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Finding the way back, Nicholas Reid
Now When it Rains – A Writer’s Memoir Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Steele Roberts, $35.00, ISBN 9780947493776 A boy needs a father, but things can go badly wrong if the father is not good at fathering. This seems to be one…
Tagged with: Issue 126, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Nicholas Reid, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Down by the river, Nicholas Reid
The Waikato – A History of New Zealand’s Greatest River Paul Moon Atuanui Press, $70.00, ISBN 9780994137616 At 425 kilometres, the Waikato is the longest river in New Zealand. The case Paul Moon makes in The Waikato – A History…
Tagged with: Atuanui Press, Issue 124, Nicholas Reid, Paul Moon, Summer 2018
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Air-brushed, Nicholas Reid
Helen Clark: Inside Stories Claudia Pond Eyley and Dan Salmon (eds) Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978186940 8381 She led the parliamentary Labour Party for 15 years and served for nine years as New Zealand’s first elected woman prime minister.…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Claudia Pond Eyley, Dan Salmon, Helen Clark, Issue 114, Nicholas Reid, Winter 2016
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Worlds old and new, Nicholas Reid
Purgatory Rosetta Allan Penguin, $30.00 ISBN 9780143571025 James Cook’s New World Graeme Lay Fourth Estate, $37.00 ISBN 9781775540410 There’s one current phenomenon in New Zealand literature that I’m watching with great interest. It’s the fact that, with a few honourable…
Tagged with: Fourth Estate, Graeme Lay, Issue 108, Nicholas Reid, Penguin, Rosetta Allan, Summer 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
How they probably thought, Nicholas Reid
Rangatira Paula Morris Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 978014565758 What is the value to us of historical novels? They are valuable only when they try to reconstruct the mentality of the past. Second-rate historical novels dress up modern characters in…
Tagged with: Autumn 2012, Issue 97, Nicholas Reid, Paula Morris, Penguin Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Nicholas Reid
Real culture My father licked the bones of Dickens and ate meat from an English plate examining the corpse of Eng Lit corpus Hooded and Patmored, minor-poeted and Thompsoned in an opiate religion. What was the aim of this? Career?…