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The life and the work, Martin Edmond
In Fifteen Minutes You Can Say A Lot: Selected Fiction Greville Texidor, (Kendrick Smithyman ed) Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781776562268 All The Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor And New Zealand Margot Schwass Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776562251 In April…
Tagged with: Greville Texidor, Issue 128, Kendrick Smithyman, Margot Schwass, Martin Edmond, Summer 2019, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
The invisible hand, Margot Schwass
The Occupiers: New Zealand Veterans Remember Post-war Japan Alison Parr Penguin Books, $45.00, ISBN 9780143567240 In Love and War: Kiwi Soldiers’ Romantic Encounters in Wartime Italy Susan Jacobs Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143567554 I detoured into these two books while…
Tagged with: Alison Parr, Issue 100, Margot Schwass, Penguin Books, Summer 2012, Susan Jacobs
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Not on the Cromwell Road, Margot Schwass
Margot Schwass travels A Long Way from Verona with Jane Gardam. It was the school holidays; I was 12 or so, much given to moping about and staring fruitlessly out of windows when I had nothing to read. This of…
Tagged with: Issue 96, Jane Gardam, Margot Schwass, Summer 2011
Posted in Imprints, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Imprints, Literature, Young adults
Championing the local, Margot Schwass
Margot Schwass pays tribute to Ruth Dallas who died earlier this year. Silent bush, rain-soaked paddocks, solitary farmhouses hunkered down beneath black macrocarpas …. The landscapes so intensely reflected in the work of the late Ruth Dallas are very recognisably…
An eye on Cambodia, Margot Schwass
A Certain Grace Anthony Maturin Anthony Maturin, $70.00, ISBN 109995082705, Instead of teaching in a dirt-floored classroom or hacking through the jungle, today’s VSA volunteer is just as likely to be an office-bound small-business advisor or a human resources trainer…
Tagged with: Anthony Maturin, Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Margot Schwass
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Kiwi ways of dying, Abby Letteri
Last Words: Approaches to Death in New Zealand’s Cultures and Faiths ed Margot Schwass Bridget Williams Books, $29.99, ISBN 1877242349 The primary school my daughter attends has one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse populations in the New Zealand…
Tagged with: Abby Letteri, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 72, Margot Schwass, Summer 2005
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Cantankerous, laconic and weird, Margot Schwass
Getting Away With It Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270792 Butler’s Ringlet Laurence Fearnley Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019198 A Man Who Eats The Heart Josh Greenberg Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734824 Together, these three novels suggest that the…
Tagged with: Autumn 2005, Hazard Press, Issue 69, Josh Greenberg, Kevin Ireland, Laurence Fearnley, Margot Schwass, Penguin, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Mentors and protégés, Margot Schwass
Posted in Comment