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All shook up, Charlotte MacDonald
Magnitude Eight Plus: New Zealand’s Biggest Earthquake Rodney Grapes Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733400 Poor Baron Von Alzdorf, owner of Wellington’s largest brick building, a hotel, was the township’s only casualty in the earthquake which struck at 9.17 pm…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Issue 48, June 2001, Rodney Grapes, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Science
Extraordinary eyes, Vivienne Jepsen
Love in the Land of Midas Kapka Kassabova Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140298797 I have to say, at the outset, that I enjoyed reading Kapka Kassabova’s second novel. It’s a good story, told in such a way as to keep the…
Tagged with: Issue 48, June 2001, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin, Vivienne Jepsen
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Flying with the godwit, Rupert Glover
Wings of the Nation: A History of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, 1947-78 Peter Aimer The Bush Press, $49.95, ISBN 0908608861 Wings of the Nation is subtitled A History of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, 1947-78, but it…
Tagged with: Issue 48, June 2001, Peter Aimer, Rupert Glover, The Bush Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Electoral debrief, Ruth Laugesen
Left Turn: The New Zealand General Election of 1999 ed Jonathan Boston, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay & Nigel S Roberts Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734042 Up the hill from Parliament, a clutch of Victoria University’s political scientists…
Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 48, Jonathan Boston, June 2001, Nigel S Roberts, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Live and let learn, Jim Collinge
Learning our Living: a teaching autobiography Charmaine Pountney Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561865 For many people a teaching autobiography might not seem an exciting prospect. Charmaine Pountney, however, is no ordinary teacher. This book is an account of nearly 60…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Charmaine Pountney, Issue 48, Jim Collinge, June 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
The triumph of reinvention, Mary Varnham
Wellington – The First Years of European Settlement 1840-1850 Gavin McLean Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0140288635 Wellington’s Heritage – plants, gardens, and landscape Winsome Shepherd Te Papa Press, $49.95, ISBN 0909010730 Kirkcaldie & Stains – A Wellington Story Julia Millen…
Happy days, Redmer Yska
I Live Here Now: Sarah Campion in 1950s New Zealand ed Rachel Scott Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251054 Over the summer of 2000, National Radio was the unlikely backdrop for a rumble over New Zealand in the 1950s. The…
Tagged with: Issue 48, June 2001, Rachel Scott, Redmer Yska, Sarah Campion, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Shadow lines, Lewis Scott
The Better Part Meg Campbell Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877161276 Postscripts J C Sturm Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877228354 It would be remiss of this reviewer not to note that these two women poets, who have their own growing reputations,…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 48, J C Sturm, June 2001, Lewis Scott’, Meg Campbell, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Laying ghost, Laura Kroetsch
Haunt Bronwyn Bannister Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877133841 Between Black and White Eirlys Hunter Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414284 I find that when reading a first novel I often flick to the little publisher logo on the spine. I acknowledge…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Bannister, Eirlys Hunter, Issue 48, June 2001, Laura Kroetsch, Otago University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review