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Delicate flowers of the wasteland, Les Cleveland
Love in Time of War: Letter Writing in the Second World War Deborah Montgomerie Auckland University Press, $35.00, ISBN 1869403363 Freyberg’s War: The Man, the Legend, the Reality Matthew Wright Penguin Books, $35.00, ISBN 0143019856 Western Front: The New Zealand…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Deborah Montgomerie, HarperCollins, Ian McGibbon, Issue 71, Jonathan King, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Megan Hutching, Michael Bowers, Pat White, Penguin Books, Random House, Red Books, Reed Books, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
War tourism, Les Cleveland
One Flag, One Queen, One Tongue: New Zealand, the British and the South African War ed John Crawford and Ian McGibbon Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 1869402936 Landscapes of Conflict: A Field Guide to the New Zealand Wars Nigel Prickett…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Ian McGibbon, Issue 60, John Crawford, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Michael King, Nigel Prickett, Penguin Books, Random House, Reed Books, Summer 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Mytho-history, Les Cleveland
A Near-Run Affair: New Zealanders in the battle for Crete, 1941 Matthew Wright Reed Books, $30.95, ISBN 0790007320 A Unique Sort of Battle: New Zealanders Remember Crete ed Megan Hutching HarperCollins in association with the History Group, Ministry for Culture…
Tagged with: December 2001, HarperCollins, Les Cleveland, Matthew Wright, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Reed Books
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
“A lotta nerve”, David Eggleton
Positively George Street: a personal history of Sneaky Feelings and the Dunedin Sound Matthew Bannister Reed Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 7900 0704 5 The mythology tells us that Dunedin in the 1970s was a studious, quiet backwater, seemingly permanently becalmed…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 43, Matthew Bannister, Reed Books
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
A partial history, Rawiri Taonui
The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806-45 R D Crosby Reed Books, $65, ISBN 0 7900 0677 4 Ron Crosby’s The Musket Wars successfully compiles most of the available published material on the 1800-1840 wars between Maori into…
Martial arts, Wendy Pond
The Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict 1806-45 R D Crosby Reed Books, $65, ISBN 0 7900 0677 4 This is a narrative of long campaigns covering immense distances in rugged country, of brutal and ruthless raids, of enslavement…
Tagged with: Issue 42, R D Crosby, Reed Books, Wendy Pond
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Essentials of Bloketopia, Dale Williams
High Times in the High Country: The Life of a Musterer W V Kerr and John Kerr Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0140294422 Easy Riders: Cruising the Long White Cloud Paul and Val Davis HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869503570 Blokes and Boats: Text…
Tagged with: Bill McCarthy, Brian Moorhead, Dale Williams, HarperCollins, Issue 47, John Kerr, Ken Francis, March 2001, Paul and Val Davis, Penguin, Reed Books, W V Kerr
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Research guide, Gavin McLean
A Guide to Art Galleries and Museums In New Zealand Keith W Thomson, Reed Books, Auckland, 1991, $14.95 This snappy little paperback wins out over Thomson’s earlier book in that it is cheap and portable enough to be bought and…
Tagged with: Gavin McLean, Issue 6, Keith W Thomson, Reed Books, Spring 1992
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Sidewinder as demon, Bernie Steeds
Sidewinder Alistair Campbell, Reed Books, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Readers first meet Sidewinder about half way through Alistair Campbell’s 1989 novel The Frigate Bird. The novel’s narrator — a Cook Islands-born writer prone to rather extreme flights of fancy — is…
Tagged with: Alistair Campbell, Autumn 1992, Bernie Steeds, Issue 4, Reed Books
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review