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Nosing out the story, Lawrence Patchett
Breaking Ranks: Three Interrupted Lives James McNeish HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775540908 Partway through Breaking Ranks: Three Interrupted Lives, James McNeish stops his narrative to admit his own bias. “At this point,” he writes, “I had better come clean and declare…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 120, James McNeish, Lawrence Patchett, Summer 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The headlock of myth, Mark Reason
Seelenbinder: The Olympian Who Defied Hitler James McNeish Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493011 “After a certain time a life exists not for what it is in reality, but for its mythological qualities”: in that one sentence, James McNeish defines his…
Tagged with: Issue 115, James McNeish, Mark Reason, Spring 2016, Steele Roberts
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Self-portrait with encounters, Martin Edmond
Touchstones: A Memoir James McNeish Vintage, $30.00, ISBN 9781869799328 The first book I was ever asked to review, way back in the early 1970s, was James McNeish’s Mackenzie – a work as idiosyncratic, obdurate and strange as the man it…
Tagged with: Issue 99, James McNeish, Martin Edmond, Spring 2012, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Brave or innocent, Bernard Carpinter
Slaughter Falls Alix Bosco Penguin Books, $39.00, ISBN 9780143203995 The Crime of Huey Dunstan James McNeish Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869793159 The Fallen Ben Sanders HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 9781869508760 The field of crime writing is an expansive one,…
Tagged with: Alix Bosco, Ben Sanders, Bernard Carpinter, HarperCollins, Issue 92, James McNeish, Penguin Books, Summer 2010, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Myth and reality, David Colquhoun
Lovelock James McNeish Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869791230 Jack Lovelock. No other New Zealand sporting star has had so much written about him, in so many different ways. There have now been three biographical studies. His journals have been published, and…
Tagged with: David Colquhoun, Issue 88, James McNeish, Summer 2009, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Reds under the bed, Redmer Yska
The Sixth Man: The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello James McNeish Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869418915 James McNeish’s masterly life of Paddy Costello tells how, in the summer of 1953, this Paris-based New Zealand diplomat escorted National PM Sid Holland around…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Issue 81, James McNeish, Paddy Costello, Redmer Yska, Vintage
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The gang of five, W H Oliver
Dance of the peacocks: New Zealanders in exile in the time of Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung James McNeish Vintage, $34.95, ISBN 1869415647 This is an engaging and readable book. James McNeish tells a multitude of stories about a number…
Tagged with: Issue 60, James McNeish, Summer 2002, Vintage, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Life stories from the edge, Ralph Crane
From the Edge of the Sky: A Memoir Maurice Shadbolt David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0 908990 59 6 An Albatross Too Many James McNeish David Ling, $24.95, ISBN 0 908990 55 3 When in 1993 I enthusiastically reviewed Maurice Shadbolt’s…
Tagged with: David Ling, Issue 39, James McNeish, Maurice Shadbolt, Ralph Crane
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
At last, some mayhem, Howard Warner
Mr Halliday and the Circus Master James McNeish David Ling, $19.95, ISBN 0 908990 38 3 The Opawa Affair Edmund Bohan Hazard Press, $19.95, ISBN 0 908790 61 9 Payday in Saudi Selwyn Carson Arrow, $17.95, ISBN 1 86941 285…
Tagged with: Arrow, David Ling, Edmund Bohan, Hazard Press, Howard Warner, Issue 27, James McNeish, Selwyn Carson, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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