Kathryn Walls looks at the influence of Lyndahl Chapple Gee’s writing on her son’s work. Maurice Gee clearly admired his mother as a person. But although he has often noted that she was a writer, he has always stopped short of…
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Lost writers revisited, Elizabeth Webby
Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 Jane Stafford and Mark Williams Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735227 In this excellent reassessment of an important phase of New Zealand’s literary and cultural history, Jane Stafford and Mark Williams challenge previous views…
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Tagged with: Elizabeth Webby, Issue 76, Jane Stafford, Mark Williams, Summer 2006, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Literature, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Heroics, Ken Catran
Best and Bravest: Kiwis Awarded the Victoria Cross Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson HarperCollins, $17.99, ISBN 1869505239 Soldier in the Yellow Socks: Charles Upham, Our Finest Fighting Soldier Janice Marriott HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 1869505697 War Zones Helen Beaglehole Steele Roberts,…
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Tagged with: Colin Richardson, Glyn Harper, HarperCollins, Helen Beaglehole, Issue 76, Janice Marriott, Ken Catran, Steele Roberts, Summer 2006
Posted in Children, Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in Children, Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, War