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Opening the fifth dimension, Lydia Wevers
Science Fiction: A Review Of Speculative Fiction: Special Double Issue Featuring Phillip Mann (Vol 19, Nos 1-2) Van Ikin (ed) $AUD30.00 ISSN 03146677 A special double issue of a well-regarded journal, plus full-page authorial cover photo, is a handsome tribute…
“The messy abundance”, Lydia Wevers
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Māori, and the Question of the Body Tony Ballantyne Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869408268 Tony Ballantyne is famous throughout the world of imperial and colonial history for his invention of the very useful term “webs…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2016, Issue 113, Lydia Wevers, Tony Ballantyne
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Reading the past, Anna Rogers
Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World Lydia Wevers Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736352 The big sheep and cattle stations of 19th-century New Zealand and books were tough, physical, practical places, where men (and a…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 92, Lydia Wevers, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Life in detail, Lydia Wevers
Letters from the Bay of Islands: The Story of Marianne Williams ed Caroline Fitzgerald Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019295 It is always the detail of the past that brings it most sharply to mind. William Colenso’s observation in the 1880s that…
Tagged with: Caroline Fitzgerald, Issue 66, Lydia Wevers, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Choosing a chocolate, Sue McCauley
On Reading Lydia Wevers Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251401 How to Live Elsewhere Harry Ricketts Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 095825141X Jumping Ship Glenn Colquhoun Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0956251428 For years I’ve been confused over the definition…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Four Winds Press, Glenn Colquhoun, Harry Ricketts, Issue 65, Lydia Wevers
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
A demon for work, Lydia Wevers
An Unsettled Spirit: The Life & Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G B Lancaster) Terry Sturm Auckland University Press, $44.95, ISBN 1869402944 I first came across G B Lancaster in the reading room of the Mitchell Library in Sydney.…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Edith Lyttleton, G B Lancaster, Issue 62, Lydia Wevers, Terry Sturm, Winter 2003
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The odd couple, Eric Richards
States of Mind: Australia and New Zealand 1901-2001 ed Arthur Grimes, Lydia Wevers, and Ginny Sullivan Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, $39.00, ISBN 0908935644 There is something peculiar about two affluent and well-established small countries sitting together…
Tagged with: Arthur Grimes, Eric Richards, Ginny Sullivan, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 59, Lydia Wevers, Spring 2002, Victoria University of Wellington
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review