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Becoming someone else, Diane Hebley
Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful Brigid Lowry Allen and Unwin, $19.99, ISBN 9781741751604 The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves Fleur Beale Random House, $19.99, ISBN 9781869418366 Duet David Hill Mallinson Rendel, $17.00, ISBN 9781877423062 Full marks to the three well-established authors…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Brigid Lowry, David Hill, Diane Hebley, Fleur Beale, Issue 81, Mallinson Rendel, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
One-book wonder, Harry Ricketts
Collected Poems Charles Spear (Peter Simpson ed) Holloway Press, $200.00, ISBN 0958231370 Laclos (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird): there’s an undeniable fascination about one-book wonders. Those were novelists,…
Tagged with: Charles Spear, Harry Ricketts, Holloway Press, Issue 81, Peter Simpson, Winter 2008
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
No tame dusky maiden, Peter Calder
Makereti: Taking Maori to the World Paul Diamond Random House, $44.99, ISBN 9781869419004 In 1911, the year of George V’s coronation, a “Festival of Empire” was staged at London’s Crystal Palace exhibition centre. A forerunner of the great mid-century expos…
Tagged with: Issue 82, Paul Diamond, Peter Calder, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Handbook for the global Christian, Nicholas Birns
The Lloyd Geering Reader: Prophet of Modernity Paul Morris and Mike Grimshaw (eds) Victoria University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9780864735478 Lloyd Geering is the most famous New Zealand Christian thinker worldwide, though Christopher Marshall is gaining ground with his recent work…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Nicholas Birns, Paul Morris, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Differently wired, Harvey Molloy and Latika Vasil
A Perfect World: A Father’s Quest to Unriddle the Mysteries of Autism David Cohen Random House, $34.95, ISBN 9781869418151 As New Zealanders, we like to pride ourselves that we live in a caring egalitarian society with decent, though imperfect, health…
Tagged with: David Cohen, Harvey Molloy, Issue 82, Latika Vasil, Random House, Winter 2008
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, Non-fiction, Review
Digging deep, Ann Beaglehole
Castles of Gold: A History of New Zealand’s West Coast Irish Lyndon Fraser Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 9781877372445 Mine Alone: The Story of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire R D Mercer Butterfly Creek Press, $39.95, ISBN 9780473120115 Stories…
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Butterfly Creek Press, Issue 81, Lyndon Fraser, Otago University Press, R D Mercer, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The rain on her face, John B Turner
Monsoon Brian Brake David Bateman, $59.99, ISBN 13978186953608 For those familiar with Brian Brake’s “Monsoon” essay from Life and other magazines in the early 1960s, or those who more recently enjoyed the large-print exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand…
Tagged with: Brian Brake, David Bateman, Issue 82, John B Turner, Winter 2008
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Photography, Review
History in danger, Malcolm McKinnon
The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History J G A Pocock Cambridge University Press, $60.00 approx, ISBN 139780521850957 J G A Pocock’s The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History is a rich and scholarly exploration of a subject…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Issue 81, J G A Pocock, Malcolm McKinnon, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Ghost in the machine, John McCrystal
Posted in Comment