Four Short Stories 1931-35 (with an afterword by Rachel Barrowman) R A K Mason The Holloway Press, $75.00, ISBN 0958231346 It is one of the several intriguing aspects of R A K Mason and – as a human trait, a…
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Escape from Warsaw, John McIntyre
Always with us, Alison Gray
Society and Politics: New Zealand Social Policy Grant Duncan Pearson Sprint Print Prentice Hall, $29.95, ISBN 1877258962 Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History ed Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 187727657X Greed, blame,…
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Tagged with: Alison Gray, Bronwyn Dalley, Grant Duncan, Issue 67, Margaret Tennant, Otago University Press, Pearson Sprint Print Prentice Hall, Spring 2004
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
God’s very own local history, Paul Morris
Building God’s Own Country: Historical Essays on Religions in New Zealand ed John Stenhouse and Jane Thomson Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276928 In a recent article Otago University’s John Stenhouse forcefully contended that New Zealand historians have largely overlooked…
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Tagged with: Issue 67, Jane Thomson, John Stenhouse, Otago University Press, Paul Morris, Spring 2004
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
P is for Price, Kay Hancock
Ready to Read and the PM Books: A Memoir Hugh Price Gondwanaland Press, $5.00, ISBN 0958208395 This memoir follows on from Price’s earlier publication o! I am on an ox: Teaching reading in New Zealand 1877 to 2000 (2000). Ready…
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Tagged with: Gondwanaland Press, Hugh Price, Issue 67, Kay Hancock, Spring 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Screen play, Martin Edmond
On River Road Chris Else Random, $26.95, ISBN 1869416236 Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734808 Stench Mike Johnson Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877270687 Three books, all works of fiction, all by men who will not see…
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Tagged with: Chris Else, Hazard Press, Issue 67, Martin Edmond, Mike Johnson, Nigel Cox, Random, Spring 2004, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
United they stood, Don Aimer
Black Prince: the biography of Fintan Patrick Walsh Graeme Hunt Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 014301935X The Big Blue: Snapshots of the 1951 Waterfront Lockout ed David Grant Canterbury University Press in association with The Trade Union History Project, $29.99, ISBN 1877257281…
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Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, David Grant, Don Aimer, Graeme Hunt, Issue 67, Penguin, Spring 2004, Trade Union History Project
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Blaming Tolkien, Kate de Goldi
I’ve been reading children’s fantasy for 40 years. There are some gaps in my reading, and it’s true that if forced to choose between an unrelieved diet of fantasy or social realism, I’d go for the latter. It’s also true…
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