Volume 13 | Number 1 | Issue 57 | March 2003 Joan de Hamel: Sandy McKay, Recycled and My Dad the All Black; Vince Ford, The Dare Club; Jan Thorburn, Stranded; Jack Lasenby, Aunt Effie Editorial A farewell Letters…
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Blog Archives
Holding the baby, Paula Boock
The Skeleton Woman: A Romance Renée Huia Publishers, $29.95, ISBN 1877283169 In a review of this, Renée’s fifth novel, the New Zealand Listener used the gratuitous headline “The one about the lesbian and the baby”. Shame on them. What it…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Writing us up, Tom Brooking
Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900 Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 186940271S New Zealand’s extreme isolation has always made it attractive to travellers. As the most remote destination on the globe it has always held…
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Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Summoning the shark, Catharina van Bohemen
the shark bell Christine Johnston Penguin, $27.95, ISBN 0143018248 Halfway to Africa Bronwyn Tate University of Otago Press, $24.95, ISBN 187727626X The Shark Bell is the story of a summer in the late 1960s St St Clair’s Beach, Dunedin, told…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 57
Satire and sympathy, Sally Sutton
The Shag Incident Stephanie Johnson Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415019 When the playwright and academic Mervyn Thompson was abducted, branded a rapist, and tied to a tree by a group of feminists in 1984, I was eleven years old. I don’t…
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Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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Children’s book awards finalists
Who’s been sleeping here? Bernard Carpinter
The Empty Bed Paul Thomas HarperCollins, $31.95, ISBN 0732271703 Killings and jokes are what readers expect from Paul Thomas, after his three wonderful thrillers Old School Tie (also known as Dirty Laundry), Inside Dope and Guerilla Season. There is a…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2002, Bernard Carpinter, Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Horizon Press, Issue 57, Paul Thomas, Tom Lewis
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Back in the frame, Elizabeth Alley
An Inward Sun: The World of Janet Frame Michael King, contemporary photographs by Reg Graham Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0143018388 So much has already been said. It is an irony that Janet Frame’s life, so often described as that of our…
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Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The poem as stretch limo, Ian Wedde
Fq Alan Brunton Bumper Books, $32.95, ISBN 0958222541 The idea of the long poem as a stretch limo glides towards me. The vehicle is at once ostentatious and stylish, excessive and sleek. Displaying privilege, it also accommodates a raucous wedding-party…
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Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review