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The short story of non-fiction, Tony Simpson

Posted on December 1, 2001

When Famous People Come to Town Damien Wilkins On Kissing Kate Camp On Longing Vincent O’Sullivan Four Winds Press, $14.95 each, ISBN 0958237506; 0958237514; 0958237530 Shortly after these little books, none much longer than 50 pages, were published in September…

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The father from hell, Julia Millen

Posted on December 1, 2001

In Endless Fear: a true story Colin Crump Penguin, $34.99, ISBN 014301823X The Crump legend again. This time, a bit of a yarn from Barry’s younger brother Colin, about growing up with the father from hell. Wally Crump should never…

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Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction and Review

Famous last words, Bill Manhire

Posted on December 1, 2001

  They knew how to die in the old Icelandic sagas. In Grettir’s Saga a man called Atli Asmundarson gets a spear through the stomach. He looks down in surprise, and then – in the middle of a 10th-century wilderness…

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A bob each way, Jon Gadsby

Posted on December 1, 2001

The Other Side Of The Ditch: A cartoon century in the New Zealand-Australia relationship Ian F Grant Tandem Press, $19.95, ISBN 0958232008 Thoroughbreds, Trainers, Toffs and Tic Tac Men: A Cartoon History of Horse Racing in New Zealand David Grant…

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Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review and Sociology

Muldoon and after, Barry Gustafson

Posted on December 1, 2001

From Muldoon to Lange: New Zealand Elections in the 1980s Stephen Levine and Alan McRobie MC Enterprises, $39.95, ISBN 0959771530 For almost thirty years from 1960, Professor Robert Chapman systematically studied New Zealand’s election campaigns and their outcomes. Since 1990,…

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Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law and Review

Poem — Bernadette Hall

Posted on December 1, 2001

Choccy Bic   “cut my nails for me will ya, sweet chick,” says Nan “they’re sharp as bloody knives.” “sure thing” says Round who’s been hanging out for a choccy bic “that’s the trick!” says Nan and sticks her feet…

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Words like ferns: the neglected Harold Gretton, Les Cleveland

Posted on December 1, 2001

Wartime is not usually thought of as a kind of literary 
scholarship for authors, but a few talented New Zealand soldiers in World War 2 did manage to write stories and poems of some quality while serving in combat 
situations.…

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Editorial — Issue 56

Posted on December 1, 2001

Foul winds and fair play. The rugby season is over at last – for all of a couple of 
months. But the challenger series for the America’s Cup is already beating to windward. And our professional cricketers, in whatever light…

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The French defection, Owen Marshall

Posted on December 1, 2001

Son of France  Geoff Cush Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415027 An intellectual comic novel needs a good idea, and Geoff Cush had one for Son of France. What if the French, instead of being thwarted at Akaroa, had succeeded in making…

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They also serve, Katie Pickles

Posted on December 1, 2001

Doing Our Bit: New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two ed Jim Sullivan HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950416X High Flyers: Celebrating the Extraordinary Women of the RNZAF 1977-2002 Bee Dawson Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018221 Being in the military…

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