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Issue 74 | August 2006

Posted on August 1, 2006 by NZ Books
  Volume 16 | Number 3 | Issue 74 | August 2006 Peter Russell: Philip Norman, Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music Editorial: “Love and Theft” Letters Lawrence Jones: Barbara Anderson, Collected Stories Bruce Wallace: Ian Hunter and Diana Morrow…
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An affair of the heart, Frank Fabry

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
Frank Fabry, senior archives conservator with the Alexander Turnbull Library and the National Library, opens the book on conservation and restoration.  In the 1980s I worked in the United States as the conservator for the research libraries of Case Western…
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Tousled and tart, Emma Neale

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
London Notebook  Mark Pirie Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $24.95, ISBN 1869420586 Wild Daisies: The Best of Bub Bridger  Bub Bridger Mallinson Rendel, $34.95, ISBN 0908783973 Your Secret Life  Harry Ricketts HeadworX, $24.99, ISBN 0476101300 Presenting Pirie’s new collection as…
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Picture books, the cunning genre, Norman Bilbrough

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
Papa’s Island Melanie Drewery, illustrations Fifi Colston Reed, $16.99, ISBN 1869485947 Nobody’s Dog Jennifer Beck, illustrations Lindy Fisher Scholastic, $16.99, ISBN 1869437284 Haere – Farewell, Jack, Farewell Tim Tipene, illustrations Huhana Smith Huia, $16.99, ISBN 1869691040 Uncle Jack Kate De…
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Portrait of an irritating lady, Isa Moynihan

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
Vibrant with Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell ed Peter Whiteford Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864735049 Editor Peter Whiteford, a senior lecturer in the English Department at Victoria University, has done Ursula Bethell proud with this generous selection of…
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Kissing the gunner’s daughter, Raymond Huber

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
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,…
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Posted in Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War, Young adults

For New Zealand, read Auckland, Bruce Wallace

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
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…
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Awkward positions , Christina Thompson

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
Pictures by Goya and Other Stories Vincent O’Sullivan Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143020552 In the title story of Vincent O’Sullivan’s collection Pictures by Goya, two characters find themselves in an awkward position. They have been carrying on an adulterous affair when…
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Telling moments, Lawrence Jones

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
Collected Stories Barbara Anderson Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734980 In the “Author’s Note” prefacing her The Peacocks and Other Stories, Barbara Anderson said that she found “writing short stories requires a completely different technique from writing novels”, and that…
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The inside story, Neil Cameron

Posted on June 1, 2006 by NZ Books
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…
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