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Just about everything, Bernard Carpinter
Guerilla Season Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $18.95, ISBN 1 8695 8296 9 Murder in Auckland, for book-loving New Zealanders, is much more delicious than killings in New York or Los Angeles. Aucklanders reading Paul Thomas’s crime novels can shiver…
Tagged with: Bernard Carpinter, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 26, Paul Thomas, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem – Ingrid Horrocks
Look As I arrange slim stemmed flowers at the ikebana class one petal falls and floats blue upon the water. It is then I remember the agapanthus you planted by the pond they will be pale green now and you…
Site-specific ghetto-centricities, David Eggleton
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 310 5 Alan Duff makes good copy: he’s a phenomenon. If he didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him. Duff, the Hemingwayesque bare-knuckle bruiser from the…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, David Eggleton, Issue 26, Vintage, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Not top spinning, Colin James
The Spin Anonymous Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 442 2 Novelists who stray into politics often produce cardboard cutout conspiracies that treat power one-dimensionally. People knowledgeable about politics usually have too diminished an imagination and/or too distorted a…
Tagged with: Colin James, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 26, Winter 1996
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Corrections
Oxford University Press is the publisher of Public Management: The New Zealand Model, not Otago University Press, as we said in our review in October. And in our report of the results of our readers survey a line was dropped…
Public radio’s enemies, John Thomson
Humphrey Carpenter’s recent book on 50 years of the BBC Third and Radio 3 is aptly titled The Envy of the World. 1 It tells the story of one of the most prestigious and influential networks ever created, whose character…
A dog for everyone, Philippa, Octavia and Laura Horgan
Dexter and Friends: New Zealand’s Wonderful World of Dogs Mark Leishman and Jim Mora Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1 908704 46 1 Dogs are man’s best friends. Dexter and Friends backs up this age-old saying. This book is informative,…
Tagged with: Issue 26, Jim Mora, Laura Horgan, Mark Leishman, Octavia Horgan, Philippa Horgan, Shoal Bay Press, Winter 1996
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 26
Forward — and back Next issue we welcome back Fiona Kidman. Her new novel, Ricochet Baby, gives us the opportunity to make a retrospective assessment of her work. We expect that will be a centrepiece of our March number. Meantime,…
Making it all irreversibly ours, Simon Upton
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