Volume 14 | Number 5 | Issue 66 | December 2004 Rose Lovell-Smith: Joyce West, The Drover’s Road Collection: Adventures in New Zealand Editorial: How not to run a book launch Letters Denis Welch: John Tamihere with Helen Bain,…
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Blog Archives
Insolent bassists and mad drummers, Mark Amery
Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333069 I have a confession to make. I’m not much of a reader – at least not in the always-head-in-a-novel kind of a…
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Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 66, Mark Amery, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Alan Preston
Sisterhood is powerful, Robyn Munford
No Friend Like a Sister: Exploring the Relationship between Sisters Jenny Neale Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734700 No Friend Like a Sister gives a rich account of the relationships between sisters. Jenny Neale used focus groups (women aged between…
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Tagged with: Issue 66, Jenny Neale, Robyn Munford, Victoria University Press, Winter 2004
Posted in Review, Sociology
Posted in Review, Sociology
Maurice Shadbolt
Full lives and f words, William Taylor
Malcolm and Juliet Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135941 Out of Tune Joanna Orwin Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135909 Coming Back David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783868 Dark Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135968 On a Good…
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Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Deborah Burnside, Issue 66, Joanna Orwin, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Penguin, William Taylor, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Letters – Issue 66
Life in detail, Lydia Wevers
Letters from the Bay of Islands: The Story of Marianne Williams ed Caroline Fitzgerald Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019295 It is always the detail of the past that brings it most sharply to mind. William Colenso’s observation in the 1880s that…
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Tagged with: Caroline Fitzgerald, Issue 66, Lydia Wevers, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Moments of triumph, Joan Rosier-Jones
Transit of Venus Rowan Metcalfe Huia, $31.95, ISBN 1869690834 Love in Shades of Grey Glynne MacLean Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019309 Like Small Bones Ruth Pettis Hazard Press, $24.99, ISBN 1877270784 A first novel does not just appear. It is usually the…
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Tagged with: Glynne MacLean, Hazard Press, Huia, Issue 66, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Rowan Metcalfe, Ruth Pettis, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review