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The play’s the thing, Laurie Atkinson
Two Plays Dave Armstrong Playmarket, $23.07, ISBN 9780908607358 Two Plays David Geary Playmarket, $23.07, ISBN 9780908607372 Two Plays Sarah Delahunty Playmarket, $23.07, ISBN 9780908607365 An English blogger wrote recently about the prospect of attending theatrical performances at the Edinburgh Festival:…
Tagged with: Dave Armstrong, David Geary, Issue 91, Laurie Atkinson, Playmarket, Sarah Delahunty, Spring 2010
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Posted in Literature, Plays, Review
Nothing to do with fair play, Don Aimer
Somebody Stole My Game Chris Laidlaw HodderMoa, $39.99, ISBN 9781869711924 The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing Harry Ricketts (ed) Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780958291620 These two books complement each other, and their paths criss-cross. In Somebody Stole My…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Chris Laidlaw, Don Aimer, Harry Ricketts, HodderMoa, Issue 91, Spring 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Through the unknown, remembered gate, Murray Bramwell
South-West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956 C K Stead Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869404543 It was T S Eliot in “East Coker” who wrote: “In my beginning is my end.” In a quite different, earlier poem, he produced the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, C K Stead, Issue 91, Murray Bramwell, Spring 2010
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
No holds barred, Joan de Hamel
Too Many Secrets Adele Broadbent HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508562 Smiling Jack Ken Catran HarperCollins, $22.99, ISBN 9781 869508128 The Haystack Jack Lasenby HarperCollins, $19.99, ISBN 9781869508524 Into the Wilderness Mandy Hager Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869793296 Adele Broadbent is an…
Tagged with: Adele Broadbent, HarperCollins, Issue 91, Jack Lasenby, Joan de Hamel, Ken Catran, Mandy Hager, Random House
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Review, Young adults
Remapping New Zealand, Hamish Clayton
Hicksville: A Comic Book Dylan Horrocks Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864736246 The current republication of Dylan Horrocks’ brilliant graphic novel, Hicksville, is long overdue; however, the relative obscurity to which it has been consigned over the last 10 years…
Tagged with: Dylan Horrocks, Hamish Clayton, Issue 91, Spring 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Always a price to pay, Elspeth Sandys
Living as a Moon Owen Marshall Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869792510 Opening Owen Marshall’s latest collection of short stories, beginning, somewhat apprehensively, to read, I wondered if the faint niggle I always feel when I read Marshall’s work would stay with…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 91, Owen Marshall, Spring 2010, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Under certain conditions, David Hill
Hunting Blind Paddy Richardson Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143203643 The First Touch of Light Ruth Pettis Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143011200 Terry Sturm’s magisterial section on the novel in The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English is much…
Tagged with: David Hill, Issue 91, Paddy Richardson, Penguin Books, Ruth Pettis, Spring 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Tea and sympathy, Paula Morris
Lola Elizabeth Smither Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780143203650 Elizabeth Smither’s last novel was called Different Kinds of Pleasure, and its title offers a clue to the approach she takes in her fiction, and also to what she expects of her…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Smither, Issue 91, Paula Morris, Penguin Books, Spring 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Mist and myth, Julia Millen
Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143008422 Until the early 1960s the source for almost everything we learned at school and read in The School Journal about the…
Tagged with: Issue 91, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Julia Millen, Penguin Books, Spring 2010
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review