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Different qualities, Charles Croot
Ornamental Gorse Chris Orsman Victoria University Press, $19.95 The Persistent Levitator Bernadette Hall Victoria University Press, $19.95 Honeypants Lynda Earle Auckland University Press, $19.95 Black Family Letters from Boston L E Scott Blue Black Press / Bent Publishing, $15.95 What…
Contributing to the tribal record, Jane McRae
Kati au i konei compiled by Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal Huia Publishers, $24.95 This book contains texts, translations and explanatory notes for 15 waiata from Ngati Toarangatira and Ngati Raukawa. It is written in Maori and English, illustrated with photographs…
Tagged with: Huia Publishers, Issue 16, Jane McRae, Summer 1994, Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Better at a distance, Gerry Webb
My History, I think Stevan Eldred‑Grigg Penguin Books, $29.95 “Neither autobiography nor yet fiction, this fascinating document traces the workings inside the mind of a leading writer”, says the blurb. The sad fact is that the workings of this writer’s…
Tagged with: Gerry Webb, Issue 16, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred‑Grigg, Summer 1994
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Skin and bones, Tom Beard
Skinning a Fish Kevin Ireland Hazard Press, $19.95 The cover illustration ‑ a cold blue etching of a grotesque deep‑sea fish screwed to a ragged knife ‑ is a spare and disturbing image that hints at a hard edge to…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 16, Kevin Ireland, Summer 1994, Tom Beard
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Unequal contract, Margaret Wilson
The Vision And The Reality: Equal Employment Opportunities in the New Zealand Workplace Janet Sayers and Marianne Tremaine (eds) Dunmore Press, $42.95 For those of us who teach and research in subjects that discuss the practice and theory of equality…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Issue 16, Janet Sayers, Margaret Wilson, Marianne Tremaine, Summer 1994
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
At odds with liberal times, Michael Laws
Catholic Girls Jane Tolerton Penguin, $24.95 Jane Tolerton’s new book is a series of interviews with 17 Catholic-educated women ranging from lawyers and businesswomen to politicians and other entertainers. Tolerton’s premise for these nostalgic reminiscences is that “the Catholic women…
Tagged with: Issue 16, Jane Tolerton, Michael Laws, Penguin, Summer 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review, Sociology
It will all happen again, Brian Gaynor
Lost Property: The Crash of ’87…and the aftershock Olly Newland HarperCollins, $19.95 The mid‑1980s ‑ Allan Hawkins and Equiticorp, Fay and Connor slogging it out in Fremantle, Chase Corporation and mirror‑glass buildings, Bruce Judge, share clubs and investment seminars, Bob…
Tagged with: Brian Gaynor, HarperCollins, Issue 16, Olly Newland, Summer 1994
Posted in Economics, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, History, Non-fiction, Review
Reviled, Iain Sharp
Poor Behaviour Bill Payne Secker & Warburg, $24.95 The Duration of a Kiss Peter Wells Secker & Warburg, $24.95 I wonder what Bill Payne and Peter Wells make of each other. Simultaneous publication by Reed’s new Secker & Warburg imprint…
Tagged with: Bill Payne, Iain Sharp, Issue 16, Peter Wells, Secker & Warburg, Summer 1994
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Tall tales and truths from an underrated writer, Judith Holloway
Dead Man’s Head Jack Lasenby McIndoe, $18.95 There is a special category of books written about the world of children which are, on the whole, written for children to read (or to have read to them) but whose themes, originality…
Tagged with: Issue 16, Jack Lasenby, Judith Holloway, McIndoe, Summer 1994
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Children, Literature, Young adults
Women among the puritans, Heather Murray
A Barbarous Tongue Marilyn Duckworth Vintage New Zealand (first pub Hutchinson & Co, 1963), $24.95 Fooling Marilyn Duckworth Hazard Press, $9.95 Marilyn Duckworth stands alone in New Zealand fiction, occupying a lofty and lonely spot few others have had the…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Heather Murray, Issue 16, Marilyn Duckworth, Summer 1994, Vintage New Zealand
Posted in Fiction, Literature
Posted in Fiction, Literature