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Christmas crackers, Celia Dunlop
This selection of good New Zealand books worth considering for children at Christmas is made from titles which have appeared or won awards in the last year. The choice was based on the book’s overall quality, potential pleasure as a…
Simple fact or subtle fiction? William Broughton
The Quick World, Autobiography Volume 3 Lauris Edmond, Bridget Williams Books, $29.95 The Quick World completes Lauris Edmond’s promised autobiographical trilogy, and documents the most recent 15 or so years of her life. I find that I have come more…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Summer 1992, William Broughton
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
The woman question, Patricia Sargison
Kate Sheppard: A Biography. The fight for women‘s votes in New Zealand: the life of the woman who led the struggle Judith Devaliant, Penguin, $34.95 Recognition of the role Kate Sheppard played in New Zealand history has been slow, and…
Tagged with: Issue 7, Judith Devaliant, Kate Sheppard, Patricia A Sargison, Penguin, Summer 1992
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Imported and adapted, Gavin McLean
The Chapman Legal Family Peter Spiller, Victoria University Press, $39.95 Waikato law professor Peter Spiller’s book examines the legal careers of Henry Samuel Chapman and his two sons, Frederick, the first New Zealand-born Supreme Court judge, and Martin, founder of…
The fall of a decent joker, Michael Gifkins
The Autobiography of My Father Martin Edmond, Auckland University Press, $29.95 There is an entry in the book of New Zealand literary politics which reads: Edmond, Trevor, schoolteacher, husband of Lauris, poet (late-flowering); father of (inter alia) Martin, scriptwriter, see…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 7, Lauris Edmond, Martin Edmond, Michael Gifkins, Summer 1992, Trevor Edmond
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Reading pictures, Jane Clendon
Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840-1914 Leonard Bell, Auckland University Press, $69.95 The language of art historical discourse has become more complex and demanding since Leonard Bell published his first book, The Maori in European Art, in 1980. Now,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 7, Jane Clendon, Leonard Bell, Summer 1992
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Publisher Profiles 5, Staying alive: the house of McIndoe, Lynley Hood
There’s been a subtle change in the south. Over the past month, without any fanfare, Dunedin-based John McIndoe Ltd – the South Island’s biggest publishing house – has become McIndoe Publishers. The three women who now run the firm wanted…
Big questions: part answers, James Norcliffe
Why Things Fall Chris Else, Tandem, $24.95 Love and War Elspeth Sandys, Vintage, $24.95 Jim’s Elvis Colleen Reilly, John McIndoe, $19.95 Why Things Fall at first glance seems quite a departure from Chris Else’s earlier ficciones, Dreams of Pythagoras (1981).…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Colleen Reilly, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 7, James Norcliffe, John McIndoe, Summer 1992, Tandem, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review