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Just the facts, ma’am, John Bonallack
Peter Blake Sailor, Adventurer: The Story of a New Zealand Hero Alan Sefton Puffin, $16.95, ISBN 0143318306 Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli Leon Davidson Black Dog Books, $19.95, ISBN 1876372605 Blue New Zealand: Plants, Animals, Environments: A Visual Guide…
Tagged with: Alan Sefton, Autumn 2006, Black Dog Books, HarperCollins, Ian Brodie, Issue 73, John Bonallack, John Parker, Leon Davidson, Peter Blake, Puffin, Scholastic New Zealand
Posted in Biography, Children, Media, Natural History, Review, War, Young adults
Posted in Biography, Children, Media, Natural History, Review, War, Young adults
No longer young, male or Christian, Margaret McClure
Body, Mind and Spirit: YMCA Auckland Celebrating 150 Years 1855-2005 Colin Taylor Reed Publishing, $69.99, ISBN 0790009862 Auckland’s reputation has been assessed too long in terms of its founding father’s claim that “the whole and entire object of every one…
Tagged with: Autumn 2006, Colin Taylor, Issue 73, Margaret McClure, Reed Publishing
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Puppy-dogs’ tails, Anne Else
He’ll Be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men Celia Lashlie HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 156950528X Like cooped-up teenage boys, three stories jostle and elbow each other inside this book. Though the biggest wins, it gets badly knocked about in the…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Autumn 2006, Celia Lashlie, HarperCollins, Issue 73
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Teresia Teaiwa
Streets Call into question/the status of English/noisy silence/ is there something in the collection/ of our faces/clothes/feet/ that would tell the deaf/or blind/ where we are?/ the language of the pavement/is avoidance/ the careful balance of physical proximity/with emotional…
Word-drunk in Auckland, Gordon McLauchlan
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2006 The announcement that The Sea had won last year’s Man Booker prize came through while I was reading it, and I have to confess I was perplexed and then annoyed – both by the…
Processing history, Bronwyn Dalley
Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories Michael Belgrave Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403207 It used to be a lonely business being a New Zealand historian. There have been plenty of us around for the last 30 years, but…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2006, Bronwyn Dalley, Issue 73, Michael Belgrave
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
High noon, Barbara Larson
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