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Butting the trend, Marion McLeod

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

In the Lifetime of a Goat: Writings 1984 – 2000 Marilyn Waring Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1877242098 Journalism is an ephemeral business. “Today’s news, tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapping” – the saying may be out of date but the…

Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 52, Marilyn Waring, Marion McLeod, Summer 2002
Posted in Essays, Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Hanging matter, Marion McLeod

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

The Curative Charlotte Randall Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0140297537 This is an amazing and amazingly good novel. The second novel is supposed to be the hardest but any reader coming to this one “blind” would judge it to be the work…

Tagged with: Charlotte Randall, December 2000, Issue 46, Marion McLeod, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

A new cultural security? Kim Worthington

Posted on October 12, 1997 by NZ Books

Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories third edition ed Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire Bridget Williams Books, $24.95, ISBN 0 908912 92 7 Huia Short Stories ed Anonymous Huia Publishers, $24.95, ISBN 0 908975 16 3 Joy Cowley:…

Tagged with: Bill Manhire, Bridget Williams Books, Flamingo, Graeme Lay, HarperCollins, Huia Publishers, Issue 30, Kim Worthington, Marion McLeod, Tandem Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Literature, Review, Short stories

From teapots to platters: a vital potter, Brian Carmody

Posted on March 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Doreen Blumhardt, Teacher and Potter Marion McLeod, Daphne Brasell Associates, Wellington, 1991, $21.95 In a world where books on artists and craftsmen are often loaded with jargon and preoccupied with the personal psychology of the subject, Doreen Blumhardt, Teacher and Potter,…

Tagged with: Autumn 1992, Brian Carmody, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Doreen Blumhardt, Issue 4, Marion McLeod
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review