New Zealand Books Vol. 23 - on sale Friday 7 June.

Contents:

2       Letters

3       David Hill: R L Stedman, A Necklace of Souls; David Hair, Ghosts of Parihaka; Anna MacKenzie, Cattra’s Legacy; Des Hunt, Phantom of Terawhiti

4       Damien Wilkins: “Always something to behave about” (tribute to Barbara Anderson)

6       Dale Williams: Geoff Norman, Buller’s Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of J G Keulemans

7       Elspeth Sandys: Janet Frame, In the Memorial Room

8       John Horrocks: Peter Olds, Under the Dundas Street Bridge; Sam Hunt, Chords and Other Poems; Jan Kemp, Voicetracks: Poems 2002-2012

9       Mary Roberts: Chris Elder (ed), New Zealand’s China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success

10     Hamish Clayton: “Slow, sure meaning” (Imprints)

11     Eleanor Toland: Phillip Mann, The Disestablishment of Paradise; P S Mokha, The Last Sanctuary; Michael Morrissey, Tropic of Skorpeo

12     Nadine France: Ashleigh Young, Magnificent Moon; Vaughan Gunson, This Hill, All It’s about is Lifting it to a Higher Level; Kerrin P Sharpe, Three Days in a Wishing Well

13     Hugh Roberts: Gordon H Brown, Elements of Modernism in Colin McCahon’s Early Work; Tony Green, Toss Woollaston: Origins and Influence; Rex Butler, Colin McCahon in Australia; Roger Blackley, A Nation’s Portraits

14     Catharina van Bohemen: Edmund Bohan, Singing Historian: A Memoir; Maryjane Thomson, Sarah Vaughan is not my Mother: A Memoir of Madness; Lynette Robinson, Where the Rainbow Fell Down: A New Zealand Memoir

15     David Round: Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown and Geoff Spearpoint, Shelter from the Storm: The Story of New Zealand’s Backcountry Huts

16     Anne Else: Redmer Yska, A Woman’s Place

17     Vincent O’Malley: Felicity Barnes, New Zealand’s London: A Colony and its Metropolis; Lyndon Fraser and Angela McCarthy (eds), Far from “Home”: The English in New Zealand

18     David Eggleton: Simon Sweetman, On Song: Stories behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics
Harry Ricketts: Fleur Adcock, Glass Wings

20     Hugo Petzsch: Geoffrey Troughton, New Zealand Jesus: Social and Religious Transformations of an Image, 1890-1940

21     Francis McWhannell: Ian St George (ed), William Colenso: His Life and Journeys by A G Bagnall and G C Petersen

22     Mark Derby: Ron Palenski, The Making of New Zealanders

23     Simon Upton: Peter Holland, Home in the Howling Wilderness

24     Bookshelf

25     Roger Blackley: Warwick Henderson, Behind the Canvas: An Insider’s Guide to the New Zealand Art Market

26     Desmond Bovey: Ray Ching, Aesop’s Kiwi Fables: Paintings

27     Renée: “Pity about the People” (work-in-progress)

28     Prize cryptic crossword