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Now the dreaming’s over, Bill Lake

Posted on March 5, 1998 by NZ Books

Crowded House: Something So Strong Chris Bourke Macmillan, $29.95 ISBN 0 7329 0886 8 Seven Voices: Tales of Madness and Mirth Mike Chunn Purple Egg Press, $29.95 ISBN 0 473 05021 8 In Crowded House: Something So Strong, Chris Bourke…

Tagged with: Bill Lake, Chris Bourke, Issue 32, Macmillan, Mike Chunn, Purple Egg Press
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review

An excellent start, John Halligan

Posted on December 12, 1997 by NZ Books

The New Contractualism? eds Glyn Davis, Barbara Sullivan and Anna Yeatman Macmillan, $57.95, ISBN 0 7329 4442 2 Contracts have long been an integral part of the private sector but have been increasingly extended to new fields in the delivery…

Tagged with: Anna Yeatman, Barbara Sullivan, Glyn Davis, John Halligan, Macmillan
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Perched precariously on the edge, Ramesh Thakur

Posted on December 12, 1997 by NZ Books

Tigers in New Zealand? The Role of Asian Investment in the Economy R D Cremer and B Ramasamy Institute of Policy Studies and Asia 200 Foundation, $18.00, ISBN 0 908935 03 x New Zealand and ASEAN: The Strategic and Economic…

Tagged with: B Ramasamy, Christopher Tremewan, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 31, Macmillan, R D Cremer, Raj Vasil, Ramesh Thakur, Sir Frank Holmes, Spring 1997, Terence O’Brien
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

With a little help, Janet Hughes

Posted on October 12, 1997 by NZ Books

Becoming a Writer Dorothea Brande Macmillan, $29.95, ISBN 0 333 65377 7 The Writer’s Companion Barry Turner Macmillan, $34.95, ISBN 0 333 62133 6 In 1934 when Dorothea Brande wrote the much-reprinted Becoming a Writer, people didn’t say “I’m not…

Tagged with: Barry Turner, Dorothea Brande, Issue 30, Janet Hughes, Macmillan, Winter 1997
Posted in Literature, Review

The way it was and isn’t, Colin James

Posted on March 17, 1996 by NZ Books

All Honourable Men: Inside the Muldoon cabinet 1975‑1984 Hugh Templeton Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 186940128X Goodbye to All That Bryan Gould Macmillan, £16.99 ISBN 033363800X I’ve Been Thinking Richard Prebble Seaview, $19.95 ISBN 1869581709 “A prudent punter would conclude…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bryan Gould, Hugh Templeton, Issue 22, Macmillan, Richard Prebble, Seaview
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

A major Australasian critic, Charles Ferrall

Posted on December 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Patrick White Mark Williams, Macmillan, 1993, $45.95 During the early 1960s Patrick White wrote an admiring letter to Janet Frame; she replied 22 years later. The Tasman is often wider than it looks, but this belies some more direct correspondences…

Tagged with: Charles Ferrall, Issue 11, Macmillan, Mark Williams, Summer 1993
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review