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Issue 30 | October 1997
Volume 7 | Number 4 | Issue 30 | October 1997 David Grant explains the rugby nexus with South Africa Hamish Keith tells how we get our houses in a mess, Iain Sharp finds narrative depth in Morrissey’s Paradise…
Traversing cultural contrasts, David Grant
Winters of Revenge: The Bitter Rivalry Between the All Blacks and the Springboks Spiro Zavos Viking, $29.95, ISBN 0 670 87574 0 Lochore: An Authorised Biography As told to Alex Veysey, Gary Caffell, Ron Palenski Hodder Moa Beckett, HB$44.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alex Veysey, Bob Howitt, Brian Lochore, David Grant, Frank Bunce, Gary Caffell, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 30, Ron Palenski, Rugby, Spiro Zavos, Viking, Walter Little, Winter 1997
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
In for the long haul, Charlotte Macdonald
The National Council of Women — A centennial history Dorothy Page Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books with the National Council of Women, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 154 9 The Women’s Parliament: The National Council of Women of New Zealand 1896-1920…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, Dorothy Page, Issue 30, Roberta Nicholls, Victoria University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Colonising impulses with flair, Iain Sharp
Paradise to Come Michael Morrissey HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1 86950 252 3 Although he has also been a prolific poet during the past three decades, Michael Morrissey is known chiefly as the author of quirky, “experimental” short stories influenced by…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Ian Sharp, Issue 30, Michael Morrissey, Winter 1997
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Letters – Issue 30
Of meaning and clarity While it is always a doubtful value to reply to a critic’s review of one’s poetry, there is I feel enough to argue with in Kim Worthington’s review of my book, Envoy, and the magazine I…
But where are the people? Tom Brooking
Have you ever wondered why there are so many picture books of beautiful New Zealand cluttering the shelves of our bookshops? Obviously publishers think there is a market for them both amongst tourists and locals — but probably the proliferation…
Proving the definition, Diane Hebley
Posted in Comment, Literature, Young adults