Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the 20th Century Kirstie Ross Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 978186904246 If I have read about 50 pages and still not been drawn into an author’s world, then I usually put the book…
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With backpack and library card, Chris Maclean
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, Chris Maclean, Issue 85, Kirstie Ross
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Gregory O’Brien
World-famous in New Zealand, Philip Temple
Heaphy Iain Sharp Auckland University Press, $64.99, ISBN 9781869404215 The one-name title for this book confidently assumes this is someone we all know. After all, there can be only one Heaphy – Charles – because in the history of our…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2009, Iain Sharp, Issue 85, Philip Temple
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The endurance of Sappho, Alan Loney
The high ground, Simon Upton
Whose High Country? A History of the South Island High Country of New Zealand Roberta McIntyre Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 97801430084125 At the risk of irretrievably mixing one’s metaphors, it is dairy farmers who are today on the sheep’s back.…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Issue 85, Penguin Books, Roberta McIntyre, Simon Upton
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Time out, Mark Houlahan
Chinese Opera Ian Wedde Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864735850 When a story by Ian Wedde called “Chinese Opera” was published in Sport 2, readers were informed that he expected to “finish Chinese Opera, his fourth novel, in 1989.” Nineteen…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Ian Wedde, Issue 85, Mark Houlahan, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Troubled missionary, Paul Moon
God’s Messenger: J F Riemenschneider and Racial Conflict in 19th Century New Zealand Peter Oettli Huia, $55.00, ISBN 9781869693201 The lives of missionaries in 19th century New Zealand have tended to end up being documented in two forms. The first…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Huia, Issue 85, Paul Moon, Peter Oettli
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Sheering off, Michael Hulse
The Love School: Personal Essays Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $33.00, ISBN 9780864735928 Paremata, the childhood novella which followed her debut novel After Z-Hour, was my own first encounter with Elizabeth Knox’s writing. The copy she gave me is inscribed…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Elizabeth Knox, Issue 85, Michael Hulse, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Ex cathedra, Paul Morris
A Word in Season: Reflections on Spirituality, Faith and Ethics Richard Randerson Matai House, $19.50, ISBN 9780473136543 The Anglican Church in New Zealand, like the other major denominations, is split between its liberals and conservatives. This division is over how…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Issue 85, Matai House, Paul Morris, Richard Randerson
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review