NZ Books Spring 2014

Harry Ricketts on the Spring Issue:

Issue 107 of New Zealand Books, our only journal solely to review our books, contains reviews of the John Key biography, the Dave McArtney autobiography, recent social and political history, Fiona Kidman's novel about Jean Batten, new poetry collections by Elizabeth Smither and Dinah Hawken, and much more. And we now have our own Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/nzbooks

Contents:

2       Letters

3       Jack Vowles: John Roughan, John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister

4       Bernard Carpinter: Paul Cleave, Joe Victim; Ben Atkins, Drowning City

5       Gyles Beckford: Maire Leadbetter, Peace, Power and Politics: How New Zealand Became Nuclear Free

6       Joe Atkinson: Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow, Changing Times: New Zealand Since 1945

7       Sarah Jane Barnett: James Norcliffe, Shadow Play; Tony Beyer, Great South Road and South Side; Leonard Lambert, Remnants; Harold Jones, Curriculum Vitae

9       Miranda Johnson: Oliver Sutherland, Paikea: The Life of I L G Sutherland

10     Nicholas Wright: Dinah Hawken (drawings by John Edgar), page.stone.leaf; Elizabeth Smither (Kathryn Madill illus), Ruby Duby Du; Caoilinn Hughes, Gathering Evidence

11     Peter Simpson: “Endgame” (byline)

12     Alistair Fox: Melissa Kennedy, Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand’s  Literary Traditions; Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Delia da Sousa Correa (eds), Katherine Mansfield and the (Post) colonial

13     Bookshelf

14     Chris Bourke: Dave McArtney, Gutter Black

15     Nick Bollinger: Raewyn Alexander, Glam Rock Boyfriends, An Imaginary Memoir

16     John McCrystal: Fiona Kidman, The Infinite Air

17     Susan Pearce: Laura Solomon, The Shingle Bar Sea Monster and Other Stories; Latika Vasil, Rising to the Surface; Christodoulos E G Moisa, Blood and Koka Kola

18     Craig Cliff: Kerry Donovan Brown, Lamplighter

19     Callum Robertson: Dylan Horrocks, Incomplete Works

20     Margot Schwass: “Mentors and protégés” (comment)

21     Alex Perrottet: David Robie, Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific

22     Geoff Watson: Paul Moon, Encounters: The Creation of New Zealand. A History; Paul Moon, The Voyagers: Remarkable European Explorations of New Zealand

23     Rae Varcoe: Linda Bryder, The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital

24     Tim Walker: Georgina White, Take These With You When You Leave: Treasures of the Archive; Lucy Hammonds and Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Architecture of the Heart; Migoto Eria, Ukaipō: Ō Tātou Whakapapa: The Identity of the Hapu of Hawke’s Bay

26     Stella Ramage: Brian Miller, Moments in Time: Ralph Miller – Artist

27     Emma Jolliff: Tim Wilson, News Pigs
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