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Issue 72 | March 2006
Volume 16 | Number 1 | Issue 72 | March 2006 Margaret Mahy: Janet Frame (illustrations David Elliot), Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun Stevan Eldred-Grigg: Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean (eds), Frontier of Dreams: The Story…
Deep footprints, Jack Perkins
In the Air Henare te Ua Reed, $34.99, ISBN 0790010119 Henare te Ua, grandson of Sir Apirana Ngata, cousin of Witi Ihimaera, takes us on a journey spanning the period from the 1930s to the end of the century; through…
Tagged with: Henare te Ua, Issue 72, Jack Perkins, Reed, Summer 2005
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 72
Cooking the books Tim Hazledine (NZB, December 2005) believes “cookbooks, textbooks, sporting books and so on” should be excluded from government funding of literature, on the basis that these genres are “unworthy of further public encouragement”. Wine books in recent …
Golden boy of tennis, Joseph Romanos
Anthony Wilding: A Sporting Life Len and Shelley Richardson Canterbury University Press, $49.95, ISBN 187725701X New Zealand seems to produce a sports champion of world significance every year or two these days: Rob Waddell, Sarah Ulmer, Michael Campbell, Hamish Carter,…
Tagged with: Anthony Wilding, Canterbury University Press, Issue 72, Joseph Romanos, Len Richardson, Shelley Richardson, Summer 2005
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Salt and vinegar, Penelope Todd
Humming Rachel McAlpine Hazard Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877270970 The Black Madonna Tina Shaw Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019880 Two books by New Zealand women: one is a full-immersion Kiwi experience, the other set in Germany and America, and bears no obvious…
Tagged with: Hazard Press, Issue 72, Penelope Todd, Penguin, Rachel McAlpine, Summer 2005, Tina Shaw
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Despatches from the rugby jungle, Paul Thomas
Inside Anton Oliver with Brian Turner Hodder Moa, $49.99, ISBN 1869589912 The Winter Game: Rediscovering the Passion of Rugby Todd R Nicholls Mainstream Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1840189150 The New Zealand book trade has long had a vested interest in demythologising…
Tagged with: Anton Oliver, Brian Turner, Hodder Moa, Issue 72, Mainstream Publishing, Paul Thomas, Summer 2005, Todd R Nicholls
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Poem – Stephanie de Montalk
Consultation You say the mind will leave its shallow convolutions and fissures and enter the skin, bone and irascible fluid of the tympanic organ of balance to produce vertiginous dreams and scenes of high drama on stairways and small…
Heroes, villains, fatal flaws, Jenny Robin Jones
Catching the Current Jenny Pattrick Black Swan, $27.95, ISBN 1869417259 Union Belle Deborah Challinor HarperCollins, $31.99, ISBN 186950559X The Love Apple Coral Atkinson Black Swan, $27.95, ISBN 1869417208 New Zealanders, we are told, are avid for their history. To help…
Tagged with: Black Swan, Coral Atkinson, Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins, Issue 72, Jenny Pattrick, Jenny Robin Jones, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Under cover, Jenny Nicholls
Fronting up: Classic New Zealand Magazine Covers Richard Wolfe David Ling Publishing in association with Auckland War Memorial Museum, $49.99, ISBN 1877378062 There are too many magazines. But I would say that. For a number of years (outside the timespan…
Tagged with: Auckland War Memorial Museum, David Ling Publishing, Issue 72, Jenny Nicholls, Richard Wolfe, Summer 2005
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology