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Awestruck at Otira, Neville Bennett
At Home on the Road Jill Malcolm New Holland, $24.95, ISBN 1877246658 Southern Journeys: South Island People and Places Roy Sinclair Random House, $34.95, ISBN 186941439X There is a kea in my garden. When I hang out the washing, a…
Tagged with: Issue 56, Jill Malcolm, Neville Bennett, New Holland, Random House, Roy Sinclair, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Spying and all that, Neville Bennett
Seeing Red — undercover in 1950s New Zealand George Fraser Dunmore Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864692552 From 1953 to 1956 the Canadian authorities posted E H Norman as their high commissioner in Wellington. They were “hiding” him in an unimportant post…
Tagged with: Autumn 1996, Dunmore Press, George Fraser, Issue 25, Neville Bennett
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Truculent non-globalisers, Neville Bennett
In all the industrialised nations of the OECD voters seem determined to chastise politicians. Despite this pattern, commentators are continually surprised that voters are so truculent, even vindictive. In many cases, the economy and employment has been growing but electors…
Now for Spinoza, Neville Bennett
Nobel Prize for literature Recently I met Oe Kenzaburo, the Japanese novelist who won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature. To the envy of a group of bystanders, Mr Oe spoke to me and autographed my “meishi” or business card.…
Neville Bennett: Signalling a trout rush
Trophy Trout Bob South Viking Press, $34.95 Some years ago huge untapped resources of crayfish were discovered in the Chathams. A rush developed and the resource was raped. It was merely another rush, in a national history which has seen…
Tagged with: Bob South, Issue 13, Neville Bennett, Viking Press, Winter I 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology, Sport
And a partridge (or not), Neville Bennett
Posted in Comment