New Zealand Votes: The General Election of 2002 ed J Boston, S Church, S Levine, E McLeay & N Roberts Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864734689 I was on the baños in Baños, Ecuador when the 2002 election results were…
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Riding the beast, Michael Laws
Tagged with: E M McLeay, E McLeay, Issue 64, J Boston, Michael Laws, N Roberts, S Church, S Levine, Summer 2003, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Like great sex only better, Robert Burgess
Gladiator: The Norm Hewitt Story Michael Laws Darius Press, $29.95, ISBN 0473078252 Loyal: The Todd Blackadder Story Phil Gifford Hodder Moa Beckett, $44.95, ISBN 1869588924 Head tilted back, eye-balling you. Norm on the front cover, bold and proud. And so…
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Tagged with: Autumn 2001, Darius Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 53, Michael Laws, Norm Hewitt, Phil Gifford, Todd Blackadder
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
The perils of proximity, Michael Laws
Helen: Portrait of a Prime Minister Brian Edwards Exisle Publishing, $44.95, ISBN 0908988206 Biography is a fraught art. If the subject is dead, then the Author is reliant upon a myriad of sources, often contradictory, to capture the essence of…
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Tagged with: Brian Edwards, Exisle Publishing, Helen Clarke, Issue 52, Michael Laws, Summer 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Good old Wanganui, John Campbell
Dancing with Beelzebub Michael Laws HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 1 86950 324 4 Michael Laws, we are told by the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, wrote Dancing with Beelzebub at the rate of a thousand words a day. “That’s about my limit…
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Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 40, John Campbell, Michael Laws
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Huck Finn in the Beehive, Colin James
The Demon Profession Michael Laws HarperCollins, $29.95 ISBN 1 869502 57 4 Winston Peters emerged from obscurity in the 1980s on the strength of attacks on Maori social services organisations like Maccess. His surge in 1996 was on the backs…
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Tagged with: Colin James, HarperCollins, Issue 36, Michael Laws
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law
At odds with liberal times, Michael Laws
Catholic Girls Jane Tolerton Penguin, $24.95 Jane Tolerton’s new book is a series of interviews with 17 Catholic-educated women ranging from lawyers and businesswomen to politicians and other entertainers. Tolerton’s premise for these nostalgic reminiscences is that “the Catholic women…
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Tagged with: Issue 16, Jane Tolerton, Michael Laws, Penguin, Summer 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology