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Not plain sailing, Anne French
Shapes on the Wind David Lewis HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 073226801X In 1934, when I was seventeen, I celebrated my last days at boarding school by building a canoe/kayak and informing the headmaster that I was going home in it…
Tagged with: Anne French, David Lewis, HarperCollins, Issue 48, Summer 1999
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Rain Queen, Judith Fyfe
Salote, Queen of Paradise Margaret Hixon Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877133787 The image of Queen Salote, in London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June 1953 – defiantly riding in an open coach in the pouring rain, and…
Tagged with: Issue 48, Judith Fyfe, Margaret Hixon, Otago University Press, Summer 1999
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Roads to nowhere? Ruth Butterworth
Building the Constitution ed Colin James Institute of Policy Studies, $45, ISBN 090893548X Some time in 1997, with the prolonged aftermath of the first MMP election still agitating the establishment and mightily diverting the rest of us, the idea gained…
Tagged with: Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 48, Ruth Butterworth, Summer 1999
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
What about the pets? Suzanne Innes-Kent
Recycled People: Forming New Relationships in Mid-life Coral Atkinson & Paula Wagemaker Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877251046 Recycled People is a timely and welcome book. When one examines the generation of any timely idea, one discovers that it arises…
Tagged with: Coral Atkinson, Issue 48, Paula Wagemaker, Shoal Bay Press, Summer 1999, Suzanne Innes-Kent
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Margaret Atwood in New Zealand, Anne Else
Beginnings and Endings Mostly I want to read what writers write, not look at r listen to them. But in the mid-1980s, I went to hear Margaret Atwood. Murder in the Dark had recently appeared, and she read “Happy…
Turning the pages, Keith Maslen
A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand ed Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes and Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402316 These fifteen essays, based on papers given at the first New…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, Issue 48, Keith Maslen, Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes, Summer 1999
Posted in Essays, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Purposeful nonsense? John O’Connor
Posted in Comment