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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
What about the pets? Suzanne Innes-Kent
Recycled People: Forming New Relationships in Mid-life Coral Atkinson & Paula Wagemaker Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877251046 Recycled People is a timely and welcome book. When one examines the generation of any timely idea, one discovers that it arises…
Tagged with: Coral Atkinson, Issue 48, June 2001, Paula Wagemaker, Shoal Bay Press, Suzanne Innes-Kent
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
More spills than thrills, Bernard Carpinter
The Wastings Don Donovan Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 877161 52 7 Don Donovan’s The Wastings could be read as a savage satire on the evils of the right-wing economic theories that have bedevilled this country over the last 15…
Tagged with: Andrew Grant, Bernard Carpinter, Denis Edwards, Don Donovan Hazard Press, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 41, Keith Stewart, Penguin, Shoal Bay Press, Tony Williams, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Passion and precision, Chris Laidlaw
A Lucky Man Keith Quinn Shoal Bay Press, $44.95, ISBN 0908704917 It is one of life’s idiosyncrasies that the nicer a guy is, the more some people will feel compelled to hate him. Keith Quinn, the doyen of television sports…
Tagged with: Chris Laidlaw, Issue 47, Keith Quinn, March 2001, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
“They all knew”, Peter Russell
Strawberries with the Führer Helga Tiscenko Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251038 The first chapters of Helga Tiscenko’s memoir of her life are in large part a tale of the ordinary. Her childhood with her younger sister Sigrid in…
Tagged with: December 2000, Helga Tiscenko, Issue 46, Peter Russell, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Moore’s almanac, Linda Clark
A Brief History of the Future Mike Moore Shoal Bay Press, $24.95, ISBN 0 908704 77 1 Aconversation with Mike Moore is like an adventure ride at a theme park. You’re bucked and rolled and threatened and sidetracked and at…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Linda Clark, Mike Moore, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
On the defensive, Warren Young
A Passion for Justice Peter Williams Shoal Bay Press $29.95 ISBN 0 90870 463 1 We are fed a constant diet of stories about crime, criminals and the criminal justice system – in news’ reports, in television dramas, in novels…
Tagged with: Issue 35, Peter Williams, Shoal Bay Press, Warren Young
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Cow-cockies and cock-ups, Michael Lyon
Shaggy Dogs & Other Stories: Tales of a Kiwi Vet David Marshall Shoal Bay Press, $24.95 ISBN 0 908704 69 0 When I first graduated as a veterinary surgeon in the late 1970s, I started work with an established veterinary…
Tagged with: David Marshall, Issue 33, Michael Lyon, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review