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Streets, waters, winds, Kirsty Gunn
A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington 1888 – 1903 Redmer Yska Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780947522544 “There is a handful of writers” begins Vincent O’Sullivan’s introduction to a rare and illuminating account of the city in which Katherine…
Tagged with: Issue 120, Kirsty Gunn, Otago University Press, Redmer Yska, Summer 2017
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
A bit of fluff, Anne Else
A Woman’s Place Redmer Yska Penguin Books, $20.00, ISBN 97840143568087 A Woman’s Place is a small book in every sense. Penguin’s web page classes it as both “humour” and “gift book”. Though it does have pages and a cover, it…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Redmer Yska, Winter 2013
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Never the whole truth, Spiro Zavos
Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People’s Paper Redmer Yska Craig Potton Publishing, $49.99, ISBN 9781877517303 During most of 1979 I lived with my family in Menton, in the south of France, trying to write the Great New…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 93, Redmer Yska, Spiro Zavos
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Can Auckland be saved? Redmer Yska
The Life and Times of Auckland Gordon McLauchlan Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143007500 Urban Village: The Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary’s Bay Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow Random House, $70.00, ISBN 9781869418373 New Local Government Minister Rodney…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Diana Morrow, Gordon McLauchlan, Issue 85, Jenny Carlyon, Penguin Books, Random House, Redmer Yska
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Reds under the bed, Redmer Yska
The Sixth Man: The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello James McNeish Vintage, $34.99, ISBN 9781869418915 James McNeish’s masterly life of Paddy Costello tells how, in the summer of 1953, this Paris-based New Zealand diplomat escorted National PM Sid Holland around…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Issue 81, James McNeish, Paddy Costello, Redmer Yska, Vintage
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Absolutely commercially, Jenny Robin Jones
Logan Campbell’s Auckland: Tales from the Early Years R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403935 Wellington: Biography of a City Redmer Yska Reed, $44.99, ISBN 0790011077 Auckland illuminated through stories of the past; Wellington reconstructed through careful…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2008, Issue 81, Jenny Robin Jones, John Logan Campbell, R C J Stone, Redmer Yska, Reed
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Carry on conspiring, Redmer Yska
The Plot to Subvert Wartime New Zealand Hugh Price Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864735383 One Sunday morning at the end of March 1942, a safe-breaker fresh out of Waikeria Prison rang Cabinet Minister Bob Semple at home from a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Hugh Price, Issue 77, Redmer Yska, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Standing up for it, Redmer Yska
God Defend New Zealand: A History of the National Anthem Ashley Heenan School of Music and University of Canterbury, $29.95, ISBN 0908718098 Hear Our Voices We Entreat: The Extraordinary Story of New Zealand’s National Anthems Max Cryer Exisle Publishing, $29.99,…
Tagged with: Ashley Heenan, Exisle Publishing, Issue 68, June 2005, Max Cryer, Redmer Yska, School of Music and University of Canterbury
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Running away to sea, Redmer Yska
Swirly World: the solo voyages Andrew Fagan HarperCollins, $29.95, ISBN 186590402X Wet Behind the Ears: adventures of a runaway sailor Peter Taylor HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869504003 With the sea breathing down their necks, New Zealanders are drawn more than most…
Tagged with: Andrew Fagan, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Peter Taylor, Redmer Yska, Summer 2001
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Happy days, Redmer Yska
I Live Here Now: Sarah Campion in 1950s New Zealand ed Rachel Scott Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251054 Over the summer of 2000, National Radio was the unlikely backdrop for a rumble over New Zealand in the 1950s. The…
Tagged with: Issue 48, June 2001, Rachel Scott, Redmer Yska, Sarah Campion, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, History, Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology