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Kissing the gunner’s daughter, Raymond Huber
A Respectable Girl Fleur Beale Random, $19.00, ISBN 186941764X Sea of Mutiny Ken Catran Random, $18.95, ISBN 1869417070 Red Leader Down Ken Catran Random, $19.99, ISBN 1869417593 Red Haze: Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam Leon Davidson Black Dog, $16.95,…
Tagged with: Black Dog Books, Fleur Beale, Issue 74, Ken Catran, Leon Davidson, Random, Raymond Huber, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War, Young adults
For New Zealand, read Auckland, Bruce Wallace
City Of Enterprise: Perspectives on Auckland Business History ed Ian Hunter and Diana Morrow Auckland University Press, $59.99, ISBN 1869403517 City of Enterprise presents an unashamedly Auckland Point of view on business, and why not? So little is known about…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bruce Wallace, Diana Morrow, Ian Hunter, Issue 74, Winter 2006
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The inside story, Neil Cameron
More Than Law and Order: Policing a Changing Society 1945-92 Susan Butterworth University of Otago Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276995 More Than Law and Order is the fifth in the by now massive and somewhat diverse official history of the New…
Tagged with: Issue 74, Neil Cameron, Otago University Press, Susan Butterworth, Winter 2006
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Letters — Issue 74
Nuclear reactors We wish to dissent from the lengthy review accorded to Dr Andew McEwan’s book Nuclear New Zealand: Sorting Fact from Fiction (NZB, October 2005). This review contains errors. One is the claim that New Zealand is poor in…
The mundane and the marvellous, Adrienne Gavin
Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy ed Elizabeth Hale and Sarah Fiona Winters Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735162 Any addition to critical publications on Margaret Mahy is to be welcomed. Elizabeth Hale’s and Sarah Fiona Winters’ Marvellous Codes:…
Tagged with: Adrienne Gavin, Elizabeth Hale, Issue 74, Margaret Mahy, Sarah Fiona Winter, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction
Editorial — Issue 74
Love and theft At first glance, what does and doesn’t constitute literary plagiarism looks pretty straightforward. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh certainly thought so. They tried to prove in a London court that Dan Brown took “at least 15 core…
A very late Victorian, David Young
Charles Fleming: Environmental Patriot Mary McEwen Craig Potton Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 1877333239 Before the imposition of celebrity culture on the recent New Zealand telescape and its consort media, being famous in New Zealand was possibly even more of a problem…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Young, Issue 74, Mary McEwen, Winter 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A troubled solitary, Peter Russell
Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music Philip Norman Canterbury University Press, $55.00, ISBN 1877257176 What serious music-lover can imagine the world without Bach? Yet we might easily not have had him. For Johann Sebastian was the last of eight children,…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Douglas Lilburn, Issue 74, Peter Russell, Philip Norman, Winter 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review