46
Publishers behaving badly Writers can be an ungracious lot. They take offence easily; they rarely apologise or express thanks; even more rarely do they return favours. They are also known to derive as much pleasure from a friend’s literary failure…
Catherine Chidgey — work in progress
From a work in progress [Marin and his brother Ivan are living in a rough gumfield whare in the far north of New Zealand around 1900. This section opens with a letter from Marin to his sister.] A strange…
When Porsche comes to shove, Jane Clifton
The Anti-Economist Papers Paul Bieleski Tandem, $24.95, ISBN 187717856X Here’s a nice rural scene: a passing motorist bets a mustering farmer one sheep that he can guess the exact number of sheep in his flock. When the motorist gets the…
Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Jane Clifton, Paul Bieleski, Tandem
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – Kate Camp
Admit one Cranes like cranes above the city. The city is a poem that says no matter what boat you take you cannot find the boat to take you from yourself to yourself. The man who is part of…
“They all knew”, Peter Russell
Strawberries with the Führer Helga Tiscenko Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251038 The first chapters of Helga Tiscenko’s memoir of her life are in large part a tale of the ordinary. Her childhood with her younger sister Sigrid in…
Tagged with: December 2000, Helga Tiscenko, Issue 46, Peter Russell, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Hello to Berlin, Cilla McQueen
Posted in Comment