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Unpeaceful co-existence, Isa Moynihan
Gate Crasher and Other Stories Frances Cherry Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $25.00, ISBN 186942056X Flashpoint Frances Cherry Scholastic New Zealand, $16.99, ISBN 1869437438 Frances Cherry’s first collection, The Daughter-in-law and Other Stories, was published in 1986, and her first…
Tagged with: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Frances Cherry, Isa Moynihan, Issue 79, Scholastic New Zealand, Spring 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Boudicca does it for a jar of mead, David Hill
A Short History of Sheep in New Zealand Richard Wolfe Random House, $29.99, ISBN 1869418204 Instructions for New Zealanders Richard Wolfe Random House, $34.99, ISBN 1869418506 The Smell of Powder: A History of Duelling in New Zealand Donald Kerr Random…
Tagged with: Australian National Maritime Museum, David Hill, Donald Kerr, Exisle Publishing, Issue 79, John Dunmore, Nicola McCloy, Random House, Richard Wolfe, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Sounds like us, John Pagani
ZB: The Voice of an Iconic Radio Station Bill Francis HarperCollins, $36.99, ISBN 186950612X A radio station is not just intangible, but purely transient. Voices change, frequencies change, even the name of the station changes. All that’s left to bridge…
Tagged with: Bill Francis, HarperCollins, Issue 79, John Pagani, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction
Catching it on the run, Don Aimer
Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Township David Cook Craig Potton Publishing and Ramp Press, $49.99, ISBN 1877333522 Once upon a time, under the fluffy Waikato clouds out west of the unlovely Huntly, was a place called Rotowaro…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Cook, Don Aimer, Issue 79, Ramp Press, Spring 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Poem – Fiona Kidman
Marilyn at Malibu In that other country the one we call home on the faded apricot wall of my study hangs a great big silver framed portrait of Marilyn Monroe at Malibu standing on a terrace drinking champagne out…
Rethinking ourselves, Tim Hazledine
Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand Laurence Simmons (ed) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403799 I was thrilled to be asked to review this book. You see, I am a bit of a public intellectual myself, yet…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 79, Laurence Simmons, Spring 2007, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Seamless, Renée
Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists Ann Packer Random House, $59.99, ISBN 1869417887 I know Ann Packer’s work from her articles in newspapers and magazines, and never go anywhere without her little gem, Crafty Girls’ Road Trip. So it was…
Tagged with: Ann Packer, Issue 79, Random House, Renée, Spring 2007
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 79
Against the grain Please allow me to correct errors of fact and interpretation in Martin Edmond’s review of my biography of Mervyn Taylor (NZB, Winter 2007). Edmond claims Taylor’s “best, and best-known, works are woodblock prints”. They are not. So…
Dead ends and hairpin bends, Nick Bollinger
Highway of Legends: On the Road with the Kings and Queens of Country Music Dianne Haworth HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 1869505891 The road is a place, both real and metaphorical, central to the life of any professional musician. It is where…
Tagged with: Dianne Haworth, HarperCollins, Issue 79, Nick Bollinger, Spring 2007
Posted in Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 79
The haunting Street banners calling for donations to the annual City Mission book sale had us each confidently scanning our shelves for give-aways, applying a literary version of that wardrobe rule – haven’t worn it for at least two seasons?…