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Living testaments, Susan Fowke
Skin to Skin: Intimate, True Stories of Maori-Pakeha Relationships Carol Archie Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019627 If you feel like reading something positive about race relations in New Zealand, this is the book for you. And if, like me, you are…
Poem – Bernard Gadd
Another creative prelude [with thanks to R A K Mason] This plump cheque award provides fittingly screen bed and board for stanzas on me They ask no grim Ron Mason verses look what’s happened to him dwindling past curses I…
Letters – Issue 71
Going for the kill There are curious contradictions in Guy Somerset’s editorial, “Review and be damned” (NZB, October 2005). Literary life in New Zealand apparently amounts to “rarefied navel-gazing”, supermarket politeness and authorial complaint, all dire “small-country” traits. Yet these…
Repackaging the foreign, Giselle Byrnes
Caught Mapping: The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Early Land Surveyors Janet Holm Hazard Press, $49.99, ISBN 1877270865 In 1849, less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the assertion of British sovereignty over…
Tagged with: Giselle Byrnes, Hazard Press, Issue 71, Janet Holm, Spring 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Christmas list
New Zealand Books reviewers choose which book they’d most like to see in their Christmas stocking and why. Owen Marshall: The Journals of John Cheever, unfortunately out of print; a wonderfully candid and elegant insight into the life of…
Pioneering efforts, Tom Brooking
The Legacy of Guilt: A Life of Thomas Kendall Judith Binney Bridget Williams Books, $49.95, ISBN 1877242330 There are few New Zealand history books that can be described as seminal, that is, books so deep in their research and broad…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 71, Judith Binney, Spring 2005, Thomas Kendall, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
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
All aboard for Planet Teenage, Brigid Lowry
Deep Fried Bernard Beckett and Clare Knighton Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1887361119 Box Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $16.95, ISBN 1877361127 Sil Jill Harris Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877361143 Elizabeth Knox recently entered the realms of young adult fiction with her…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, Brigid Lowry, Clare Knighton, Issue 71, Jill Harris, Longacre Press, Penelope Todd, Spring 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Hymns, history and haemorrhoids, Janet Hughes
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $22.00, ISBN 1869403495 Afternoon of an Evening Train Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $21.99, ISBN 9864735014 Oooooo…..!!! Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877338699 Footfall Brian Turner Godwit,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Turner, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hone Tuwhare, Ian Wedde, Issue 71, Janet Hughes, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2005, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
What meets the eye, Ian Robertson
My Place ed Glenn Busch, Bruce Connew with Uiga Bashford, Maria Buhrkuhl, Hanne Johnsen, Dean Kozanic, Tim Veling Canterbury University Press, $29.95, ISBN 187725729X Assume Nothing Rebecca Swan Boy Tiger Press, $69.95, ISBN 0476004934 My Place is part of an…
Tagged with: Boy Tiger Press, Bruce Connew, Canterbury University Press, Dean Kozanic, Glenn Busch, Hanne Johnsen, Ian Robertson, Issue 71, Maria Buhrkuhl, Rebecca Swan, Spring 2005, Tim Veling, Uiga Bashford
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Photography, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Photography, Review, Sociology