Shapes on the Wind David Lewis HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 073226801X In 1934, when I was seventeen, I celebrated my last days at boarding school by building a canoe/kayak and informing the headmaster that I was going home in it…
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Not plain sailing, Anne French
Tagged with: Anne French, David Lewis, HarperCollins, Issue 48, June 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Roads to nowhere? Ruth Butterworth
Building the Constitution ed Colin James Institute of Policy Studies, $45, ISBN 090893548X Some time in 1997, with the prolonged aftermath of the first MMP election still agitating the establishment and mightily diverting the rest of us, the idea gained…
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Tagged with: Colin James, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 48, June 2001, Ruth Butterworth
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Rain Queen, Judith Fyfe
Salote, Queen of Paradise Margaret Hixon Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877133787 The image of Queen Salote, in London for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June 1953 – defiantly riding in an open coach in the pouring rain, and regally…
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Tagged with: Issue 48, Judith Fyfe, June 2001, Margaret Hixon, Otago University Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review
Margaret Atwood in New Zealand, Anne Else
What about the pets? Suzanne Innes-Kent
Recycled People: Forming New Relationships in Mid-life Coral Atkinson & Paula Wagemaker Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877251046 Recycled People is a timely and welcome book. When one examines the generation of any timely idea, one discovers that it arises…
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Tagged with: Coral Atkinson, Issue 48, June 2001, Paula Wagemaker, Shoal Bay Press, Suzanne Innes-Kent
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Turning the pages, Keith Maslen
A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand ed Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes and Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1869402316 These fifteen essays, based on papers given at the first New…
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Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, Issue 48, June 2001, Keith Maslen, Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes
Posted in Essays, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Purposeful nonsense? John O’Connor
Comment Lenin once said, “When I see a dung heap, I do not rummage in it to see if it is a dung heap.” Polemics, of course – entertaining, but not enlightening. Freed, Morepork, Parallax, And, Splash (all discontinued) –…
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