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The freedom within, Nelson Wattie
Skylark Lounge Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864733925 In Nigel Cox’s second novel, Dirty Work, Nif, a woman rebelling against the controlling hand of Hendy, the master of her world, has a message tattooed on her back –…
Tagged with: Issue 47, March 2001, Nelson Wattie, Nigel Cox, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Home straight, Meghan Nordeck
Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern Justine Clark & Paul Walker Victoria University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864733879 Publishing architecture is never easy. Partly this is a problem of trying to accommodate within the medium of…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Justine Clark, March 2001, Meghan Nordeck, Paul Walker, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Really real, Mark Amery
The Spit Children Jo Randerson Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733968 There was once this young woman who liked to make up stories. They were the kind of stories you might have made up for your best friend when…
Tagged with: Issue 47, Jo Randerson, March 2001, Mark Amery, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Fear and loneliness in Grey Lynn, Catharina van Bohemen
Guilt Charlotte Grimshaw Abacus, $29.95, ISBN 0349111960 Among the chorus of young women’s voices emerging presently in NZ writing, Charlotte Grimshaw’s is strong and distinctive. Her two novels Provocation and Guilt are set mainly in Auckland and evoke a…
Tagged with: Abacus, Catharina van Bohemen, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 47, March 2001
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Asking the hard questions, Mark Williams
The Writer at Work: Essays C K Stead Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877133957 I write on a Waitangi Day on which the Prime Minister has chosen to attend celebrations in Wellington and Auckland but not at Waitangi. The…
Tagged with: C K Stead, Issue 47, March 2001, Mark Williams, Otago University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Essentials of Bloketopia, Dale Williams
High Times in the High Country: The Life of a Musterer W V Kerr and John Kerr Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140294422 Easy Riders: Cruising the Long White Cloud Paul and Val Davis HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503570 Blokes and Boats: Text…
Tagged with: Bill McCarthy, Brian Moorhead, Dale Williams, HarperCollins, Issue 47, John Kerr, Ken Francis, March 2001, Paul and Val Davis, Penguin, Reed Books, W V Kerr
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Wrestling with the Patriarch, Otto Heim
The Uncle’s Story Witi Ihimaera Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140298924 Witi Ihimaera’s eighth novel impressively rounds off his third decade in the market for fiction. Faithful readers will no doubt spot many echoes of earlier Ihimaeras in this latest work.…
Tagged with: Issue 47, March 2001, Otto Heim, Penguin, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not for the queasy, Chris Knox
Emerald Budgies Karyn Hay Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414535 Wow! Karyn Hay’s first novel got a right regal slagging on Kim Hill this morning, both host Sean Plunket and a queasy-sounding male reviewer whose name I missed really putting the…
Tagged with: Chris Knox, Issue 47, Karyn Hay, March 2001, Vintage NZ
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Mucking in, Bill Sewell
Travelling to New Zealand ed Lydia Wevers Oxford University Press, $59.95, ISBN 0195584112 It was literally the sort of pub where the conversation stops when a stranger walks in. Only there were just three customers, plus the proprietor, in…
Tagged with: Bill Sewell, Issue 47, Lydia Wevers, March 2001, Oxford University Press
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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