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Children’s books winners
The young adult novel Right Where It Hurts by David Hill has won this year’s New Zealand Library and Information Association Esther Glen Medal. The Elsie Locke Medal for non-fiction went to Andrew Crowe’s Which New Zealand Insect, and The…
Flashing and fizzing, David Hill
Brilliance Anthony McCarten Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415515 A man of the people David Geary Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734409 Two Kiwi lads make good. That’s if you treat noun one and adjectives two-through-three elastically enough. Both these writers “divide…
Tagged with: Anthony McCarten, Autumn 2003, David Geary, David Hill, Issue 61, Victoria University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Wish you were here, Jane Westaway
On Blue Ice – A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica Kim Griggs Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869415760 Travels with my Mother Peter Calder Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877298093 The most memorable travel books don’t merely transport you to foreign parts,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Peter Calder, Random House, Tandem
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Who are we writing for? Chris Else
Chris Else examines the literary contradictions between local content and global success I work in the creative writing industry. I teach courses, write assessments and act as a literary mentor. I believe in what I do. My advice has…
“An unknown struthious bird”, Kim Griggs
Moa: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of a Giant Bird Richard Wolfe Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143018736 When in London, lovers of the footnotes to history construct unusual itineraries. Many head down to the Maritime Museum at Greenwich to marvel…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Penguin, Richard Wolfe
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
The nicknaming, David Geary
New fiction Every year has a Snozz = big nose, a Bones = skinny, BO = smelly, and a Cheebie Whopper. A cheebie is a chin. To be a true Cheebie Whopper you need a massive jaw, like Clutch Cargo,…
Letters – Issue 61
Hobson & co Dr Moon’s astounding personal attack on me in the Correspondence column of your October issue, following my review in August of his Path to the Treaty book, sadly demands a response. An “extraordinarily laconic” review? Well, there…
Poem – J C Sturm
Spring Dreams With two cats on his lap a fond woman at his side (sure she’s not a blond can’t recall her teens but still able enough and most times willing) he could be mildly happy, mourns instead the…
Getting by with a little help, Nelson Wattie
It Looks Better on You: New Zealand Women Writers on their Friendships ed Jane Westaway and Tessa Copland Longacre, $34.95, ISBN 1877135828 We’re unlikely to find a better definition of “friend” than the one in Lennon and McCartney’s famous lines:…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Jane Westaway, Longacre, Tessa Copland
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Pearson biography funded
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