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Issue 47 | March 2001
Volume 11 | Number 1 | Issue 47 | March 2001 Julia Millen: Colin Hogg, A Life in Loose Strides: the story of Barry Crump Editorial Correspondence Jan Kemp: “Rain” (poem) Dale Williams: W V Kerr & John Kerr,…
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, March 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Asking the hard questions, Mark Williams
The Writer at Work: Essays C K Stead Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877133957 I write on a Waitangi Day on which the Prime Minister has chosen to attend celebrations in Wellington and Auckland but not at Waitangi. The…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Issue 47, March 2001, Mark Williams, Otago University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Wrestling with the Patriarch, Otto Heim
The Uncle’s Story Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140298924 Witi Ihimaera’s eighth novel impressively rounds off his third decade in the market for fiction. Faithful readers will no doubt spot many echoes of earlier Ihimaeras in this latest work.…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not for the queasy, Chris Knox
Emerald Budgies Karyn Hay Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414535 Wow! Karyn Hay’s first novel got a right regal slagging on Kim Hill this morning, both host Sean Plunket and a queasy-sounding male reviewer whose name I missed really putting the…
Tagged with: Chris Knox, Issue 47, Karyn Hay, March 2001, Vintage NZ
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Really real, Mark Amery
The Spit Children Jo Randerson Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733968 There was once this young woman who liked to make up stories. They were the kind of stories you might have made up for your best friend when…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Jo Randerson, March 2001, Mark Amery, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Editorial – Issue 47
Valuing writers One of the many reasons New Zealand Books exists is for the sake of writers. Of course, we exist for readers too. Without our readers, both the specialist ones and those who have a general interest in New…
In the wars, Piers Reid
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History ed Ian McGibbon, with the assistance of Paul Goldstone Oxford University Press, $89.95, ISBN 0195583760 The 20th century has seen a significant readjustment of New Zealand’s outlook on matters of defence.…
Tagged with: Ian McGibbon, Issue 47, March 2001, Oxford University Press, Paul Goldstone, Piers Reid
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War