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Apocalypse Soon, David Hill
Power and Chaos Paula Boock Random House, $14.95, ISBN 1869414357 The Wave Rider Graeme Lay Penguin, $15.95, ISBN 014139028X Red Cliff Bernard Beckett Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135429 A Whistle from the Blunder Diana Noonan Longacre, $14.95, ISBN 1877135402 About…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Diana Noonan, Graeme Lay, Issue 47, Longacre, Paula Boock, Penguin, Random House, Spring 1999
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Generous to a fault, Jane Stafford
New Zealand Love Poems ed Lauris Edmond Oxford University Press, $45.00, ISBN 0195583981 Posthumous volumes invite a certain kind of reading, a feeling that, as this is the last time we will speak to the author, they are addressing us…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Jane Stafford, Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, Spring 1999
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Evolution or revolution? Terence O’Brien
New Zealand in World Affairs: Vol. 3, 1972-1990 ed Bruce Brown Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864733720 In his introduction to this third volume in the history of modern New Zealand international relations, covering 1972-1990, Merv Norrish suggests the…
Tagged with: Bruce Brown, Issue 47, Spring 1999, Terence O’Brien, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem — Mark Pirie
Worlds for Jenny Yesterday in the street a young girl stopped me to ask if I’d caught a ball from the new stadium yet. And I smiled back at her knowing that was her world. I thought about Dunedin,…
Home straight, Meghan Nordeck
Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern Justine Clark & Paul Walker Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864733879 Publishing architecture is never easy. Partly this is a problem of trying to accommodate within the medium of…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Justine Clark, Meghan Nordeck, Paul Walker, Spring 1999, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Mucking in, Bill Sewell
Travelling to New Zealand ed Lydia Wevers Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0195584112 It was literally the sort of pub where the conversation stops when a stranger walks in. Only there were just three customers, plus the proprietor, in…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 47, Lydia Wevers, Oxford University Press, Spring 1999
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Essentials of Bloketopia, Dale Williams
High Times in the High Country: The Life of a Musterer W V Kerr and John Kerr Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140294422 Easy Riders: Cruising the Long White Cloud Paul and Val Davis HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503570 Blokes and Boats: Text…
Tagged with: Bill McCarthy, Brian Moorhead, Dale Williams, HarperCollins, Issue 47, John Kerr, Ken Francis, Paul and Val Davis, Penguin, Reed Books, Spring 1999, W V Kerr
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Upstairs, downstairs, Anna Cottrell
Voice and Vision: A History of Broadcasting in New Zealand, Volume Two Patrick Day Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1869402332 If you think this book will illuminate what you imagine goes on behind the screens when the show’s over…
Fear and loneliness in Grey Lynn, Catharina van Bohemen
Guilt Charlotte Grimshaw Abacus, $29.95, ISBN 0349111960 Among the chorus of young women’s voices emerging presently in NZ writing, Charlotte Grimshaw’s is strong and distinctive. Her two novels Provocation and Guilt are set mainly in Auckland and evoke a…
Tagged with: Abacus, Catharina van Bohemen, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 47, Spring 1999
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“No, bad language, please”: the YA fiction debate, Jane Westaway
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