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Nuclear free-ish, Nicky Hager
Standing Upright Here: New Zealand in the Nuclear Age 1945-1990 Malcolm Templeton Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864735405 First impressions suggest this is the kind of worthy and dense book few people will get around to reading. That would be…
Tagged with: Issue 79, Malcolm Templeton, Nicky Hager, Spring 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Science
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Science
Issue 79 Spring 2007
Volume 17 | Number 3 | Issue 79 | Spring 2007 Editorial Letters Tim Hazledine: Laurence Simmons (ed), Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand Don Aimer: David Cook, Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining…
Confessions of an historical romance virgin, Beryl Fletcher
The Paua Tower Coral Atkinson Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 1869417623 The Sawdust Makers Jackie Fraser Hazard Press, $34.99, ISBN 187739307X Kitty Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $34.99 ISBN 1869506014 First, a confession: I’m an historical romance virgin. This is either a good…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Black Swan, Coral Atkinson, Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins, Hazard Press, Issue 79, Jackie Fraser, Spring 2007
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
The impudent what-if, Geoff Cush
New Zealand as it Might Have Been Stephen Levine (ed) Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 0864735456 “Counterfactual” is the term preferred by the 15 writers here, who are mostly historians or political scientists, and mostly based at Victoria University of…
Tagged with: Geoff Cush, Issue 79, Spring 2007, Stephen Levine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Fiction, History, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Jan FitzGerald
Nest Consider this pouch of air, thatch of cloud, tightly woven against a sky loosely strung. This swirl of wind is threaded to miracles. In this scoop of heaven, time coddles echoes, joggle of eggs, shuffle of fledglings, in…
Stamping one’s mark, Edmund Bohan
The Governors: New Zealand’s Governors and Governors-General Gavin McLean Otago University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877372250 Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector Donald Jackson Kerr Otago University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1877372218 Gavin McLean’s book is,…
Tagged with: Donald Jackson Kerr, Edmund Bohan, Gavin McLean, Issue 79, Otago University Press, Spring 2007
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Red pen pedants, Anna Rogers
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