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Dreaming on, Tatjana Schaefer
Dreamquake Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $27.99, ISBN 0732281946 “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”: L P Hartley’s famous opening to The Go-Between has become proverbial, and most media nowadays enjoy the occasional nostalgia-trip into this exotic…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 80, Summer 2007, Tatjana Schaefer
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Letters – Issue 80
Gender reassignment Thanks for the kind review of my story “The Sea as Past” (NZB Spring 2007, p26). And my gratitude also for the gender reassignment: it has been a most enlightening experience, and far less painful than is sometimes…
Coming of age for Kiwi baddies, Bernard Carpinter
The Cleaner Paul Cleave Black Swan, $29.95, ISBN 9781869417604 The Killing Hour Paul Cleave Black Swan, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418663 Overkill Vanda Symon Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 9780143006657 From My Cold, Cold Hands David McGill Silver Owl Press, $34.99, ISBN 9780958245159 The…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Black Swan, David McGill, Fraser Books, Issue 80, P C Laird, Paul Cleave, Penguin, Silver Owl Press, Summer 2007, Vanda Symon
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Obituary — Ian Middleton
Ian Middleton 1928-2007 Novelist Ian Middleton, who died in Auckland in October, worked as a merchant seaman and an English teacher in Japan before becoming a fulltime writer and publishing his first novel, Pet Shop, in 1979. Later novels included…
Every breath you take, Rae Varcoe
Adverse Reactions: The Fenoterol Story Neil Pearce Auckland University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781869403744 At the outset I confess to a personal interest in this story. I am a physician (some physicians are among the villains of this piece), and I…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 80, Neil Pearce, Rae Varcoe, Summer 2007
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 80
Fruit and veg Who’d be a judge? Particularly a literary judge. As Kevin Ireland once observed, when you’re a judge, the only ones who love you are the winners. Which, taken to the other extreme, can mean former mates crossing…
Neither here nor there, Jane Westaway
Here Comes Another Vital Moment Diane Brown Godwit, $25.00, ISBN 1869621190 News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $30.00, ISBN 0864735324 Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia Martin Edmond Addenda, $44.95, ISBN 1921037083 According to…
Tagged with: Addenda, Diane Brown, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Jane Westaway, Martin Edmond, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Review
Issue 80 | Summer 2007
Volume 17 | Number 4 | Issue 80 | Summer 2007 Editorial Letters John McCrystal: Fiona Farrell, Mr Allbones’ Ferrets: An Historical Pastoral Satirical Scientifical Romance, with Mustelids Fiona Farrell: “Extraordinary fortune” (Byline) Gordon Challis: “Soul food” (poem) Linley…
Slow exposure, Alan Knowles
Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $59.99, ISBN 1877333549 A history of New Zealand through photography: at long last the poor cousin of art and literature has crawled out from the black…
Tagged with: Alan Knowles, Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 80, Summer 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Then and now, Peter Ireland
Aberhart Gregory O’Brien and Justin Paton (eds) Victoria University Press, $125.00, ISBN 9780864735560 It’s given to few artists – in their lifetimes, at least – to be known simply by their surname. The great 20th century instance was Picasso, a…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 80, Justin Paton, Peter Ireland, Summer 2007, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review