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Wish you were here, Jane Westaway

Posted on March 1, 2003 by NZ Books

On Blue Ice – A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica Kim Griggs Random House, $26.95, ISBN 1869415760 Travels with my Mother Peter Calder Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877298093 The most memorable travel books don’t merely transport you to foreign parts,…

Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Issue 61, Kim Griggs, Peter Calder, Random House, Tandem
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review

When Porsche comes to shove, Jane Clifton

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

The Anti-Economist Papers Paul Bieleski Tandem, $24.95, ISBN 187717856X Here’s a nice rural scene: a passing motorist bets a mustering farmer one sheep that he can guess the exact number of sheep in his flock. When the motorist gets the…

Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Jane Clifton, Paul Bieleski, Tandem
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Regeneration, Joan Rosier-Jones

Posted on June 1, 1999 by NZ Books

Grand Stands ed Barbara Else Vintage, $24.95, ISBN 1869414144 Grandparenting with Love and Laughter Trish Gribben Tandem, $29.95, ISBN 1877178683 Baby boomers are heading into the golden age. Well-educated, fit and lively, they are exchanging the will to be perfect…

Tagged with: Barbara Else, December 2000, Issue 46, Joan Rosier-Jones, Tandem, Trish Gribben, Vintage
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

The ski lifts are free, Les Cleveland

Posted on October 7, 1995 by NZ Books

You Are Too Old to Drive Dear: Elderspeak and Ageism in an Ageing Society Sik Hung Ng Victoria University Press, $8.95, ISBN 0 864732813 Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People Anne Opie Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University…

Tagged with: Anne Gluckman, Anne Opie, Auckland Institute of Technology Press, Gary Courtenay, GP Publications, Hodder Moa Beckett, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 20, Jacques Vannoort, K J Smith, Les Cleveland, Mary Tagg, Noel Whittaker, Roger Moses, Sik Hung Ng, Sue Waiter, Summer 1995, Tandem, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

The haunt of guilty memory, Kim Worthington

Posted on October 7, 1995 by NZ Books

In Touch Janette Sinclair Secker and Warburg, $24.95, ISBN 790004011 Does This Make Sense to You? Renée Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0 14024946X Rain Kirsty Gunn Faber and Faber, $22.95, ISBN 0 571173004 The Strange Letter Z Debra Daley Penguin, $24.95,…

Tagged with: Debra Daley, Faber and Faber, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 20, Janette Sinclair, Kim Worthington, Kirsty Gunn, Lindsey Dawson, Penguin Books, Renée, Rosie Scott, Secker and Warburg, Summer 1995, Tandem
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Big questions: part answers, James Norcliffe

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Why Things Fall Chris Else, Tandem, $24.95 Love and War Elspeth Sandys, Vintage, $24.95 Jim’s Elvis Colleen Reilly, John McIndoe, $19.95 Why Things Fall at first glance seems quite a departure from Chris Else’s earlier ficciones, Dreams of Pythagoras (1981).…

Tagged with: Chris Else, Colleen Reilly, Elspeth Sandys, Issue 7, James Norcliffe, John McIndoe, Summer 1992, Tandem, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review

Dirty washing, Bruce Stewart

Posted on April 1, 1991 by NZ Books

Once Were Warriors Alan Duff Tandem, Auckland, 1990, $35 (paperback $19.95) At last a Maori writer has managed to hang out all the dirty Maori washing with some kind of dignity and at the same time place the blame where…

Tagged with: Alan Duff, Autumn 1991, Bruce Stewart, Issue 1, Tandem
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review