Mike The photo in the lounge told the story. A handsome man sitting on a haybale in a barn flanked by his wife, four children and six border collies their ruffs ribboned with medals. Other dogs he had…
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Not just good friends, Bill Hastings
Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand Chris Brickell Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621346 This review comes to you from the backwoods of Ontario. It is a crisp autumn evening. I write this in front of a fire in…
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Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Chris Brickell, Godwit, Issue 84, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The Bassett version, Harvey McQueen
Working With David Michael Bassett Hachette Livre, $59.99, ISBN 9781869710941 Working With David is a dogmatic and humourless book about a man who, even in adversity, revelled in laughter. Beginning with clear praise – “at the peak of his career…
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Tagged with: Hachette Livre, Harvey McQueen, Issue 84, Michael Bassett, Summer 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Hinterlands, Mary Macpherson
Fiat Lux: 51 Photographs Andrew Ross Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864735737 Hinterland: Rick Alexander’s New Zealand Photographs Rick Alexander First Edition, $75.00, ISBN 9780475123703 A Short History of Photography Harvey Benge with Gerry Badger Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621445 Even…
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Tagged with: Andrew Ross, First Edition, Gerry Badger, Godwit, Harvey Benge, Issue 84, Mary Macpherson, Rick Alexander, Summer 2008, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem – John Ridland
The importance of being Ernest Karen Hartshorn
The Awa Book of New Zealand Science Rebecca Priestley (ed) Awa Press, $48.00, ISBN 9780958262996 I grew up in a household with a chemistry professor for a mother, a kitchen full of mysterious jars labelled “Experiment: Do Not Eat”, and…
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Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 84, Karen Hartshorn, Rebecca Priestley, Summer 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Science
Reading the score, Peter Russell
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad Joanna Woods Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372551 Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born in Melbourne in 1866, his surname inherited from a German who came to England in the 18th century –…
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Tagged with: Charles Baeyertz, Issue 84, Joanna Woods, Otago University Press, Peter Russell, Summer 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Legions of the brave, Rhonda Pritchard
Serial Survivors: Women’s Narratives of Surviving Rape Jan Jordan The Federation Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781862876798 It could easily be a Jimmy McGovern script. A “good husband and father of three children”, with a secret lover on the side, stalks and…
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Tagged with: Issue 84, Jan Jordan, Rhonda Pritchard, Summer 2008, The Federation Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Meeting the ancestors, Peter Wells
A new history of homosexuality prompts Peter Wells to look back on his early life as a gay New Zealander. It’s probably a reflection on the heft of a book that it makes you question your own sense of…
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