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Tickling history, Jane Stafford
The New Zealand Wars Trilogy: The House of Strife, Monday’s Warriors, Season of the Jew Maurice Shadbolt David Ling, $99.99, ISBN 0908990995 On August 8 this year, a ceremony was held at Parliament to unveil a plaque to Lieutenant Colonel…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Issue 70, Jane Stafford, Maurice Shadbolt, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Pa-men and boys, Linley Boniface
Katherine Mansfield’s Men ed Charles Ferrall and Jane Stafford Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society in association with Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 187733846X “The idea of sitting and waiting for a husband is absolutely revolting and it really is the attitude of…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 68, Jane Stafford, June 2005, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society, Linley Boniface, Steele Roberts
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Writers off the page, Jane Stafford
New Zealand International Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week begins on 9 March in Wellington. It is an event which in the past has mixed an eclectic selection of novelists, poets and essayists – celebrated and little known – with…
About those vampires, Jane Stafford
Daylight Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734492 Bad O’Phelan is a New Zealand caver traumatised by the memory of Dart Ridge, a Cave Creek disaster, which he survived “taking three backward steps off the viewing platform above the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 60, Jane Stafford, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Romancing the colonial, Jane Stafford
Johanna’s World O M Andresen (trans Johan Bonnevie) HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503708 Mrs Rochester Warwick Blanchett HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503651 Consequences Carol Thomas HarperCollins, $19.95, ISBN 1869503732 The uses of history are manifold and many-faceted. The literary uses of history…
Tagged with: Carol Thomas, December 2001, HarperCollins, Issue 51, Jane Stafford, Johan Bonnevie, O M Andresen, Warwick Blanchett
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Missing Iris, Jane Stafford
The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin Hyde Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1869402677 Often the genesis of a biography is as interesting as the work itself. Robin Hyde died in 1939 in London…
Tagged with: Derek Challis, Gloria Rawlinson, Issue 55, Jane Stafford, Robin Hyde, Spring 2001
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Biennial banquet, Jane Stafford
Writers and Readers Week Common threads of history, memory, the intersection of personal experience with the historical past, suggest lively debate at this year’s Writers and Readers Week. The Observer critic said of John Banville’s latest novel, Eclipse: “With prose…
Writers and Readers Week, Jane Stafford
Come and float free of normal life Every year I bury a hundred and fifty of my townspeople. Another dozen or two I take to the crematory to be burned. I sell caskets, burial vaults, and urns for ashes. I…
International writers come to town, Jane Stafford
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