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15 writers: ‘You must read this’
Tell us about the book you want to give everyone for Christmas and/or the book you hope no one gives you for Christmas, we asked twenty-four of our top writers and critics. Fifteen of them dared to respond. Jenny…
Tagged with: Brian Boyd, Charles Croot, David Eggleton, Fiona Kidman, Geoff Chapple, Issue 7, Jenny Bornholdt, Joy Cowley, Kevin Ireland, Michael King, Owen Marshall, Peter Wells, Shonagh Koea, Stephanie Johnson, Summer 1992, Tessa Duder, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Opinion
Posted in Opinion
Writers speak more than they know, Jane Hurley
In the Same Room: Conversations with New Zealand Writers Elizabeth Alley and Mark Williams (eds), Auckland University Press, $29.95 Writers on Writing: An Anthology Robert Neale (ed), Oxford University Press, $39.95 In In the Same Room, Vincent O’Sullivan approvingly quotes…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Alley, Issue 7, Jane Hurley, Mark Williams, Oxford University Press, Robert Neale, Summer 1992
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review
When people lose hope they die, Ann Beaglehole
By the Moon and the Stars Eva Hayman, Random Century, $24.95 Krystyna’s Story Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 When there is nothing left, what stops people huddling in a corner, not doing the things necessary for survival? Where does…
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Bridget Williams Books, Eva Hayman, Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Issue 7, Random Century, Summer 1992
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 7
Andrew Mason: The challenge continues You may have been expecting to read this December issue of New Zealand Books in A4 format and on lighter-weight paper – and certainly, after the ‘Notice to Readers’ announcing these and other changes in…
The Yanks in New Zealand, Andrew Mason
Brief Encounter Jock Phillips, Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $29.95 United States Forces in New Zealand 1942-45 Denys Bevan, self-published, Kakanui Post Shop, $39.95 The Yanks Are Coming Harry Bioletti, Century Hutchinson, 1989, out of print It is fifty…
Tagged with: Andrew Mason, Century Hutchinson, Denys Bevan, Department of Internal Affairs, Harry Bioletti, Historical Branch, Issue 7, Jock Phillips, Summer 1992
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Sacrificing the personal for the political, Jock Phillips
Ettie: A Life of Ettie Rout Jane Tolerton, Penguin Books, $39.95 Ettie Rout has been known to us primarily as the woman who stood on the platform in Paris during the Great War and handed out anti-VD kits to soldiers…
Tagged with: Ettie Rout, Issue 7, Jane Tolerton, Jock Phillips, Penguin Books, Summer 1992
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Issue 7 | December 1992
Volume 2 | Number 3 | Issue 7 | December 1992 Editorial Andrew Mason: “The Challenge Continues” Letters 15 writers: “You must read this”: Best books (comment) Keri Hulme: John Puhiatau Pule, The Shark that Ate the Sun (Ko…
Christmas crackers, Celia Dunlop
This selection of good New Zealand books worth considering for children at Christmas is made from titles which have appeared or won awards in the last year. The choice was based on the book’s overall quality, potential pleasure as a…
Simple fact or subtle fiction? William Broughton
The Quick World, Autobiography Volume 3 Lauris Edmond, Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 The Quick World completes Lauris Edmond’s promised autobiographical trilogy, and documents the most recent 15 or so years of her life. I find that I have come more…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Summer 1992, William Broughton
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review