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Against conformity, Gaylene Preston
Rudi Gopas: A Biography Chris Ronayne David Ling, $49.95, ISBN 0908990820 I was at first reluctant to review this biography of the artist Rudi Gopas. For two crucial formative years, Rudi was my painting teacher, and I am briefly quoted…
Tagged with: Chris Ronayne, David Ling Publishing, Gaylene Preston, Issue 58, Rudi Gopas, Winter 2002
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Religious past, secular present, Bill Logan
Christianity Without God Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1877242241 Wellington Cathedral of St Paul: A History 1840-2001 Michael Blain Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 86473428X This is one of the most secular countries in the Western world, but…
Tagged with: Bill Logan, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 58, Lloyd Geering, Michael Blain, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Running from the past, Zoe Prebble
Replacement Girl Ann Beaglehole Tandem Press, $27.95, ISBN 1877178985 On a Distant Island Denis Baker David Ling, $24.95, ISBN 0908990790 Replacement Girl, Ann Beaglehole’s first novel, is a story about memory, and what is not remembered; about belonging and not…
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, David Ling Publishing, Denis Baker, Issue 58, Tandem Press, Winter 2002, Zoe Prebble
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Journalism without the mortgage, Verica Rupar
What’s News? Reclaiming Journalism in New Zealand ed Judy McGregor and Margie Comrie Dunmore Press, $37.95, ISBN 0864694164 When Bogey whispers “Kid”, the clocks stop. When Ingrid Bergman asks “Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?”, the…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 58, Judy McGregor, Margie Comrie, Verica Rupar, Winter 2002
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Ambivalence and comedy, Paola Bilbrough
Queen of Beauty Paula Morris Penguin $27.95, ISBN 0864734425 The book of the film of the story of my life William Brandt Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0143018418 Queen of Beauty and The book of the film of the story…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Paola Bilbrough, Paula Morris, Penguin, Victoria University Press, William Brandt, Winter 2002
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Why bother, Anna Jackson
Tomorrow the Dark Ken Catran Lothian, $17.95, ISBN 0734404174 The Thin Line V K Joseph Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 090878371X Right Where It Hurts David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $15.95, ISBN 0908783701 Alchemy Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $14.99, ISBN 0007131356 I’ve been…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, David Hill, HarperCollins, Issue 58, Ken Catran, Lothian, Mallinson Rendel, Margaret Mahy, V K Joseph, Winter 2002
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Obituary – Bill Sewell
Bill Sewell (1951-2003) Bill Sewell achieved excellence in an unusually wide variety of areas. While versatility is sometimes the province of the amateur, this was not so with Bill, whose manifold fruiting branches sprang from a single and solid…
Staying in the saddle, Kim Griggs
The Year of the Horse Sam Mahon Longacre, $34.95, ISBN 1877135739 In The Year of the Horse, sculptor Sam Mahon recounts the year he spent making of a life-sized bronze sculpture of a horse and rider, the archetypal Southern Man,…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Kim Griggs, Longacre, Sam Mahon, Winter 2002
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Volunteer photographers abroad, Paul Thompson
New Zealand Abroad – The story of VSA’s work in Africa, Asia and the Pacific Trevor Richards, Jeremy Rose, Margot Schwass (photographs: Bruce Connew, Nicola Dove, Bryn Evans, David Gurr, Gil Hanly, Louise Hyatt, Glenn Jowitt, Terry O’Connor) Bridget Williams…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Bruce Connew, Bryn Evans, David Gurr, Gil Hanly, Glenn Jowitt, Issue 58, Jeremy Rose, Louise Hyatt, Margot Schwass, Nicola Dove, Paul Thompson, Te Tuao Tawahi, Terry O’Connor, Trevor Richards, Volunteer Service Abroad, Winter 2002
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Light fantastic, Laurie Atkinson
The Pollards: A family and its child and adult opera companies in New Zealand and Australia 1880-1910 Peter Downes Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228737 Shakespeare got in a snit with them and had Rosencrantz compare them to noisy young birds…
Tagged with: Issue 58, Laurie Atkinson, Peter Downes, Steele Roberts, Winter 2002
Posted in Biography, History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Music, Non-fiction, Review