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At home in Hobbiton and Boy Land, Gavin Bishop
Gavin Bishop leafs through two boyhood favourites. The three of us are about the same age – my first picture book, my teddy bear and me. The book lies, or should I say languishes, coddled in tissue and plastic to…
Worlds away, Elspeth Sandys
Shadow Waters Chris Baker Huia, $27.00, ISBN 1869692357 Black Earth White Bones Chris Else Random House, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418625 Overdue New Releases Matt Johnson Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 1877361429 Holocaust Tours Julian Novitz Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869417284 Apart from the…
Tagged with: Chris Baker, Chris Else, Elspeth Sandys, Huia, Issue 80, Julian Novitz, Longacre Press, Matt Johnson, Random House, Summer 2007, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
New Zealand a Christian country? Paul Morris
Shaping a Colonial Church: Bishop Harper and the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch 1856-1890 Colin Brown, Marie Peters and Jane Teal (eds) Canterbury University Press, $45.00, ISBN 1877257443 James Michael Liston: A Life Nicholas Reid Victoria University Press, $49.95, ISBN 0864735367 …
Getting a handle on it, Paula Morris
Crown Lynn: A New Zealand Icon Valerie Ringer Monk Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 0143020633 Crown Lynn, Valerie Ringer Monk’s articulate account of New Zealand’s favourite pottery, serves many functions, from appealing coffee-table book to collectors’ guide to a 50-year local history…
Tagged with: Issue 80, Paula Morris, Penguin, Summer 2007, Valerie Ringer Monk
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Wrighting it, Chris Hilliard
Two Peoples, One Land: The New Zealand Wars Matthew Wright Reed, $39.99, ISBN 079001064X Military fortifications, like oceanic navigation, the archaeology of New Zealand, and the commercial and maritime policies of the early modern Spanish and Portuguese empires, are a…
Tagged with: Chris Hilliard, Issue 80, Matthew Wright, Reed, Summer 2007
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Seeing as God saw, John McCrystal
Mr Allbones’ Ferrets: An Historical Pastoral Satirical Scientifical Romance, with Mustelids Fiona Farrell Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418649 “What a book a devil’s chaplain might write,” Charles Darwin exclaimed in a letter to eminent botanist J D Hooker, “on the clumsy,…
Tagged with: Fiona Farrell, Issue 80, John McCrystal, Summer 2007, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
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…