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Issue 72 | March 2006
Volume 16 | Number 1 | Issue 72 | March 2006 Margaret Mahy: Janet Frame (illustrations David Elliot), Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun Stevan Eldred-Grigg: Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of Dreams: The Story…
Under cover, Jenny Nicholls
Fronting up: Classic New Zealand Magazine Covers Richard Wolfe David Ling Publishing in association with Auckland War Memorial Museum, $49.99, ISBN 1877378062 There are too many magazines. But I would say that. For a number of years (outside the timespan…
Tagged with: Auckland War Memorial Museum, David Ling Publishing, Issue 72, Jenny Nicholls, Richard Wolfe, Summer 2005
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Just looking, thanks, Julia Millen
Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store Helen B Laurenson Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 186940341X Before TV and 24-hour on-tap entertainment, department stores provided escapism on a grand scale. Looking back to my childhood,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Helen B Laurenson, Issue 72, Julia Millen, Summer 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The Gee-spot, Roger Robinson
Blindsight Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143020234 Alice Ferry, narrator and co-protagonist of Maurice Gee’s new novel, is a mycologist – an expert on fungi. That is, her professional life is devoted to studying spongy, fragile, morbid life-forms that lurk…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
On display, Stuart Murray
Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992-2004 Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 086473503 In the title essay of this wonderful collection, originally given as a talk on issues of research and archiving at the National Library of New…
Tagged with: Ian Wedde, Issue 72, Stuart Murray, Summer 2005, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Love and damage, Margie Thomson
A Short History of Paradise Norman Bilbrough Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020358 Kissing Shadows Renée Huia, $34.99, ISBN 1869692039 How often can one say of local fiction, and mean it, that it’s an absolute delight to read? Known as a writer…
Tagged with: Huia, Issue 72, Margie Thomson, Norman Bilbrough, Penguin, Renée, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – John O’Connor
Rex purveyor of tall tales & veteran of Gallipoli, the Western Front. carpenter & model maker, smoker of ‘roll-yr-owns’, thin as a rake, he grew only asparagus for an anaemic looking wife who loved the races & left him &…
The ones that didn’t get away, David Hill
How to Catch a Fish Kevin Ireland Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 0958253862 How to Drink a Glass of Wine John Saker Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 095823582X Discussing Aldous Huxley’s On the Margin in his 2002 biography of that now untrendy…
Tagged with: Awa Press, David Hill, Issue 72, John Saker, Kevin Ireland, Summer 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
The quality question, Chris Else
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