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Lyetening up, Mark Amery
Len Lye: A Biography Roger Horrocks Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402472 Len Lye himself ensures his biography is a ripper of a read. While biographer Roger Horrocks studiously clocks and chronicles the events and years of a long, ever-colourful…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 50, Len Lye, Mark Amery, October 2001, Roger Horrocks
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Desperate Dan, W H Oliver
Intimate Stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin ed Janet Wilson Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228249 Before I start on the book, I will allow myself a grumble about the cover. This shows in the foreground a highlighted profile of Dan, characteristically…
Tagged with: Dan Davin, Issue 50, Janet Wilson, October 2001, Steele Roberts, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Risky business, Alison Kirkman
Whistle Blower: Abuse of Power in the Church: A New Zealand Story Louise Deans Tandem Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877178780 How dangerous men think and how to stay safe for life Brent Sanders Random House Australia, $24.95, ISBN 0091842093 Touchy Subject:…
Tagged with: Alison Jones, Alison Kirkman, Brent Sanders, Issue 50, Louise Deans, October 2001, Otago University Press, Random House Australia, Tandem Press
Posted in Education, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
Posted in Education, Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Sociology
Hard Knox, Robert Onopa
Black Oxen Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734093 From the first paragraph of Elizabeth Knox’s previous novel, Vintner’s Luck, the reader enters as complete and rich an alternative world as exists in contemporary fiction. It is a world…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 50, October 2001, Robert Onopa, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Passionate Victorians, Edmund Bohan
Tom’s Letters. The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman Margot Fry Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864733917 One of many challenges facing the biographer of 19th Century New Zealanders can be the lack of intimate letters or diaries. The…
Tagged with: Edmund Bohan, Issue 50, Margot Fry, October 2001, Thomas King, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Niche poets, Pat White
Islands of Intimacy, Love Poems 1970-2000 Denys Trussell Addenda, $22.95, ISBN 0958218617 The Albatross is Dead: Sixty Sonnets Peter Dane Hudson Cresset, $22.95, ISBN 0959789456 Dark Out of Darkness Guyon Neutze Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228109 b.1943 G J Melling…
Tagged with: Addenda, Bumper Books, Denys Trussell, G J Melling, Guyon Neutze, Hudson Cresset, Issue 50, October 2001, Pat White, Peter Dane, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
A gift worth unwrapping, John Dickson
The Falling: A Memoir Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $29.95, ISBN 1869402502 The simplest way to begin unwrapping the gift of this book is to start with the title: The Falling: A Memoir. Notice the first word, the definite article:…
Tagged with: Alan Loney, Auckland University Press, Issue 50, John Dickson, October 2001
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Better than cure, Robert Beaglehole
Health and Public Policy in New Zealand ed Peter Davis and Toni Ashton Oxford University Press, $55.00, ISBN 0195584171 This thoughtful and stimulating book, edited by two of New Zealand’s foremost scholars of health policy, deserves a wide audience both…
Tagged with: Issue 50, October 2001, Peter Davis, Robert Beaglehole, Toni Ashton
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Independence and after, Colin James
Posted in Comment