Coal, Class and Community: The United Mineworkers of New Zealand 1880‑1960 Len Richardson Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1 86940 113 1 Coalmining unionism has a long and tortured history in this country. The industry was first nurtured on…
Palm Prints Fiona Kidman Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1 86941 228 1 Then and There: a Seventies Diary Dennis McEldowney Auckland University Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 86950 116 6 Accidental Life Phoebe Meikle Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 108…
Out On A Limb Martin Crowe Reed Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0 7900 0387 2 Tortured Genius Joseph Romanos Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1 86958 187 3 In Anthony Powell’s roman fleuve, A Dance to the Music of Time, the…
Kiwi Ingenuity ‑ A Book of New Zealand Ideas and Inventions Bob Riley AIT Press, $39.95 ISBN 0 9583334 4 0 There’s a wonderful sequence in a mid‑80s Woody Allen movie called A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. Woody, a self‑confessed…
Why Cats Paint: a theory of feline aesthetics Heather Busch and Burton Silver Weidenfeld and Nicolson, $34.95 ISBN 0 297 83351 0 Never mind the theory, for heaven’s sake, do cats need a reason? Do we need to know?…
The erasure tapes Alan Loney Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 186940 1 14 x Reading Alan Loney’s work again is like opening up an old wound. For he is a survivor of the Freed group of the late 1960s and…