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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 –…
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…
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
Long shot, Russell Campbell
Shot in New Zealand: The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer Duncan Petrie Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869417918 Shot in New Zealand is a handsomely produced survey of the work of 12 New Zealand cinematographers, ordered alphabetically from Warwick…
Tagged with: Duncan Petrie, Issue 84, Random House, Russell Campbell, Summer 2008
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
For their own good, Eric Medcalf
Unreasonable Force Beth Wood, Ian Hassall, George Hook with Robert Ludbrook Save the Children New Zealand, $25.00, ISBN 978047313095 Unreasonable Force documents the campaign leading to the repeal, in June 2007, of Section 59 of the 1961 Crimes Act. Section…
Tagged with: Beth Wood, Eric Medcalf, George Hook, Ian Hassall, Issue 84, Robert Ludbrook, Save the Children New Zealand, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Up the line to death, Edmund Bohan
March to the Sound of the Guns Ray Grover Longacre Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781877460012 Ray Grover’s extremely well written novel March to the Sound of the Guns traces the harrowing years of the First World War, and the years immediately…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 84, Longacre Press, Ray Grover, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
In or out, Hugh Roberts
Dream Boat: Selected Poems Tony Beyer HeadworX, $34.99, ISBN 9780473126520 Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins Paula Green Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404024 Mr Maui’s Monologues Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $24.99, ISBN 9781877448270 In Continents Richard Reeve Auckland University Press,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, HeadworX, Hugh Roberts, Issue 84, Paula Green, Peter Bland, Richard Reeve, Steele Roberts, Summer 2008, Tony Beyer
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The mystery writer, Murray Bramwell
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime Joanne Drayton HarperCollins, $59.99, ISBN 9781869506353 Whatever it was that impelled Ngaio Marsh, at the age of 36, to purchase six exercise books and a handful of pencils and go back to her cold…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 84, Joanne Drayton, Murray Bramwell, Ngaio Marsh, Summer 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Murder most foul, Bernard Carpinter
Cemetery Lake Paul Cleave Random House, $34.99, ISBN 9781869418908 The Ringmaster Vanda Symon Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143008347 The Devils Are Here Cam Stokes Cape Catley, $29.99, ISBN 9781877340192 Christ Clone David McLeod Random House, $35.99, ISBN 9781869419592 Christchurch is…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Cam Stokes, Cape Catley, David McLeod, Issue 84, Paul Cleave, Penguin Books, Random House, Summer 2008, Vanda Symon
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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