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History in danger, Malcolm McKinnon
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History J G A Pocock Cambridge University Press, $60.00 approx, ISBN 139780521850957 J G A Pocock’s The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History is a rich and scholarly exploration of a subject…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Issue 81, J G A Pocock, Malcolm McKinnon, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Why we are here, Bernard Carpinter
Looking for Darwin Lloyd Spencer Davis Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 0781877361227 Science has somehow acquired an almost inhuman reputation. Scientists are regarded as dry, dusty specimens, cut off from society and probably working on projects that will cause more harm…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Charles Darwin, Issue 81, Lloyd Spencer Davis, Longacre Press, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Framing herself, Kim Worthington
Towards Another Summer Janet Frame Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 1869418689 In the months leading up to last year’s posthumous release of Towards Another Summer, a novel written almost 45 years earlier, we learned only that Janet Frame deemed it “too embarrassingly…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Janet Frame, Kim Worthington, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The universe and everything, Philip Temple
Waimarino County and Other Excursions Martin Edmond Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9781869403911 Phone Home Berlin – Collected Non-fiction Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864735676 The revival of the essay in book form continues compensating, to our applause,…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Martin Edmond, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Skewed unforgettable normalities, Catharina van Bohemen
At the End of Darwin Road – A Memoir Fiona Kidman Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869419448 Muck: A Memoir Craig Sherborne Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735683 Digging for Spain: A Writer’s Journey Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781877361968 “The…
Tagged with: Catharina van Bohemen, Craig Sherborne, Fiona Kidman, Issue 81, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Likely stories, James C Raymond
Falling for Science: Asking the Big Questions Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781877361722 Imagine yourself in Egypt in the third century BC. You believe the earth is round – what else would cause ships’ masts to appear before their…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, Issue 81, James C Raymond, Longacre Press, Winter 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Science
Wholemeal, Louise O’Brien
Drybread Owen Marshall Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 9781869419196 Drybread is Owen Marshall’s third novel, adding to an already rich body of work. His last novel, Harlequin Rex, won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction in 2000. Indeed,…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Louise O’Brien, Owen Marshall, Vintage, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Obituary — Ruth Dallas
Ruth Dallas (1919-2008) Dunedin writer Ruth Dallas was born in Invercargill into a working-class settler family, which informed her writing. She published 20 books, mainly poetry and books for children. Her most recent poetry collection, The Joy of a Ming…
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
Naming a telescope (for David Hill) What to call your new telescope? Presuming like a ship it must be female though its shape suggests otherwise and the way you aim it definitely male the fiddling to set it up,…