New Zealand Books - A quarterly review - Summer 2010

Volume 20, Number 4, Issue 92  - The latest issue of NZ Books (Summer 2010) will be on sale on Monday 13 December

Website: http://www.nzbooks.org.nz/

Highlights:

Roger Robinson relishes a new life of Mansfield
Mandy Hager  revisits Paul Gallico
Brian Easton balances the books with Alan Bollard
Anne French sets the sail with Lindsay Wright
Mark Williams measures Evans’ fictional Frame
- plus poems, theology, bibliophilia and crime.

Contents

2 Letters
3 Mark Williams: Patrick Evans, Gifted
4 Roger Robinson: Kathleen Jones, Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller
5 C K Stead: “Back then (but briefly)” (poem)
6 Anna Rogers: Lydia Wevers, Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction in the Colonial World
7 Anne French: Lindsay Wright, Blue Water: Salt-encrusted Stories of a Life at Sea
Anne French: “Title of poem” (poem)
8 Martin Edmond: Peter Whiteford (ed), Report on Experience: John Mulgan
9 Elizabeth Caffin: “Let us go then, you and I” (Imprints)
10 Brian Easton: Alan Bollard with Sarah Gaitanos, Crisis: One Central Bank Governor and the Global Financial Collapse
11 Joan Rosier-Jones: Kapka Kassabova, Villa Pacifica; Zoë Adams, All That We Remember; Whiti Hereaka, The Graphologist’s Apprentice
12 Heather Roberts: Charlotte Grimshaw, The Night Book
13 Isa Moynihan: Penelope Todd, Island
14 Rebecca Priestley: Ross Galbreath, Enterprise and Energy: The Todd Family of New Zealand
15 Trevor Richards: David Grant, Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas
16 Barbara Else: Elizabeth Pulford, Tussock; Sandy Nelson, The Ghosts of Iron Bottom Sound; Leonie Thorpe, The Sheep on the Fourth Floor; Diana Menefy, Shadow of the Boyd
17 Catherine Vidler: Anna Livesey, The Moonmen; Sarah Broom, Tigers at Awhitu; Ingrid Horrocks, Mapping the Distance
18 John Horrocks: Fiona Kidman, Where Your Left Hand Rests
19 Mike Austin: Richard A Sundt, Whare Karakia: Maori Church Building, Decoration and Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand 1834-1863
20 Paul Diamond: Joan Metge, Tuamaka: The Challenge of Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
21 Harvey McQueen: Janet Stephenson, Mick Abbott and Jacinta Ruru (eds), Beyond the Scene: Landscape and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
22 Bernard Carpinter: Alix Bosco, Slaughter Falls; James McNeish, The Crime of Huey Dunstan; Ben Sanders, The Fallen
23 Mike Grimshaw: Lloyd Geering, Such is Life! A Close Encounter with Ecclesiastes
Nicola Slee: “The Maori Christa” (poem)
24 Peter Russell: Freya Klier, Promised New Zealand: Fleeing Nazi Persecution
25 Mandy Hager: “A ‘rotten’ novelist” (Imprints)
26 Malcolm Geard: Robert Long, A Life on Gorge River
27 Les Cleveland: Matthew Wright (ed), Behind Enemy Lines
28 Prize cryptic crossword