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Crik’ey: New and Selected Poems 1978‑1994 Cilla McQueen John McIndoe, $19.95 It is just 12 years since Cilla McQueen burst into the literary world with her collection Homing In. In that time she has published five volumes of poetry, of…
The Sky People and Other Stories Patricia Grace, Penguin Books, $24.95 The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, $19.95 The Foreign Woman Fiona Kidman, Vintage, $19.95 All the Tenderness Left in the World Stephanie Johnson,…
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Autumn 1994,
Fiona Kidman,
Issue 12,
John McIndoe,
Kate Flannery,
Lydia Wevers,
Otago University Press,
Owen Marshall,
Patricia Grace,
Penguin Books,
Stephanie Johnson,
Vintage
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Literature,
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Short stories
Breaking the Habit: Life in a New Zealand Dominican Convent 1956-67, Judith Graham, John McIndoe, $24.95 ‘Out in the world …’ used to be a common utterance in convent life. Unconsciously it implied that we inhabited a different planet. Judith…
New Zealand’s Constitution in Crisis: Reforming Our Political System Geoffrey Palmer, John McIndoe, $34.95 Electoral Behaviour In New Zealand Martin Holland (ed), Oxford University Press, $29.95 New Zealand Politics in Perspective (3rd Edition) Hyam Gold (ed), Longman Paul, $49.95 Sir…
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Colin James,
Geoffrey Palmer,
Hyam Gold,
Issue 7,
John McIndoe,
Longman Paul,
Martin Holland,
Oxford University Press,
Summer 1992
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Politics & Law,
Review
Valley of the Dinosaurs: The Story of New Zealand’s Dinosaur Woman Joan Wiffen, Random Century, $19.95 (128 pp) When Joan Wiffen’s husband Pont became too ill to attend his geology night classes, this Hawke’s Bay housewife went in his place…
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Cobber Kain,
Dale Williams,
Issue 7,
Joan Wiffen,
John McIndoe,
Michael Burns,
Neil Begg,
Random Century,
Summer 1992
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Biography,
Memoir,
Non-fiction,
Review
Why Things Fall Chris Else, Tandem, $24.95 Love and War Elspeth Sandys, Vintage, $24.95 Jim’s Elvis Colleen Reilly, John McIndoe, $19.95 Why Things Fall at first glance seems quite a departure from Chris Else’s earlier ficciones, Dreams of Pythagoras (1981).…
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Colleen Reilly,
Elspeth Sandys,
Issue 7,
James Norcliffe,
John McIndoe,
Summer 1992,
Tandem,
Vintage
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Literature,
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Tomorrow We Save the Orphans Owen Marshall, John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1992, $24.95 Last year as I was working through a huge box of anonymous entries to the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award competition, I came across an ill‑typed,…
Waitemata Ferry Tales Sally Fodie, Collins, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 Sally Fodie was the first woman master of an Auckland harbour ferry. Waitemata Ferry Tales, her short collection of nautical anecdotes, shows that it was not easy to elbow her way…
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Cape Catley,
Collins,
Dunmore Press,
Dunmore Publishing,
Gavin McLean,
Gillian Polson,
Godwit,
James McNeish,
Jim Tucker,
John McIndoe,
John Patterson,
Longman Paul,
Richard Rudman,
Sally Fodie,
Vince Scully
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Health,
Māori,
Memoir,
Natural History,
Non-fiction,
Sociology
The Great New Zealand Fossil Book: Pictures of Ancient Life in an Evolving Land Ron Brazier, Ian Keyes and Graeme Stevens, DSIR Geology and Geophysics, Wellington, 1990, $49.95 On Shaky Ground: a Geological Guide to the Wellington Metropolitan Region Graeme…
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Autumn 1992,
Cape Catley,
DSIR Geology and Geophysics,
Gavin McLean,
Graeme Stevens,
Graham Hutchins,
Hodder & Stoughton,
Ian Keyes,
Issue 4,
John McIndoe,
Ken Moore,
New Zealand Council for Educational Research,
Paul Bensemann,
Ron Brazier
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History,
Natural History,
Non-fiction,
Review,
Sociology
Between these Hills Vivienne Plumb (ed), Between these Hills Collective, Wellington, 1991 White Feathers: An Anthology of New Zealand and Pacific Island Poetry on the Theme of Peace Terry Locke, Peter Low and John Winslade (eds), Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991,…
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Autumn 1992,
Between these Hills Collective,
Hazard Press,
Issue 4,
John McIndoe,
John Winslade,
Michael Harlow,
Peter Low,
Terry Locke,
Vivienne Plumb
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