One Good Run: The Legend of Burt Munro Tim Hanna Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143019740 You’ve seen the movie, now read the book. In the case of the film The World’s Fastest Indian and this book, that is the better order…
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Uneasy rider, Bernard Carpinter
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Issue 72, Penguin, Summer 2005, Tim Hanna
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Standing to reason, Denis Welch
To Build a Nation: Collected Writings 1975-1999 Bruce Jesson (ed Andrew Sharp) Penguin, $35.00, ISBN 0143020528 New Rights New Zealand: Myths, Moralities and Markets Dolores Janiewski and Paul Morris Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 1869403452 I first saw Bruce Jesson…
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Tagged with: Andrew Sharp, Auckland University Press, Bruce Jesson, Denis Welch, Dolores Janiewski, Issue 72, Paul Morris, Penguin, Summer 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Home away from home Linda Olsson
My Home Now ed Gail Thomas and Leanne McKenzie Cape Catley, $24.99, ISBN 1877340049 This anthology tells the stories of 47 first-generation immigrants to New Zealand. According to the back cover, “New Zealand is shown in a new and heart-warming…
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Tagged with: Cape Catley, Gail Thomas, Issue 72, Leanne McKenzie, Linda Olsson, Summer 2005
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Plaits and mandibles, Margaret Mahy
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun Janet Frame, illustrations by David Elliot Random, $29.95, ISBN 1869417240 Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, by novelist Janet Frame, was first published in 1969. In those days not many…
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Tagged with: David Elliot, Issue 72, Janet Frame, Margaret Mahy, Random, Summer 2005
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
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…
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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 years – competing against histories and biographies – have…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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
International writers come to town, Jane Stafford
New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week 2006 I first read Helen Garner in the 1980s. Her novel Monkey Grip, a spare, sad tale of Melbourne junkies had an effect on me I can’t quite explain – perhaps it was…
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