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Beautiful and organic, Christine Johnston
Dunedin writer Christine Johnston rediscovers the still-growing pleasures of Tom’s Midnight Garden. I would have borrowed a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden from Dunedin Children’s Library, which in those days was located in two of the terraced houses in Stuart…
Dwelling poetically, Dougal McNeill
Brainpark Anna Sanderson Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473543X After the Dance Michele Amas Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735421 Secret Heart Airini Beautrais Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735413 The Unbelievable Lightness of Eggs: Light Poems and Verse Bernard…
Tagged with: Airini Beautrais, Andrew Fagan, Anna Sanderson, Bernard Gadd, Dougal McNeill, Hallard Press, HeadworX, Issue 78, Michele Amas, Victoria University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Back to the Spanish front, Keith Ovenden
Defence of Madrid Geoffrey Cox Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877372382 The republication of Geoffrey Cox’s short work Defence of Madrid (1937) is a corrective to many contemporary assumptions about the Spanish Civil War. It is an eyewitness account of…
Tagged with: Geoffrey Cox, Issue 78, Keith Ovenden, Otago University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Songs from the liberal hymn book, Mike Grimshaw
Wrestling with God: The Story of My Life Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.99, ISBN 1877242365 A Religious Atheist?: Critical Essays on the Work of Lloyd Geering Raymond Pelly and Peter Stuart (eds) Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877372374 The…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 78, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Peter Stuart, Raymond Pelly, Winter 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Getting knowledge to the people, Hilary Stace
Geoffrey Alley, Librarian: His Life and Work W J McEldowney Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864735340 New Zealanders of all ages can relate to the transformative experience of accessing free library services. The National Library, after a few wobbles in…
Tagged with: Geoffrey Alley, Hilary Stace, Issue 78, Victoria University Press, W J McEldowney, Winter 2007
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Not everyone gets a bargain, Linda Burgess
I See Red: The Shocking Story of a Battle against the Warehouse Judith Bell aka Stephen Tindall – the woman Awa Press, $29.99, ISBN 0958250979 I do think it’s a mistake to put the word “shocking” on any book. I’ll…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 78, Judith Bell, Linda Burgess, Winter 2007
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Lands lost and found, Martin Edmond
E Mervyn Taylor: Artist, Craftsman Bryan James Steele Roberts, $59.99, ISBN 1877338559 Trevor Moffitt: A Biography Chris Ronayne David Ling, $49.99, ISBN 1877378100 Joanna Margaret Paul: Drawing Jill Trevelyan and Sarah Treadwell Auckland University Press and Mahara Gallery, $49.99, ISBN…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bryan James, Chris Ronayne, David Ling Publishing, E Mervyn Taylor, Edward Lucie-Smith, Hinemoa Hilliard, Issue 78, Jill Trevelyan, Joanna Margaret Paul, Jonathon Mane-Wheoki, Mahara Gallery, Martin Edmond, Reed, Robyn Kahukiwa, Sarah Treadwell, Steele Roberts, Trevor Moffitt, Winter 2007
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The voyage out, Deborah Montgomerie
Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on Migrant Ships, 1870-1885 David Hastings Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869403754 When I was an undergraduate, one of the perennial questions examiners asked in the first-year course in 19th century New Zealand…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Hastings, Deborah Montgomerie, Issue 78, Winter 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
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