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Coming here, Tony Simpson
No Simple Passage Jenny Robin Jones Random House, $45.00, ISBN 9781869795108 We are all increasingly fascinated by our origins. And as recollection turns into memory and then into family anecdote, we go looking for these origins in documentation. This,…
Tagged with: Issue 95, Jenny Robin Jones, Random House, Spring 2011, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Absolutely commercially, Jenny Robin Jones
Logan Campbell’s Auckland: Tales from the Early Years R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403935 Wellington: Biography of a City Redmer Yska Reed, $44.99, ISBN 0790011077 Auckland illuminated through stories of the past; Wellington reconstructed through careful…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Jenny Robin Jones, John Logan Campbell, R C J Stone, Redmer Yska, Reed
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
A three-act life, Jenny Robin Jones
White Chief: The Colourful Life and Times of Judge F E Maning of the Hokianga John Nicholson Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143020226 In Omapere Museum in the Hokianga, the area F E Maning called home for most of his life, a…
Tagged with: F E Maning, Issue 75, Jenny Robin Jones, John Nicholson, Penguin, Spring 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Heroes, villains, fatal flaws, Jenny Robin Jones
Catching the Current Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $27.95, ISBN 1869417259 Union Belle Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $31.99, ISBN 186950559X The Love Apple Coral Atkinson Black Swan, $27.95, ISBN 1869417208 New Zealanders, we are told, are avid for their history. To help…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Coral Atkinson, Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins, Issue 72, Jenny Pattrick, Jenny Robin Jones, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The unexpected past, Jenny Robin Jones
What Happen Then, Mr Bones? Charlotte Randall Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019171 With her three previous novels, Dead Sea Fruit, The Curative and Within the Kiss, Charlotte Randall has developed a voice clearly identifiable in New Zealand literature. In What Happen…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Charlotte Randall, Issue 65, Jenny Robin Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Ploughing a lone furrow, Julia Millen
Writers In Residence: A Journey with Pioneer New Zealand Writers Jenny Robin Jones Auckland University Press, $44.99, ISBN 1869403029 As Edward Gibbon Wakefield wrote in 1829: Literary men, men of science, philosophers, do not emigrate to new colonies where their…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 64, Jenny Robin Jones, Julia Millen, Summer 2003
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Measure for measure, Jenny Jones
Measurement Tim Corballis Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734433 Writing a review of Tim Corballis’ second novel Measurement feels a bit like writing a review of a review. The fictitious book constantly referred to by the narrator, Measurement by Peter…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Jenny Robin Jones, Tim Corballis, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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