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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
Where’s Colin? Roger Blackley
Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South Christopher Johnstone Godwit, $69.99, ISBN 186921247 Christopher Johnstone begins his survey of New Zealand landscape paintings in the 1860s, the period when an exhibiting culture emerged to support amateurs,…
Tagged with: Christopher Johnstone, Godwit, Issue 78, Roger Blackley, Winter 2007
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
A mighty little innings, John Campbell
How to Catch a Cricket Match Harry Ricketts Awa Press, $24.99, ISBN 9780958662903 Harry Ricketts’ game plan is simple. He and a Victoria University colleague, Tony (like a character in a Russian novel he has no surname but a defining…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Harry Ricketts, Issue 78, John Campbell, Winter 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Warrior courage, Spiro Zavos
Against the Odds: Matt Te Pou and Maori Rugby Matt Te Pou and Matt McIlraith Huia, $40.00, ISBN 1869692519 In the early winter of 1952 a frisson spread around the campus of St Patrick’s College, Silverstream: a brilliant young Maori…
Tagged with: Huia, Issue 78, Matt McIlraith, Matt Te Pou, Spiro Zavos, Winter 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
It’s barbarity! It’s New Zealand! Guy Somerset
From the Writer’s Notebook: Around New Zealand with 80 Authors Lydia Monin Reed, $29.99, ISBN 0790011085 George Bernard Shaw was not a man you would have wanted to be stuck in a lift with. If you were ever in any…
Tagged with: Guy Somerset, Issue 78, Lydia Monin, Reed, Winter 2007
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Author as dinner companion, Sue McCauley
The Cowboy Dog Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735448 The Fainter Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735308 In a way the titles say it all. It’s as if, in naming these novels (Cox’s sixth, Wilkins’ fifth),…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, Issue 78, Nigel Cox, Sue McCauley, Victoria University Press, Winter 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 78
NZB’s new look Congratulations on the new look New Zealand Books with the iconic black cover. Well done also on the Creative New Zealand funding; it’s nice to see it going to something that also offers a critical eye on…
Issue 78 | Winter 2007
Volume 17 | Number 2 | Issue 78 | Winter 2007 Letters Guy Somerset: Lydia Monin, From the Writer’s Notebook: Around New Zealand with 80 Authors John Campbell: Harry Ricketts, How to Catch a Cricket Match Deborah Montgomerie: David…
The big player, George Griffiths
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