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Life in detail, Lydia Wevers
Letters from the Bay of Islands: The Story of Marianne Williams ed Caroline Fitzgerald Penguin, $39.95, ISBN 0143019295 It is always the detail of the past that brings it most sharply to mind. William Colenso’s observation in the 1880s that…
Tagged with: Caroline Fitzgerald, Issue 66, Lydia Wevers, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Letters, Non-fiction, Review
Moments of triumph, Joan Rosier-Jones
Transit of Venus Rowan Metcalfe Huia, $31.95, ISBN 1869690834 Love in Shades of Grey Glynne MacLean Penguin, $28.00, ISBN 0143019309 Like Small Bones Ruth Pettis Hazard Press, $24.99, ISBN 1877270784 A first novel does not just appear. It is usually…
Tagged with: Glynne MacLean, Hazard Press, Huia, Issue 66, Joan Rosier-Jones, Penguin, Rowan Metcalfe, Ruth Pettis, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Poem — Tim Jones
The Translator Shutting out the torment and the fear deep into the night’s cold morning hours I work on my translation. Improbable, that in another tongue such lines as these were born, set down, are vivid on his page…
JMT rules, ok, Laurence Jenkins
John Mansfield Thomson: Notes towards a Biography ed Margaret Clark with Jim Collinge and Martin Lodge Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228923 Those of us who crossed paths with John Mansfield Thomson, and there are legions, inevitably came away from any…
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jim Collinge, John Mansfield Thomson, Margaret Clark, Martin Lodge, Steele Roberts, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
For God, King and country, Chris Else
Tu Patricia Grace Penguin, $35, ISBN 0143019201 Certain battles mark themselves on the popular imagination. The most evocative are often not great victories but failed assaults, especially those with a touch of futility about them: the Charge of the Light…
Tagged with: Chris Else, Issue 66, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Kiwi footprints, Duncan Campbell
Embracing the Dragon: A Woman’s Journey Along the Great Wall of China Polly Greeks Awa Press, $29.95, ISBN 095825091X Kidnapped in Yemen Mary Quin Random House, $29.95, ISBN 1869416228 Travel elsewhere, we’ve long been told, broadens the mind through an…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Issue 66, Mary Quin, Polly Greeks, Random House, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Primitive satisfaction, Norman Bilbrough
The Real Thing Brian Falkner Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783825 Seal Boy Ken Catran Random, $16.95, ISBN 1869416112 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN 1877135976 Colin Goes Bush Sandy McKay Longacre Press, $14.95, ISBN…
Tagged with: Brian Falkner, Eirlys Hunter, Issue 66, Ken Catran, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Norman Bilbrough, Random, Sandy McKay, Scholastic, Winter 2004
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Editorial — Issue 66
How not to run a book launch It’s one of life’s great mysteries why, when many publishers are cutting back on book launches on the grounds that they don’t cover their own costs, invitations to these events continue to pile…
Hearing the voice, James Norcliffe
The Singing Harp Iain Sharp Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420365 The Dwarf and the Stripper and other poems Stephen Sinclair Addenda, $19.95, ISBN 095821865X To … Bill Dacker Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, $15.00, ISBN 1869420357 Many…
Tagged with: Addenda, Bill Dacker, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Iain Sharp, Issue 66, James Norcliffe, Stephen Sinclair, Winter 2004
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review