Elizabeth Caffin recalls first looking into T S Eliot’s poems. Some time in the mid-1950s I gave a morning talk to the third form of a Christchurch secondary school. My subject was the poetry of T S Eliot; I…
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Bring out your dead, Brian Easton
Crisis: One Central Bank Governor and the Global Financial Collapse Alan Bollard with Sarah Gaitanos Auckland University Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781869404696 I examined carefully the Reserve Bank Bill before Parliament in 1988 to ensure that, come a financial crisis,…
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Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Auckland University Press, Brian Easton, Issue 92, Sarah Gaitanos, Summer 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Invasion of the strange, Joan Rosier-Jones
Villa Pacifica Kapka Kassabova Penguin Books, $39.00, ISBN 9780143205029 All That We Remember Zoë Adams HarperCollins, $29.99, ISBN 9781869508821 The Graphologist’s Apprentice Whiti Hereaka Huia, $35.00, ISBN 97811869694227 Many years ago television director Peter Sharpe asked for…
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Tagged with: HarperCollins, Huia, Issue 92, Joan Rosier-Jones, Kapka Kassabova, Penguin Books, Summer 2010, Whiti Hereaka, Zoë Adams
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Running from the past, Heather Roberts
The Night Book Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $36.99, ISBN 9781869793500 The Night Book began life as a story in Singularity. Here it opens the novel, and then the plot jumps six years. The novel’s central characters are the Lampton family:…
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Tagged with: Charlotte Grimshaw, Heather Roberts, Issue 92, Summer 2010, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Between fate and destiny, Isa Moynihan
Island Penelope Todd Penguin Books, $30.00, ISBN 97801432023810 Islands are a potent source of allegorical story-telling. Think of Lord of the Flies, The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe and, more recently, the television series Lost. Penelope Todd’s Island is set…
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Tagged with: Isa Moynihan, Issue 92, Penelope Todd, Penguin Books, Summer 2010
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Humble beginnings, Rebecca Priestley
Enterprise and Energy: The Todd Family of New Zealand Ross Galbreath The Todd Corporation Limited, price unavailable, ISBN 9781869341121 As a teenager in the 1980s, I had the occasional embarrassment of being driven to school in an ancient green…
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Tagged with: Issue 92, Rebecca Priestley, Ross Galbreath, Summer 2010, The Todd Corporation Limited
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Cheerful, funny and popular, Trevor Richards
Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas David Grant Random House, $45.00, ISBN 9781869793890 In Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas we have as the central character a trade unionist…
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Tagged with: David Grant, Issue 92, Ken Douglas, Random House, Summer 2010, Trevor Richards
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Distances, depths and directions, Catherine Vidler
The Moonmen Anna Livesey Victoria University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9780864736260 Tigers at Awhitu Sarah Broom Auckland University Press, $24.99, ISBN 9781869404574 Mapping the Distance Ingrid Horrocks Victoria University Press, $25.0, ISBN 9780864736277 The Moonmen, Tigers at Awhitu…
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Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, Catherine Vidler, Ingrid Horrocks, Issue 92, Sarah Broom, Summer 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Collecting and restoring, John Horrocks
Where Your Left Hand Rests Fiona Kidman Godwit, $29.00, ISBN 9781869621773 As Fiona Kidman points out herself, it is half a lifetime ago since her first book of poems, Honey and Bitters, was published in 1975. Her new collection…
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Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Godwit, Issue 92, John Horrocks, Summer 2010
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review