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Controversial still, John O’Leary
A Communist In The Family Elspeth Sandys Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988531601 Families are complicated things. Members don’t necessarily agree with one another, or even like one another; relationships can be strained, or snapped, then re-made across the years.…
Tagged with: Elspeth Sandys, Issue 128, John O’Leary, Otago University Press, Summer 2019
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
The good, the bad and the ugly, John O’Leary
Scoundrels and Eccentrics of the Pacific John Dunmore Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781988516219 William Deans: The Passionate Pioneer Louise Deans Wily Publications, $35.00, ISBN: 9781927167342 Just as Australia’s Outback has its “characters” (according to popular legend, at least), so that…
Tagged with: Autumn 2019, Issue 125, John Dunmore, John O’Leary, Upstart Press, Wily Publications
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The long and the short of it, Jock Phillips
A Peculiar Gentleman: George Rusden – A Life John O’Leary Australian Scholarly, $50.00, ISBN 9781925333404 The World, the Flesh and the Devil: The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765-1838 Andrew Sharp Auckland University Press,…
Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Australian Scholarly, George Rusden, Issue 118, Jock Phillips, John O’Leary, Samuel Marsden, Winter 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Undesirables and worthies, John O’Leary
The Girl Who Stole Stockings: The True Story of Susannah Noon and the Women of the Convict Ship Friends Elsbeth Hardie Australian Teachers of Media, $40.00, ISBN 9781876467241 May Your Shadow Never Grow Less: The Life and Times of Henry…
Tagged with: Australian Teachers of Media, Elsbeth Hardie, Fraser Books, Helen Thomas, Issue 116, John O’Leary, Summer 2016
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
More pork and potatoes, anyone? John O’Leary
Poenamo Revisited John Logan Campbell (essay and notes by R C J Stone) Godwit, $60.00, ISBN 9781869797980 Most New Zealanders – even those living south of the Bombay Hills – have heard of John Logan Campbell, the Father of Auckland,…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Godwit, Issue 101, John Logan Campbell, John O’Leary, R C J Stone
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
To-ing and fro-ing, John O’Leary
Henry Lawson in New Zealand Charles Ferrall (ed) Steele Roberts, $29.99, ISBN 9781877577390 Who could be more Australian than Henry Lawson? He was born on a New South Wales goldfield, wandered and worked in the outback, and wrote stories…
Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Henry Lawson, Issue 98, John O’Leary, Steele Roberts, Winter 2012
Posted in History, Literature, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Review
The future world of 1881, John O’Leary
The Great Romance The Inhabitant; Dominic Alessio (ed) University of Nebraska Press, US$17.95, ISBN 9780803259966 At a time when James Cameron’s film Avatar is breaking box-office records, thanks largely to the hyper-vivid, computer-generated images of the planet Pandora provided by…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Dominic Alessio, Issue 89, John O’Leary, University of Nebraska Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review