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Issue 70 | October 2005
Volume 15 | Number 4 | Issue 70 | October 2005 Anna Jackson: Elizabeth Knox, Dreamhunter; Anne Kennedy, The Time of the Giants; Margaret Mahy, Maddigan’s Fantasia Guy Somerset: “Review and be damned” (Editorial) Kathryn Walls: Tessa Duder, Margaret…
Woman alone, Lawrence Jones
The Captive Wife Fiona Kidman Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869416864 The title of The Captive Wife and the setting, New Zealand and Australia of the 1930s, lead us to expect a colonial captivity narrative, and it is present in Betty…
Tagged with: Fiona Kidman, Issue 70, Lawrence Jones, Vintage, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Tickling history, Jane Stafford
The New Zealand Wars Trilogy: The House of Strife, Monday’s Warriors, Season of the Jew Maurice Shadbolt David Ling, $99.99, ISBN 0908990995 On August 8 this year, a ceremony was held at Parliament to unveil a plaque to Lieutenant Colonel…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Issue 70, Jane Stafford, Maurice Shadbolt, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Over there, Anna Rogers
Foreign City Charlotte Grimshaw Vintage, $36.95, ISBN 1869417275 Responsibility Nigel Cox Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0864734964 White Shadows: Memories of Marienbad Philip Temple Vintage, $27.95, ISBN 1869416996 I’m old enough to remember the days when a New Zealand novel…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Charlotte Grimshaw, Issue 70, Nigel Cox, Philip Temple, Victoria University Press, Vintage, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
An end to cultural thumb-sucking, Gordon McLauchlan
Great New Zealand Argument: Ideas About Ourselves ed Russell Brown Activity Press, $29.95, ISBN 95826340X For decades after 1930, a year seldom passed without a book or long magazine article by a New Zealander or a visiting scholar examining New…
Swamp thing, Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Smither seeks out A Girl of the Limberlost. I can still remember my fear of the swamp. Was it because of The Hound of the Baskervilles? But A Girl of the Limberlost held a deeper kind of fear when…
Poem – Jan FitzGerald
McLaren Falls in this place the river rises to meet us & rungs of spray swing from bank to sky ducks pedal down to Freshwater Atlantis in this place indefinable grapnels to granite & lake-loving cypress tai chi in the…
You had to be there, Simon Upton
Creating a National Spirit – Celebrating New Zealand’s Centennial ed William Renwick Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864734751 How many people can recall New Zealand’s 150th birthday? And of those who can, what is it that is most vividly remembered?…
Tagged with: Issue 70, Simon Upton, Victoria University Press, William Renwick, Winter 2005
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Women on top, Linda Burgess
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