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Not in Guatemala now, Linda Burgess
Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama Trish Dunleavy Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 1869403398 If Ourselves in Primetime were television, rather than a book about television, it would be tucked away on TV1 at 11.30pm. Or…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 71, Linda Burgess, Spring 2005, Trish Dunleavy
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Pinning down the “again” factor, Linda Burgess
The Other Ark Lynley Dodd Mallinson Rendel, $27.95, ISBN 090878385X Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths Gavin Bishop Random, $29.95, ISBN 1869416120 Koro’s Medicine Melanie Drewery, illustrations by Sabrina Malcolm Huia, $16.95, ISBN 1869691044 Clubs Kate De Goldi, illustrations by…
Tagged with: Gavin Bishop, Huia, Issue 68, Jacqui Colley, June 2005, Kate De Goldi, Linda Burgess, Lynley Dodd, Mallinson Rendel, Melanie Drewery, Random, Sabrina Malcolm, Trapeze
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Catching the post, Linda Burgess
The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters ed Louise Lawrence Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018663 Oh friends, friends – where would we be without them? Sometimes they move far away, as did Charlotte Bronte’s school friend and confidante Mary Taylor, who…
Tagged with: Issue 60, Linda Burgess, Louise Lawrence, Penguin, Summer 2002
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
How to lose friends … Linda Burgess
Reviewing It’s been a good day. I read the last 20 pages, the treat I’d saved myself for the morning, then I got out of bed and wrote the review. Four hundred words in less than half an hour. The…
Touched by an angel, Linda Burgess
The Vintner’s Luck Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 86473 342 9 Put up your hand if you don’t know that Elizabeth Knox was delirious with a combination of fever and exhaustion, had a dream that lasted days,…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 37, Linda Burgess, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The (naive) Kiwi abroad, Tina Shaw
Allons Enfants Linda Burgess Longacre Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877135 43 7 Seasons in Tuscany Allan Parker Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14 029441 4 Travel writing’s a fairly new genre for New Zealanders. James MeNeish did well with Sicily; Jean…
Tagged with: Allan Parker, Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Linda Burgess, Longacre Press, Penguin, Tina Shaw
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Women on top, Linda Burgess
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