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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…
Poem — Jan FitzGerald
Mike The photo in the lounge told the story. A handsome man sitting on a haybale in a barn flanked by his wife, four children and six border collies their ruffs ribboned with medals. Other dogs he had buried…
Not just good friends, Bill Hastings
Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand Chris Brickell Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621346 This review comes to you from the backwoods of Ontario. It is a crisp autumn evening. I write this in front of a fire in…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Chris Brickell, Godwit, Issue 84, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
The Bassett version, Harvey McQueen
Working With David Michael Bassett Hachette Livre, $59.99, ISBN 9781869710941 Working With David is a dogmatic and humourless book about a man who, even in adversity, revelled in laughter. Beginning with clear praise – “at the peak of his career…
Tagged with: Hachette Livre, Harvey McQueen, Issue 84, Michael Bassett, Summer 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Meeting the ancestors, Peter Wells
Posted in Comment