Earlier this year I was asked to write a short profile of Maurice Gee for Pacific Way, the Air New Zealand in-flight magazine. This involved a long-distance call from the Pacific Way office in Auckland to Gee’s home in Wellington…
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Poem — Anne French
Green thoughts, Judith Dale
The Garden as a Room: Decorating and Furnishing the New Zealand Garden Robin Shafer, Random House, $39.95 The Dry Garden: Gardening with drought-tolerant plants Jane Taylor, Godwit, $59.95 Delights of Floral Languages, Delights of Lavender, Delights of Little Flowers, Delights…
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Tagged with: Godwit, Issue 9, Jane Taylor, Judith Dale, Olive Dunn, Random House, Robin Shafer, Winter 1993
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
The loneliness of the short distance columnist, A K Grant
5 Days in Las Vegas Raybon Kan, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $29.95 I must confess to a personal grievance in relation to this book, a collection of pieces, mostly from the Dominion or the Listener, by the gifted young…
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Tagged with: A K Grant, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 9, Raybon Kan, Winter 1993
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Poem — Alex Scobie
Fish and Slips, R M McDowall
The Rock Pool Fishes of New Zealand: Te ika aaria o Aotearoa Chris Paulin and Clive Roberts, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, $49.95 This is a beautiful book. For decades, people interested in rock pool fauna and flora…
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Tagged with: Chris Paulin, Clive Roberts, Issue 9, Museum of New Zealand, R M McDowell, Te Papa Tongarewa, Winter 1993
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Narrow focus, Brian Easton
Corporatisation and privatisation: New Zealand Ian Duncan and Alan Bollard, Oxford University Press, $29.95 The preface of this book states ‘the work is based originally on an unpublished study of thirteen state enterprises, commissioned by the New Zealand Treasury…
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Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Brian Easton, Ian Duncan, Issue 9, Oxford University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Poem — Vincent O’Sullivan
Snow White revisited, Malcolm MacLean
Handy Hints for Wicked Stepmothers: New Zealand Step-Parenting in the ’90s Nicola Lynch-Reeves, GP Books, price not given Pamela Trowel, a thirty-something slave of New York has just acquired, quite unintentionally, a child. Abdhul – maybe six, maybe nine, maybe…
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Tagged with: GP Books, Issue 9, Malcolm MacLean, Nicola Lynch-Reeves, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Electoral debate, Jonathan Boston
Taking it to the People? The New Zealand Electoral Referendum Debate, Alan McRobie (ed), Hazard Press, $29.95 This book is about the continuing debate over electoral reform in New Zealand. It brings together a wide array of material (all of…
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Tagged with: Alan McRobie, Hazard Press, Issue 9, Jonathan Boston, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology