A Deserter’s Adventures – the Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli Translated from the Italian by John Crockett Otago University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1877276111 Since the first English-language publication of Dom Felice Vaggioli’s New Zealand and its Inhabitants in 2000, the…
The Bishop’s Paper: A History of the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Auckland Nicholas Reid Catholic Publications Centre, $22.95, ISBN 0473072181 Nicholas Reid sheds valuable light on New Zealand’s religious and cultural history in The Bishop’s Paper, a history…
The World to Come – From Christian Past to Global Future Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1 877 242 020 Consider carefully Lloyd Geering’s use of the word “Christian” in the following sentence from his latest book, The…
Reframing Women – a History of New Zealand Film Deborah Shepard HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869503147 Books that set out to be histories of an art form are always doing two things simultaneously – documenting and criticising. Deborah Shepard’s Reframing…
Playing Waterloo Peter Hawes Vintage New Zealand $24.95 ISBN 1 86941 323 7 The Whistler Stephanie Johnson Vintage New Zealand $29.95 ISBN 1 86941 346 6 What a beguiling thing alternative history is. In my teenage and post-teenage years, I…
New Zealand Film 1912-1996 Helen Martin and Sam Edwards Oxford University Press, $49.95, ISBN 019 558336 1 Here are three separate and unrelated personal anecdotes about New Zealand film. Each has a neat and glib “moral” tacked on to it…
Bishop in the dock Rory Sweetman Auckland University Press, $39:95, ISBN 1 86940 160 3 Henry Jacobs — A clergyman of calibre Helen Garrett Shoal Bay Press, $39:95, ISBN 0 906704 54 2 Doing theology ourselves Neil Darragh Accent Publications,$18.00,…
The Story of Suzanne Aubert Jessie Munro Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1 86940 155 7 Catholic Boys Jim Sullivan Penguin Books, $24.95, ISBN 0 140 26034 X Beyond The Veil Pauline Grogan Penguin Books, $29.95, ISBN O…
Rings with everything, Nicholas Reid
From my teenage years I have a rather silly memory related to J R R Tolkien. Three learned professors of English were at the family dinner table and they were discussing what a fastidious fussbudget Tolkien had been. One claimed…
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