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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…
Take me there now, Garth Baker
A Tramper’s Journey Mark Pickering Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 1877333174 Ride: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand The Kennett Brothers The Kennett Brothers, $39.95, ISBN 095834907X Just this week, someone I know who cannot bear to be more…
Tagged with: Craig Potton Publishing, Garth Baker, Issue 70, Mark Pickering, The Kennett Brothers, Winter 2005
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
One-night stands, Christine Johnston
Next to Gods: A Cleaner’s Story Don Franks Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251487 On Getting Old Kevin Ireland Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251479 On Going to the Movies Peter Wells Four Winds Press, $14.95, ISBN 0958251460 I have…
Tagged with: Christine Johnston, Don Franks, Four Winds Press, Issue 70, Kevin Ireland, Peter Wells, Winter 2005
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Cracks in the world, Kathryn Walls
Margaret Mahy: A Writer’s Life Tessa Duder HarperCollins, $39.95, ISBN 1869504852 Margaret Mahy’s 1995 novel The Other Side of Silence presents itself as the autobiography of its female hero (whose name, too, is “Hero”). At the end, however, the first…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 70, Kathryn Walls, Tessa Duder, Winter 2005
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
One of the survivors, Tony Simpson
A Radical Writer’s Life Dick Scott Reed, $39.99, ISBN 0790009765 The society in which I grew up largely no longer exists, immolated in the “reforms” of the 80s and 90s. It would be wrong to consider that an entirely bad…
Tagged with: Dick Scott, Issue 70, Reed, Tony Simpson, Winter 2005
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Editorial – Issue 70
Review and be damned There is in Britain a financial journalist called Peter Jay, who, when he was economics editor of The Times, famously dismissed a sub-editor’s querying of his incomprehensible copy by informing him haughtily that the article was…
Gardening as rebellion, Brian Turner
This Piece of Earth: A Life in My New Zealand Garden Harvey McQueen Awa Press, $34.95, ISBN 0958253838 Reading Harvey McQueen’s account of a year’s engagement with his garden has confirmed what I’ve thought for a long time: you have…
Tagged with: Awa Press, Brian Turner, Harvey McQueen, Issue 70, Winter 2005
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Unearthly mapmaking, Anna Jackson
Dreamhunter Elizabeth Knox HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 0732281938 The Time of the Giants Anne Kennedy Auckland University Press, $27.99, ISBN 1869403428 Maddigan’s Fantasia Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1869505611 Maddigan’s Fantasia opens with Garland Maddigan’s note to herself, “Written down things…
Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Knox, HarperCollins, Issue 70, Margaret Mahy, Winter 2005
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Smoking documents, Anna Livesey
Hypnic Jerks Geoff Cochrane Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 08647350006 Milk & Honey Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $28.00, ISBN 1869403347 Cassandra’s Daughter Michael Harlow Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 1869403320 Writing poetry – seriously writing poetry and expecting someone…
Tagged with: Anna Livesey, Auckland University Press, Geoff Cochrane, Issue 70, Michael Harlow, Michele Leggott, Victoria University Press, Winter 2005
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review