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Issue 75 | October 2006
Volume 16 | Number 4 | Issue 75 | October 2006 Brian Turner: Geoff Park, Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua Editorial: “The importance of being earnest” Letters Kerry Popplewell: “Reading The Master” (poem) Mary Varnham: Edmund Bohan,…
In cold blood, David Capie
New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy Roberto Rabel Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869403401 Surrounded by placard-waving students at Waikato University during August 2005, election campaign, Prime Minister Helen Clark launched a scathing attack on her opponent’s…
Revisionist urges, Anna Rogers
The Rope of Man Witi Ihimaera Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790008947 It’s surely a disconcerting and disturbing notion: that a writer’s early books can be rewritten many years later to take account of changes in his life, or in the evolution…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Issue 75, Reed, Spring 2006, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Killing what we love, Garth Baker
Pohutukawa and Rata: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees Philip Simpson Te Papa Press with the Project Crimson Trust, $99.99 (hb), $59.99 (pb), ISBN 1877385131/0909010994 Philip Simpson’s Pohutukawa and Rata follows his earlier homage to cabbage trees. He wrote his popular Dancing…
Tagged with: Garth Baker, Issue 75, Philip Simpson, Project Crimson Trust, Spring 2006, Te Papa Press
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
A three-act life, Jenny Robin Jones
White Chief: The Colourful Life and Times of Judge F E Maning of the Hokianga John Nicholson Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143020226 In Omapere Museum in the Hokianga, the area F E Maning called home for most of his life, a…
Tagged with: F E Maning, Issue 75, Jenny Robin Jones, John Nicholson, Penguin, Spring 2006
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Values, principles and faith, Mary Varnham
The House of Reed 1907-1983: Great Days in New Zealand Publishing Edmund Bohan Canterbury University Press, $39.95, ISBN 187725732X Books and Boots: The Story of New Zealand Publisher, Writer and Long Distance Walker Alfred Hamish Reed Ian Dougherty Otago University…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Edmund Bohan, Ian Dougherty, Issue 75, Mary Varnham, Otago University Press, Spring 2006
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
View from the hilltop, Rawiri Taonui
State of the Maori Nation: Twenty-first Century Issues in Aotearoa Malcolm Mulholland and contributors Reed, $39.99, ISBN 0790010429 Ngapua: The Political Life of Hone Heke Ngapua Paul Moon David Ling, $39.99, ISBN 187737802X The Maori population doubled during the two…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Hone Heke Ngapua, Issue 75, Malcolm Mulholland, Paul Moon, Rawiri Taonui, Reed, Spring 2006
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem – Kerry Popplewell
Reading The Master (In memory of Stuart Johnston) Last year before you died, you told me about this book – admired its reticence, the way it invited complicity, embraced the challenge of tangle. Trusting your judgement, I’m reading…
The bit in between, Tony Simpson
Women and Children Last: The Burning of the Emigrant Ship Cospatrick Charles R Clark University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 187737214 5 This is the world’s most immigrant society. Every single person living here is either an immigrant or descended…
Tagged with: Charles R Clark, Issue 75, Otago University Press, Spring 2006, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Non-fiction