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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
Just looking, thanks, Julia Millen
Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store Helen B Laurenson Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 186940341X Before TV and 24-hour on-tap entertainment, department stores provided escapism on a grand scale. Looking back to my childhood,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Helen B Laurenson, Issue 72, Julia Millen, Summer 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The Gee-spot, Roger Robinson
Blindsight Maurice Gee Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143020234 Alice Ferry, narrator and co-protagonist of Maurice Gee’s new novel, is a mycologist – an expert on fungi. That is, her professional life is devoted to studying spongy, fragile, morbid life-forms that lurk…
Tagged with: Issue 72, Maurice Gee, Penguin, Roger Robinson, Summer 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Frontiers of marketing, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand ed Bronwyn Dalley and Gavin McLean TVNZ/Hodder Moa, $79.95, ISBN 1869710061 “Another damned, thick, square, book!” We’ve all heard the story about those words spoken by a doltish Duke of Gloucester upon…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Dalley, Gavin McLean, Hodder Moa, Issue 72, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Summer 2005, TVNZ
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review