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Long ago and far away, Rose Lovell-Smith
The Drover’s Road Collection: Adventures in New Zealand Joyce West Bethlehem Books & Ignatius Press, $35.95 [approx], ISBN 1883937698 Joyce West published Drover’s Road with Dent in London in 1953. Two further volumes about Gay Allan and the other Drover’s…
Tagged with: Bethlehem Book, Ignatius Press, Issue 66, Joyce West, Rose Lovell-Smith, Winter 2004
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Geek chic, Jane Bowron
An Asian at my Table Raybon Kan Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0143019104 I first encountered Raybon Kan across a crowded news room at The Dominion when I was just starting out as tv critic back in the early 1990s. Raybon had…
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jane Bowron, Penguin, Raybon Kan, Winter 2004
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Insolent bassists and mad drummers, Mark Amery
Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music David Eggleton Craig Potton Publishing, $49.95, ISBN 1877333069 I have a confession to make. I’m not much of a reader – at least not in the always-head-in-a-novel kind of a…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, David Eggleton, Issue 66, Mark Amery, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Obituary — Alan Preston
Alan Preston (1932-2004) As I write this, in one week exactly it will be Alan’s birthday. On October 29 Alan would have celebrated 72 years. Thus I have been spared the annual brain-wracking for a suitable present. Alan, you…
Sisterhood is powerful, Robyn Munford
No Friend Like a Sister: Exploring the Relationship between Sisters Jenny Neale Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734700 No Friend Like a Sister gives a rich account of the relationships between sisters. Jenny Neale used focus groups (women aged between…
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jenny Neale, Robyn Munford, Victoria University Press, Winter 2004
Posted in Review, Sociology
Posted in Review, Sociology
Maurice Shadbolt
Maurice Shadbolt 1932-2004 Writer Maurice Shadbolt died in Taumaranui in October after a long illness. He worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter before going to Europe in the late 50s. Two years later he published his first book, a…
Full lives and f words, William Taylor
Malcolm and Juliet Bernard Beckett Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135941 Out of Tune Joanna Orwin Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135909 Coming Back David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $16.95, ISBN 0908783868 Dark Penelope Todd Longacre Press, $18.95, ISBN 1877135968 On a Good…
Tagged with: Bernard Beckett, David Hill, Deborah Burnside, Issue 66, Joanna Orwin, Longacre Press, Mallinson Rendel, Penelope Todd, Penguin, William Taylor, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Letters – Issue 66
One of the Porlock people Patrick Evans makes a convincing argument in the most recent Journal of New Zealand Literature (“Dr Clutha’s Book of the World: Janet Patterson Frame, 1924-2004”) that “taking control of her own life-story” was a significant…
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