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The thinking person’s romance, Dennis McEldowney
The Beetle in the Box: a love story Chris Else Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414527 Anyone who has sat on the selection panel for a writer’s fellowship knows that the worst thing applicants can do is include a bald précis of…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Dennis McEldowney, Issue 48, June 2001, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Flying with the godwit, Rupert Glover
Wings of the Nation: A History of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, 1947-78 Peter Aimer The Bush Press, $49.95, ISBN 0908608861 Wings of the Nation is subtitled A History of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, 1947-78, but it…
Tagged with: Issue 48, June 2001, Peter Aimer, Rupert Glover, The Bush Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Electoral debrief, Ruth Laugesen
Left Turn: The New Zealand General Election of 1999 ed Jonathan Boston, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay & Nigel S Roberts Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734042 Up the hill from Parliament, a clutch of Victoria University’s political scientists…
Tagged with: Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 48, Jonathan Boston, June 2001, Nigel S Roberts, Stephen Church, Stephen Levine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Live and let learn, Jim Collinge
Learning our Living: a teaching autobiography Charmaine Pountney Cape Catley, $29.95, ISBN 0908561865 For many people a teaching autobiography might not seem an exciting prospect. Charmaine Pountney, however, is no ordinary teacher. This book is an account of nearly 60…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Charmaine Pountney, Issue 48, Jim Collinge, June 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Education, Non-fiction, Review
The triumph of reinvention, Mary Varnham
Wellington – The First Years of European Settlement 1840-1850 Gavin McLean Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN 0140288635 Wellington’s Heritage – plants, gardens, and landscape Winsome Shepherd Te Papa Press, $49.95, ISBN 0909010730 Kirkcaldie & Stains – A Wellington Story Julia Millen…
Happy days, Redmer Yska
I Live Here Now: Sarah Campion in 1950s New Zealand ed Rachel Scott Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251054 Over the summer of 2000, National Radio was the unlikely backdrop for a rumble over New Zealand in the 1950s. The…
Tagged with: Issue 48, June 2001, Rachel Scott, Redmer Yska, Sarah Campion, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Shadow lines, Lewis Scott
The Better Part Meg Campbell Hazard Press, $21.95, ISBN 1877161276 Postscripts J C Sturm Steele Roberts, $19.95, ISBN 1877228354 It would be remiss of this reviewer not to note that these two women poets, who have their own growing reputations,…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 48, J C Sturm, June 2001, Lewis Scott’, Meg Campbell, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Laying ghost, Laura Kroetsch
Haunt Bronwyn Bannister Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877133841 Between Black and White Eirlys Hunter Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414284 I find that when reading a first novel I often flick to the little publisher logo on the spine. I acknowledge…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Bannister, Eirlys Hunter, Issue 48, June 2001, Laura Kroetsch, Otago University Press, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The traffic in perceptions, Janet Hughes
Talking Pictures: Selected Poems Riemke Ensing HeadworX, $26.95, ISBN 0473068044 The cover of Riemke Ensing’s latest collection sends mixed typographic signals. You read Selected Poems first, at the top; but it’s in italic, and grey, so it defers to the…
Tagged with: HeadworX, Issue 48, Janet Hughes, June 2001, Riemke Ensing
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review