New Zealand Books
Spring 2010 - Issue 91

In shops today, Monday 6 September

Front Cover Stories:
Murray Bramwell follows Stead through the remembered gate
Elspeth Sandys orbits Owen Marshall
Tony Simpson fills his plate
Julia Millen tracks Elsdon Best
Hamish Clayton revisits Hicksville
plus poetry, philosophy and cross-dressing

Contents
Nicholas Reid: “Real culture” (poem)
Dougal McNeill: Paul Millar (ed), Selected Poems of James K Baxter
Jill Holt: Maurice Gee, The Limping Man
Tony Simpson: David Burton, New Zealand Food and Cookery
Sue McCauley: “The Viewing” (work in progress)
Dale Williams: Megan Hutching, Leading the Way: How New Zealand Women Won the Vote

Chris Else: “Out of Africa” (Comment)
Laurie Atkinson: Dave Armstrong, Two Plays; Sarah Delahunty, Two Plays; David Geary, Two Plays
Don Aimer: Chris Laidlaw, Somebody Stole My Game; Harry Ricketts (ed), The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing

Murray Bramwell: C K Stead, South-West of Eden: A Memoir 1932-1956

Barbara Murison: William Taylor, Telling Tales: A Life in Writing
Joan de Hamel: Adele Broadbent, Too Many Secrets; Ken Catran, Smiling Jack; Jack Lasenby, The Haystack; Mandy Hager, Into the Wilderness

Hamish Clayton: Dylan Horrocks, Hicksville
Elspeth Sandys: Owen Marshall, Living as a Moon

David Hill: Paddy Richardson, Hunting Blind; Ruth Pettis, The First Touch of Light

Paula Morris: Elizabeth Smither, Lola

Tim Upperton, “At the cemetery the gravestones are hilarious” (poem)
Julia Millen: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau
John Raeburn: Tony Taylor, Cockney Kid: The Making of an Unconventional Psychologist
Tom Brooking: Angela Wanhalla, In/Visible Sight: The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand; Julia Bradshaw, Golden Prospects: Chinese on the West Coast of New Zealand; S R H Jones, Doing Well and Doing Good: Ross and Glendining: Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand

Paul Morris: Mark Derby, The Prophet and the Policeman
Siobhan Harvey: Jessica Le Bas, Walking to Africa; Tusiata Avia, Bloodclot; Lynn Davidson, How to Live by the Sea;
Kate Camp, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
Tim Jones: Christina Stachurski, Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Rhys Brookbanks: “Anna Karenina is a spoilt brat” (Byline)
Paula Boock: Jenny Coleman, Mad or Bad? The Life and Exploits of Amy Bock 1859-1943
Robert Nola: Alan Musgrave, Secular Sermons: Essays on Science and Philosophy

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