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Finding the way back, Nicholas Reid
Now When it Rains – A Writer’s Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493776 A boy needs a father, but things can go badly wrong if the father is not good at fathering. This seems to be one…
Tagged with: Issue 126, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Reid, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Jewels and binoculars, Murray Bramwell
Blood Ties: New and Selected Poems 1963–2016 Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Canterbury University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927145883 Dylan Junkie Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Mākaro Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780994137807 It is a harsh fact that we live in a world where there is…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 120, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Mākaro Press, Murray Bramwell, Summer 2017
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Lucky to survive, Nicholas Butler
Greece Crete Stalag Dachau: A New Zealand Soldier’s Encounters with Hitler’s Army Jack Elworthy Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249123 The Lost Pilot: A Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9780143568766 There is a void at the heart of…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Issue 109, Jack Elworthy, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Butler, Penguin Books
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The ties that bind, Jane Westaway
The Lie That Settles Peter Farrell Ocean Books, $35.00, ISBN 978192721708 The Lost Pilot Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Penguin, $40.00, ISBN 9781742539201 A History of Silence Lloyd Jones Penguin, $38.00, ISBN 9780143569473 “The cradle rocks above an abyss,” writes Nabokov in…
Tagged with: Issue 104, Jane Westaway, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Lloyd Jones, Ocean Books, Penguin, Peter Farrell, Summer 2013
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
When worlds collide, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Guns and Utu: A Short History of the Musket Wars Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $42.00, ISBN 9780143565659 From the time the first accounts of New Zealand’s native inhabitants began to reach Europe, Maori pugnacity and military prowess have featured high…
Tagged with: Issue 98, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Matthew Wright, Penguin Books, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Truth eating, Harry Ricketts
Inside Outside Brian Turner Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9780864736536 Coming Ashore Peter Bland Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 9781877577499 Fly Boy Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $19.99, ISBN 97818544125 “I seek to honour/the truculent/genesis of living,” states…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Harry Ricketts, Issue 98, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Peter Bland, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
The unhistoric story, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator Joan Druett Random House, $55.00, ISBN 9781869793869 One of the great virtues of Joan Druett’s style of historical writing in this extensive reassessment of Tupaia’s role in Pacific history, is…
Tagged with: Issue 95, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Joan Druett, Random House, Spring 2011
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, 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