Autumn issue NZ Books, No.105, in shops 28 February

Issue 105 of New Zealand Books contains its usual array of sparkling reviews. 
Mark Stocker checks out Jill Trevelyan's life of Peter McLeavey and other art books. Kim Worthington is marooned with Charlotte Randall's latest novel. Laurie Atkinson is unhung up recalling three scandalous plays by Robert Lord. Kathryn Walls looks hard at another previously unpublished Janet Frame. 

Contents:

2       Editorial
Letters

3       Mark Stocker: Jill Trevelyan, Peter McLeavey: The Life of a New Zealand Art Dealer; Christopher Johnstone, Landscape Paintings of New Zealand: A Journey from North to South; Peter Alsop and Gary Stewart (eds), Promoting Prosperity: The Art of Early New Zealand Advertising

5       Megan Dunn: Melinda Johnston, Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin

6       Eleanor Toland: Duncan Sarkies, The Demolition of the Century; Craig Cliff, The Mannequin Makers; Summer Wigmore, The Wind City

7       Anna Rogers: Elizabeth Knox, Wake

8       Stuart Baker: Adrian Kinnaird, From Earth’s End: The Best of New Zealand Comics

9       Kathryn Walls: Janet Frame (Deidre Copeland illus), The Mijo Tree; Jenny Bornholdt (Sarah Wilkins illus), A Book is a Book; Joy Cowley, Dunger

10     Nepia Mahuika: Keith Newman, Beyond Betrayal, Trouble in the Promised Land – Restoring the Mission to Maori

11     Paul Morris: Peter Lineham, Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle; Stuart Lange, A Rising Tide: Evangelical Christianity in New Zealand 1930-65

12     Jock Phillips: Tim Beaglehole (ed), “I think I am Becoming a New Zealander”: Letters of J C Beaglehole

13     Dougal McNeill: Charles Brasch, Journals 1938-45

14     John Callen: Laurie Atkinson (ed), Playmarket 40: 40 Years of Playwriting in New Zealand

15     Laurie Atkinson: Robert Lord (Phillip Mann ed), Three Plays

16     Lisa Warrington: Paul Maunder, Rebellious Mirrors: Community-based Theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Michelanne Forster and Vivienne Plumb, Twenty New Zealand Playwrights

17     Edmund Bohan: Simon Best, Frontiers: A Colonial Dynasty

18     Verica Rupar: Ann Beaglehole, Refuge New Zealand: A Nation’s Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers; Ron Crosby, Andris, Where are You? From Latvia to New Zealand: The Family Story of Andris Apse

19     Anne Opie: Tracey Barnett, The Quiet War on Asylum; John Pratt, The Punitive Society: Falling Crime and Rising Imprisonment in New Zealand

20     Michael Hulse: Sarah Broom, Gleam; Paula Green, The Baker’s Thumbprint; John Newton, Family Songbook; Louise Wallace, Enough

21     Tim Upperton: The centre cannot hold (comment)

23     Barry Gustafson: Geoffrey Palmer, Reform: A Memoir

24     Bookshelf

25     Kim Worthington: Charlotte Randall, The Bright Side of my Condition

26     Charles Hornabrook: John Dawson and Kris Gledhill (eds), New Zealand’s Mental Health Act in Practice
Charlotte Macdonald: Susan Upton, Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid: Women Behind the Bar in New Zealand, 1830-1976

27     Prize cryptic crossword