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Issue 58 | June 2003
Volume 13 | Number 2 | Issue 58 | June 2003 Brian Turner: W H Oliver, Looking for the Phoenix – A Memoir Editorial Letters Elizabeth Smither: “Singing in the rain” (poem) Lydia Wevers: Bill Sewell, The Ballad of…
Light fantastic, Laurie Atkinson
The Pollards: A family and its child and adult opera companies in New Zealand and Australia 1880-1910 Peter Downes Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228737 Shakespeare got in a snit with them and had Rosencrantz compare them to noisy young birds…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Laurie Atkinson, Peter Downes, Steele Roberts, Winter 2002
Posted in Biography, History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Measure for measure, Jenny Jones
Measurement Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734433 Writing a review of Tim Corballis’ second novel Measurement feels a bit like writing a review of a review. The fictitious book constantly referred to by the narrator, Measurement by Peter…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Jenny Robin Jones, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“Who’s this Pinetree?” Chris Laidlaw
The Judas Game: The Betrayal of New Zealand rugby Joseph Romanos Darius Press, $29.95, ISBN 0958240906 Meads Brian Turner Hodder Moa Beckett $49.95, ISBN 1869589173 A little anecdote buried in Joseph Romanos’ latest book The Judas Game: The Betrayal of…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Chris Laidlaw, Darius Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 58, Joseph Romanos, Winter 2002
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Heroes and zeroes, Lynn Freeman
Looking For Trouble Glenda Hughes HarperCollins, $31.95, ISBN 1869504453 New Zealand Woman’s Weekly: 70 Years from Pavlovas to PMs Jenny Lynch Random House, $39.95, ISBN 869415442 Inside Talk Radio Bill Francis Darius, $24.95, ISBN 958240914 Talkback radio, women’s magazines and…
Tagged with: Bill Francis, Darius Press, Glenda Hughes, HarperCollins, Issue 58, Jenny Lynch, Lynn Freeman, Random House, Winter 2002
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Ways of cooking it – a smorgasbord of art books, Mark Amery
If you were to place all of the volumes on New Zealand art in one bookcase, you’d be presented with one rather higgledy-piggledy collection. Together they would tell an odd tale of short-lived publishing lines, changing institutional agendas, different and…
The historian’s story, Brian Turner
Looking for the Phoenix – A Memoir W H Oliver Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1877242985 When W H (Bill) Oliver says that, by and large, New Zealand’s been a “good place” for him, one senses that at times he’s…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 58, W H Oliver, Winter 2002
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Back to the future, Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Hopeful Traveller Fiona Farrell Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415175 This island novel starts either in 1851 with a rail journey to the Crystal Palace in London or in 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the two…
Another thing about Jake, Otto Heim
Jake’s Long Shadow Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869415116 The first impression of Alan Duff’s new novel makes you expect a work of probing substance. Its cover is reminiscent of Heretaunga Pat Baker’s Behind the Tattooed Face. Featuring Brian Brake’s…
Hard lines, David Grant
The Crisis in New Zealand Schools Martin Hames Education Forum in Association with Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864694105 My initial reaction was that The Crisis in New Zealand schools would be redolent with jargon and full of half-truths and misinformation…
Tagged with: David Grant, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Education Forum, Issue 58, Martin Hames, Winter 2002
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review