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Ruck on, Chris Knox
The Swinging Sixties: When New Zealand Changed Forever Graham Hutchins HarperCollins, $49.99, ISBN 9781869506537 Missed opportunities – don’t you just hate them? I was a little apprehensive about The Swinging Sixties, given that Graham Hutchins was primarily known for his…
Tagged with: Chris Knox, Graham Hutchins, HarperCollins, Issue 84, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Darts and sledgehammers, Sue McCauley
Two Little Boys Duncan Sarkies Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143020912 Acid Song Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781877460111 Girlie Gillian Ranstead Penguin Books, $28.00, ISBN 9780143010005 “I thought it was one of those boys’ books,” said a friend when…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, Duncan Sarkies, Gillian Ranstead, Issue 84, Longacre Press, Penguin Books, Sue McCauley, Summer 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
White bread doorstops, Lois Daish
First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking David Veart Auckland University Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781869404109 There’s an Aberdeen sausage, rosy pink and coated in breadcrumbs, on a plate in my fridge. I’d never made one before and…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, David Veart, Issue 84, Lois Daish, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Zero waste, Martin Edmond
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany Brian Turner Godwit, $44.99, ISBN 9781869621421 Near the beginning of the seventh of the 34 essays in this book, the 16-year-old Brian Turner, full of teenage angst and contemplating suicide, is sitting…
Tagged with: Brian Turner, Godwit, Issue 84, Martin Edmond, Summer 2008
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Less English than the English, Tony Simpson
Settlers: New Zealand Immigrants From England, Ireland and Scotland 1800 to 1945 Jock Phillips and Terry Hearn Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9781869404017 Over the next few years, our official historians have announced, they will concentrate attention on our immigrant…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 84, Jock Phillips, Summer 2008, Terry Hearn, Tony Simpson
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Dianne Ruth Pettis
Dianne Ruth Pettis (1955-2008) Dianne Ruth Pettis was a fiction writer and poet, who published under the name Ruth Pettis. She was born in Waipawa in Hawke’s Bay and worked as a journalist, a script writer for the Natural History…
Strictly for the birds, Steve Braunias
Charles Fleming’s Cape Expedition Diary: Auckland Islands, 1942-43 Mary McEwen McEwen Associates, $40.00, ISBN 0473113848 Strange to think that the welcome swallow – a common sight everywhere in the North Island, and absent only in Fiordland and parts of Southland…
Tagged with: Charles Fleming, Issue 84, Mary McEwen, McEwen Associates, Steve Braunias, Summer 2008
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 84
Going online Now in its 18th year, New Zealand Books is coming of age. Starting with this issue, you’ll be able to read us online as well as in print. Thanks to the foresight of our publisher Peppercorn Press and…
They fuck you up, Andrew Fieldsend
The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary Pakeha and Maori Fiction of Aotearoa/New Zealand Alistair Fox Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372544 In this academic but engaging study of masculinity in contemporary New Zealand fiction, Alistair Fox of the University…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Andrew Fieldsend, Issue 84, Otago University Press, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, Language, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Language, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Issue 84 | Summer 2008
Volume 18 | Number 4 | Issue 84 | Summer 2008 Harry Ricketts and Jane Westaway; “Going online” (Editorial) Obituary: Dianne Ruth Pettis (1955-2008) Martin Edmond: Brian Turner, Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany Sue McCauley: Duncan…