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Issue 60 | October 2003
Volume 13 | Number 4 | Issue 60| October 2003 Martin Edmond: Marja Bloem and Martin Browne, Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith; Damian Skinner, Don Binney: Nga Manu/Nga Motu – Birds/Islands Editorial Letters Les Cleveland: John Crawford and…
About those vampires, Jane Stafford
Daylight Elizabeth Knox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734492 Bad O’Phelan is a New Zealand caver traumatised by the memory of Dart Ridge, a Cave Creek disaster, which he survived “taking three backward steps off the viewing platform above the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, Issue 60, Jane Stafford, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Catching the post, Linda Burgess
The Penguin Book of New Zealand Letters ed Louise Lawrence Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018663 Oh friends, friends – where would we be without them? Sometimes they move far away, as did Charlotte Bronte’s school friend and confidante Mary Taylor, who…
Tagged with: Issue 60, Linda Burgess, Louise Lawrence, Penguin, Summer 2002
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review
The gang of five, W H Oliver
Dance of the peacocks: New Zealanders in exile in the time of Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung James McNeish Vintage, $34.95, ISBN 1869415647 This is an engaging and readable book. James McNeish tells a multitude of stories about a number…
Tagged with: Issue 60, James McNeish, Summer 2002, Vintage, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Kerry Popplewell
The Iliad, Book xii So in the years to come Poseidon and god Apollo Would set all things to rights once more (The Iliad, xiii. Robert Eagles’ translation) Homer knew war: knew the killing – brains spilling out, spurting…
Letters – Issue 60
Laconic inaccuracies Bryan Gilling does himself no favours with his extraordinarily laconic and frequently inaccurate review of my book Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi. The constraints of space prevent me from detailing all…
Remembrance of things past, Peter Wells
The House at Karamu Beryl Fletcher Spinifex, $29.95, ISBN 1876756357 Travelling with Augusta 1835 and 1999 Ingrid Horrocks Victoria University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0864734476 Initially, when I received these two books for review, I thought I would resist the contrast-and-compare…
Tagged with: Beryl Fletcher, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 60, Peter Wells, Spinifex, Summer 2002, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Hunting down the story, Norman Bilbrough
A Friend in Paradise Des Hunt HarperCollins, $14.95, ISBN 1869504429 Henry and the Flea Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783779 The Dragon’s Apprentice Linda McNabb HarperCollins, $14.95, ISBN 1869504127 Artists Are Crazy and Other Stories Ken Catran Lothian Books,…
Tagged with: Brian Falkner, Des Hunt, HarperCollins, Issue 60, Ken Catran, Linda McNabb, Lothian Books, Mallinson Rendel, Norman Bilbrough, Summer 2002
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review